Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

~ Morning Call: The lesson of McSweeney’s downfall ~ https://morningcall.substack.com/p/morning-call-the-lesson-of-mcsweeneys

Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH. Good god what a child

child for why we shouldn’t be risking this in the UK. We must be led by science.

Just to clarify, I believe in free choice on vaccines. I think education is the best way to encourage people to vaccinate but I think in positions where Public Health is concerned, we cannot have people elected who are opposed to basic health preventions. It has huge implications, RFK is the poster

Joyeux Felix (Trying to do something French. Get it? Because it's in France? Nevermind.) Anyway, after a mid-match retirement in the 1st round of the Australian Open, Felix Auger-Aliassime arrives in Montpellier ready to roll. FAA ends Arthur Fils' comeback run, 6-4, 6-2.

🚨New Daily Intel is Incoming!🚨 Raducanu returns to a final. Queenwen reappears in Doha. And... what's with all the Damm winning?!?! Subscribe below to get all caught up on everything tennis in about 3 minutes... every single day. 👇

Reality Czech Sara Bejlek started her week by routing last year's runner-up. Today, she's a finalist herself, taking down Clara Tauson, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5. To think, we were one point away from a qualifier versus a wildcard in a WTA 500 final. (And, I woulda been here for it, too!)

Title Try #2 Mananchaya Sawangkaew wins an all-Thai tussle in Mumbai, taking down Lanlana Tararudee, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. The victory moves the former Oklahoma State standout into the finals for the 2nd year in a row, coming up short against Jil Teichmann last year.

Lilli Levels Up Last year's Roland-Garros junior champion keeps chugging toward the WTA top 100. Lilli Tagger gets past China's Tian Fangran, 6-3, 7-6³, to set up a championship clash with Mananchaya Sawangkaew in Mumbai. The Austrian would climb to #109 with the title

Pretty sure Vera Zvonareva is made from the same stuff they used to build the Terminator. Knocked off Zhang Shuai yesterday, Magdalena Frech today. Just made the AO doubles semifinals. She's 41.

Bejlek Breakthrough Czech qualifier Sara Bejlek completes a stunning run to her 1st WTA title, taking down #2 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova, 7-6⁵, 6-1, in Abu Dhabi. The 20yo, who's been tipped to be champion since she was 15, will rocket from #101... all the way to #38 on Monday.

Cirstea Take the Title Romania gets a homegrown champion in Cluj as Sorana Cirstea denies Emma Raducanu her second career WTA title. Cirstea wins, 6-0, 6-2.

...well Damm Adrian Mannarino is heading to the final in Montpellier. The veteran Frenchman recovers from a near wipeout in the opening set against American qualifier Martin Damm, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Mannarino faces either Felix Auger-Aliassime or qualifier Titouan Droguet.

Awesome in.... OSTRAVA!!! The seeds didn't last long this week in Czechia, but one of the more notable names in the draw rises to the occasion. Former world #23 Katie Boulter rallies past surprise finalist Tamara Korpatsch, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, to capture her 4th WTA title.

🚨New Daily Intel Incoming!🚨 Felix gives himself a shot at another indoor title. And two names you should know do battle for the WTA 125 title in Mumbai. Get a preview of those finals and a recap of all of today's top tennis headlines... in about 5 minutes. Subscribe below👇

I haven't followed Davis Cup as closely this week, but the David & Goliath vibe has been fun. South Korea defeats Argentina 3-2 Chile defeats Serbia 4-0 And the absolute craziest even on clay, Ecuador currently leading Australia 2-0. Sure. Lots of stars missing, but still...

Thai in Mumbai! After missing 6 months last season with a back injury, Mananchaya Sawangkaew has well and truly gotten her mojo back. The 23yo does one better than her runner-up run last year, taking down 17yo phenom Lilli Tagger, 6-4, 6-3, to lift her first WTA 125 trophy.

Well, Frech The new queen of Reebok makes the most of her second chance as a lucky loser. After falling to Vera Zvonareva in qualifying, Frech gets the call to face Liudmila Samsonova in the 1st round, fighting off three match points to win 6-3, 4-6, 7-6⁷.

She'll Be Back... Vera Zvonareva is lowkey having an amazing 2026, y'all. After a string of recent top 100 wins, the former world #2 levels up to a top 50 victory in Doha, taking out Peyton Stearns, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, to face Victoria Mboko or Marie Bouzkova in the 2nd round.

