I can’t speak for everyone, but I personally am watching Law and Order reruns because I need to pretend the world follows a logical progression towards justice.

Nah, mammy locked that RIGHT down - she know’s what’s up

Good info

There is such a subtle, nuanced difference between referring to someone as Mr Trump... and Mister Trump. Bravo, Mr Farrell.

A pal of mine was in the Liverpool system until he broke his neck playing keeper (no damage, full recovery, but his athletic career was over). Now he’s doing a PhD on young offenders and his next project is working with the kids who dropped out of FA programmes, the toxic culture of the institutions, and how it really…

My dad is a carbon copy of Jack McCoy.

I feel just like this. I am certain London is next.

This made me laugh harder than anything above the line. I think it’s the fact you sound like an old-timey detective.

I always think of Tina Fey when I hear stories like this.

I actually gasped and covered my mouth with my hand.

Autonomy Brown and the Case of the Absolutely Sick Top-Secret Cleats

The only reason losing the Euros had to be such a ‘psychological whammy’ for the England team is because, like every year there’s a major tournament on, the English press and fans refuse to believe that their squad is anything less than divinely anointed. I hate this so much. The England lads might have been able to…

You’re not wrong. There’s a town called Rotherham which has become infamous for its recent sexual assault cases (it has its own wikipedia article!), so people are certainly aware that abuse is an ongoing thing. However, the methods of grooming kids have changed radically thanks to the Internet and smartphones, so the…

Oh, look at that:

For those who don’t know - and if you don’t live in the UK, there’s no reason you would know - youth football is just the latest UK institution to be rocked by childhood sex abuse revelations. It started when Jimmy Savile died in 2011 and suddenly the entire BBC in the 70s was revealed to have been a hotbed of…

I’m not a CSA survivor (different story) but I know that feeling. It’s so hard to work through. All best wishes and sympathy to you.

Mate, you have all my sympathies. Dunno what else to say except I’m so sorry.

This was so great. More, please!

Basically the ‘70s and ‘80s were a breeding ground for child abuse in the UK across multiple fronts - football, media, care homes and hospitals, the Catholic Church (as mentioned) - and the normalisation of child abuse was so complete that only now do adult victims feel like they can talk about it. Jimmy Savile had to …