Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with

A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”

This shows you that it doesn’t matter what’s actually happening: what matters is what’s on the radio when people drive to work. And this government is surely the disastrously disproven test case for the proposition “the British press can be appeased via crackdowns and authoritarianism”.

Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.

They’re not even doing loads wrong defensively someone should say it. This is mental.

The worst thing for me is watching all these opposition teams celebrate their historic wins over Liverpool like a cup final. You're not special, lads, we lose like this every week

Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?

Let's all be honest, this is a cursed season. The sooner we all recognise that, the sooner we can turn to the one adjustment that can save us: baseless superstition.

What happened to Jota in the summer continues to have an impact on #LFC, whether some people want to admit it or not. It doesn't mean Slot's blameless for our current issues, but it's important to mention it in any discussions. Read my latest here: www.andcouldheplay.com/is-slots-tim...

A thread about the current moment for #lfc, and managers. Managers sometimes fit the moment perfectly, and sometimes, through no fault of their own, they don't 👇🏻

A thread about the current moment for #lfc, and managers. Managers sometimes fit the moment perfectly, and sometimes, through no fault of their own, they don't 👇🏻

Klopp was a master of manipulating emotion: acknowledging, amplifying and directing emotion towards winning. Not his only skill (he was underrated in terms of tactical setup and sports science) but a v important part of his genius as a manager. By the time he left he was emotionally burned out! 1/..

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

You can be angry that they played shite, you can be angry that they lost and spoiled your weekend. Just don't tell me you know by watching the game that grief has nothing to do with it. You know nothing of the sort.

Josh is right. A "monumental head loss" for all those who think grief has nothing to do with these results.

Liverpool very good at 0-0 followed by a monumental head loss after conceding the opener from yet another set piece.

It would be brutal to sack Slot. He’s managing a group of grieving men. Any wonder they make mistakes? Getting rid of Arne would maybe bring the players down further too. There’s no magic wand for this. But it’s also hard to know where Liverpool go from here. Loooong season ahead. Up the Reds.

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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

I know I have maybe 15 points which I recycle over and over. But if you’re my age, your experience of politics as an adult is Blairism, migrant terror, disastrous war, financial calamity, destructive vandalism of the public realm, Covid disaster and finally Sir Keir, genocide and imminent fascism.

When we had billionaires like Gates that funded charity we were relaxed about them. But some of us warned you: it's still just one man's whim. He could defund the work instantly. Musk proves the point. The way to ensure billionaires' money isn't used for ill is through taxation

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

The wealth to go after is that of the top 10%, who own 57% of the country's wealth. And out of that group, go even harder after the top 1%, who own 23% (JRF, 2024). A quarter of our country's wealth. Tax the shit out of that. I wanna see tens of billions.

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A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

what I think Starmer Labour specifically shows is the utter perversity of governing as if you are in an election when you have governing majorities, you will be judged in the next election primarily on whether people's lives have gotten better, and that should be your focus not issue messaging

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

Is there a clearer example of how broken our politics is than this? Snap polls on Budget leaks that most of the public have not been following. This tells you literally nothing about how popular the govt is going to be in 2029 and even less about what the right choice for the country is.

This has always been been argument against our fiscal framework. You need some kind of debt rule but this kind of last minute flailing around is toxic for policy development.

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

A person is not "qualified" to be PM in the same way as they are qualified to be a surgeon or a mechanic. You can picture Polanski learning the technical aspects of government a lot more easily than you can picture Farage or Starmer acquiring the necessary ethical or humanistic qualities.

Just watched Farage talking about Trump and BBC and it makes me so miserable that his career has been so helped by an institution he is committed to destroy - I am bewildered

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

Labour’s not very well concealed plan to “end the culture war” was to simply concede to the vicious, wacko wingnuts right across the board. How would we say that plan has gone, lads? Has it succeeded brilliantly, are we all pals again now you’ve been pandering to the fuckers for years.

this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

When Trumpism finally falls, there's gonna be an almighty chorus of media types unanimous in telling us that of course he was a corrupt bully responsible for the deaths of millions, who brought shame on a once great democracy. And I will be asking where were you when the world needed you

The BBC is tearing itself apart to appease publications and politicians who want to see it die. An absolutely kamikaze approach to running a media organisation. I can't see it ending well.

A moment's joy about a hypothetical that won't happen, because we already know the leadership structure at and around the BBC has long forgotten how to do anything but concede to the right.

Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship