International criminals want courts closed down.

Now also on our Substack: WORLD CUP ROAD TRIP Three men topping up their souls with the beautiful game. And beer, tbf. So good we posted it twice - Deserter teamwork at its finest. deserterblog.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

NEW Pubcast: What is Deserter is doing north of the river?Interviewing a geezer and landlord, that's what. Also includes: Dirts loses his trousers, Raider’s road trip, plus crisps, opera, poetry, royalty, bum dossers and stuff what we nicked off the internet.

#crispnews @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social 👌

So good and so bad.

Off you fuck then.

Lovely to have my (American) daughter over for a few days. She celebrated the President’s birthday by not giving him a second thought.

Thanks to everyone who came to listen and discuss anti-fascism and football, the Jim Crow World Cup and more.

Tonight we’re doing a talk on politics & football, immigration myths, far-right threats & hosting the WC in a fascist nest. It’s the eve of the World Cup & the night after Belfast burned at the behest of foreign racists, aided by quislings, Farage and Lowe. KO 8pm @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social

Chuffed to pieces to have an essay published in this beautiful edition of @madridlitmag.bsky.social, the bi-lingual literary magazine. The theme of the issue was sea/bodies of water. I've written about my personal history with the River Thames with a bit psychogeography and actual history thrown in.

Open goal.

This is genuinely frightening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Football is clearly political (anyone remember the FIFA peace prize given to that man in the US)…let’s talk about it all on June 10th

On June 10th, the eve of the World Cup, Stewart and I will give a talk about anti-fascism & football @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social, Blackheath. KO 8pm. There’ll be a Q&A in Extra Time & @stanchionbooks.bsky.social will be there offering books from where radical politics and football intersect.

Once again the Rail Replacement Bus has dissuaded me from going somewhere. It’s almost as damaging for the economy as Brexit.

If only there was a way Metro - the sister paper to the Daily Mail - could explain this extraordinary phenomenon 🤷‍♂️

They say that hate ages a person - it's certainly true of the lead singer of Flock of Seagulls who would be completely unrecognisable these days if it wasn't for his signature hairstyle.

As if I needed another reason to love @pilotbeer.co.uk

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

It's not like Greenwich Hospital have ensured "the continuity of the eclectic mix of shops in the town centre." It used to have loads of great vintage shops and stalls, now replaced by chains and tourist magnets.

Good job there's no strings attached to Farridge's £5 million gift from the crypto bro. His plan to slash capital gains tax on crypto is just a coincidence: www.ft.com/content/a12f...

How fucking stupid is the richest man in the world?

Ugh. news.sky.com/story/two-pu...

Whoever loses the Premier League will only have their boring selves to blame. As will whoever wins it.

I can never keep track of whether living in London means that I have to navigate a violent war zone and brave offending the caliphate every time I leave the house, or whether it makes me a sheltered elite with no experience of the real world. Sometimes we seem to manage both in one afternoon.

If you've a bit of Irish in you and have grown up around Irish relatives and Irish pubs, this show will resonate with you. On at Bread & Roses May 4-6 - a fab venue in Clapham.

Sadly true. Mainstream news is worth jack shit in 2026.

Who benefits from the anti-London propaganda? Why are the lies so pervasive?

One of my favourite chapters from our first book, Today South London, etc. Made me chuckle all over again.

It should be a crime to show that Arsenal-Lisbon game while Bayern-Madrid were playing.

And @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social has gone from strength to strength in that year, winning SIBA’s best independent city bar.

It's time for some intervention.

It true. I’m doing an April Fools’ shift @theshirkersrest.bsky.social today, just like Suggs at The French House. Except without all the hit records and fame.

A film review, with some thoughts on a brutal sport that has been a saviour for so many troubled kids.

Pissed elephants.

I have a question for @nytimes.com. When did you decide journalism really wasn’t for you?

Never mind the dead schoolgirls, will no one think of the investors’ portfolios?

NEW: Thank you for your inattention to this matter.

It’s a great time to get a deal on a luxury hotel in Dubai right now. But as I always say - why the fuck would I want to go to Dubai?

Here’s a radical idea. Trains, yes, but trains that run on the WEEKENDS. Wild, huh? Just think about it though.

It’s weird how this guy doesn’t have any friends

Please teach your boys not to be dicks.

Venezuela 3 USA 2. “It doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things..” is an odd way to start a report about baseball’s World Cup final.

What idiot started this?

Wasn’t it bad when the Taliban did this?

A beautiful love letter to one of the greats by @willhawkes.bsky.social. I can never visit Clerkenwell without popping in.

It was supposed to be a puppet comedy, not a prophecy.

The popular press is wildly out of step with public opinion.

Am also spitting angry @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social

Shart spangled banner and Reform re-formed. Street art protests in Paris and Kent.