Finally finishing #thePitt - if anyone had any doubts about the value of the NHS, the Pitt makes the differences very stark and this is set in an emergency dept which is under the same pressure as any NHS A&E - and the monies involved are in the 100s of thousands

Was wondering why so many players had been booked - then saw the ref #CANMAR

Everyone will have their own feelings about Harry and Meghan but it’s genuinely puzzling that the government won’t fund security for a family visit to the UK - to imagine there won’t be a crowd of paps trying to get too close to them all the time is simply ridiculous

YIMBYism promised to be the next big thing in progressive politics. But a couple of years after the PM declared himself a YIMBY, housebuilding has stalled, and YIMBYs have found themselves on the side of killing newts. Where did 'build baby build' go wrong? 🧵

England game brought forward to 7pm on Sunday. Crazy. Was thinking at least a 6pm start would be cooler. Noon at the Azteca?! Altitude issues and heat - not good #MEXENG

Conservationists are calling for an end to overfishing as scientists say there should be “zero” fishing of cod, plaice and haddock in certain UK waters next year

Bellingham should have been taken off 10 minutes ago

DRC have been unlucky in front of goal. They only need to get lucky once

If Pickford was in the DRC goal we would be 3 up #LFC

I am the first to criticise Kane but if that’s not a pen FIFA has changed the rules of the game #LFC

This is actually quite an average England group when you look at past teams. Players like Rio, Trent, Foden and even Grealish improve it. If we somehow get through this Mexico will annihilate us #LFC

Predictable #England

Always fancied Klopp for #England but do wonder how a high energy pressing games works in international tournaments often held in high temps

Why would we sign Diomande rather than Barcola. Both are raw but latter would suit #LFC better and under Iraola’s coaching could become something truly exceptional

Good piece highlighting the adverse challenges facing the countryside from a food security and nature pov - made worse by successive government policies www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Japan faffing around at the edge of their own penalty box - Brazil took full advantage. When in doubt etc etc - #BRAJAP

England shadowing #LFC with right back problems #PANENG

At this point I would have had Sterling or Grealish on the bench #PANENG

I like Quansah but to think he is playing in the World Cup as right back ahead of Trent is slightly ridiculous #LFC

Excellent thread …

We aren’t playing brilliantly but Bellingham is being consistently fouled - how long before a yellow card #WorldCup

Agree with AB’s idea of taking swathes of dept staff out of London and relocating to regions. Would specifically ask that the farming Minister is based near some farms. Since leaving London have been astonished at the sheer lack of understanding of the farming sector across Westminster & Whitehall

Reece James may miss rest of the World Cup unless England go v deep in the tournament. We all knew this would happen. Lad is made of glass. Yet Tuchel brought no high level cover and Trent is on his holidays #LFC

We are very lucky to have bats in our eaves. Just as the swifts start to roost they give all the birds a lesson in speed feeding - amazing to see #countrysideprotection

Sally died because the supported living home she lived in forgot to give her her medication for 300 days. An inquest found she died from neglect but the CQC failed to bring forward a prosecution The problem isn't just the regulator. Its the fact that we've privatised social care

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

It’s in games like this you need a player who can provide the defence splitting pass. Of only there was someone…🧐 #England #Trent

Wonder what Barcelona fans are thinking right now #England

Football has got be like rugby. Concussion protocols should be mandatory #ENGGHANA

Gov’t is so hopeless. 80 specialist sheep shearers coming in for 3 months is not a long term immigration issue. As with fruit pickers many English workers are not interested in farm work. You red to bring people in to do a v specialist job #countryfile

Not sure if Diomande is injured there - if so probably means he has signed for us #LFC

Isak’s performance reinforces my consistent belief that he doesn’t really fit the #LFC mould. Maybe under Slot but not under Klopp or Iraola

Kane has had a really good game. Being at Bayern has given him a winner’s mentality he perhaps lacked before #WorldCup26

Anderson looks a very good player at this level already - can see him controlling the City midfield for a while assuming they get him #LFC

Good to see England starting like #LFC - unfortunately the LFC of this season

France looking v good - helps having a manger who knows how to handle a superstar squad #WorldCup

Designating councils for not building is a mistake. Councils want to build more housing but give them the money and let them decide where. Allowing housing without supportive infrastructure is where the Gov’t has got it badly wrong - creates a democratic deficit #planning #housing

Like #Clarkson’sFarm and respect why he is trying to do but anyone who lives in the countryside knows you put a load of guinea fowl in a copse with no protection there is only one end…He knows that so not sure why he sounded so surprised

Think #theTimes may have beaten some kind of record for articles either directly or indirectly about the Cotswolds - four in a week

So tired of water company excuses. If the infrastructure had been built in the first place then homes wouldn’t be at risk of flooding and streams, rivers and coastal seas would not be so filthy

Am quite glad Rio is not going to the World Cup. He would set it on fire. Given all the stuff around the Bayern move am hoping he spends more time with Iraola #LFC

An ecological collapse would raise annual interest payments by $162 billion and cut the global gross domestic product by $2 trillion a year

Just 10% fossil fuels this Friday morning, British electricity gets cleaner and cleaner!

We're losing 10M hectares of forest yearly. That's 27 soccer fields per minute. Air pollution kills 7M people/year. More than COVID at its peak. 1M species face extinction. We're in the 6th mass extinction event. Like, comment and repost let's accelerate climate education.

There isn’t much good news for coastal communities these days as a heating ocean increases the frequency and intensity of storms- but this is an exception. Mangroves are one of nature’s miracles and it is fantastic that their decline is reversing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Clarkson’sFarm episode 3 is worth a watch. The level of innovation in Dutch farming is remarkable and yet the land and the environment is no worse for it. Wish our government would show the same commitment to innovation in farming that it does for other business sectors

Do you know that 90% of all large predatory fish (like tuna, swordfish, sharks, and cod) are gone from the world's oceans. If humans continue overfishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#Clarkson’sFarm making all the good points about the government’s errors regarding the extra taxes on farmers. The success of Clarkson’s choir at BGT shows the level of support farmers have. The gov’t seems to have its head in the sand about the pressures on family farms

Good example of how a small neighborhood can build itself up. A lot of the retail that was there previously has gone now. Now…https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/lancashire/26013758.locals-guide-spending-day-penwortham-near-preston/?ref=li

Arsenal demonstrating heavy metal football - appears to be working #LFC