Tice said: "Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed - be that more or less." It's another big story from Gabriel Pogrund who also revealed last week that Tice's property company failed to pay £91,000 in tax before dividends.

Hey the Times, I quit a political party over trans issues and have a book to promote, can I have a front page spread? Oh, that’s only reserved for transphobes and not trans people? Never mind.

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

Got an email congratulating me on 22 years of being on Livejournal. Maybe I should start live-journaling again.

I dislike this position from Streeting.

I would like to announce my retirement from existence. From now on I will be playing Pokopia.

Following defeat to Heidenheim, Union Berlin have sacked Steffen Baumgart and appointed Marie-Louise Eta as interim head coach until the end of the season. Eta, 34, becomes the first female head coach of a men's side in any of Europe's top five leagues. #Bundesliga www.dw.com/en/germany-b...

I want everyone to understand just how much terfdom and the gc movement is a man’s rights movement

We already knew Richard Tice aggressively avoided tax. Now we’re told his company just plain failed to pay tax that was legally due. For someone supposedly in public service he goes to extreme lengths to avoid paying his fair share towards public services www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Bring your dinner? How about Arsenal bring a decent performance? That was dreadful from start to finish. Zero redeeming features to that performance. A chance to exert our title credentials and we play like that 😑 Not just bad in isolation either, it adds to ongoing worries about our form.

Increasingly clear that Reform view anyone on benefits as undeserving. Might as well reintroduce the Victorian workhouse and stop beating about the bush

It’s the hope that kills.

Feeling like either Rusnav or Yasnic made a clerical error… #CityOfLastChances

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

I suspect that the cancellation of Starfleet Academy confirms whatever views you held on it prior to the announcement… but I have enjoyed the show and am disappointed that it appears not to have been the revenue generator Paramount were looking for. (It is what spurred me to get Paramount+ just now)

A lot of people clap and cheer at Arkell v Pressdram style legal letters. But the most deadly legal letters are calm and polite, and this one is lethal.

I’ve been convalescing with Firefly and as a three-episode run I think it’s hard to top “Out of Gas”, “Arial” and “War Stories”.

I am reliably informed that it is the hope that kills.

Thank you! They’re the ones I love writing the most, for sure.

When you finally wonder if maybe you’ve contributed to a moral panic that has led to the most extreme assault on minority rights since Jim Crow

I think City may have bottled the league. 😈

St. Pauli

The more I think about it, the more likely it is that putting a badger on the five pound note could bring us back from a completely cashless society.

Minesweeper—but it’s the Strait of Hormuz: sweepthestrait.com (Via SAlexashenko on X)

Obviously, a badger is an excellent choice for this banknote. At least it isn’t a monument we’ll have to justify later by saying “sure he tried to starve brown folk to death, but he did also defeat Hitler in a fist fight.”

The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.

So I signed at a table next to the Dungeon Crawler Carl guy at Comic Con. If your ego ever needs a check, that’s a good one.

The Green party has been unapologetically supportive of trans people and they took a seat from Labour after they gave cracked down on trans people. Liberal parties cannot abandon trans people without losing their base.

Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes: - Twin brother - Gestating a child with a Y chromosome - Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome - Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)

Watching MOTD highlights of NUFC-Everton, I see that Newcastle, who had ditched illegal betting partner FUN88 at beginning of season, have now teamed up with 8Xbet (also partner of Sunderland, Bournemouth, Villa, Forest...), an even worse operator, linked to cyber slavery compound in Cambodia.

Peak Monetisation

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Also… @daisychristo.bsky.social has made me excited for the potential of LLMs to reduce workload and improve consistency in marking. How great would it be if this model made it to the exam boards?

⏱️ 46. Weiter geht's in Halbzeit zwei. #fcsp #tsgfcsp | 0:1

Really enjoyed @bennewmark.bsky.social’s talk on the utility of diagnoses. I might have missed the point, but it seems that it boils down to “help break down the barriers to learning; don’t create problems where they might not exist; students are people.”

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news

This is turning into an absolute all-timer Friday.

So the Telegraph is taking this well

But it is another example of how Reform boost turnout for progressive parties. They are so profoundly toxic. When you put it alongside the Tories losing their deposit, the right have a serious problem.

thought of a thing

Sarah Vine called @zackpolanski.bsky.social “the biggest creep in British politics”. On the one hand, her long exposure to her ex-husband would make her something of an expert on the subject. On the other hand, my fundamental humanity makes me loathe to credit anything the Daily Mail shares.

interesting picture selection in today's Times

Labour campaigners are not going to get potential Green voters back with a purely aggressive approach that heaps scorn on Green concerns and Green-leaning milieus. Scornful "my way or the highway" party tribalism impulses from Labour is what is pushing so many voters away in the first place.

Apart from the winning, I liked when the Canadian men’s curling team called their time out, had coach Jeff Stoughton come down to them, and then discussed their next shot without Jeff saying anything.

And Jacobs secures his berth in the gold medal match. This will be great because the BBC will actually show it.

GB on the way to the gold medal match. Incredible! Anxiously watching the extra end for Brad Jacobs develop.

Love 3v3… but hate that the Yanks managed to eek that out.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

3v3 sudden death/golden goal… While tracking the curling as well. 😱😱😱