News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The new head of the Metropolitan Police has said the only acceptable additions to police uniforms are poppies, Help for Heroes wristbands and the police memorial badge.
Fourteen-year-old Hull City fan Jack Watson has solved the puzzle of why his team keep losing at home and winning away: they always take the knee in front of the home fans, but rarely when playing away.
Politics Professor James Alexander has stumbled across an article in the Journal of Soccer Science that explains England’s exit from the World Cup – the ligament damage caused by taking the knee.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are England's World Cup virtue-signalling climbdown, Twitter's blue tick meltdown and the NHS backlog breakdown.
For years, the FA, Gareth Southgate, et al have been banging on about diversity and inclusion. Why then are they off to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal? If they don't take their ’values’ seriously, why should we?
When the Premier League resumes on Friday, players will stop taking the knee. Finally, this pointless, hypocritical, virtue-signalling gesture is on the way out.
The reason Hungarian fans boo knee-taking English footballers is because they resent being 're-educated' about racism by a former colonial power with a history of involvement in the slave trade.
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