This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

With Reform on the march, this is a message worth sharing 👇

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Take a look at this!! 30 YEARS AGO!! (before social media) George Carlin, stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author explained how oligarchs control everyone and everything, everywhere Now, 30years on, with social media disinformation rife, things are much worse 😕 youtu.be/5aiFp-XqV_M?...

It’s Marco Boogers’ birthday. You remember him. Gary Neville’s ankles certainly do.

This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago. In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists. Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.

Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags. Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

Bravo Chris, bravo 👏

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media

I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

Still guilty.

"What’s more, as the Economist recently noted, Spain now looks to be the best-performing rich-world economy of 2024, according to measures such as GDP growth, unemployment and the performance of the stock market." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

BREAKING: The staggering final total amount raised to save Liverpool baby hospice Zoe's Place has been revealed Spoiler: It was a LOT more than the £5m needed www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

This very British type of complacency is infuriating and reminiscent of the useless Remain campaign in 2016, which failed to learn that the lying, manipulative hard Right doesn’t play by the same ethical rules as nice folk, has no sense of honourable conduct and sees fair play as weakness.

As we come to the end of a busy & challenging year, there is one story in Liverpool that we all look back on with pride. It’s a story about how a city came together to beat the odds & save a vital baby hospice This is how Liverpool pulled off a miracle 👇 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

....and another thing.

The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year. He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.

“Labour will ringfence money for investment so it can never be used for bonuses and shareholder payouts” Steve Reed 👏

They are laughing at us. Yorkshire Water CEO defends plans to increase bills by 41% after collecting £371,000 bonus. Bonus for what - dumping sewage, paying dividends, increasing debt, financial engineering, neglecting investment, fleecing customers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still, at least we live in a country where people who went to prison for assaulting their girlfriend can become Reform Party Members of Parliament.

Andy Burnham is absolutely spot on, next year Reform & Farage need to be forensically held to account for the catastrophic consequences of Brexit. ⁦‪@Keir_Starmer‬⁩ needs to ruthlessly share the evidence of the lies, the costs & the impacts of Brexit fb.watch/wvRs5ncRUX/?

Re-entry to the customs union and F.O.M to live, work, study, and retire within the EU must be the government's aim.

82% of people want an end to Brexit. A surrender would be overwhelmingly popular including 90% of Labour voters.

Andy Burnham, "The big lie of Brexit needs to be exposed" "They promised us it would control immigration, it's done the opposite.. It's weakened control of immigration" "If the Conservatives were so confident with Rwanda till after the planes took off, but they didn't"

This is spot on.

Though this won’t happen, it’s 💯 necessary.

On Chris Waddle’s birthday, a montage of him at his mercurial best, set to the soundtrack of Diamond Lights. Glorious.

Every word of this is a damn lie.

Sterling close to its highest value against the Euro since the Brexit referendum. Markets appear to be rewarding the prospect of long term British political stability. Not something you’ve been able to say for a while.

Byline Times: Alastair Campbell Showed How Keir Starmer Can Defeat Nigel Farage bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/n...

“How will an ambulance get through?” A question only asked of those trying to save our planet, not millionaire landowners trying to hoard wealth. Farmers received record support in the budget. Pay what is still less than your fair share, take your tractors and piss off.

Where’s Superman when you need him most?

The Guardian: "Majority of Brexit voters 'would accept free movement' to access single market" Great news. When are we rejoining the EU Single Market? You know, will of the people and all that

Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage in his Beth Rigby interview. I agree. The Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...

There's a growing sense of pathos around Kemi Badenoch. She's clearly constructed a self-image of toughness & ruthlessness - you can imagine her shouting at her own reflection about how hard she is - to protect herself from perfectly normal feelings of vulnerability & fear. It's unlikely to end well

I once got elected as my country's opposition leader and the only thing I was noticed for in my first six weeks in office was having a go at sandwiches

This world… Profit and power over everything Footballers have spoken out to try and quash this deal But their governing body just can’t help themselves What a disgusting example to set. www.theguardian.com/football/liv...

Wall Street’s "complex debt" bonanza hits fastest pace since global financial crisis of 2007 2007 was how greedy Wall St and finance boys wanted EVEN more.. WE all took the cost while the banks carried on....too big to fail Now what could possibly go wrong a 2nd time? on.ft.com/41peG27

The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

The "reset" is getting bigger. But we need more than a bigger reset. We need to rejoin.

16 years ago today: The peak of football journalism.