Nick and Ronnie Fumble The Bag: a buddy TV travel show where Nick Mohammed and Ronny Rosenthal go round the world, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Nick closes in on the win.

The king to prince andrew

Great as this is, this poor guy is about to be audited to death by the IRS and then have his house demolished for some minor curtain infringement.

If a company makes $16bn a year from advertising what it knows to be fraudulent products, that company is engaged in organised crime.

Competitive Grovelling is 2025's hottest new activity.

Obviously a lot of the dumb things about Neom are sui generis, but the stuff about the unfeasibly large quantities of material required does show why pretty much every sci-fi concept about space colonisation is just not going to work.

Correction: Earlier, I posted a thread about the proposed 350m-high stadium for the Saudi World Cup, saying it was intended to host the World Cup Final. In fact, it was for the group games and a quarter-final. Apologies. The fascinating article that prompted it is here. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

It's Groundhog Day again for the world's most unjustly accused man. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Boston Dynamics and Open AI could collaborate for a thousand years on producing the ultimate robot butler and still not produce something as obsequious as Gianni Infantino.

Extraordinary. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Makes you realise how long it's been since you woke up to find good, hopeful news coming out of America.

Dick Cheney won’t see your jokes, but your friends who orchestrated a destructive and illegal war based on lies and also shot a guy in the face will.

Commiserations to Carlsberg's brand manager after today's @priceoffootball.bsky.social show, where a somber piece on the financial disaster at the FAI, which is planning 20% redundancies, was immediately followed by an ad break for Carlsberg's new role as "Proud Supporters of Irish Football."

The absolute perfect loss for Zac Taylor: his badly coached, poorly led team loses yet again and he can shuffle the blame onto the defence as though his job title is offensive coordinator.

Louvre jewellery thieves watching Tee Higgins and thinking, "so that's how you get away with daylight robbery."

Would-be Mayor of London unveils three-point plan: 1. Public should leave UK 2. Remaining people to travel in "armed big groups" 3. A tax strike to "restore safety" Tragic events like this reveal the naked opportunism of so much of the far-right, but also sometimes their utter idiocy and inadequacy

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt. There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Man dismissed for being a paedophile to receive enhanced redundancy package from employer.

Nothing says the magic of Boxing Day football like getting home on the 27th December.

Hannah and her Madristas?

No one's already calling it part two of his El Clásico duology. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Halfway through his 18th year of ownership, during which time his team has zero playoff wins, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has found the person definitely to blame for another unsuccessful season.

It's not over for the Royal Family until they give a full account of when senior royals became aware Andrew was a sexual predator and what resources - financial and PR - were provided over the years to assist his efforts to avoid accountability.

In the new Private Eye.

Man City crypto sponsor OKX purposely avoided anti-money laundering regulations, processing over $5bn of "suspicious transactions and criminal proceeds."

Currently rewarching the West Wing - for the first time since it was originally broadcast - and there's a whole episode where a right-wing female character explains to the PAs why Sam making several lewd remarks is just comradely banter and calling it out is a distraction from real discrimination.

For an illustration of the crazed unreality of Twitter, he's the racist, islamophobic, Dubai resident, would-be Mayor of London proclaiming, seemingly in earnest, his willingness to fight and die on the streets. Unless by "ultimate sacrifice," he means repaying the £1m+ he stiffed taxpayers out of.

This weeks post: How the reaction to a football ban showed how our politicians and media have become trapped in right wing Islamophobic narratives and detached from the majority of voters mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-... Within 5 hours leaders of the 4 main parties had condemned the ban.

Man City crypto sponsor OKX purposely avoided anti-money laundering regulations, processing over $5bn of "suspicious transactions and criminal proceeds."

OKX is a long-time Man City sponsor. (From the new Private Eye.)

Progress.

Racist, tax-dodging Dubai resident and would-be Mayor of London strongly agrees that Britain "has at least 3 million savages in it."

The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.

This is both stupid and shameful.

This should be considered the gambling industry's equivalent of when the CEOs of cigarette manufacturers went before the US Congress and claimed they did not believe that nicotine was addictive. They are immoral people, lying about the actions of their industry. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It's quite something that only 38% of *white* voters say Reform isn't racist and yet they're presented as the tribunes of the forgotten masses.

This has appeared in my notifications despite me not following the account, it not following me and the post not tagging me or responding to/QTing a post of mine. How does this work?

The last line sent a shiver down my spine.

You won't get a much better illustration of how many people in the Westminster bubble treat politics as a game without consequences than Peston barking about the growing climate of aggression toward millions of Britons like Kilroy introducing the final round of Share or Shaft.

Love how they use "tease" here like Trump's about to drop the hottest new constitutional violation of the year.

I am once again asking if anyone can point to an example of an existing stadium that accommodates 45,000 people and which is built on top of a 350m skyscrapper rather than on the ground and into which those 45,000 people can safety and rapidly enter and exit in a timely fashion.

Like Karren Brady and David Pannick raising endless objections to the football regulator, it's clearly wildly improper for a board member of the All England Club to be sponsoring changes to the law that would hobble opponents of the club's expansion. putney.news/2025/10/25/l...

All these men who've fought their way to the top, and consider themselves powerful and significant, are busy writing their professional obituaries. All their accomplishments will be overshadowed by a single word: cowardice.

Baker Mayfield is like the guy from Memento but all his tattoos say "you are the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers"

Tyler Shough completed his first NFL pass today aged 26 years and 26 days. By the same age, Lamar Jackson had: -Played 74 games -Thrown for over 13,000 yds and 104 TDs -Rushed for over 4,800 yds and 25 TDs -Won an MVP

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