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writer, mostly football • you can order 'Underground, Overground' at the link below • andi dot j dot thomas at gmail dot com

south London
Joined July 2010
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This is what I'll remember of Starmer, beyond the indulgence of the far right, the sedulously mournful hounding of refugees & sexual minorities, the excruciating attempts to court reaction: the idea that Palestinian humanity is an indulgent bien-pensant fad to be mocked & derided
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Andrew Thomas retweeted
I bet he sticks around just long enough to get free tickets for the champions league final
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he will not "walk away" and "plunge the country into chaos" "These results reflect voters who don't feel their lives have changed enough. We were elected to do with that - and I'm not going to walk away from that"
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Andrew Thomas retweeted
This piece on Gaza by Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture has already been widely circulated, and is almost unbearable to read. The very first paragraph lays out in inarguable terms why Gaza was, and is, a genocide. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/…
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Today is the day. Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick becomes closer in time to the assassination of JFK than the present day. We are, without any shadow of a doubt, #HurtlingTowardsDeath.
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Andrew Thomas retweeted
If people are fighting for an orb you are reading fantasy. If people are fighting for a cube you are reading sci-fi. If it has more sides than that. I dont know. I dont know man.
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Absolutely sensational. This, THIS, is what football is all about. Total confusion, emotional incompleteness, a daunting gnawing sense you've wasted your entire life on something meaningless.
Breaking: Africa Cup of Nations final result overturned in major ruling. Senegal declared to have forfeited the match with Morocco declared 3-0 winners
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It is so maddening that this is so bleedingly and self evidently obvious and has been proven so recently and so painfully and so frequently yet the strategic forgetting and not noticing is so pervasive
Three historical lessons about bombing campaigns and regime change:
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Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses.
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Andrew Thomas retweeted
RIP Starmer 2.0: 21 Feb - 27 Feb 2026.
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Beyond fed-up with the ‘Starmer is a decent man’ hokum. If this whole imbroglio has proved anything beyond doubt, it’s how conspicuously not-decent his passive, principle-free managerialism is in its actual, real-world effects
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Wonderful tribute to Mao Zedong 👏 👏 👏
Chelsea fans held up a poignant tifo banner at Stamford Bridge ahead of Remembrance Sunday. 🙏
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🚨🔜 People will be 'shocked' about the #ballondor winner tonight, reports @marca.
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There are still some copies of this absolute beauty available, only from Admiral ⚽️ limited edition, numbered hardbacks ⚽️ beautiful kit diary by @TrueColoursKits ⚽️ interviews with some greats like Lineker, Shearer & Gray ⚽️ perfect Xmas present 🛒 admiralsports.com/products/5…
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Congratulations to our former youth team player, @DjedSpence. Making history as the first Muslim to represent @England #MenaceLifeAintEasy
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Tldr: we will be following BDS guidelines and withdrawing from Truck Festival. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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