FIFA have announced the piss prize. A chamber pot of golden liquid rejected by their doping lab.

Starmer seems addicted to focus groups. Might we persuade him that the whole of New York is giant focus group?

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

Do Americans get a pay-off when sacked?

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Guards Guards, except I can't concentrate. Page 14 "the whining resentful ones, the ones with a belly full of spite and bile... floods of venom and vindictiveness dammed up behind walls of ineptitude..." 1989, Pratchett couldn't be writing about UKIP/REFORM? Could he?

"He had a grin on his face". Just desperate for an excuse to hate. I hope he hears the recording and realises his wife is so disgusted that she'll show him up in public.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

I'm feeling so annoyed with Chris Mason. My NI has gone up and down and up and down. My VAT has gone up and down and up and down. The only tax rate so precious that it can only ever go *down* is the one paid by people who don't work and have assets. The unfairest one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don't get what is wrong with putting up income tax. If governments have only changed the rate downwards for 50 years, there is a lot of scope for upward movement. The only issue is how the rise is distributed.

The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban. Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵 reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide

I used to show the work experience kids who came to my office the "Accident Record Book" which included "stapled thumb" "cut finger with tape measure" but didn't include "dropped filing cabinet on self" - which was actually likely to kill them, but which I scared them off off doing.

Hamas should send the bodies of every unidentified adult in Gaza back to Israel.

Some ffffg Tory ex-minister on Radio4 telling us to increase stop-and-search, sometimes without cause, in high crime areas. So apart from searching every black man in every midlands town every time they leave their house, how would that protect anyone? Ffffk Ffffk Ffffk

It turns out, peerages can be taken away.

To be or not to be .. #Shakespearian

On the politics programmes this morning we hear that people want to know "more" about the knifeman on the train. What "people" want to know is whether they have an alibi / excuse for riots and racist rampage.

Zohran Mamdani's is a Muslim. Brought up as a Muslim and practicing, but he has a Hindu mother. It is multiculturalism that explains how he appeals to so many.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.

"BBC "Edited by Rorey Bosotti "Reeves admits she shouldn't have relied on agency for renting licence" Listen, this licence costs a bit more than my car tax. Not that much more. BBC is trying to undermine the Chancellor, at the behest of the Conservative party. Rorey Bosotti deserves to be sacked.

I offered myself as a "control" for a medical study and having measured my reflexes, abilities and cognition (person woman man camera TV) the poor lad asked about depression and mood. Out of 10? "If Trump had a stroke I'd score my mood 11"

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Its rare that I agree with my MP, but he is right. Time to clamp down. Meta, X et al should be designated publishers and take responsibility for their platforms.

Danny Kruger is wrong and BBCToday didn't challenge him. Racism isn't about intention, its about attitude. (Misogyny is not about intention either)

I did not get an extra hour of sleep.

The Guardian thinks Kebatu is responsible for "protests outside the hotel, which far-right activists sought to exploit, leading to assaults on police officers and 32 arrests"

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

We are 6 minutes into Kuenssberg's programme and she has already implied that things she says are not Labour's fault, are Labour's fault, and that Farage is in some way right.

If Labour agree that the Tories' botched Brexit deal is hurting our country, they should stop complaining and start fixing it. Starting with a new UK-EU customs union.

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it. Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home". "What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.

"Idi Amin x 20" - this is Tory policy now.

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

Honestly lads it’s not hard. This is a 97% position Ed Davey is agreeing with here. This should be easy mode politics.

Honestly what is the point of a Labour government that won’t take a stand against mass revocation deportation of people with permanent settlement rights? If you won’t stand against anything you stand for nothing.

Good, but this is not some off-the-cuff comment - it *is* official Conservative Policy. It was tabled as a formal amendment Lam (who is their frontbench spokesperson on this topic) as a committee amendment to the Borders Bill. www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2024-25/...

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

Cheer up. He was doing it to the people who voted for him.

This caught my eye on driverless cars coming to the UK. Will politicians be tempted to stop pedestrians being so unpredictable to make it easier for driverless cars? No one has suggested it yet but… www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I don't know why I listen to the news. The moment I hear US government says, Israel says, I assume I'm being lied to. In this case I've no idea what the news in question was, as I've already dismissed it as not fact.

Oh God, I do so *hate* Tories. E.g. an energy policy so short-termist that the position will be completely different by 2029, when their opportunities to act might come in.