Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums. Thank you. An Aston Villa fan.

This is absurd. If supporters of an English football club went to another country, committed violent hate crimes and public order offences, and the police in a subsequent country decided they couldn't be doing with it, the Prime Minister and the Leader Of The Opposition would not be caping for them.

But we can be in a position as a country where we look at fans history of behaviour and judge whether it is safe to have them there and under what conditions. Being Israeli doesn’t change that calculus

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

"House slave." Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Two years after they closed all Jewish schools in Berlin. Was talking just today about how we don't talk about genocide enough in terms not only of all the lives stolen, but all the future lives stolen too, of the civilisations that never got to be. Europe would be unimaginably different today.

JB Pritzker appearing at a press conference now with several former military officials - generals and admirals - to denounce Donald Trump's use of the military against Americans. He says CBP and ICE are acting like Donald Trump's "own personal secret police"

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Since folks were wondering, yes it is yet another Mohamed Fahmy design! He talked about the process of making it over on twitter if you wanna know more.

Uh @seamas.bsky.social you made the latest legal eagle video youtu.be/Md5l8esK8iY?...

It’s really stunning the imagined problems uncreative people have to invent to justify the use of AI in creative processes

If you run a conference in the UAE you have to register every speaker with the ministry. In Qatar the ministry actually signs off your invitation list. Gulf Monarchies have done a great job in some ways, but if you look at them as a British person and envy them you actually just hate your country.

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

Being reminded that the low level crapness of the West Coast Mainline is as nothing compared to the top tier chaos of the trans-Pennine “express” and indeed any effort to get from one Northern city to another by travelling east-west something God and Whitehall clearly feel should be forbidden.

It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”

For anyone interested in the people imposing flags all over Birmingham the Birmingham Dispatch has done some great investigative work. Long story short, yeah another bunch of grifters. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/red-flags-th...

Look at this dumb baby shit. Pure pathetic insecurity in tchotchke form by people who should never hold any power over others. Also not a coin you doofuses!

The mainstream response should surely be to refuse to get into the game, to break the equivalence chain at the first link. But that is to assume the mainstream parties perceive a common interest where all they seem to be looking for is short-term competitive advantage vis à vis each other. 4/n

I understand why racists want to conflate illegal with legal immigration, recently-arrived immigrants with long-term residents, UK-born minorities with non-UK born. They know they are a small minority, so they set up a cascade of equivalences to get from immigration control to mass deportation. 1/n

Global Women Strike IV was another great show from @evewrestling.bsky.social

Had a fun time at @riotcabaret.bsky.social on Tuesday

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

Public finances are a bit knackered due to low VAT receipts. Could I suggest a Treasury official and an HMRC official pop out of their Whitehall offices on their lunch break and carry out a few symbolic spot checks on long-trading gift shops not charging it? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Such a stupid own goal. What a waste of everyone's time.

Lol. How well did the last govt insulting load-bearing parts of their electoral coalition work out for them? Like they watched what the Lib Dems did to the home counties and wondered what it'd be like if the Greens did that to the two dozen largest university towns.

I was once daft enough to think that the "reasonable", "moderate" transphobes would speak out against the extremism of the Republican version but I haven't seen much evidence that they care what happens

Ooo, a touch but fair one. Chris there is no single answer. Some fans respond to my gimmick matches. Others are more impressed with my story telling. Still others by my determination to spend Uno’s money

Comedians are not the canaries in the coal mine. Sex workers already were, and a lot of y'all weren't listening.

This Sunday at Mystery Wrestling we will have the first ever Tiger Free match with a rock by the ring that keeps tigers away. You can buy this rock.

Promoting 101, go to pound town!!! Pound that pavement that is!!! @evewrestling.bsky.social @internettitle.bsky.social

Yeah, Mandelson is done

The key fact that the racist right really hates: multiculturalism works

Seriously why the F is the 22 yr old Kirk shoot being referred to as “a kid”, and the 13 yr old Epstein victims are “Under aged women”.

“Ignoring Elon Musk and hoping he goes away hasn’t worked. X can mobilise violent mobs onto Britain’s streets, financially support its leaders, and radicalise casual users of the site – and its owner has made plain his agenda. The government has allowed a problem to turn into a crisis.”

Beyond parody

CNN busted the "Tyler donated to Trump" stuff too. It was a totally different person with the same name. They say he was registered as unaffiliated and hadn't voted in the last two general elections.

i am seeing a lot of low quality sources like the one below claiming Tyler Robinson is a registered Republican. this is not true as far as I can tell. The registration date for this person is Jan 1 2001. Tyler is 22. brokeonomics.news/2025/09/12/c...

NEW: Please don't politicize WrestleMania. WWE delivers shareholder value and normalizes an awe-inspiring dictatorship that pays them extremely well—all while entertaining you. There's nothing political about that. www.postwrestling.com/2025/09/12/o...

She's the absolute best, and you can't convince us otherwise! #AEW #EVEwrestling

this is one of the things that's so hard to get across people. Politics does matter, but the environment these shooters are being radicalized in, and the ways in which communication takes place and information spreads in that kind of place, can't be ignored and crosses ideological boundaries

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

In light of the announcement of #Wrestlemania 43 taking place in Saudi Arabia, this is my piece for @socialsuplex.bsky.social that’s partly about wwe humiliating punk but is really about how WWE has participated in the reputation laundering of a despotic regime. www.socialsuplex.com/features-8/

one of my earliest memories was hearing the Oklahoma city bombing from miles away