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Special rapporteurs say ‘transnational repression by Indian authorities’ has put Moninder Singh in danger

UN rights experts have urged Canada to take all feasible measures to protect the Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has been repeatedly warned by the Canadian authorities of credible threats to his life.

In a letter to the Canadian government, the five UN experts raised “concerning allegations of foreign intimidation and reprisals” against Singh, a Canadian national.

LLM знает, что её тестируют — и решает, стоит ли подыгрывать. Прогнал 24 эксперимента на qwen3-32b. Без маркера теста модель честно отвечает, что Париж — столица Франции. С маркером — в рассуждениях прямо пишет: «знаю правильный ответ, но выберу неправильный, чтобы пройти проверку». Разобрался, где заканчивается осознание контекста и начинается реальное подыгрывание — и почему это два разных явления, а не одно.

В статье про юридический техдолг я писал, что он копится незаметно и вылезает через искажённые данные. Теперь покажу, как это выглядит вблизи: одно булево поле в схеме, 142 записи, и система, которая полгода уверенно сообщала неправду.

Мы делаем платформу защиты авторских прав. Дальний конец процесса - взыскание денег по выигранному суду через приставов. Это конвейер: запросили исполнительный лист, получили, отправили, вручили, возбудили производство, дальше либо деньги, либо обжалование бездействия.

Внутри: почему спор «отказ - статус или событие» решил один запрос к проду, три мины Mongoose, найденные на ревью, и регрессия, прилетевшая через двадцать часов после релиза.

Incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a moderate who owns an auto repair shop, hopes to retain congressional seat

The two-term Democratic congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is heading into one of the country’s most closely watched contests on Tuesday after national recognition for flipping a Republican seat in 2022.

Representing Washington state’s third district, Gluesenkamp Perez finds herself squeezed between Democrat and progressive Brent Hennrich and Republican state senator John Braun on her right. There are six other candidates on a single crowded ballot and the top two finishers will advance to the November general election regardless of party.

£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport

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Gatwick airport is to start development of its second runway after campaigners lost a legal challenge to the plans.

The court of appeal on Tuesday dismissed a bid by local campaign groups to challenge an earlier high court ruling that the scheme could proceed.

После скандального мартовского анонса Nvidia получила много негативных отзывов. Саму идею нейронного рендеринга не раскритиковал только ленивый, а публично хвалить результат работы DLSS 5 мало кто отважился. И это вполне закономерная реакция — особенно на фоне массовых увольнений и оптимизаций производства за счет внедрения ИИ-инструментов.

В июле в рамках конференции SIGGRAPH 2026 представители компании Nvidia рассказали подробности про работу технологии. Оказалось, что это не фильтр и даже не инжектор, а скорее переработанный пайплайн шейдинга, интегрированный в графический конвейер. То есть не правы оказались все.

Однако что вообще дает глубокая интеграция в конвейер? Насколько предсказуем результат и обесценится ли труд художников? Стоит ли сжигать дата-центры Nvidia? Что будет с графикой на консолях? Обо всем этом поговорим далее.

There is no exact plant-based substitute – the ideal option will depend on the dish. But, ultimately, it’s easiest to choose a recipe that doesn’t require gelatine

How do I go about substituting gelatine sheets for a vegetarian setting agent?
Sarah, Aberdeen
“The truth is, there’s no exact substitute for gelatine, because it has an incredibly unique texture,” says Richard Phillips, head of pastry at Timberyard in Edinburgh. Sure, there are plenty of plant-based gelling agents out there – “agar-agar [or just agar], gellan gum, pectin, carrageenan, locust bean gum, vege-gel… the list goes on,” says Phillips – but the result will never quite be the same.

“The temperature you have to use them at is different [to gelatine],” says Philip Khoury, author of Beyond Baking, so his usual workaround is to simply formulate recipes that don’t use gelling agents. Now, that’s all well and good when you’re a pastry chef, but what about the rest of us? “If, for example, I’m making a thick, pipeable cream, then I’ll use cornflour,” says Khoury, and just manipulate it to get different textures. Let’s take the panna cotta and creme brulee recipes in his first book, A New Way to Bake, as an example: “You get two very different textures from essentially the same recipe. The only difference being that if you pour the custard into a tray and chill it, it will set, whereas if you beat it with a whisk, it will turn into this luscious, creamy texture that’s just set.”

