The Spanish players just seem to have complete trust in their teammates to take the pass and hold onto the ball then move it on. Stunning display.

Still saying Fartage has “agreed to meet…” Should be “accepted the invitation to meet…” #r4today

And now, in the interests of balance, we have an ex-Tory Reform MP and a Tory MP. #r4today

A lot of the reporting of the Widdecombe murder is misleading: the Police initially said there was no evidence of a political motive. That’s NOT the same as saying there was no political motive.

The @metoffice.gov.uk (awful, BTW) weather app is a good example of @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s enshittification. Reducing a whole day’s weather to one icon because “that’s how apps work” results in decisions that destroy value. #R4today

A fascinating investigation into the funders of Restore from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - and an interesting link to Camelot Castle in Cornwall. A hotbed of Scientology! bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/w...

Reading a piece in @bylinetimes.bsky.social about Restore’s dubious funding reminded me of this favourite from my youth. Watching it again with amazement at how accurately Sesame Street foresaw Trump, Fartage, Brexit, AI and cryptocurrency in one sketch youtu.be/6LiPFf_uL3M?...

The political nous that got the government into its current position..,

“Devastating for everyone”, says Paddy #bbcbh Really?

Barney Ronay hits the right tone here and I just love this: “the closer Dan Burn, rumbling out like several very small men on each other’s shoulders inside an overcoat” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Tuchel’s post match on the pitch interview there was class. He’s going to tell the team off for winning badly. Makes me a bit more confident about the semifinal!

Attack is the best form of defence. Someone once said.

It’d be England’s first World Cup semi-final since 2018, feels like an eternity, ITV tells us. That’ll be the first out of a whole two opportunities, won’t it?

Jude! Hope it’s not too early in extra time though.

England do look very tired. And have done the whole game.

I might have missed it, but have we had one shot in the second half?

Have we got to the by-line yet? Those gently lobbed 45 deg crosses aren’t going to get us anywhere. No pace or movement.

Rice’s passes all seem to be under-hit. Does he think he’s still playing at altitude? #NorEng

Been amused and mildly irritated all day by the BBC reporting the additional challenge the heat presents England tonight. The reporters obviously haven’t been to Norway or looked at a map.

The push to flog ‘AI’ glasses is most likely to founder on the fact that most people don’t want to wear glasses. Many of those that have to prefer to use contact lenses instead. How is big tech going to overcome this basic, largely aesthetic, choice?

Fartage still moaning about the ‘pile-on’. That’s the same ‘pile-on’ that most senior politicians have been exposed to for years. Did he seriously think he’d be immune for ever? Typical bully, though. He doesn’t like it up ‘im!

Trump at NATO is textbook grifter tries to fix World Cup match and takes it out on European countries. He probably thinks Belgium owns Greenland.

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

Exciting for Clacton voters that they're going to get to see their MP again for the first time since they last elected him.

If I donate £5 to the Count Binface campaign, does that make him as corrupt as Fartage?

Bugger. C’mon Egypt

The IOC won’t be trumped by FIFA. They’ve recognised Russia again?!

Fartage is frit. He knows he’ll be nicked, so he’s doing a runner.

Fartage says he hasn’t claimed any parliamentary expenses. Obvs - you have to attend and undertake parliamentary business if you want to claim T&S!

Trump must be very proud. A week ago, many footy fans around the world would have been happy to see the USA do well. It would have been good for football. By last night, Trump made sure that, EVERONE outside of the USA wanted to see them get stuffed by Belgium. And they were.

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Trump has now condemned the USA association football team to the fate of being everyone’s most hated. For at least a decade, probably longer.

Stop saying the red card has been overturned, Evan #bbcpm - the penalty has been suspended (in breach of FIFA rules). The red card stands.

In his book 'How to Launder Money', Posh George, the Farage aide at the heart of Reform's latest controversy, has a chapter on 'The Art of the Bribe' He and his co-author recommend small gifts (explainable as “a mistake of overexuberance in friendship”) and "Paying some of the target’s expenses”

That was a hell of a gamble - subbing Kane off with 11 minutes’ of injury time to go, maybe extra time and penalties. Glad it paid off for Tuchel.

The weather up here in the Highlands is pretty crap, so I’m watching the Mex v Eng game exactly 12h later. Even though I know what happened, the tension is unbearable.

EasyJet falls to private equity… let the debt-loading and asset-stripping commence.

The Sky takeover of ITV is for “consolidation and scale” says #r4today It used to be called monopoly and was seen as a bad thing.

It’s going to end up being postponed, isn’t it?

Laura Kuenssberg will want to ask questions about me being influenced by payments from billionaires. As I'm in hiding, I sent our next most experienced person, Robert Jenrick, who intervened to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.

I’m going to set up a company and register it as a political party so I can make it quite obvious to everyone that I’m not involved in politics.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

When I said the £5 million was for security, I meant it would have been if my security wasn't already being paid for by convicted fraudster George Cottrell. And anyway it's a reward for Brexit and also totally unconditional.

That’s a good one from Honest Bob Jenrick: the Sunday Times is a Labour-supporting newspaper, apparently!

Fartage doesn’t seem to understand that corruption isn’t just about being “an active politician”, it’s about owing someone (and being owned).

Announced during a historic heat wave. These guys are buffoons.

Eh? A magazine?! Anyone who needs to buy this shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near an LLM.

If Starmer’s principal legacy is driving the left out of the Labour Party, then … What a waste.

Another Trump apologist getting his tummy tickled on #4today. Very balanced.

There’s a lot of McSweeney interviews hitting us at the same time. Cynics might think it’s a PR exercise, or something. Looking forward to R4’s When it Hits the Fan covering this bit of reputation management.