Matchday!

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

Brilliant from @carolinelucas.bsky.social on Farage’s failed Brexit experiment 👏 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/01/n...

Dass Nottingham Forest gerade das Hinspiel im Uefa-Cup-Halbfinale gegen den aktuell 5. in der Premier League gewonnen hat, nach einer Saison im Abstiegskampf, die noch lange nicht entschieden ist, kannste auch keinem erzählen. Europa liegt den Tricky Trees. #iykyk #nffc

Very happy for Morato after all the shit people have been saying about him recently. Great performance. #nffc

Dies ist ein echtes Plakat einer Regierungspartei in Berlin.

Curse of Private Equity. Claire’s to close remaining UK stores, 1,000+ job losses. Unsecured creditors to lose £10.6m. Same PE owner to close 100 TG Jones (WH Smith) shops, plans to use insolvency procedure to avoid paying creditors. The same firm gutted The Original Factory Shop and Hobbycraft.

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

Not just the eight point gap after that, also a decent goal difference advantage. And so happy for Anderson getting that one at the end. You Eeds #nffc

Ruthless from the Reds. Everyone looks on it. Need to see this out now! #nffc

Nazi Barbie who lives in Dubai.

Following on from the NME's chart of the best singles of 1992, here are their dancefloor picks for that year. They're handily compiled in this playlist for the #RaveyardShift crew 🪩1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣2️⃣▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/0Me...

I note with interest that it is possible to return to a trade bloc after a period of committing economic suicide.

In praise of Neco Williams #nffc www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

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MGW's goals were excellent but Jesus' injury time number wins the Benny Hill goal of the season #nffc

Great stuff by Morgan but well done Yatesy too, showed our wingers how to do it there. #nffc

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Our club record home attendance of 1712. From these streets, we built this club.

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

#Kagi + SlopStop + Custom CSS Visually demoted slop results

Meanwhile in the Netherlands: “I ran the photo through a program to give it more pixels”. Aye, did ye now?

This should be read in Ronnie Barker's voice.

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

Literally just this tweet lol

This is also top-tier comic booking.

For #ThrowbackThursday I give you a carrier bag from 1977 to mark the electrification of the Braintree to Witham line in Essex. Features a then brand new class 312 train. I bet there aren't many of these left! My grandparents' house was next to the line and I was fascinated seeing the work happen.

Good. UK to follow suit too I hope

The Guardian apparently ran a story in the 1980s about library closures in Essex headlined “Book lack in Ongar”.

To be clear, we totally can pretend it's not our war on the simple basis that it isn't.

It's very funny to spend a decade denouncing EU banana standards as undemocratic supernational rules imposed on Britons by unelected leaders on the continent... only to then embrace Vatican doctrinal Catholicism.

Fuel duty is *already* 34p per litre lower, in real terms, than in 2010 Its been frozen or cut for 15 years Its cost the Treasury over £200bn in tax - and hugely incentivised people to keep using ICE cars and driving. It's favoured the richest If anything we should be restoring it to 2010 levels

I do wonder what people think will happen to their subsidised fuel prices if demand continues to outstrip supply.

Only one way to find out...

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Four weeks ago I asked billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital if they'd been issuing fake electrical safety papers to their tenants. Why? Because when we went door-to-door, we kept noticing the paperwork was curiously identical. And tenants said they'd never seen an electrician. Little thread:

Priceless Bridge: Police!! It’s a national emergency! We’re being obstructed doing something illegal Police: yes and for this illegal thing, come with us son. Protestors, off you go.

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

Enjoyed that shoot out! Italy bottle it again. Amazing.

Does law make motonormative assumptions in its response to injury and death on the roads? How might we act differently towards road violence if we step outside of these framings? In this new paper, I set out some answers to these questions. academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Macron’s second sentence is the crux of the matter; European allies are not lackeys of the US. Not as strong as the US in military terms, but not complete pushovers either. Trump needs to understand there are consequences to his trash talking and hostile actions towards allies.

Oh.

And also in today's Observer observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

fine, but what are we going to do about social media for boomers?

Amazing that Press Gazette keep running headlines like this and they don’t mean Newsquest, Reach or whatever the other one is called this week pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo...

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage