My local pizza restaurant has started selling merch… and their tops are £90 each Speechless nellspizza.myshopify.com/products/wel...

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

The FA League Allocations for the forthcoming 2026/27 Season have been announced a short time ago. We have been moved laterally from the NWCFL Premier Division to the Midland League Premier Division, as shown below. More to follow.

Manchester United's new kit is out, and they've frozen prices. Still bloody expensive mind Adult standard: £85 Junior: £65 Adult 'authentic': £120 First update of my shirt prices spreadsheet this season and was expecting a hike. Pretty shocked www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/footba...

World Cup final tickets still available outside of resale. For $33,000 you can buy some of the worst seats in the stadium

I saw the world’s longest ear hair at a gig tonight

Another push here for our election results widget. See the detailed results of every council ward in England by using our interactive www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

Cannon and Ball the Musical; today, Chorlton Arts Festival, tomorrow, who knows

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Something that gets missed in the English speaking world is that Pope Leo’s name isn’t short for Leonardo or anything like that, but is actually the Latin for lion. For some reason they translate it in Italy (Leone 🦁) but not over here

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

The differences between Manchester and the rest of Greater Manchester showed on the election maps for perhaps the first time yesterday. It's long been the case when you map things like income and deprivation, but until now places generally all still voted Labour. Not any more.

Greater Manchester's results are even more striking when you see them on a map. If Andy Burnham did run as an MP Reform would probably win the mayoralty.

Bradford Reform candidate who said he wanted to "blast Muslims off the face of the earth" won the most votes in his seat last night. Pretty much sums up my home town www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2609200...

Cometh the hour…

Search for all council election results using our interactive We’ve spent all day filling these in. It’s been a right bloody slog. This defaults to Manchester but you can change it to any council: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Thoroughly depressing stuff

Just one vote gave Reform the win over Labour in Aldershot North Reform: 1,583 Labour: 1,582

The vote of the Beast. Entering election results into our spreadsheets and have finally found a candidate with 666 votes. They're from Reform, of course, and finnished second in Welwyn Hatfield

Some nominative determinism in Manchester - Chris Gorton wins Gorton www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

This quote just about sums it up in the Hull Daily Mail's live blog www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-ea...

Farnworth (Halton) council election result: LAB: 36.5% (-28.4) REF: 36.4% (+36.4) GRN: 13.7% (+13.7) CON: 13.4% (-21.8) Labour HOLD by one vote. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Plenty of World Cup semi-final tickets left in Dallas without needing to go to resale. But at between $2,700 and $3,700 each that's not too surprising

It's probably a typo, but there's a World Cup Final ticket on FIFA's resale site for $11.5million Five rows from the back. Sure someone'll be along to snap it up anytime now....

FIFA announce yet another last minute sales phase for World Cup tickets. They seem to keep finding tickets down the back of the sofa that they forgot to sell

Interesting to see Michael O'Leary calling for a curb on early pre-flight drinking. I sent FOIs to all police forces that cover an airport in the UK to try get a sense of the issue, but it got rejected by all but one force - the West Midlands Police 🧵1/5 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Seeing the Champions League score I’m kinda gutted I don’t have Amazon Prime. Bring back Champions League on ITV

Apparently I should clarify: this is not a joke. It literally was Bear Grylls. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Selfies never my sting point, but am at the sport journalism awards tonight

Feeling jealous of the #lufc fans who got tickets for today. Though I am gonna be watching from a pub in Bradford with my Dad and Uncle, which isn’t something I get to do very often, so that’ll be nice

OH MY GOD THE PREMATURE PITCH INVASION ADDED TIME GOAL! York City took the title and promotion to League Two from Rochdale with a 102nd-minute goal in the time added on after the home fans invaded the pitch thinking they’d won in the 95th minute!

Tempted to set up an out of office reply that just sends this to people emailing me asking for stuff

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

World Cup final tickets still available on the FIFA website. Yours for $21,980

Another evening about to be wasted on the FIFA ticketing site

"Farage has clocked up nearly £2 million in income and gifts since he was elected as the member for Clacton in July 2024." open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Good luck to the person trying to flog a Category 3 ticket to Colombia v DR Congo at the World Cup for $3million

Looks like FIFA have found some more World Cup tickets down the back of the sofa

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

World Cup ticket resale prices are insane. Category 4 tickets for Uzbekistan v Colombia in Mexico City Face value: $60 Resale price: $1,667 Suspect there's going to be a lot of disappointed touts at this tournament

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX

Are resident doctors still underpaid? The BMA’s case for industrial action is undermined by the way the union uses data. 1/6 www.thetimes.com/article/895f...

Reform's Robert Jenrick vowed to cut flight tax after getting £40k from airline owner

There is something in my eye. Sound on.

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

This is absolutely nuts

New (seriously): FIFA has now created an extra ticket category to sell "front" row World Cup seats for double the price of Category 1 tickets — which supposedly could’ve yielded “front” row seats when bought months ago. Fans feel deceived. More @theathletic.com: www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...