Quite remarkably bad article on the BBC about the rise of Elliot Anderson that somehow makes out that Newcastle were done an injustice and neglects to mention which club has developed him to where he is and who he still plays for. Amazing stuff #nffc www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Mets have spent a lot of money advertising the pervert glasses in London. Whole platforms at Tottenham Court Road tube given over to groovy young women-about-town asking their pervert glasses about restaurants or whatever. Truly inspiring (for perverts who own pervert glasses)

Just an aside, but the expected new PM has announced his intention to stand on a social media site awash with racism, antisemitism, sexism and far right calls to depose the UK government - led by the site's owner.

Greetings from Washington DC

Bravo! Fascists not welcome here

Elliot Anderson currently plays for Nottingham Forest for those who are wondering. Because the last two years seems to have been airbrushed in just about every article or show commentary I’ve read/watched since England’s opening game against Croatia. #NFFC #England #WorldCup

Fabulous 😂

On a side-note about Makerfield, I'd say it's a bad result for Restore Britain. Yes, they came from nowhere to third, but 6.8% is a lower proportion than the 7.4% the BNP got in 2010. For all the fuss about Restore, the ceiling for the openly racist far right still appears quite low.

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨🚨 This is the only way: First UKG Department leaving #X over concerns of incitement of #racism, #violence and #misinformation concerns. Major kudos to Richard Hermer pulling Attorney General's Office off X platform. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Bill What a legend

The World Tonight & Crossing Continents were the last BBC programmes that dealt in depth with global affairs. Their demise says everything you need to know about priorities in British public life, which is mired more than at any time in monolingual mediocrity and insularity. You reap what you sow.

The brass neck of Hunt who was in government for the entire austerity shit show that saw defence spending drastically cut

Forget Cruyff, Gullit and Van Basten this is the best ever moment in Dutch football.

Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

There's a bigger issue. Government always reports the money it's spending rather than the overall net benefit. The latter is more important. On this, it's significant- not least through savings to health and through reduced congestion. So it is defence of the realm. The public realm.

With the full caveat that I have never managed a govt dept, as Wes Streeting knows very well having been health secretary, investment in active travel *pays for itself many times over* in better public health outcomes etc. Cutting investment is often a false economy, as the UK knows to its cost.

For the hundredth time. These are not "patriots". They are conspiring with our enemies to destroy this country and need to be treated accordingly

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

The "most inclusive World Cup ever", update on the update of the update.

Like clockwork

Why are Labour short of money for essential investment? Where could they possibly find more money?

“Do you, Peter Phillips, take NHS Nurse to be your lawfully wedded wife?”

Lee Dixon was joking on ITV's dreadful England commentary that Anderson only had high possession stats because, "Forest lost the ball lots". So Lee, let's take a look at Anderson's numbers. Pretty good right? I wish the pundits did any research 🤬 #NFFC

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

This is all seriously nuts. What is going on? BBC & Sky totally failing to do their job - they will pay the price - we all will.

Do I have this right? Sikh guy stabs a kid. His brother calls police, reporting a hate crime. Police arrive and arrest alleged perpetrator (and cuff him). When they realize he is the victim, they uncuff him and render aid. Victim's wounds were already fatal. Perpetrator is arrested and convicted.

For those claiming that the long EU entry queues are the EU’s revenge for Brexit, remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on those entering the EU. It then put us outside.

Ah, big tech showing yet again it plays fast and loose with the rules... 🤦‍♂️

Winning Champions League, it’s not for everyone. 🤣 #nffc

Considering the defence were using his comments to try to get the trial thrown out, he's put the whole trial at risk of collapse. He's basically done a "Tommy Robinson" and the law should come down on the frog faced racist like a ton of bricks.

Horrific and a devastating human tragedy. Why has there not been wider mainstream coverage and debate about this case? Some crimes rightly dominate headlines for weeks. Yet road crimes even of this magnitude do not. Increased awareness can help create safer travel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year. Earlier this month, Meta began laying off 10% of its workforce. More than 8,000 people will lose jobs as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $215 billion. Second Gilded Age.

funny part about this posturing is that Reform's 2024 voters are the least likely of any party's to regularly attend church

The man on Bovino's left (as we look at the photo) is Martin Sellner He is the Austrian co-founder of the white nationalist Generation Identity group. He was banned from the UK in 2018 on security grounds, and remains banned In 2019 it emerged he'd conversed with the Christchurch mosque shooter

the bus. you've once again invented the bus.

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

Es werde (Neon)licht. Just north of Frankfurt, the towns of Friedberg and Bad Nauheim had an excellent selection of surviving signage. This one, from Bad Nauheim, goes out to all fellow record enthusiasts.

I did a thread on 15 minute cities on X which went so viral I ended up in the Times and on BBC Radio. I thought I'd repeat it here... This was my parents house in Coventry. They bought it in 1965 and it was my home throughout the 1970s & 80s. My mum lived there until 2021. It was a happy home. 1/22

To fix to the country I would simply stop the boats, reform welfare, improve healthcare, and increase GDP. Easy.

A bit like that boiled frog, I don't think we've noticed just how much life has changed in the past 30 years. Our perception of the world was based on a much more pluralistic influence then, than now.

#VignettesFromTheBikeLane one of the local churches has set up a rest area with shade, water and basic tools for the delivery riders.

It’s the goths I feel sorry for.

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"