Wrighty, speaking for us all.

I had to watch the documentary about this fucking creep and write words about it so the least you can do is read it! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Surrey are offering £5 tickets to the first day of their ongoing County Championship match with Hampshire to any Day Four ticket holders of England vs New Zealand at Lord’s.

At the risk of repeating myself (I am) this sort of dreadful Lord’s pitch in county cricket would have Rob Key bemoaning unacceptable standards, and the home county docked points by some authoritarian committee or other. Criticism on TV has s far been tempered and await media judgment with interest.

I happen to like pitches that do a bit but it is a fact that under dictatorial new regulations in County cricket, the home county would suffer an unforgivingly heavy points penalty for a surface like this Lord’s one.

I happen to like pitches that do a bit but it is a fact that under dictatorial new regulations in County cricket, the home county would suffer an unforgivingly heavy points penalty for a surface like this Lord’s one.

Those fucking racists who’ve spent the last fifteen years demonising Poles, complaining about Polski Skleps on high streets, demanding their deportation, now trying to use the murder of Henry Nowak for their own racist purposes can fuck right off.

Really good

Uruguay's squad announcement video for the World Cup features Marcelo Bielsa on a bike revealing the names he has chosen in his 26-man group 🇺🇾

Thames Water asks millions to stop using hosepipes to save water. Get a few days sunshine and infrastructure can't cope. TW built no new reservoir since 1989, loses 570m - 592m litres of water daily to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers. Customers fleeced. TW still trades.

I've had it with The Observer.

Out of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.

Truth. "You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” — Jodi Picoult

It seems to me that Tuchel has rejected two talented players who are not grown-up enough and one grown-up who is not talented enough.

Buy. Break. Replace. Repeat. Across Europe, products are made to fail - and we’re the ones paying for it. EU leaders are deciding now whether to fix this. Sign to demand products that last! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...

Arsenal have outrun their opponents in 35 of their 37 Premier League matches this season, more than any other team (Leeds next with 32 of 37)

A bit of jibing at Farke on this. But I don't think Willy is good enough for a top-12 team. Seems a lovely guy and I've really enjoyed his time at Leeds. I don't see the goals, assists, vision, or even huge potential. If Leeds want to grow I think it's a sound logical judgment to move him on. #lufc

It's about Pride in Place and collapsing social fabric. Not just potholes but closed libraries, sports centres, playing fields, unkempt parks & public spaces, closed pubs, no social housing, car park charges, docs' appointments... if liberally-minded people don't Get It then prepare for Farage.

Lots of complacent misrepresentation on this site that Burnham's offering is now based entirely on pothole repair because he wants more money for Local Government. It was a single example, not a manifesto, and people are demeaning themselves by their condescension. Your attitudes are causing Reform!

The dynamics of a leadership contest make it very likely that Rejoin will soon be Labour policy. Be interesting to see how Burnham handles this issue in the by-election.

Lovely piece, as so often, by Barney, but do people really hate Arsenal beyond football's usual levels of hate? I try not to do hate, but I dislike Spurs and especially Chelsea's preening egotistical malcontents far more than Arsenal. Maybe it's a London thing. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🚨🔵 Xabi Alonso will be announced as new Chelsea manager very soon on a FOUR year contract, valid until June 2030. Everything agreed as Xabi will be in London in the next days to start this new chapter. Understand he’ll be very much involved in Chelsea summer transfer plans.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

A reminder that the real patriots aren’t the ones tying flags to lampposts or standing around outside 3-star hotels. They’re the ones who get stuck in within their local communities, the volunteer, the football coach, the litter picker and myriad others.

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

If you haven’t got Instagram here’s the whole sorry tale…

The start of Starmer's speech sounds like a third-rate political seminar to some PPE kids, all vague theory no DEEDS

Glamorgan’s Tom Norton, 18, took a hat-trick on his second day as a championship cricketer to become the first bowler to take a hat-trick on first-class debut in a championship match since William Benskin for Leicestershire in 1906. (£) www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke... Good stat.

Yorkshire at the centre of fresh racism allegations | The Cricketer www.thecricketer.com/Topics/count...

Please tell me the candidate was Bill Sikes

"UKIP's here... sorry, Reform is here" This blithering idiot doesn't know which party he belongs to. This is the sort of attention to detail you can expect from your Reform councillors.

Have these stats ever been seen in the PL, #lufc no xg for a home side ridiculous, investigations required lol

Personally, I think that Chelsea should sign all eight managers and loan them all out

Can I propose trial 5?: the goalkeeper is kneecapped and thus actually injured. #lufc www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Respect to @dalejohnsonbbc.bsky.social and BBC sport for taking this disgrace seriously #lufc www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Goalkeepers feigning injury is a blight on football and in their failure to condemn and ridicule the sort of antics displayed by Robert Sanchez at Wembley much of the football media is guilty of swimming in the same rancid swamp #lufc

60 - Stach clipped by Caicedo as he gets to a ball first 25 yards out on the right. Yellow card. Sanchez goes down, on the orders of Fernandez. Tactical timeout at Wembley. Yuck. 0-1 #lufc

How BBC Radio York covered York City's title-winning equaliser.

… @georgedobell.bsky.social tellsyou what “personal circumstances” really means

Consultants endlessly making money on something nobody has the energy and ambition to actually build.

I'm sure carbon dating is very good, but forgive me if I think it's more likely to be 1910.

Ms Hopps has just asked if I am watching the 2nd half. Not sure if I dare. #lufc

The Observer Walk from @theobserveruk.bsky.social is an interesting idea and I'm sure once they have bought OSMaps they will even manage to get out of London...

Yes, but how much do they (*and all parties) really know about some of them? The number of paper candidates - often tokenism at its worst - is depressingly large.

Political parties are desperate to find candidates in so many wards. My interview consisted of "will you stand?". But even that is better than this, err, politically confused individual

Full marks for creativity to Umesh Kumar, who put in nomination papers to stand for Hounslow council in Heston East ward for the Lib Dems - and also to stand in Heston West ward for Reform UK. Unfortunately multiple candidacies aren't allowed these days, and he's been disqualified in both wards.

🌅 Blue hour on the Minho river... Caminha wakes up in perfect silence, fishing boats resting on a mirror of water. One of Portugal's most beautiful hidden corners. 🇵🇹⛵ #Photography #Travel #Portugal #Sunset

Hall of fame FT correction

Quality from Surrey. @kiaoval.com repeatedly shows Championship cricket the way forward. Time for other county clubs to learn and upgrade what in some cases is their utterly dismal Wi-fi.

Well, there's a surprise. Have you seen the ticket prices? Not worth being arrested at immigration because you might have remarked in passing that Trump is a dangerous demented narcissist.