Making the Russia and Qatar World Cups look squeaky clean www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Interesting that The Sunday Times is suddenly going after Farage. Has he done something to annoy Murdoch? Is Jenrick letting stories slip to his journalist friends?

Hell of a photo

Cities: Skylines II is shaping up to be the comeback game of 2026. My report for Forbes here: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

The Independent needs a copy editor. Will Andy Burnham listen?

The poor lambs

A start, but why isn't this a government-wide edict?

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Reminder: The NHS pays this man's company an awful lot of our money

Sony is killing all physical PlayStation game discs. New games released after January 2028 will be digital-only www.theverge.com/games/960160...

The US just blew up EU-US data transfers... removing independence of FTC means the EU treaty is no longer valid: noyb.eu/en/us-suprem...

Cockwomble www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Mate, you ain't got ten years to sort out the economy. The current half-life of a PM is closer to ten weeks.

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

It's very striking to see a minister who understands his brief on quite a deep level. I hope Burnham doesn't replace him.

The next time sometime tells you AI is nothing more than fancy auto-complete, show them this video, because they (and have always been) thunderously wrong: youtu.be/aBUniZHgCnE?...

"You just knew it was going to be him," says the commentator, who gave no previous indication it was going to be him

Not sure my mate would appreciate it if I used Facebook's suggested "lovely pair" comment on this photo of him and his wife

My personal view on climate change - and I realise there are counter-arguments - is that you should use heatwaves to commit to doing enduring things that are within your control. Whatever those may be. bsky.app/profile/henr...

Day 195 of Heatwave UK: * 65 people hospitalised after undercooking Christmas turkey on BBQ * Ryanair charges passengers £8 each time they waft in-flight magazine as a fan * Reform unveil new policy to create new coal mines in Guildford * The price of a Calippo hits an all-time-high of £38.50

Whilst it's great to see Microsoft extend the ESU until 2027, there are still thousands of abandoned yet working machines filling up waste dumps because their owners were told that this wouldn't happen. A profitable tactic which is great for sales and awful for the planet. #e-waste #greenwashing

I bet all six of the Apple Vision Pro owners have loved using it over the past few days

The entire population of the South has decamped to this Starbucks with their laptops to leech the air con.

Not wishing to sound smug, but glad I decided to upgrade my Mac earlier this year in anticipation of Apple having to shove up prices. They are hefty hikes.

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Power cut in the hood. Tremendous.

HYDRATION BREAK

Skillfully-challenged football teams pissing around at the back will never make any sense

That's one hell of a let off for Scotland.

Maverick move from Switzerland to appoint Shaw Taylor as their manager

My office is currently at 32.6C. The dog and I both agree this is less than ideal.

Struggling to see the point of even selling "physical" copies if you're not including the media www.ign.com/articles/gra...

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Irony is red hot today

The dog has a new favourite spot... Bang in front of the fan

Trump wouldn't know what a quantum computer was if it qubit him on the arse: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Peter Murrell should have been convicted on the strength of his appalling taste in games alone

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Do you have any football-related names in your passwords? Get them changed now. www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

You already got one, and you didn't like it.

For the first time ever, I'm like stock image "working from home" - sitting under an umbrella at my garden table, working on my laptop, because my office is unbearably warm.

Has the government started issuing emergency Calippos yet?

The FT is largely great and one of the few publications I trust on politics, but I wish it would turn reader comments off. They add nothing but bile and they're infested with obvious bots.

I also understand that the Prime Minister will be resigning tomorrow. My sources are as good as about half of the political correspondents'.

The co-founder of Ubisoft died in a tragic accident and the NYT somehow feels the need to spend a lengthy paragraph of the obituary debating whether having a black main character for a recent game was "DEI". Incredible work.

Medals of Honor to include Velcro from now on

I'm not sure Burnham is the messiah, but if he can take the fight to Johnny Reform like he did in Makerfield, I'd give him a crack.

This is ludicrous.

Tim Cook bemoaning AI driving up RAM prices while at the same time stuffing iOS/macOS with AI features that's creating the crisis in the first place. Cake and eat it. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-p...