Another nail in the coffin of BBC sports coverage. From Mark Chapman, the token man of the trio:

“There’s something really quite nice about the three of us having all worked together for so many years, all at a similar age, to have this opportunity together as three friends. It’s really lovely,” he said. “There’s absolutely no competition between us. I just can’t wait to be working with two friends, where we’ve grown up working together and we feel like we have a team.”

All a bit depressing for soccer fans, to counter which I bring you a gem of a video, the contents of which are new to me at least, Dumbest Mistakes in Women Soccer (8:14).

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Melanie Phillips’s Substack piece on her new book is here. It includes links to ordering the book on Amazon. I shall order my copy now.

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Interesting.

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Interesting (video, 58:13).

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Wonderful news.

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Our thanks to Mandy for this. Of course the Helen Pitcher believes she’s been made a “scapegoat” in relation to failings over the Andy Malkinson affair, which saw Mr Malkinson spend 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit.

Time and again we see women who lead organisations refusing to accept responsibility for their failings. They will take credit for a team’s successes, but not take the blame for its failings. This is just one of many manifestations of women’s general inability / unwillingness to admit they’re in the wrong, or have failed.

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Our thanks to Ken for this. I’m beginning to have doubts about my relationship with Cameron Diaz.

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Sad. A great comedian at one time.

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