Sarah Perry is once again making an obscure crazily hard race look commonplace. "The Hill" - 56 repetitive climbs and descents on the Wrekin for 160 miles / 47,000 ft. No support allowed. She's on the last one, all others are DNF at least 15 laps ago. Tracker: www.timingmonkey.co.uk/results/TheH...

We were never going to win the day nighter at the Gabba, but this feels terminal, after the abject second day in Perth. 5-0 a very live possibility unless the top 6 start to bat properly. #ashes

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗽 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄 It's done. Finally. ▪️ Are any top seeds in trouble? ▪️ Is there a Group of Death? ▪️ Which minnow is best placed to spring a surprise? ▪️ Which group are you most looking forward to?

Rio played a blinder there. #worldcupdraw

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Can we hurry this along, so I can witness the crushing inevitability of Scotland drawing Uruguay, Argentina, 1978 Holland and Beckenbauer era West Germany, whilst England draw the Channel Islands and Jossy's Giants. #worldcupdraw

Loving this sketch about Trump though. Got to be an @aiannucci.bsky.social creation surely? #worldcupdraw

Just do the meat raffle, validate my parking and fuck off slappy #WorldCupDraw

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Call me a fuddy duddy, but, Infantino, mate, just drop the balls in the bag and draw them out. This isn't Eurovision! #worldcupdraw

ROOOOOOOOOOT! 💯 Joe Root's first Test hundred in Australia! #Ashes

Good news! Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... bsky.app/profile/guys...

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

A playlist for curry lovers… 🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To) 🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love 🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere 🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor 🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy 🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman 🎵 Poppadom Preach 🎵 Tears On My Pilau 🎵 Paperback Raita 🎵 Nessun Korma

The “Did Reeves mislead the public?” nothing burger has led the BBC website for almost 3 days now. So, again for those at the back: freezing tax thresholds is not the same as increasing taxes! If Johnson and the Tories misled the public 5 times before lunch that used to be a slow news day.

Lead story on BBC news at 10 just about every Sunday: something said to Laura K on her show 13 hours earlier. And more attempted gotchas of politicians. Get in the bin. This isn't news, it's gossip.

One of THE best things about parkrun on a dreary damp day is getting home and realising you are not "wasting the day" by avoiding the weather for the rest of it!

Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.

Police are now investigating the deliberate poisoning of trees on a Dartmoor common owned by Prince William’s Duchy estate, according to the Western Morning News The Duchy has condemned the culprit All Dartmoor farming, heritage & conservation groups must condemn this act of ecological sabotage

I'm genuinely fascinated as to how our right wing media is going to spin this. What "don't look here, look way over there" ruses will they pull?

Don't let facts get in the way of lies, misdirections and far right demagogues though.

Ukraine’s Border Guard Service showed its helicopter pilots hunting down Shahed drones. One of them, Oleksii Doronenkov, has over 300 confirmed kills. Just two years ago, he hadn’t even trained as a pilot. Now, he flies night missions almost daily, tracking and destroying drones to protect civilians

I wonder what it is about a clean, convenient, affordable, efficient and totally integrated public transport system that makes it so attractive? Yet again I've ridden more miles on their system than our own in 2025. It's a joy. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...

Read Books Deep reading, or full engagement in a book, is an absolute joy. It also forces us to pay attention, to wrestle with ideas, to make sense of complex ideas. It is the original brain training that works.

Egyptian Goose arrives on the foreshore this afternoon to check our mudlarking permits.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Tottenham Hotspur spent the summer chasing Eberechi Eze. He stole the show to become the first Arsenal player since 1978 to score a hat-trick against their north London rivals as Mikel Arteta's side moved six points clear at the top of the Premier League.

Goodness knows as a QPR fan we don't get much if any glory. Watching the career of Eberiche Eze blossom will have to be the substitute for that. He was given his chance to become a proper professional after others saw him as all tricks, no product. Next hat trick? Chelski, please. You owe us that 😄

Family gathering for a birthday + glut of ripe pears = Prue Leith's pear and ginger cake executed with surgical (😆) precision by our daughter Lisa yesterday. #nomnom

“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?” “Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?” You can have those for nothing, lads.

Did it make your news? No, nor mine. A capital city of at least 10 million souls is unsustainable. The first of many to come as water shortages and extreme heat begin to bite. But the climate crisis is a hoax, isn't it?

Just in case Farage denys every knowing Gill.

NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I poured this cup of coffee just as Ben Stokes came on to bowl, and when I emptied the dregs, he had 5 wickets. What a cricketer. #ashes

Most wickets on the first day of an ashes test for 116 years. 😳

First day of the Ashes seems like a bit of a bowling day. 🤦

There are many walking the streets of your town who would have him back as Prime Minister in a heartbeat. And if the polls now are to be believed, over a third of the country would actually have someone far, far worse if we were to hit a similar crisis.

The report into Boris Johnson’s record during the Covid epidemic blames a ‘toxic, sexist and chaotic culture’ in Downing Street. Who’d have thought it?

From the CWS Archives. 19th December 2021.

The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…

Another few reminders this last few days. This platform isn't X. Many of us who came quite early try to defend a culture where anonymity, lack of a proper bio or having no posts when you follow are red flags. No bots, follower harvesting etc. Instant block.

Fascinating and disconcerting. That person standing in front of you in hospital saying "I'm one of the doctors" may have a wildly different experience of working in the NHS, depending on a labyrinth of inconsistent contract terms.

The Donkey team have done it again, bless 'em. We need @ledbydonkeys.org more than ever. Share widely.

Is there any lager left in Scotland this morning? That win last night is probably up there with when they beat World Champions England 3-2 at Wembley in 1967, as a great "against all odds" result.

So what does Trump’s u-turn on releasing the Epstein files mean? Has the DOJ now finished cleaning them up?

"Unprecedented" "Once in a lifetime" "A month's worth of rain" "Once in a century event" The idiotic and irresponsible media bathe our eyes and ears with phrases that divert us from the stark realities of climate breakdown by shifting the attention to old norms. Wake the f*** up!