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Musk has an almost supervillain-ish reach. Control of a major media platform, dominance in satellite technology used for communications and defence, and similar dominance of space exploration. It should set off a few alarm bells in governments around the world

115 charges and you’re allowed to buy a player for £130m that someone else had to sell to avoid 1 charge? Makes sense 👍🏻 meantime, we’re working out which of our best players we can let go for the most money after qualifying for the CL - again.

Our industrial base is services. You can't wish a manufacturing economy into existence and you need to be honest about what that means (likely lower average wages)

Foul in the build up, and not a penalty

Sold by Newcastle, effectively for £15m two seasons ago

This is David Davies level negotiating. Great Spursing by the new Spurs leadership

I couldn't think of a better candidate for Chancellor. Smart, incredibly capable, has an economics background, and is an excellent performer in the Commons

Shit! Did you see that?

Badenoch is a terrible person, not just a terrible leader. Lacking in basic respect and courtesy. Contrast the petty and nasty insults she threw around in PMQs today with Corbyn's approach to Cameron's resignation. The Tory Party is a shameful mess www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Watched a squirrel remove the lid from a bird feeder and it was as unsettling as that bit in Jurassic Park when the raptor uses a door handle

Morning x

It's all fun and games until you realise you're going down in history books as being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children

I reckon quite a lot of people are under-taxed

Tuchel screaming at Djed Spence is not going to make him right-footed. Look to your sins Thomas (by which I mean leaving Lewis Hall out of the squad)

So bored with this I'm now wondering if the ref is wearing shoulder pads

I mean, does the UK really need a world class export industry and centres for R&D? I'm sure there's a plan in place for what will replace all that, a secret plan so that no other country copies it

Some goals are so good that the rules should be ignored to let them stand

You should be able to make your children sleep in the shed if they don't fold up their used towels and put them back on the rail

Extraordinary. We dragged a PM over the coals for receiving a couple of suits and a pair of glasses from a donor and here is a party leader just being given £5m by someone whose primary business is a glorified pyramid scheme. Nobody gives away £5m unconditionally

So, so sad. BBC foreign correspondents are some of the best community assets we have, especially in places like Eastern Europe. Could write multiple posts about this - we lose our ability to understand the world if we don't have people to translate between our worldview and those of others.

Discomfort?

I wish I had some money

Director cuts to Badenoch furiously shitposting on X

Distance runners nodding along sagely (or smugly, whatever)

so a friend on a mailing list I've been on forever said he couldn't understand why so many people had wanted Starmer to stand down when he was obviously so much better than those who came before. I did my best to explain

A lack of integrity is a big part of the reason why he's being forced to resign

That second to last paragraph should be the starting point of uni AI policies

Lukaku should have been one of the greatest strikers of all time. He's had a good career but with his talent, he should have done so much more

That foul on De Bruyne might be the highlight of the World Cup so far

It's a shame Emma Hayes has a full-time job because I'd have her on every football broadcast

Bingo! High streets have almost no future (in most places) as shopping districts. They'll need to be social spaces to survive. I don't know if what Stockton has done will work, but at least the council is trying to adapt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Commentator: was he (Havertz) trying to do the old Bergkamp flick round the corner? Andros Townsend: Bergkamp didn't mean that, by the way See @benstanley.eu, the pros know

What's the opposite of a clutch player? Someone great at scoring goals that don't matter? Anthony Elanga scored three for Newcastle last season, one when they were 3-0 against Man City and two in a 7-2 defeat by Barca. Now, he gets one for Sweden when they're 4-0 down

Got to love the Disney+ algorithm. I see you've just finished watching Paradise and Daredevil. For your next watch, I recommend Paradise and Daredevil

Trump really does surround himself with people who look like they've had a run in with The Batman

Shit, did you see that? He must have a foot like a traction engine

If feel like you could replicate Miggy Almiron’s decision making processes with about 9 lines of code. #nufc

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

Hard to know what to say to this. Absolute madness, I don't know how this idea even occurs to someone. And students will see through it, they aren't stupid. What level of quality can you really deliver with 3 FTEs?

Fascinating. Burnham is planning to completely reorient the UK economy away from services (currently responsible for 83% of all employment). And, I assume, has a plan to tackle the 38% dropout rate from apprenticeships (uni dropout rate is around 8%)

He pisses and moans then flounces around when the slightest thing doesn't go his way so yeah, solid Real Madrid DNA

I love athletics but it's such a badly run sport in the UK. It's the national championships at the weekend and there's no publicity at all. These are the athletic pages from the BBC, Times and Guardian. Total PR failure

The government will absolutely keep going with this. Governments that don't know how to solve the big problems, the ones that cost money like health and education, get bogged down with little stuff they can control

What's a working town? Are there non-working towns as well? Are people only woke in towns where no one works? If you live in a town where people have a job, are you allowed to be sexist? This is all very confusing

What can you buy for £5m? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There must be something in this

The case for bringing Lewis Hall was always that it's useful to have a good defensive LB as an option. He excels at that, I watched him pocket Yamal earlier this season. I fear for O'Reilly if he has to come up against Olise or Yamal

Hmm, I am not familiar with the England of this second half