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Dramatic reduction on Twitter today in posts calling club out for racism and predicting relegation For some reason.....

Gesundheit!

I am reliably informed, via @OfficialBHA, that if we had kept, and started Percy Tau, none of this unpleasantness would have happened. Thank God for the internet

ELO ratings should be 'Elo ratings', they're named after Dr. Arpad Elo, an American mathematician who developed the ranking systems for use in chess. So ELO doesn't actually stand for anything, come to it.

Would put to bed 'Would you rather be good, or rich?" arguments forever.

Our baroque electoral mechanics -- equal representation of states in the senate, despite a nearly 50:1 disparity in population, partisan process of House constituencies (largely, California being a signal exception) , the Electoral College, and significant power lodged at the level of state...

I teach secondary Latin and Greek, (and German) and for years I had a classroom in the English wing. When visitors asked me why I wasn't upstairs with French and Spanish, I used to tell them "High level administrative decision, They thought it make sense to have all the dead languages together...

Sanchez bids fair to become the next target of some Big Club™ who wants to add to their bench. "We don't actually need him. And we won't actually use him. But we don't want you to have him -- and we have the money to get away with it. The likes of you having someone that good plays hob with the...

Cf my sig:

I know, Monkey Tennis, etc etc. But, a nation the size of Denmark, Finland, Croatia, Slovakia... You'd theoretically at least be as likely to find someone worth signing, or two, in Scotland, as any of those.

I'm just hoping he's moving on somewhere where he can reliably get his umlaut.

In the US, there may be only two labels. But there really are more than two parties. Here you form the coalitions (historically that's what the two major parties are... ), then fight the elections, and govern if you win. Look at the diversity in the Senate Democratic caucus, with Warren and...

We've got to dodge the return of Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Donald before we can address our own massively unprepresentative system -- cf. the Senate. I've been pressing Roy Jenkins' Mr. Balfour's Poodle on people here... we're having our own home-grown version of the 1911 Lords crisis these days.

Well, it's true, once you accept the underlying premise -- the only truly British people are Tory voters. After all, we just got shot of -- and may well get right back -- a government over here dedicated to the proposition that there are Americans, and there are Democrats, and there is no...

Leicester winning the league has made the bookies all crazy. They're hedging everything six ways to Sunday.

Crocked (and hopefully salvageable), or unproven at this level, or too old, or too young. Everything else is going to cost the GDP of one of the Baltic nations to bring in. It's a lottery. The more tickets you buy....

A government accountable to Parliament, and a Parliament accountable to the people. Unfortunately, 0-2 at half-time...

Just remember: there are ~70 million American voters who believe that this man was chosen by our Lord, from the beginning of all time, as a special dispensation for His most beloved country, to lead it from the perils of slightly higher top marginal income tax rates and drag-queen story hour at...

You're asking someone whose former username -- correct me if I'm wrong -- was "Das Reich"?

Features prominently in Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, his eminently readable 1940 history of the socialist movement.