I REALLY want this to massively kick off at full time.

Special report from Port Arthur, Texas. It is one of the saddest, most desolate places I have ever visited. It is also where Aramco, FIFA's major worldwide partner and an inescapable presence at the World Cup, owns the largest oil refinery in the US. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Dodgy shops on your local high street? They're still paying rent. And what if they're actually *pricing out* the legitimate cafes, restaurants, thanks to the option of "simply not paying your taxes" and therefore having more budget to pay landlords. www.londoncentric.media/p/who-wants-...

Absolutely extraordinary story from the Sunday Times that is going to be very hard for Farage to deflect. "Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Times tomorrow

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER.

FFS lads. Need to go to bed here.

Fell at the last 🧠 Quiz of the Day - Jun 29 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ Score: 9/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk

Oh has Dom defected - sorry, I mean changed his direct debit - ?

Yankee Doodle dandy pish again I see Wordle 1,835 6/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Enjoyed today’s Connections Puzzle #1112 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Sat outside a bar in Edinburgh at 18 degrees before I head to the airport back to London where it’s twice the temperature 🙄

Every single window in this house is open. And it’s 28 fuckin degrees in here at 11.30 at night.

Missed that exact Kane chance in the advertising league at Paddington Rec back in the day. Still cringe when I think of it.

it’s so wild that they are still called podcasts when ipods have been discontinued, that would be like calling a music award after the gramophone

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

It also means that staffers who joined immediately after the general election will make it to 2 years service, and get to keep their defined benefit pension...

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission. And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate.”

Met up with my oldest mates. Also bumped into a few lads we went to school with. Youngish lassie behind the ramp seemed very happy that we were still in touch. Cue me making up some pish on the war creating great bonds (doodle bugs over London etc) cue her looking at me like I was absolutely mental.

I don’t particularly like Starmer. I definitely don’t like what they’re doing to him. And I don’t really like Burnham. Which is nice.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I challenge the Rothko naysayers to stand in front of his monumental art and not feel awe – Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

This feels like a column which might make sense if Burnham had lost, or even if he had won narrowly, but given he achieved a substantial swing from Reform on increased turnout, it almost feels like a pre-result draft the author couldn’t be bothered to update in the light of inconvenient evidence.

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

Me doing 71 mph on the M1

That’s a first. Wordle 1,827 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

“relatively little attention has been paid to how Reform has consciously waged war on women, who are now punishing the party at the ballot box“ @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Electric cars are saving UK drivers billions of pounds, cutting emissions and reducing fuel imports. Yet the Government is reportedly considering weakening the policy driving their growth. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Two days ago, a man in Hull was sentenced to 26 months in jail (suspended for 18 months) and 250 hours of unpaid work for selling CDs containing "unauthorised remixes of well-known tracks"

Sam Matterfaces patter. Jesus wept.

GIFs are shite on here. Why can’t I find that Argos dinosaur toy anywhere

I cannot stick ITV’s football coverage, just rank from top to bottom. Made by idiots for idiots.

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

Starmer’s tragedy isn’t that he failed to change Britain, writes Stephen McNair. It’s that he failed to convince Britain that change was happening. Two years on, delivery without a compelling story has left achievements invisible and voters unconvinced.

Things are going on in New York right that people may not understand for thousands of years

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social Ukraine's progress and Russia's failed offensives means that Putin is losing his best chance for a ceasefire. And dissent amongst Russians is starting to rise. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...

I am contractually obliged to inform you that the gritty legal thriller #TheCutThroatTrial - reviewed by The Times as “gobsmacking” and by Sue B as “haven’t read it” - is today HALF PRICE on this site. A measly £5. Go on. Exploit me like the legal aid lawyer I am. www.amazon.co.uk/Cut-Throat-T...

Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

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I don't know how Keir Starmer can wake up in the morning, see that pogroms have been taking place under his watch, that they are being fuelled by literal illegal activity on social media, and not make it his entire purpose to stop it. We know you're no politician, but are you not a lawyer?