A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵

Now Starmer has got his big conference speech out of the way, I suspect he'll just carry on as before.

This song has been going round in my head dall day. Probably my favorite Blondie song.

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You could blame a lack of entrepreneurship upon a lack of finance; too easy opportunities for rent-seeking or rentiership instead; high utility bills; etc. But no, Labour always has to punch down instead. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

My dad went through an Enya phase.....

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My column in tomorrow's paper:

Cried laughing at this

Cackling at the idea of Offa casting his gaze around the globe and coming to the decision that the USA is most like Mercia

'Unclear how the US will respond to the return of Saxon England; we'll just have to Hwæt and see.'

Racist guy here saying non white British people aren't really British.

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Thread on the other place by @thostyc.bsky.social on Perri. #lufc

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I'm still really pissed off about that team selection. WTF was Farke thinking? #lufc

1* did not wank the elephants. Good Morning.

Always a tough ask today. But concerning that Farke didn't see the need to have an outlet up front instead of Piroe. This was always a game for as many big athletic lads as possible, not Gruev. Also, prob a good idea to play the really dominant centre back we've bought for games like this. #lufc

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Test cricket season segueing into The Hundred

136/ No party has done more to undermine the Union than the Conservative and Unionist Party, and this is still true even removing Brexit from the equation.

Love that these two are out having a great night right now while the internet's most tedious people get angry.

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this possessed doll looks like they’ve been day drinking down the pub and they’re about to say something really racist

real danger for england that none of this australian top order makes it to the ashes

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Agree with Kevin. I think there’s a big chunk of the UK right now- and certainly all of the bits which control institutions- that are in complete denial a) about our ageing population and b) what the policy implications of the political choices they made 2010 to 2024 and indeed since *are*.

Don Revie died #OTD in 1989. Here speaking to Ken Wolstenholme about his role as a deep lying forward (False 9) in 1955. City got to the Cup Final but lost and Revie was named Footballer of the Year. He won the Cup with City in 1956 before leaving later that year after a fall out with management.

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Letting unis go bust will be popular with voters right up until the economic and societal affects hit them square in the face. This is exactly why outsourcing politics to focus groups and those who cannot adjust from campaigning to governing is disastrous.

Amazing response. Every vox pop is “we vote for people but nothing changes” and the policy response from the brains trust in UK Labour is “what if we did …. less?”

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a v prophetic Tumblr post from circa 2015 I think about a lot went something like "hey is it maybe bad that online I argue about why we need to stop erasing black transmasc genderqueer people from the non-binary movement and in real life I have to remind people that 'gay' isn't an insult"

On Farke, if the club have concerns about him in the PL and also concerns about him being a pillock wrt recruitment, then they should move on. No time for sentimentality. Clubs move on from players after promotion, the same should be true of coaches. #lufc

Back home now. Contrast me arriving in the Japans a couple of weeks ago vs me after two weeks in Japan.

Lost in translation, I hope.

There are two kinds of libertarians: Those who oppose the state because they reject hierarchy and oppression, and view the state as the main tool for imposing both, and those who oppose the state because they support hierarchy and oppression and view the state as the main barrier to achieving both.

Bullet train

The largest margin of victory in County Championship history 🥳

Farke is such a div. More searing analysis as it comes in.... #lufc

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

Huge endorsement for CAMRA.

Boycotting: Trump golf courses Trump hotels Trump meme coins Trump MAGA hats Trump Boat Flags Trump fleece blankets Trump t shirts Trump playing cards Trump necklaces Trump drinking jars Hope others are prepared to make a similar sacrifice.

A long read with @marchingout.bsky.social 🤝 new CEO hope 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ fans at ER 🚅 Away day attitude change 👂 youth player reported comment 1️⃣ Ayling gesture the first and only 👏 Bamford and Cooper support 🏆 national trophy #lufc

Canada is considering blocking US access to Pornhub, a Canadian site, as part of the trade war. Every Republican puts on a brave face for the public.

MAGA been taking power standing lessons from 2010s Tories.