This is the only Head Over Heels I need #totp

Trump on his red card intervention: "I understand sports really well. And that wasn't a foul... He didn't do anything wrong and he's our best player... He gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant... I asked for a review."

Ted Cruz to Trump: "On behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card. It was spectacular."

Worth remembering that "save our kids" is one of the central narratives that British far-right extremists are using to recruit people to their xenophobic crusade. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.

Credit where credit is due, Finally Sally Nugent asked Nigel Farage real questions about £5m on BBC breakfast. His answer literally is "No one cares". WTAF. (I've speeded it up to 1.3x to fit within the BlueSky video limit)

It's quite impressive that his own failure to do this and the failure of DOGE has not led him to reflect on the viability of this plan at all.

Transfers getting hijacked isn’t anything new or unusual. Keane shook hands with Kenny Dalglish to sign for Blackburn back in 93, then went and had a game of snooker with SAF. Eze dumped on Spurs. Money talks, always has. What’s changed is the SM circus that now accompanies every transfer. #NUFC

I imagine losing transfer targets to rivals happened all the time pre-internet. Unfortunately seeing it happen in real time is driving some of our fan base mad. It's going to happen now and again. Doesn't necessarily signal the end of the World ! #nufc

Saw the new #nufc strip in on real life yesterday. Forget about the design, the quality is shocking. Stick on badges and you're being asked for £95!!! (without a name on the back). Looked like a Castore top.

As above, so below. Here in NZ, Act's war chest has swelled this year similar to Reform in the UK, raising more donations than National and Labour combined. I wonder if that's where the similarities end?

#OnThisDay in 1995, we signed Les Ferdinand from QPR for £6m and he more than repaid that outlay. Sir Les scored a whopping 50 goals in only 84 games across two seasons: 29 in 95/96, then 21 in 96/97 as he formed a prolific partnership with Alan Shearer. #NUFC #newcastle #NewcastleUnited #united

Another murder of a student - this time a Saudi man - with a knife. This one took nearly a year to reach a conviction. Sentencing awaited. Will media and politics take any notice? www.cambs.police.uk/news/cambrid... perpetrator - victim #BBCLauraK

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Finally got to read the latest installment in the Checquy series (which for some reason took 3 years before it was on sale in the UK!). Great read for fans of fantasy like the rest of the series www.waterstones.com/book/blitz/d...

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

If at this point you’re not assuming Trump is personally getting a cut of everything going through the White House you just haven’t been paying attention.

Landing in inboxes first thing tomorrow. Want to receive it, subscribe at editkev.football #NUFC PS. Gonna go have a lay down.

Alexanderplatz Berlin #nufc

Whoever is in charge, Labour needs a new immigration strategy. Me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

www.maptap.gg May 12 99🎯 100🎯 88👏 99🎯 79🤗 Final score: 909

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Holding my nose and voting Lib Dem for the first time in my life in the (probably pointless) hope it keeps the Reform dickheads out of Gateshead council.

This is a terrible and deliberately divisive piece of reporting by the Times. Somewhere near the bottom of the article, they admit that actually Muslims prioritise the cost of living above Gaza. It's not even close - cost of living was prioritised by 50%, Gaza by 25% www.thetimes.com/article/5c7c...

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

It’s so funny how the “last person he spoke to” heuristic is so robust. (He had a call with Putin earlier.)

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Correspondents Dinner Chaos is an opportunity for Trump to get his ballroom through.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Very incisive from Alex Wickham, UK political editor for Bloomberg “Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson”

Nobody talks about the time when Razorlight got radiation poisoning from the polonium meant for Litvinenko.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU. Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.

My first post university job in 2004 on the BOE grad scheme paid £24,500. Full time minimum wage was (at 35 hours at a week) £8,190. BOE grad scheme today pays £33,525. Minimum wage at 35 hours a week: £23,132. A real terms collapse and a real terms surge.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

There's no doubt the 90s and 00s to the financial crisis were years largely of optimism, as the world and many individual markets opened up, and before demographics hit too much. The period isn't replicable.

White America voted to elect this buffoon all three times he ran for president.

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Trump is asked, "What is the one leadership trait the world is missing?" "I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."

#ShareYourReads first book I've read by this author. Would recommend.

i promise you that whatever you think will happen next won't

Tories had a chance this week to go for Farage's jugular over his dodgy extra curricular moneymaking activities (recording Cameos for assorted far right nutters, pumping crypto etc) which old school Tories find tacky & Trumpian. Instead, they're all in on Muslim-bashing.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Utterly damning on the extent of US strategic failure giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...