Now do Man City... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Wait a minute.. those numbers are awfully similar..

Public servants should be banned from using WhatsAp etc. It limits transparency and endangers democracy. BBC News - Starmer uses disappearing messages on his phone, No 10 confirms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Struggling to see why The Acolyte didn't work out.. Really good Star Wars story, far enough away from the Skywalker saga to be interesting. Making Season 2, wise would Disney be.

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

Love the little dig in this article about English roads.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "The team observed that English roads contain more bumps and potholes than their French equivalents – but not so many as to upset calculations."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... this whole thing feels wrong... Screening saves lives for other cancers so why not this one?

Hurrah! Test Cricket starts again today. Summer is here, bring a brolly.

Another Hollywood remake...

We're being screwed from every direction. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Young people can't afford housing, can't start a family and when they retire won't be able to afford to live. We must tax extreme wealth and literally stop people becoming billionaires.

Careful now Alberta.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Don't be like the idiotic Little Englanders.

I'm no finance expert but why would anyone want to buy stocks in a company that's carrying $60bn in debt and hasn't made an actual profit..? And the majority shareholder becomes a trillionaire just like that. Capitalism makes no sense.

income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. Farage bought a £1.4mn house in Surrey on May 10, 2024, just weeks after receiving £5mn from the crypto billionaire, but did not register the gift in his MPs’ register of interests after taking office the following month.

Today on the BBC: Polanski didn't vote!!! The guy is clearly dodgy. Meanwhile, nothing to see on another guy who was gifted £5m and then bought houses in cash immediately.

“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... whoop de do. Now how about Farage's £5m??

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

Jesus, this is so grim and cynical.

NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular… POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-i...

An 81-year-old woman who died last year is now being listed as a Reform UK voter, a YouTube channel, Political Custard, has revealed. The retired nurse from Derby, who passed away in October, is among a number of deceased people whose details appear to have been used by Reform UK.

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News - Reform pledges to open migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Straight out of the Trump playbook. #votegreen

I'm shocked that this would happen. What a weird coincidence.. BBC News - BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spurs are cursed this season and going down.

44 seconds. Jeez Ipswich. Playoffs here we come.

I'm so glad Rental Family is now on Disney+. Couldn't find it in the cinema but it was worth the wait. What a beautiful film with a wonderful cast. Thank you Hikari. It's made me laugh and cry in spades.

Sigh. We always have to make it hard for ourselves #ITFC. Fair play to Pompey though.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... It's what the 52% voted for.

Bit of a "Hail Mary" but my daughter is taking part in a triathlon for charity and would love to hit her funding target. Any contributions no matter how small would be super appreciated: www.justgiving.com/page/eva-mal...

Conor Chaplin doing a huge favour for #ITFC today. Great day, Prem here we come.

app.pixverse.ai/posted?detai... A Saturday cute bunny from my daughter.

BBC News - Greens win by-election to replace jailed councillor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Excellent.

Yorkshire Puddings work with all roasts, not just beef.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Great news for homeowners and renters alike to reduce bills.

BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"

Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans - The Guardian

If anyone still needs convincing that we need to transition away from fossil fuels urgently then Trump is giving them all the evidence they should need.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

"From 2002, NCP was subsequently owned by private equity companies Cinven and 3i, and then by an infrastructure fund run by the Australian bank Macquarie, which loaded it with debt. In 2011, under Macquarie’s ownership, NCP had debts of £450m." Another grim win for offshore asset strippers.

Thank goodness there aren't many consumers. (I remember when, working for a large corporate, we were told to stop saying 'consumers' and say people or customers instead so as not to de-humanise people).

Just deactivated my personal Twitter account. Haven't used it for quite a long time but feels sad to say goodbye to the history of conversations I had on there. Hopefully this place doesn't go the same way..

🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Middle Eastern countries and U.S. bases now need interceptor drones — our technology. Ukraine understands massive attacks and is ready to help partners, sending three groups of military experts.”

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

David Borenstein at the Oscars slams the Trump administration, "Mr. Nobody Against Putin, is about how you lose your country" "You lose it through countless small little acts of complicity" "When we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities"

@frasernelson.bsky.social: ‘Set aside q of how Farage has £200k to buy shares in Kwasi’s Bitcoin company (an example of Politics Inc) Until now MPs have sold shares, to avoid perception that they’d profit personally from policies they advocate Farage is buying, in order to profit. US-style grift

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

Phone signal on the M25 is patchy beyond belief. Up and down like a yo-yo.

I honestly don’t think is has to do with the calculation - genuinely - but I haven’t heard the name Jeffery Epstein *once* on the news since the US attacked Iran.

@itvpeston.bsky.social some questions to the PM on why they're doing so little for Brits who want to come home would be good. The 1 flight out of Oman has been a shambles and none from the UAE have been lined up. We're all having to spend $$$ & hope for the best.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... An embarrassing shambles by the UK government. Anxious families want to get home safely and the experience being relayed here is the opposite.