What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving? This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...

It's a story with a perfect ending, in which a shrunken Paramount-WB gets bought by Netflix ten years from now.

youtu.be/-q5tBwC0V3M?si… Another interview with our Swedish king. It’s 45 minutes long from @fotbollsmorgon.bsky.social and you’ll have to put CC on auto translate for this one#Boror#UTBTB

I would have said Rod Liddle but I don't think he actually supports us, I'm sure he switched his allegiance to Millwall as some sort of edge-Lord psychological need. So it's ineffectual Conservative Deputy Chairman & Shadow Policing Minister "Thumbs Up" Matt Vickers - #Boro

Behind door number 8 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... it's the ultraviolent puppet-based carnage that is CAPTAIN SCARLET!

I cannot wait to hear Yvette Fielding on the @scarredforlife.bsky.social pod this morning because, without having listened to it, I don't think she believes a word of it!

Lewis & Vicki can do a podcast where they spend an hour telling each other where they're from and how many relatives they have. #Strictly

Is this why instead of being made an example of, a Labour govt are actively protecting this guy & treating him with kid gloves?

Ministers warn Tees Valley faces major financial risks if its Teesworks joint venture fails, with no government bailout | Peter Morris

#F1 #AbuDhabiGP

I guess Lando can do what he wants #F1 #AbuDhabiGP

Under the last Labour government - who were horrible in 10000 ways - I was allowed to live & work in Britain as an artist.

Episode 2 of the #podcast series I am making for Bawdsey Radar Trust is out now - Chain Home. #History #WorldWarII #Radar Please listen, like, subscribe & share this - it would mean a lot to me. Thank you. open.spotify.com/episode/4r9O...

👏 Kim Hellberg would have had some explaining to do if his big calls in first two #Boro games backfired. But he trusts his eyes and instinct. And he's brave. 🎵 He loved post-match scenes - but did need a helping hand from Tommy Conway. ✍️ Analysis 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256780...

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Anybody still on X is contributing to this volcano of digital faeces

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Crikey, imagine reading this 2025 sentence from a major-media publication back in 1996

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One of the better nights I've had in Newcastle! #Boro #UTB

Never clicked a link faster in my life. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Great interview with Kim Hellberg on Swedish tele, with a behind-the-scenes look at Boro. Turn on the auto-translate for English subtitles. 👍🏽 #UTB #Boro m.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5t...

While I'm delighted to see Farage being hoist by his own petard, shouldn't we concentrate more on the awful things he's saying "now" rather than at school?

The discourse about this imbecile, who clearly has a lob-on for the Chancellor, reminds me that my dad's nemesis in my earliest years was Billy Ashcroft & I could always get laughs by implicating him in any mischief me & my brother had performed. "Who ripped this wallpaper?" "Billy Ashcroft" #Boro

So THATS why Ncuti Gatwa left #DrWho

This story has everything, man. The fact that one of the main figures is a Premier League owner nicknamed "The Lizard" who has an exemption to anti-gambling rules because he's a professional gambler yet he STILL probably broke the rules, is just one part of it. www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...

RIP Brian Havelock #Speedway #RedcarBears share.google/Pk0uPrtSD0FR...

📹🔴⚪️ 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙔 𝘽𝙊𝙍𝙊! 🏟️ What we learnt from Kim Hellberg's first #Boro game and his significant early decisions 👏 Alex Bangura ⚽️ Tommy Conway & notable post-match moment 🤕 The injury situation in defence 🎙️ with @scottwilsonecho.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=okds...

Christmas has come. 🎄

I was a juror once. It was like being in a Local Facebook group except we had the power to jail someone.

'Bluesky is too small to be a threat to our children' may be the most depressing thing anyone has said about this site ever.

Yates’s Wine Lodge, Liverpool, 1983, photo by Martin Parr.

The perfect metaphor for the world in 2025 doesn't ex...

oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago /me: crumbles to dust

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Indeed. This is not the BBC's job and to make it worse, in the same piece, Chris Mason again lurches into opinion and gives government carte blanche when he absolutely should not have!

Why deny yourself a great song? Avoid fucking Ladbaby.

three years ago today ChatGPT launched. so i wrote about its legacy (for now). (turns out a whole hell of a lot happened in just 3 years) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In the old days #F1 Norris would just drive into Piastri at the start and take his chances next week. (Or do it again)

Foreign coaches seem to regard it as an extended discussion and an evolving culture & see their job as improving players by explaining the mechanics clearly. English coaches, especially if they've played at high level, generally feel more like gatekeepers who keep what they do shrouded.

It was fantastic and fascinating but it was too long to use it full and too detailed to cut it back and do it justice. It was the 3-2 defeat away under Woody, maybe Harold Moukoudi's debut. Decent game from what I remember.

Foreign coaches are happy to talk tactics whereas domestic ones often see such questions as impertinent or intrusive. #Boro lost after leading at Brentford once and I asked Thomas Frank what he did to regain control and he went into a very long technical answer about creating overloads in key areas.

He was very happy to reveal the mechanics: we tucked in and made the midfield more compact, played more shorter balls forward so didn't lose possession so much, the full-backs plugged the gaps down the flanks more to prevent their counters. All good stuff.

Forgot to say: in the #Boro presser the boss was asked what he'd changed tactically at HT & gave a really detailed, technical answer (the lads will no doubt write it up tomorrow). So refreshing when coaches (usually foreign) actually explain. Carrick/Edwards it'd be: "we changed it a bit." #UTB

Mansion tax will be paid by less than 1 in 200 homes. 145k out of 30.4m homes. For every home that will pay something under the new tax, 199 won't. It's a tax on the 0.5% and 99.5% of us will not pay it.

Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free. Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.

I know @radiofreetom.bsky.social is of the Orthodox persuasion but this guy is making a good pitch.

Sorry but anyone who gives an interview slandering a family member in front line politics is what we used to call a rum cove, if not a blackguard or a knave. Doesn’t deserve attention, deserves a horsewhipping.