This thread is quite the journey

The way James brings the pass into her stride with her left is very nice

Would be great if this thing didn't turn into a story about control of news cycles and stayed being about how it's wholly inappropriate for a politician to be using that kind of language

Suella Braverman just referred to Channel crossings as an 'invasion on our southern coast'

The UK government's rhetoric around small boat arrivals has been hostile and dehumanising for some time, but this takes it to another level. It's the language of the far-right

Without wishing to be a bore about this subject, a serving home secretary describing asylum seekers as “an invasion of our southern coast”, and in the Commons, is really striking. It’s the sort of language that a decade or so ago would have been the preserve of the far right.

Politicians and rightwing papers are quite happy to push alarmist rhetoric, untruths and smears in order to demonise asylum seekers, even if it makes acts of racist violence inevitable.

New Flying Geese round up of Sunday's WSL action has dropped. I make absolutely no apologies for the headline or for continuing to write about how good Bunny Shaw is

flyinggeese.substack.com/p/they-see-me-…

Breaking update: Hope Powell has resigned as Brighton manager. Powell says: “As a club, we’ve made a lot of progress in the past 5 years, but I feel now is the right time to step aside and allow a new coach to take the team forward.' #BarclaysWSL
telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/…

People think of it as a status thing because a lot of people with status are verified but the causality is that if you’re well known, you’re more likely to be a target for impersonation and/or there’s more public interest in being able to verify that your statements are yours.

The point of Twitter verification is that for certain individuals/organizations it’s useful to be able to verify their statements are coming from them. (This is why so many journalists/reporters are verified.) It’s supposed to help combat disinformation, not be a status symbol.

We've just formally launched the Association of Professional Foootball Analysis.

Please feel free to follow Association of Professional Football Analysis, share our project and of course check out the website.

More exciting updates to come.

What I’m hearing: lots of Twitter sw engineers & managers worked through the whole weekend to get the verified feature done by Wed, else they are told their whole team can be fired. Dozens of tickets closed on iOS, Android etc. (Takes time to ship completed work to App Store)

So I’ll sign off with my own column on the topic, from earlier this year.

“Obesity shows us primarily what is being done to people, not what people are doing to themselves.”

Link here is free to the first 300 readers >> enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/7f930a7…