The comedian Stewart Lee used to include, as part of his routine, a recollection of a conversation he once shared with a taxi driver. The story, in his telling, went like this. The taxi driver was an unrepentant homophobe. To be gay, he believed, was immoral. Lee tried to point …
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One, single, lonely thing has become abundantly clear to English soccer after a week filled with jarring acronyms and dense legalese and furious, desperate spin: Manchester City’s ongoing courtroom struggle against the Premier League is not going to conclude with either side winning. At the end of all this, everyone …
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