Josh vs Watford #ncfc

It’s baby steps but still interesting that someone inside No 10 is briefing (gasp) positive lines about rejoining the Customs Union. There a lots of reasons why it might not happen, not least Starmer being too timid, but the last week or two is a noticeable change of tone.

I have a feeling this will be the most controversial FIFA Peace Prize since 1938 when they awarded it to Adolf Hitler

🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

A collection of words I never thought I'd see in one sentence

It’s not going away in The Guardian or on here but you try finding the story on the BBC site (it’s there but it’s not immediately obvious)

As a journalist you’re always looking for ways to sum up the now, but the story is really often more incremental. This is from a Derbyshire county council paper. I was, inevitably, looking for “library to close” or “doge identified £Xm”, but the starting point is at least as important

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Here we go:

Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

UK Music has surveyed music creators on their experiences of touring the EU following Brexit. And the picture is still bad and is getting worse.🚨 Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023. https://bit.ly/442wvEI

Overheard telephone conversation on train “Are you not enjoying the Maserati any more or are you just looking for a change?” 🚗🚘🚙

Fear of facing the future has British politics stuck in the past | Rafael Behr

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

Kelly Cates doing a cracking David Byrne tribute here.

I remember watching the pro-Brexit Grace Blakeley describe EU free movement of people as "combating the demographic problems of northern Europe by exporting and extracting fertility from the periphery of Europe", because "most of those emigrants [from Poland] are young people of child bearing age"

Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it. Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.

Ooh, that would be interesting. Judging by the length of the book this will clock in at approximately 10 episodes per series and 10 series in total.

Not the most important thing about this story but I never realised Americans said 'balk' while we say 'baulk' 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Every year we treat ourselves to a new decoration or two for the Christmas tree and this year’s additions are just absolutely outstanding Tempted to not add anything else as we basically have a muppet Christmas tree

No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Gary Bainbridge Is Wrong Day to all who celebrate 🎄

He's m ng ist He’s check ice He find ou naught ice Norman Collier is comi town

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Might celebrate #ncfc first home win of the season with a small Tia Maria 🍷 Dank u wel Philippe 💛💚⚽️

RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.

16 points off the play offs #NCFC

Whoo hoo! We’ve won at home for the first time this season! #ncfc

We threw away a potential 12-15 points because we delayed the obvious. Another black mark on the Knapper ledger #ncfc

Blimey #ncfc

Whassgornon??? 3 ghouls in the first half??? #ncfc

Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics. Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics

Glorious. 10/10. No notes.

Glad he’s kept the back four the same after Tuesday. Hopefully we get 2nd half Fisher/Schwartau down the left rather than Tuesday’s 1st half. The HT talk obviously had a positive impact and they were much improved. Shame about Makama, he’s been a bright spot in a terrible season so far. #ncfc

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Interesting choice of things to campaign on there. All laudable, of course, but not a single mention of the environment, climate change, renewable energy to lower bills etc. Is this the Green Party?

‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’ Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going

The mere fact he lives in a French chateau after a political career trying to stop freedom of movement, is testament to his hypocrisy.

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Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

We are re-watching all of Northern Exposure and have reached S4 ep 7 which has a bizarre cameo from Adam Ant as a famous musician appropriating “Indian”culture Not 100% clear whether the writers were quietly taking the proverbial out of him or if he was in on the joke but, boy, he can’t act.

Alleged use of the N-word here is from 1997 when Farage would have been 33 years old and at a time when there was no doubt that terms like this were highly racist. I don’t think the ‘banter’ excuse would hold up here either.

Was just thinking after seeing a post from my MP over on FB wouldn't it be nice to read a statement from an elected official with no possibility of a comment underneath. I suppose I'm lobbying for reading a newspaper & then at least Gillian from Kendray has to find a stamp before speaking her brains

Matt: we need measures to improve fertility - it's one of our biggest problems! Also Matt: No not like that. I meant white people only.