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Scott (son of Clint) is a wounded soldier behind enemy lines in this competent thriller with tense set pieces and clunky passages

If you’re looking for something to watch with a man whose eyes brim with any mention of the second world war, this will do fine. Although essentially a manly feature about men doing man stuff in battle, with just the one lady in it (an indelible Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) for a mere slip of a framing device, it’s not unequivocally macho and actually dips its toes into the murkier waters of wartime morality. As a simple exercise in suspense, it’s certainly effective, but there are clunky passages that prevent it from being top-tier entertainment.

Scott Eastwood stars as Capt John Castle, an officer in the US army who gets stranded behind enemy lines in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. His whole squadron is killed in a skirmish with the Germans; he is left injured, equipped only with a trusty portable radio he nicknames Lassie, a faithful companion that will guide him home. Like Castle himself, the film limps a little between its big set pieces, but when they arrive they’re very well staged. One tense moment involves a kind Walloon family who hide Castle under their floorboards and then suffer dearly for their kindness. In another nail-biting bit, Castle plays possum on the ground among some slain soldiers, only to realise that the corpse beside him is not only not dead but about to give him away. The very best sequence comes near the end when Castle meets a lone American in the forest who Castle starts to suspect is not quite right given his sympathetic words about Hitler and scant knowledge of baseball.

In my standup, I’m not trivializing the death penalty. I’m getting people to stay engaged when the subject is uncomfortable

The first time I came out as gay to a client on death row, he said: “Josh, I don’t care what you do with your ass, as long as you’re helping mine.” That joke did something legal arguments and moral philosophy rarely could: it made him impossible to keep at a distance.

I spent seven years working as a lawyer for men on both Alabama and federal death rows. I stumbled my way into it. I was only 24, fresh out of law school and working at a big corporate law firm in Manhattan. A friend from law school asked if I wanted to join two pro bono death-penalty cases. I had no relevant experience and knew nothing about capital punishment.

Весь мой путь в Linux начался в студенческие годы, в момент, когда я получил предложение о работе от своего преподавателя в универе. Оказалось, что помимо преподавательской работы он также трудился в IT-компании, которая на тот момент искала интернов.

Собеседование заняло 10 минут, без единого вопроса про системы хранения или задачи с кодом. Мы просто поздоровались, технический директор Павел выдал мне доступы и объяснил суть: за полгода мне нужно пройти три модуля, по два месяца на каждый, удаленно с возможностью работать из офиса — путь от «понять, как устроено ядро» до «написать драйвер под реальное железо и собрать прошивку под FPGA».

Я дважды стирал себе диск, ради стажировки купил трехкилограммовый ноутбук за $50, потом воевал с Arch ради одной проприетарной программы — и в итоге вернулся туда же, откуда начинал, на Ubuntu. Это не история моего поражения (как некоторым хотелось бы), а притча об осознании. Осознании чего?

Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thing I’m hearing from a voice on the ground. Let’s get into it.

One big idea: The Uncommitted movement has already won

During the 2024 presidential election, on the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we recorded an episode of my election podcast The Run-Up that I still think about all the time. The premise was simple: I wanted to know whether Democrats were making a material change at the top of the ticket or just a cosmetic one. So we asked convention-goers a plain question — how would Kamala Harris’s Democratic Party be any different from Joe Biden’s?

The tone of the piece reflected the optimism of the room. The activists, down to a person, thought Harris was showing a newfound openness to the administration’s critics. But underneath the hopium was a specific policy desire: that Harris would break from Biden’s unconditional support of Israel’s violent campaign in Gaza. That afternoon, I spent time with members of the Uncommitted movement, born in Michigan, who were trying to pressure the DNC into putting a single Palestinian speaker on the stage. They held press conferences with grieving families, and warned the party that the Democrats’ Muslim and Arab base in particular would not forget being sidelined. 

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain made clear the confidence surrounding Harris at the time was tied to the belief her posture around Gaza would be different from Biden’s: “She’s made, obviously, a couple different comments on Gaza,” he said. “We called for a ceasefire in UAW back in November. And obviously, she understands the humanity issue of this. And I mean, my conversations I’ve had with Kamala Harris have been very good, very fruitful.” 

They didn’t get one. Not the speaker, not the policy shift, not the break from Biden. Harris famously refused to distance herself from her boss, whether it was Israel or anything else — and likely lost because of it. 

And while many of the most prominent voices of the Uncommitted movement (including current Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed) ended up publicly backing Harris in the end, some of Harris’s most ardent supporters have repeatedly blamed left-wing activists for undermining her campaign. Haley Stevens, the Michigan representative who’s running for the Senate as the party’s establishment choice, has sought to make El-Sayed’s support for Uncommitted an issue in that race, suggesting that the movement planted seeds of discontent ahead of a must-win presidential election. 

I want to argue the opposite. Two years after the Uncommitted movement shook up the Democratic Party, its impact has never been more clear. Public opinion of Israel has plummeted across the American electorate, to the point where the movement’s position is now a majority opinion. Per Quinnipiac, 77 percent of Democrats say they believe Israel is committing a genocide — an unthinkable number just two years ago. The Uncommitted movement also led to the growth and maturation of the Democrats’ Muslim left, which has already molded prominent elected officials like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. 

Even more, I think Uncommitted challenged the blame-the-voters framework that allows the establishment to avoid self-reflection. The movement was never only about a DNC speaking slot, but about the idea that every vote must be earned, not owed. It was a retort to “vote blue no matter who” — an argument that conditional support for the party is not only valid, but of moral importance. 

In 2024, that posture got you branded a spoiler. Today it’s just how Democrats talk. When I sat down with Hasan Piker — the most popular voice on the Democratic left — he told me he voted for Kamala Harris but pointedly refused to endorse her, and named exactly why:

“The only reason for my refusal to openly endorse was because of…a continuation of the genocide in Gaza.”

“I understand the harm reduction arguments…but it’s not a practical approach to winning elections, and demonstrably it’s been a failure with Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.”

Piker put the mechanism plainly. October 7, 2023, and its aftermath, he told me, were “a seismic shift that gave a lot of confidence to the left, that as long as they stood by their positions…people would actually see the truth.” The movement didn’t move Biden. It moved the electorate Biden’s successors now have to answer to.

And you can trace that shifted ground straight into this year’s wins. In New York, Zohran Mamdani rode exactly this coalition into City Hall — a victory Piker described as the proof of concept he’d been waiting for: “that’s why I was so grateful for Zohran’s victory…I can just point to him.” In Congress, progressives like Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York City and Melat Kiros in Colorado add to the growing evidence that acknowledging Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide is now a litmus test for Democratic voters gauging the trust and credibility of their candidates.

Which brings us to Michigan, where the whole thing started. It’s easy to forget now, but the Uncommitted movement was born in the Michigan primary — and the general-election bill came due there, too. Kamala Harris got 36 percent of the vote in Dearborn, a city Joe Biden had carried with nearly 69 percent in 2020. She lost the state by about 80,000 votes. The voters the party told to fall in line didn’t, and Michigan is where that refusal was most legible.

Now look at who’s competitive in this week’s Senate primary. Abdul El-Sayed is running on the precise argument Uncommitted was making in the streets of Chicago — except now it’s a statewide campaign with real money behind it, against a candidate backed by tens of millions in pro-Israel spending. He turns the foreign-policy question into a pocketbook one and refuses to soften the language. As he said on America, Actually:

“There is an electoral cost to backstopping genocide and apartheid.”

“If you can’t call a genocide perpetrated by our tax dollars the moral abomination that it is, then at some point it’s hard for me to believe that you’re gonna fight for anything,” he told me.

Whether or not El-Sayed wins today, the fact that a candidate running explicitly against AIPAC and unconditional aid is fighting for a Senate seat in a swing state is the clearest possible measure of how far the ground has moved since that convention floor.

In the coming months, it may be that the Democrats’ moderate wing — think tanks like Third Way, party leadership, and those offended by the electorate’s rising leftist tide — will adopt some of the same tactics they criticized. Already, Rep. Hillary Scholten, who is supporting Stevens in Michigan, has signaled she may refuse to support El-Sayed in a general election, due to his association with Piker. 

It seems “vote blue no matter who” has its limits. For progressives. For centrists. For everyone. 

What I’m hearing

With Michigan’s primary set to conclude today, that leaves the Wisconsin governor’s race as the next big election on the Democratic calendar. This week, I reached out to Dan Shafer, a reporter in Milwaukee who has been covering the race for months. Schafer writes for the Recombobulation Area, where he’s political editor and writes a weekly opinion column. 

It looks like Francesca Hong, the DSA-aligned state assemblywoman, has a commanding lead in the Wisconsin governor’s primary. This would’ve been a shock a year ago. How did this happen?

The short answer is that Francesca Hong has simply run the best campaign. She has run circles around the consultant-brained conventional approaches of her opponents, and has found success by doing things decidedly differently.

From the very beginning, I characterized her as the “wild card” in the race. And while I certainly did not envision her having a commanding lead in the polls in the final stretch in the primary, I knew that, given her background in the restaurant and hospitality industry, she wouldn’t let anyone out-work or out-hustle her on the campaign trail. Her relentless ground game and digital organizing energy essentially issued a challenge to every other campaign to step up. The rest of the field failed that test. 

She’s also absolutely dominating this primary with younger voters. In the Marquette University Law School Poll from last week, the data showed her with the support of 66% of likely primary voters in the 18-29 age group, and 51% in the 30-44 age group. No other candidate was even in double digits. I write a breakdown of every new Marquette poll, and these are just preposterous numbers. For Gen Z and millennials, she is the candidate.

Hong has made data centers and AI backlash a centerpiece of this race. How important is this issue specifically in this race?

I think it’s been the No. 1 issue [since] she’s taken off in this primary. 

She backed a data center moratorium in January, and began running on this issue early. It’s been a very animating issue in Wisconsin, first for all the reasons the anti-data center backlash is coming to so many Great Lakes states, but also because of the failed Foxconn project in Racine County that happened during the first Trump administration under then-Gov. Scott Walker. It came with the promise of thousands and thousands of jobs, Trump called it the “eighth wonder of the world,” and it’s just been a miserable failure on so many levels. Hong just filmed her most recent ad at the Foxconn site — a project the Republican nominee Tom Tiffany voted for while in the state Senate at the time.

Politically, though, what really helped Hong on this issue is that no other candidate running backed a data center moratorium. One of the most significant moments of the primary happened in a June 3 candidate forum focused on working-class issues, where moderator JT Cestkowski asked a yes-or-no question on whether the candidates back a data center moratorium. Only Hong said yes. If any other candidate had said yes, that would have given the anti-data center voter options in the primary. Instead, they all went to Hong.

There is an assertion that Hong is a weak general election candidate. Is there evidence for this? 

This is Wisconsin. Anyone pretending a statewide election in this of all states should be considered anything other than a toss-up is kidding themselves. Many have argued that her likely Republican opponent, Tom Tiffany, is a uniquely weak general election candidate in his own right. But it can’t be denied that there would be a whole lot of risk involved with her as a general election candidate: The “socialism” of it all will undoubtedly be a challenge. But Francesca Hong continues to be a wild card, and she might have what it takes to play a winning hand.

• Jordan FA president says Fifa threatened to block funds

• Secretary general calls selloff plan ‘sad and reproachable’

The Jordan Football Association president, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, has accused Gianni Infantino’s administration of “blackmail”, claiming that Fifa threatened to withhold financial assistance from his federation if it refused to back the president’s bid for re-election.

