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I have good news and bad news about my friend Schrödinger's Cat...

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

Can’t control the football, can’t control any of it. So I’m left with one undeniable truth - I belong to this football club regardless and in spite of everything and anything. They chose me. There’s no escape. It’s my identity. I’ll always support them.

So true.

It’s time

Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran. Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

A huge decision and also the correct one. Badenoch is touring the studios believing she's on a victory lap. In reality, she is woefully out of touch with mainstream opinion.

And a large contingent of our press, Badenoch and Farage alongside their parties are arguing for us to follow suit.. Why? #Iran

The Brexit tendency seem to be absolutely losing their minds over the government's refusal to get bullied by America into an illegal war. Quite something from the people who wanted "independence" and to "take back control."

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis. It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

If we all die from WW3 at least Arsenal won't win the league. Always thinking of the positives

Britain's 'patriotic' press cheering on the latest attacks on us by a hostile foreign leader

“He’s no Churchill” No but thank god he isn’t, we don’t need to follow US around and get involved in their wars. “He’s trashed the special relationship” I’m pretty sure the guy who degraded our war dead, enforced punitive tariffs, belittled our greatest city and law. He did that. Not Starmer

The soliciting by the UK press of negative comments about the UK Prime Minister from Donald Trump and the gleeful publication of his ramblings is disgraceful.

If there's one thing that'll get me fully behind Starmer, it's that evil scumbag across the Atlantic attacking him. I suspect I'm not alone on this.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

This is interesting from Dale - wonder if we'll see more business models like this

Proud of Keir Starmer today.

Tom Paris: "I'll see you at the Fortress of Doom, and Remember You're the Queen!" Always gonna love this little "Briefing." Tom does for Janeway when she has to take on the role of Queen Arachnia in his Captain Proton Holoprogram. #StarTrekVoyager #StarTrek #Treksky

Thats some solid cynical humour!

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Dubai International Airport has been struck by Iranian projectiles. Authorities are evacuating.

Evening.

Wherein Senator Lindsey Graham accuses Sir Keir Starmer of proposing that the US negotiate with the equivalent of the Nazis. The same "Nazis" that the US...checks notes....has been negotiating with....

Starmer needs to learn from Harold Wilson and distance himself from the actions of Trump. ASAP.

The next General Election is in three and a bit years. Three and a bit years ago Liz Truss was PM. Things change. Overexcited pundits may believe the duopoly is over, Labour is finished and Farage is unstoppable. Time will tell.

There is always a tweet.

Labour are not perfect But They are tackling child poverty Expanding free school meals Protecting children online Tackling the SEND system Labour are the party of young people.

Why didn’t he just settle in the nearest safe country?

Fair to say this doesn’t qualify as ‘we lost but at least we played well’. We are in deep, deep trouble

The referee today is falling for every tumble from Arsenal, it’s frustrating how much they get away with fouling and fake fouling in both boxes

Very powerful thread.

First our robot overlords will clean your homes… H/t @peterallison.net

Ah yes the Chagos Islands, just off the coast of Clacton

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

COUNCILS wanted to delay some council elections NOT the government. Farage took them to court and now it will cost the taxpayer £60+ MILLION.

Farage has announced his Shadow Cabinet, with no Health Secretary. Presumably because if he becomes Prime Minister, there’ll be no NHS.

We interrupt tributes to Jesse Jackson to bring you your daily dose of racism. Thanks, Beeb. Respectfully handled.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

Huge congrats to Five Acres High School, Dene Magna Secondary School and Primrose Hill C of E Primary Academy—top quartile nationally for supporting disadvantaged pupils. Bridget Phillipson MP and I have written to congratulate them and help share best practice so more children benefit.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Two immigrants top relevant Sunday Times list for most UK tax paid, as "patriot" multi-billionaire Ratcliffe lives as an immigrant in Monaco, to protect wealth so vast it is unspendable, while whining about immigrant UK care workers and NHS cleaners not pulling their weight. FUCK RIGHT OFF, "SIR".

Happy Valentines day Spurs Bluesky

Man.. I've needed to hear this sort of thing for a long time 👏

If I was Spurs manager