“Pick & Mix BLM:- How to choose between racism, queer theory, defunding the police and overthrowing capitalism?”
by Gavin Ashenden:
As a child we used to play cards. I had four younger sisters and my father had been brought up in a family where playing cards was something the family did together. Whist, Rummy, Bridge, and a variety of other exotic card games punctuated evenings, weekends and holidays.
In some games more than others, one of the four suits would become ‘trumps’ and develop a superior power over the same card in other suits.
I was reminded of having to remember which suit was trumps when Tyrone Mings, a footballer, was reported in the media as rubbishing Priti Patel, the Home Secretary.
I hadn’t heard of Mr Mings before, but that’s because I’m not an Aston Villa supporter; more than that, I am one of those culturally disabled and perhaps even primitive people who don’t understand football; actually it’s worse; I am totally baffled by it. I watched the Euros with increasing despair at my inability to work out what was captivating about 22 men knocking the ball around with nothing at all happening, except for perhaps once or twice when an admittedly impressive goal might (but might not) be scored. But honestly, there were too few goals to make hanging around for 90 minutes remotely worthwhile. I think to make watching worthwhile, I would have needed a goal after every five minutes of random, dull, often inept passing.
But back to Mr Mings. I understand of course that footballers are celebrities, and that like ballet dancers, they have short intense careers. But it’s a new thing to have footballers entering the political arena and treating politicians like a restricted form of pond life.
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