We're not even 18 months into a five-year parliament and already the Reform-BBC-Jenrick-Telegraph-Tommy Robinson-Twitter feedback loop is mainstreaming talk of policies which amount to, in effect, ethnic cleansing. Genuinely fearful of what's going to be considered a respectable manifesto in 2029.

The remains the most astute piece of NFL analysis of the last decade.

London marches as they should be.

Seeing Starmer being rolled out every few days to issue slightly more strident condemnations of Tommy Robinson's merry band of racists reminds me of the scene in Boston Legal where James Spader is repeatedly sent back to the jury by dissatisfied shakes of William Shatner's head. youtu.be/NdvUqU-euLg

One of the clearest indicators of how wilfully out-of-touch many MPs are is that they continue to act as if the social harm of the betting industry is both minor and unavoidable.

If we've learned nothing else this week, it's that we must fund the independent journalism we value.

It's being reported that, following Qatari pressure, Uefa could vote as early as Tuesday on whether to expel Israel from European competition. www-israelhayom-co-il.translate.goog/sport/israel...

The nonce-tech early adopters will be lucky to get 12 months covertly creeping on people before you see them stamping on their Meta Pervespex on the Tube as they autoplay unskippable videos selling scam investments every time the owners press record and try to look down people's tops.

You have to hand it to him: not many people identify and name a concept that continues to have currency decades later. But boy, what an absolute arsehole - like a cross between Alan Partridge and Boris Johnson.

Sounds legit. www.ft.com/content/9637...

“Rules exist to protect fairness and ensure basic decency. UEFA can and should suspend the IFA with immediate effect. By not doing so they are not only doing a grave disservice to football, but also to the core principles of humanity itself” @bfcdublin.bsky.social fairsq.org/uefa-israel-...

"Mural of person defaced with his own words" is not a sentence you could ever write about most people. www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2...

Issuing on-the-spot fines for comedians in the name of free speech. www.thedailybeast.com/tv-groups-ma...

The new episode of Criminal features a woman trafficked by organised crime to a compound in Myanmar and forced to work in sex & financial scams. As @philippeauclair.bsky.social has documented, these gangs can be behind the Asian-facing bookies who sponsor PL clubs. thisiscriminal.com/episode-332-...

The Enhanced Games are not merely an assault on clean sport, they're part of the Silicon Valley extreme techno libertarian project with its dodgy politics and its obsession with life extension. theuglygame.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/t...

Athletes agreeing to participate in the Enhanced Games should have all their previous records and victories voided. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

It's a measure of just how quickly sportsbetting has metastasized in the US that all NFL pod- and broadcasts are now topped and tailed with disclaimers of the kind more usually found on ads for pharmaceuticals designed for mild to moderate over-production of snot that carry the risk of sudden death.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

Am struggling with the idea that people like me somehow don't understand the legitimate concerns of people who attended the Tommy Robinson march. I literally had National Front fliers through my letterbox in my childhood in Greater London and I went to school and university with actual fascists.

Venn diagram of "proud Brit standing up for 'our culture' and free speech" and "people who go giddy at the thought of being in the presence of a foreign autocrat."

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the country would be in a much better place if Sadiq Khan was Prime Minister. A careful, thoughtful politician who is able to articulate a consistent set of deeply held values without reference to focus groups.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a predictably wonderful essay about the political class's reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. to quote a post I saw on here a few weeks back, "we're gonna need a bigger Reconstruction" web.archive.org/web/20250916...

Imagine what he'll do when he finds out that a senior politician stoked racism and struck fear into the heart of black and brown Britons by giving a speech about immigration where he said that Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers."

Now say it on camera.

As long as I live, I don't think I'll ever be able to reconcile myself to the fact that the richest, most powerful nation in history freely chose to abandon democracy, abdicate its global supremacy and place the future of the nation in the hands of this person.

Rice was doing 119 mph when he caused a six-car crash that left seven people injured before doing a runner. He got a six-game suspension.

New guitarist joins The Fall, declaring his interest in having input to the musical direction of the band. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Well, this is wholesome. www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foot...

At some point, the next Prime Minister will decide they have no choice but to close Twitter in the UK. Not this one, though, he doesn't have the stones.

Watching the Panthers-Cardinals game and wondering when the last time there was an NFL game featuring two starting quarterbacks who are both 5'10, let alone two first overall picks of 5'10. They could stand on each other's shoulders and still be smaller than Brock Osweiler.

That fieldgoal was ridiculous. Would've been good from 70yd+.

MITCHELL TINSLEY WHAT A CATCH

Giants fans: Let

Crypto-grifting, disgraced TV presenter and far-right Dubai resident Ant Middleton announced yesterday that he was standing for London Mayor as an independent candidate - not Reform. Couldn't help but notice the kinds of banners he chose to cut into his video. "Sadiq Kahn [sic] is a sleeper agent."

Eventually, something will happen that prompts Keir Starmer to speak out against racism and for multiculturalism. And just as Reform voters hear him talk about immigration and judge him insincere, progressive voters will know he doesn't really mean it when he finally talks about basic human decency.

"London, England, consider yourselves... warned." youtu.be/c0m6KQqnuUw

"I’ll be speaking about one of the most important issues facing our city: safety and security in London."

Serie C team bought by Dogecoin. Deep sigh. www.triestina1918.it/en/club-news...

Is anyone from the Government going to criticise the biggest far right march in 40 odd years?

Crypto-grifting, Dubai resident and would-be Reform candidate for London Mayor proudly posts a video of him hanging out with Tommy Robinson before a far-right gathering in the city he claims to want to lead.

Is America the right place to stage a World Cup? There were three hundred shootings there on Wednesday you know www.theguardian.com/football/202...

EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Shoutout to all the proud dads missing out on their fortnightly day of parental contact to come to London and complain what a shithole it is and how they wouldn't live there if you paid them.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Musk has no limits, yet so little challenge "It is a strange world where the expectations we place on every primary and secondary school on British values, tolerance, respect and the rule of law go out of the window when the world’s richest man promotes neo-Nazis" www.easterneye.biz/anti-immigra...

Astonishing to see Leeds continuing to push Socios fan tokens, even now. They were launched in September 2021 at £2 a pop, in a welter of inexcusably misleading marketing. Four years later, they now change hand for *less than 3p.*

This is a great thread for those who aren’t Terminally Online like the rest of us