You can’t say “You can’t say anything these days” these days.

Finally caught up with Bob Mortimer’s latest appearance on Would I Lie To You? Another case of glorious madness wrapped around a story that surely can’t be true but, well, is. Bob helped Edin Džeko buy some cheese. Yes, you read right. youtu.be/MaJ3pgM6kAE?...

What happens when you let AI write match reports? You end up with reports for games that never happened. Levante v Villarreal was postponed due to bad weather but according to this site it was played, finished 0-0 and was very dull. They even awarded a man of the match! www.bwin.com/en/news/post...

Today is the first time that Spurs vs West Ham has been a Saturday 3pm kick off since April 2009. The only two players who played in that game still playing are Luka Modric (AC Milan) and Freddie Sears (Maldon & Tiptree).

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

BREAKING Tony Blair and Jared Kushner appointed by Trump to Gaza 'Board of Peace' Read @carolecadwalla on Tony Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government inc billionaire Larry Ellison, + emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space⏬🔗

I'm going to bed shortly, only up for the sake of a sleeping pattern. We should probably take sleep deprivation more seriously then we do. It can send you to some profoundly peculiar places.

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter

Directly responsible for the demise of dozens of companies and recording studios which had made London the go-to place in Europe for dubbing and voiceovers. Great.

“If he would do this for a small amount of money, what would he do for paymasters with deeper pockets?” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

"protestors have human shields" the netanyahufication of america

*more top talent.

They are so useless

The scene outside any Irish funeral.

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

They'll do a Hillsborough-style inquest where all evidence from more than five minutes after the incident is deemed inadmissable, for no reason.

Why is the Atlantic like this? Which big corner of *The Left* is so supportive of the theocratic regime in Iran that we simply wish it well all the time because of all our sympathy with those guys? Atlantic writers need to imagine a different online guy to get mad at.

Is it just me or is every week's live Friday night TV game always West Brom v Middlesborough?

This is astonishing, really 21 per cent of the Premier League’s history has had the City case hanging over it That extends to 48.4 per cent if you go back to 2009-10 and the first season the charges relate to. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

haaaaahahaha like the fckn shark in Jaws

"You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So much for a ‘final battle’ – once again the Iranian people’s peaceful and democratic demands have been silenced | Behrouz Boochani and Mehdi Jalali Tehrani

The fact it's currently 2-1 (Peggie and Kelly - Darlington) in the Employment Tribunals demonstrates pretty clearly that whatever else the Supreme Court delivered it did not deliver clarity. (More to follow when we can find a copy of the judgment.)

Rose appears to have been using these changing rooms for 4 years before there was a complaint. Now, her presence is 'degrading, intimidating and humiliating' for cis women.

Nick Timothy doing the media round for the Tories this morning. A reminder that Timothy was an adviser to Theresa May as she designed & implemented policies that targeted black people, wrongly denied them welfare & NHS treatment, cost them their jobs & homes, & deported them.

Prompted by today's #Guardian obit for the great Bill Hagerty, I'm wondering how many people (apart from myself) are still alive who worked for the Daily Sketch

The "what if Trump cured cancer, would you still hate him then?" line always fascinates me! Like, "what if this situation was completely and utterly different, would you not feel differently about it?" Yeah... sure... but EXTREMELY SADLY I have to live in the stupid real world.

Could have highlighted how he removed cartoons from the walls of places they locked up kids because they made it too welcoming but no, Labour are attacking Jenrick for letting in too many migrants

Bahrain has just sentenced left wing opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif to 6 months in prison after he criticised the kingdoms ties with Israel. Yesterday at the UN they called on the Iranian govt to promote and protect human rights.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

It's not great for trust in politics that two MPs who've been slagging each other off all year can just turn round & say "obviously I didn't mean it". It feeds the perception (mostly false) that all politicians are liars & politics just a game. And the party that feasts on that is of course Reform

There was a 900 page document that laid out the right wing/fascist takeover of the US govt and too many people didn't take it seriously. UK voters should not assume Reform doesn't have their version of Project 2025

The US reminds the UN that in 1979 the US embassy in Tehran was attacked & Americans were taken hostage for over 400 days He forgets to mention that within a few years the US was secretly arming Iran in order to raise $ to fund paramilitary death squads in central America

breathtakingly embarrassing for absolutely everyone involved lol

Maybe you shouldn’t give a cricket World Cup to a country where two participants aren’t able or don’t feel able to play…

Key observation- The battle on the right is between two ‘ersatz populist radical’ parties:

And with that, the Nobel Peace Prize became as worthless as FIFA’s Peace Prize

ICE are the Black and Tans, but with more and nastier weapons

Not unrelated – Le Monde showing today that Infantino's pay has quadrupled in a decade: www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl...

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

More poor police treatment of football fans. Shabana Mahmood, Wes Streeting, Kemi Badenoch yet to comment www.theguardian.com/football/202...

How many Tories can you hire before you are no longer a protest vote against the Tories?

Don't. Use. AI. As. A. Search. Engine.

Reform seems like a good fit for Jenrick, the most corrupt politician in the UK (and that's a tough trophy to win) and of course venal, racist, incompetent

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Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now