Lord Alan Sugar: "Leaving Europe is the worst thing I have experienced in my whole time in business" What are your thoughts? 🤔

I’m a middle aged man and my hearing isn’t what it once was. My better half said “The Royal Mail are delivering something today” but I heard “Erlimg Haarland is delivering something today “ You really do hear what you want to hear…

So according to the shirts it’s Emirates v Qatar in the #sportswashing cup final. #GreedIsGood

Upminster station football top count: West Ham 17 Arsenal 6 Spurs 5 But it means nothing!!!

Well it makes a change from jellied eels or pie and mash!

Record number of knee high leather boots in #Eurovision tonight.

I liked Greece. #Eurovision

Moldova has a chance. #Eurovision

Greece could do well. #Eurovision

Belgium my favourite so far. #Eurovision

Is this the right tee shirt for Eurovision? #Eurovision #themission

Have I? Have you? www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Is tomorrow's FA Cup game the most uneagerly awaited final ever? A plucky Sovereign wealth fund v A dodgy oligarch's plaything. The really interesting game tomorrow is 400 miles away in Glasgow.

Newcastle United's owner holds 200 Ethiopian men on death row, many convicted of low-level drug possession without even basic due procees. After a disappointing league campaign, the team currently sits in 13th. (Via @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

Labour backbenchers were cowardly not brave with Corbyn. They are now panicking rather than loyal with Starmer. They make it hard to vote for Labour. #labourlleadership #kingsspeech

The UK Treasury is losing £90bn a year due to Brexit, and UK GDP has fallen by 6-8%. Farage was happy to claim credit for Brexit. He should also claim credit for the economic damage.

The Greens and Reform are two sides of the same populist coin. Both led by charlatans making impossible and irresponsible promises.

It seems appropriate that VAR has settled who wins this title. #WHUARS

Southend here we come @vincenthitchin.bsky.social @ljhblurbsmith.bsky.social

David Cameron’s idea to hold a referendum to sort out the divisions in the Conservative Party worked a treat didn’t it…

I’m not taking this election sh*t lying down. Where’s the nearest lamppost?’

I’ve had a nice long weekend and birthday. But I’m not sure what getting two almost identical birthday cards about getting older and going to the garden centre is saying. But as I actually went to the garden centre today before opening my cards then I probably do know…

Just saying. #COYI #whufc #becarefulwhatyouwishfor

The thing about the nakedly ambitious Andy Burnham. He had no answer to the populism of Corbyn. So what’s his answer to the populism of Farage?

Unscientific data for the local elections next week. The Residents Association (the incumbents) and Reform UK have knocked on my door. The Greens, Lib Dem’s, Conservatives and Labour have not. Both the Residents and Reform very well turned out. Thought they were the Jehovah’s Witnesses at first!!!

Everton equalise yesterday and the the miserable moaners immediately head for the exits just like the Leeds game. Yet again they miss West Ham goals. They never learn do they…

Interesting times at the club. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

🎵 SPURS ARE ON THEIR WAY .......🎵

Greyhound racing is now banned in Scotland and Wales. What a joyless and puritanical thing to do. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

Driving home and popped Radio X on. American Idiot by Green Day came on. It was just like at Christmas when they played Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and bleeped out a “bad” word by using the censored version. What a timid, cowardly radio station X is. #censorship #RadioX

The ups and down of being a football fan. Last week a dramatic FA Cup quarter final and this weekend a huge game in the relegation battle. I like Friday night football as it gives me two whole days to relax. #COYI #whufc

It would be nice to see Zack Polanski unequivocally welcoming the end of the two child cap, the higher minimum wage and new statutory sick pay rules all coming into force today.

What a match that was. Dead and buried with ten minutes to go. Fought back from two down to 2-2. Took it to penalties but it was not to be. Do I feel sorry for those leaving before the end, no “you pays your money and takes your choice”. Proud of my team today. Congratulations to Leeds.

It’s FA Cup quarter final weekend and let’s be honest it’s much more interesting than the dull uncompetitive premiership. #premiership #facup #COYI #westham

Bank holiday and made a list. My top three Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social songs. 1) Way over Yonder in the Minor Key 2) Must I paint you a picture? 3) Brickbat

Lovely to be able to pop to a game game that is only ten minutes from home. 3-0 to the Urchins over the Daggers.

At last someone at the #radiotimes has made a grown up decision and put Channel Five on the same page as the other main terrestrial channels. Moving BBC4 back with the other minor channels.

It’s been forty years to the week that an 18 year old Michael went to his first gig at the Hammersmith Odeon to see Big Country. And what a gig it was with three encores. I still have the programme and ticket stub. Still going to gigs with the Long Ryders and The Mission lined up later in the year.

Oh the joy we have around the house and car this time of year!

A long overdue biography of my musical hero Stuart Adamson. It would be great if his talent finally got the recognition it deserved. #stuartadamson #skids #bigcountry

The left often gripes the right and its supporters are stupid. Yet fails to see this is terrible politics and few people are so dim they don’t know when they are being insulted..,

This museum is going to be largely visited by the middle aged and retired isn’t it? People reliving their past. Make new memories folks, the best may still be to come. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

The U.K. is utterly incompetent at high profile large scale infrastructure projects. The third runway at Heathrow will never be built. I’m extremely confident of that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday’s Metro: The average age of a first time buyer has risen from 29 to 34 since the mid 90’s. Only 6% of first time buyers are under 25. Down from 23%. We are betraying the young. But I’m sure the boomers will be all right…

Both my other half and I are currently reading books authored by writers called Rory. It’s good to know social mobility is alive and well in the U.K… Nothing ever changes does it.

Visiting all 32 London boroughs in the next four years & posting about them here. Low hanging fruit to start with. 2. Newham 09/03/26 Abbey Road (no not that one). Stratford (no nothing to do with Shakespeare).

5-3 win on penalties after a 2-2 draw. Brentford were very good. Leeds United next up in the 6th round. The photo is the press box. One journalist was particularly unimpressed that it went to penalties!!! #facup

The Single Market was responsible for 41% of the UK’s exports in 2024, and remains the largest trading bloc in the world. Rejoining would eliminate trade barriers for most goods and services, control consumer prices, and allow capital, goods and people to move freely.

Remember how eurosceptics argued that if we left the EU, other countries would follow? Look how the complete opposite has happened instead...

US spokesman on BBC news right now glorifying in deaths in the Middle East. Repugnant actually. #bbc #iran