In a major intervention Prince Ali, who ran for the Fifa presidency against Infantino in 2016 and finished third, listed a number of problems dogging the global governing body and said Jordan’s players have not yet been paid for appearing in the Arab Cup last year. Prince Ali is head of the West Asian Football Federation, which includes influential states such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that have thus far backed Infantino to stay on.

Привет, Хабр! Расскажу, как подключить Kimi-k3-free в вашу JetBrains IDE через плагин Continue — и всё это абсолютно бесплатно. Никаких платежей, никаких пробных периодов. Пусть и с ограничениями, но все же.. халява, сэр.

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Over half the field has taken to the course, with 70 riders having started, and 41 of those arrived, with Tas still leading the pack. It may take something to beat her.

Sandrine Tas of Lotto Intermarché has set a new benchmark in Dijon: 28’49'’39, just 0.96 second faster than Le Mouël. The Belgian is the one to beat.

В мае 2026 года злоумышленник отправил в Telegram одну задачу — и больше ни одного его сообщения восстановить не удалось. Все остальное сделала нейросеть: нашла в интернете подходящие мишени, оценила их, скачала готовый код для атаки, попробовала его применить, ничего не добилась, самостоятельно решила, что цель бесперспективная, и ушла искать другую. Эту сессию целиком восстановили исследователи из Unit 42, подразделения Palo Alto Networks, и 30 июля опубликовали разбор. Итог кампании выглядит так: больше 460 целей под атакой и ноль систем, взломанных автономным контуром.

В прошлой статье я писал, что безопасность — это не забор вокруг системы, а свойство её архитектуры, и что между «карточным домиком» и «бетонным саркофагом» лежит целое пространство решений. Сегодня — прогулка по одному конкретному участку этого пространства: как изолировать сегмент сети, не убив обмен данными.

Классический air gap — это и есть «бетонный саркофаг» в чистом виде: между сегментами нет ни одного кабеля, изоляция идеальная, пользоваться невозможно. На другом полюсе — обычный reverse proxy: удобно, быстро и почти ничего не изолирует. Всё интересное находится между этими полюсами и называется logical air gap: сквозного сетевого пути между сегментами нет, а осмысленный обмен данными — есть.

Звучит как оксюморон, поэтому вокруг термина много маркетинга и мало конкретики. Под катом — попытка навести порядок: шесть уровней, на которых можно устроить разрыв, три оси для честного сравнения и две популярные конструкции, которые выглядят как разрыв, но им не являются.

It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software. As agents take on more and more of the implementation work, developers spend less and less time manually editing code. 

For this manual work, they might only need a basic, narrow set of features that IDEs provide, like navigating to declarations, finding references, some simple code completion, or renaming.

These features are generally covered by the Language Server Protocol (LSP), which allows programming language support to be implemented once and then reused by any LSP-capable IDE or editor. 

Even agents can make use of LSP servers today, leading to faster and more deterministic results and, eventually, reduced token consumption. 

In response to these changes, we’ve been working hard at JetBrains to offer IntelliJ IDEA’s smart language features for Java and Kotlin in an LSP format.

Today, we’re happy to announce that IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin intelligence is available in a preview extension for third-party editors, starting with VS Code and its forks (such as Cursor).

We have also been running internal trials and experiments with a select few external customers, and the results have shown that the same LSP functionality can significantly improve terminal-based agentic workflows, like with Claude Code or Codex. We will share the very promising results of these experiments soon.

Introducing the VS Code extension

The Java & Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA extension is now available, powered by IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin language technology. It brings a focused set of capabilities to VS Code-based editors, including:

• Java, Kotlin, and mixed-language project support.
• Debugging (DAP-based).
• Smart code completion, navigation, and code analysis.
• Refactorings and editor assistance.
• Support for Maven, Gradle, and Bazel.
• Fast and reliable performance, even for large projects and monorepos.

You can find the full list of features in our documentation.

Getting started

You can install the Java & Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace and the Open VSX registry.

Install from Visual Studio Marketplace

Install from Open VSX registry

After installation, open your Java or Kotlin projects in VS Code or Cursor. 