Mertens Motors On With another grand slam doubles title on her mantle from this year's Australian Open, Elise Mertens turns her attention to kicking ass in singles. The 16th seed surges past a slumping Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 6-2, 6-1, to clear round 1 in Doha.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney has resigned from No10, saying he takes “full responsibility” for advising the PM to appoint Lord Mandelson as US ambassador.

NEW: PM’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney resigns “After careful reflection, I have decided to resign from the government. The decision to appoint Peter Mandelson was wrong. He has damaged our party, our country and trust in politics itself.”

And this on why his Blue Labour strategy failed so badly www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/morgan-mcs...

Wrote this last year on the myth of Morgan McSweeney's supposed campaigning genius www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

Morgan McSweeney has now resigned as Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff

Vetting didn’t fail, his continued relationship with Epstein was already known and should have ruled him out. This is a Starmer failure.

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal

Morgan McSweeney has resigned from government Statement in full;

BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney resigns. GOOD! 🙌

Absofuckinglutely!!!💯💯🎯🎯🎯

I will be asking everyone what they thought at the end of next week. Thank you 🙏

A link here. Very worth subscribing to. Important on how we got to this point. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com

I would like to challenge my followers to read all of the archives of the counterdisinformation project on substack. You can access without being on Substack but please do support. So much here that you never heard in the media since 2020. Please read!

Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.

Reminds me to always challenge career politicians, which is largely all we have. We need ‘normal’ people in positions of power. Not these meat sacks, extruded from the same machine, just piped into different flavoured skins. They serve themself.

Peter Mandelson as Businesses Secretary pushed for it (or rather the Horizon predecessor from which Horizon was born) over the heads of Post Office Officials. And that was, in part, because the company was already supplying HMRC and it was feared it would go under without more contracts.

You can be sure the contractor will be pushing hard for penalties - payments - in the event that the software is discontinued…and make it v difficult to transfer the IP it has developed That is where we are with the Post Office & Fujitsu (another Mandelson cock up. The PO didn’t want the software

(Sometimes behind a paywall sometimes not, but I would try and find some way of reading and digesting it whether by short term subscription or library access).

The idea is to create a hook and a dependence and the more you build on it the harder and more expensive it is to disentangle yourself from the company. This Bloomberg article dates back to 2018 and there were plenty of others before it.

The idea is to create a hook and a dependence and the more you build on it the harder and more expensive it is to disentangle yourself from the company. This Bloomberg article dates back to 2018 and there were plenty of others before it. www.bloomberg.com/features/201...

So it was Cummings and Johnson and Hancock that introduced Palantir into the bloodstream of the NHS on the dangle of a “free” platform in return for IP (which licence was later modified when made public…but too late, methinks..already gone). I think it already had Defence contracts.

It is really important to then be highly strategic in the decision making. DON’T give primary software etc contracts on which a network of other software will be developed to companies that were born out of the CIA and where there is long standing reason to reject the values & plans of its owner

Do take 15 minutes out of your day to read this @andrewprlevi.bsky.social 🧵 The signs were there for decades It isn’t possible for PMs to be expert in all fields…or indeed in many. Which is why having the judgement to identify very high quality advisors and really listen to them really matter..

"Surely the PM - given Peter Mandelson's long record of dishonesty and scandal - shouldn't have taken him at his word..." #Mandelson #Starmer #EpsteinFiles @adambienkov.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4VIp...

Locked myself out tonight -par for the course of a rather rubbish week, but then I did the British thing of smiling and waving at neighbours as if I was choosing to stand in the rain in case….heavens forbid …then invited me to wait at their houses. 🤣

Bejlek Blasts Off! After simmering outside the top 100 for the last few years, Sara Bejlek is leveling up in 2026. The Czech, who routed 2025 runner-up Ashlyn Krueger 6-3, 6-0 in the 1st round, delivers another devastating win in Abu Dhabi, drubbing Sonay Kartal, 6-0, 6-2.

Climbing High in Cluj I have to admit. Last year, when Oleksandra Oliynykova dominated those WTA 125s to crack the top 100, I wondered how she'd do on the WTA level. So far, so good! The Ukrainian reaches her first WTA semifinal in Cluj with a big win over 4th seed Wang Xinyu.

Gilded Lilli Meanwhile, in Mumbai, one of my picks for a big breakthrough in 2026 quietly moves into the quarterfinals. 17yo Lilli Tagger picks up her 7th win in a row, sweeping past Eri Shimizu, 6-2, 6-2. The Austrian won the ITF 100 in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates last week.