Just realised Kim Hellberg is being interviewed on BBC Tees right now. You can listen to it from the beginning on BBC Sounds. #utb #boro

Important three points after the past few games. Fry and Targett were immense. And Strelec getting on the score sheet is very encouraging. #utb #boro

Bit harsh to take Strelec off straight after he scored that header, mind. #utb #boro

Matt Targett, you beauty! 🔥 #utb #boro

In January 1934, the Daily Mail published the notorious headline “Hurrah for the Blackshirts” written by owner Lord Rothermere to support Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. It hasn’t changed.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Ah, hope. There you are. Huge congratulations to Hannah Spencer, the Green Party and the good folk of Gorton and Denton. I hope other parties and the wider electorate take note. You don’t have to dance to Farage’s hateful divisive tune. We can do so much better. We can be so much better.

Delighted the good folk of Gorton and Denton agree. #r4today

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Ah, hope. There you are. Huge congratulations to Hannah Spencer, the Green Party and the good folk of Gorton and Denton. I hope other parties and the wider electorate take note. You don’t have to dance to Farage’s hateful divisive tune. We can do so much better. We can be so much better.

And we cut live to Matt Goodwin at the Gorton and Denton by-election results.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Symmetry. Wordle 1,712 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Relieved we got the equaliser, but Ayling is having a bit of a ‘mare tonight. Would feel a bit more at ease if Fry came on. #utb #boro

Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

Justin Webb saying the quiet part out loud on #r4today : JW: “Does it change the way the royal family are reported now?” Ex-BBC Peter Hunt: “You would hope so. Because the key word is ‘reporting’. Reporters are meant to report.” JW: “But we don’t, do we? I mean, we haven’t.”

Former BBC correspondent Peter Hunt is right. #r4today “I think the King has done the bear minimum consistently in order to separate the institution from Andrew. To have the focus on Andrew and not to have questions asked [of the King and the monarchy itself].”

This is glorious. A Heathcliff that will Sweep you off your feet.

Can we stop all of the reverence and bowing now, please? As well as the tax-payer funding of their lifestyles and our politicians treating them differently to any other citizen when it comes to the law? #bbcqt

Our six-run streak had to end at some point. Though we really didn’t help ourselves. Better it be against a team with the closest points to us than those below. 1st or 2nd is still promotion come the end of the season. Fingers crossed. Long way to go. Shake this off. And on to the next. #boro #utb

Octowookiee. 🙃

Solidarity with Francesca Albanese — a beacon of sanity and humanity in this ongoing genocide. She's being smeared by powerful people who want to operate without limits, without accountability. She’s right. International law means something. Rules mean something. Life means something.

A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.

A very good evening to whoever organised this billboard outside of Old Trafford.

The Guardian's Jillian Ambrose unpicks the many tens of millions in state support that Jim Ratcliffe's businesses have accepted, after the billionaire railed against people on benefits (and claimed Britain was being "colonised" by immigrants while himself having moved to tax-free Monaco).

Jaw on floor. Jim Ratcliffe is getting £100m of our money. And he wants more. Why are ordinary people (Brits and the immigrants he attacks — while being one himself) who actually live in the UK and pay their taxes expected to subsidise a literal billionaire who left the UK to skip £4 billion tax?

The Green Party’s Ellie Chowns MP is right: “Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP, have been busy for many years fomenting this idea that immigration is the problem in this country. It’s completely untrue. Inequality is the problem in this country.” #bbcqt

Jaw on floor. Jim Ratcliffe is getting £100m of our money. And he wants more. Why are ordinary people (Brits and the immigrants he attacks — while being one himself) who actually live in the UK and pay their taxes expected to subsidise a literal billionaire who left the UK to skip £4 billion tax?

On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of snake-oil salesmen trying to divide us for political/personal gain & Billionaires hoarding their wealth offshore to avoid UK tax while claiming to be patriotic. #newsnight

Just a little reminder that 99% of the British population have more in common with with each other (no matter their background, ethnicity, religion etc.) and immigrants than they do with ‘patriotic’ Billionaires who move to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the country they purport to love.

On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of snake-oil salesmen trying to divide us for political/personal gain & Billionaires hoarding their wealth offshore to avoid UK tax while claiming to be patriotic. #newsnight

Zoe Gardner is spot on. @zoejardiniere.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Jim Ratcliffe is a proper prick.

Jim Ratcliffe is a proper prick.

Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin MP — who said "it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people" — didn’t look too happy about Ayoub Khan MP talking about bin collections in Birmingham. #pmqs

Just a little reminder that 99% of the British population have more in common with with each other (no matter their background, ethnicity, religion etc.) and immigrants than they do with ‘patriotic’ Billionaires who move to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the country they purport to love.

Manchester Utd owner is giving media interviews claiming UK "colonised" by immigrants He thinks population rose 12 million snce 2020! 11 million people born abroad; this was 9.5 million in 2020, so that is up 1.5 million (not 12 million) but rose 7 million in 30 years from 4m before 1997

Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin MP — who said "it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people" — didn’t look too happy about Ayoub Khan MP talking about bin collections in Birmingham. #pmqs

He should have followed the #boro 🙃 #utb

The boss is loving it. What a thing he is building here. #utb #boro

A thing of beauty 😍 #utb #boro

Can’t take any more Brazil. Please channel 90s Italy now. 🫣 #utb #boro

We are 2002 Brazil 🔥 #utb #boro

Delighted to get the first goal. But not sure my heart can take another 70 minutes of this. What a mad game. #utb #boro

Journalist and Broadcaster Oli Dugmore is spot on. “Not only did the people at the top of the Labour party know about this [Mandelson staying at Epstein’s house while he was in prison]… they didn’t think this was disqualifying, they thought ‘actually, this is our guy’.” #bbcqt

Just watched The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2025). What a lovely gem of a film.

This is the book I wish we’d had in school growing up. Do yourself a favour if you haven’t read it. Empireland demystifies much of our shared history. And puts into context many of the challenges we are grappling with today. An excellent tool against those seeking to divide us. And only 99p today.