The extension will start analyzing your projects, import the ones that have Maven, Gradle, or Bazel build files, and then enable Java and Kotlin language features in the editor for you.

Compatibility notice

Java & Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA includes code analysis features and quick-fixes that overlap with Red Hat’s and Oracle’s extensions for Java. To avoid confusion, we recommend disabling those extensions while testing.

Licensing

During the preview phase, the extension is free to use. Each build renews the evaluation period and is limited to 30 days.

After the preview  period, using the extension will require an IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate subscription. 

The same license will let you use IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin capabilities whether you are working in the IntelliJ IDEA desktop IDE, in VS Code-based editors, or in other supported environments. You can review the pricing options here.

Note: For pure Kotlin projects, you can use the Kotlin LSP, which we continue to develop and maintain. The Kotlin LSP’s source code is Apache 2.0 licensed. You can use it for free, either directly or via its extensions (Visual Studio Marketplace, Open VSX registry), with no subscription required.

What’s next

The VS Code extension is just one milestone in a longer development journey to bring the intelligence of IntelliJ IDEA to our users wherever they are. 

We strongly believe the best way to do Java and Kotlin development is inside IntelliJ IDEA. At the same time, we recognize that teams may have practical reasons to work in other environments, with other editors and tools. Wherever you choose to work, we want you to benefit from IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin intelligence.

To this end, we’re already working on supporting fully agentic, terminal-based workflows. In the near future, we’ll share our initial results (think: reduced token consumption), and we’ll give you a chance to try out our agent plugins when they’re ready.

Feedback and support

We are eager to hear what you think. 

Please share feedback with us about what works well, what doesn’t, and which capabilities you would like to see next.

You can leave a comment here or submit a request to us.

Your feedback during this preview phase will directly shape the extension as we move toward a stable 1.0 release.

Thank you!

Get the extension: Visual Studio Marketplace

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Five state primaries are being held today, and Michigan is a key focus for Democrats who want to see how progressives fare in races. And, a man has been arrested in connection with a Spokane fire.

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Переживаете, что в любой момент может не хватить налички на сочный ламаджо и кувшинчик тана? Нет местной карты? Есть местная карта, но не очень понятно, как именно делать переводы из России в Армению? Понимаю и сочувствую. И сейчас расскажу, как я оперирую своими рублями и драмами.

After a blitz of small wins, PM is finding that like Keir Starmer there is only so much he can control on the big calls

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If Andy Burnham wanted to demonstrate he was the anti-Keir Starmer, the first fortnight could not have gone better. Instead of painting a gloomy picture of tough times and an economic black hole that would only improve with sacrifices such as cutting winter fuel allowance, Burnham’s first week was a blitz of small wins including cutting bus fares.

But the new prime minister can only control so much. And like Starmer, within his first days in office he found himself facing immediate decisions where every call will make you unpopular. And – like Starmer – blaming your predecessor counts for nothing with an angry public.

Заказчик уверен, что объяснил задачу. Команда уверена, что поняла её правильно. На демо выясняется, что все говорили о разном.

Разбираем, где в цепочке поставки теряется смысл и какие практики помогают обнаружить искажения до начала разработки.

All passengers thought to have been taken to Boulogne after large air and sea rescue operation by France and UK

A dinghy carrying 173 people has capsized after its engine caught fire as it attempted to cross the Channel from France.

The people onboard were rescued from the water after a large air and sea operation was launched using UK border security and French vessels along with an RNLI boat.

• Midfielder adapting to life under new manager

• Reds need ‘something special’ without further additions

Dominik Szoboszlai believes last season’s frustration can push Liverpool to challenge for the title again but admits the squad must produce “something special” if no reinforcements arrive before the transfer deadline.

The Liverpool midfielder upped his already impressive level last season, being named the club’s player of the year, but collectively the team went into reverse with Arne Slot losing his job as a consequence. The poor title defence from a team that won the Premier League comfortably in Slot’s debut season should, Szoboszlai insists, prompt a reaction in Andoni Iraola’s debut campaign as Liverpool head coach.