Probably the best summation of the disparity of treatment between Everton and Chelsea

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Newsflash; Trump did not remember.

Oil prices up. Petrol up. Energy bills up. Mortgages rising. All thanks to this illegal, damaging war. Britain shouldn’t jump at the beck and call of an American president who doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

6”x8” oil painting of Ireland. In between all the rain. Reference photo by @rachelpetruccillo.com

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

I can’t keep up with this Everton game. Just refreshed the live feed twice in 10 seconds. Went from 0:1, to 1:1, to 1:2! Most unEverton like.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment. n.pr/4rwqZny

Of course, the irony of Trump’s post about us needing to send a “hospital boat” to Greenland was that it only emphasized the point that we, in fact, do not have any hospital ships in service right now that are available, while Greenlanders have free universal health care.

We make fun of elon but this is a clean win for him. Even after rebranding twitter as a goebbels computer with A.I. revenge porn journalists stayed on it frying their brains for retweets from jd vance and faulty sean spicer clones. Now they’re writing “Does AOC’s Brain Smell Different?”

I’ll save you five minutes of your time today so you don’t have to read the news about yet another round of “negotiations” in Geneva:

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

What could possibly go wrong

Moon

What could possibly go wrong

I've updated my post on the funding crisis heading for British astronomy: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... UKRI made clear that astro and particle physics are being subject to unique cuts due to rising costs elsewhere. This looks like a deliberate decision not to fund fundamental physics. 🔭 🧪

No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.

You see ICU Nurse Alex Pretti assisting veterans learning to walk again. Donald Trump sees a domestic terrorist and suckers and losers.

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all; her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity. How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

Polanski says countries which neighbour Russia (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) "Have called for a European security alliance because they can see NATO isn't working". I can find no record of this. Whereas I can find record of each government saying the total opposite

Unhinged

Unbelievable

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

With Matchweek 18 ends the first half of this season, so it's time to do some analysis. This thread will be updated over the next few days as I review the frequency of each referee's appointments to each club. Ideally, I'd like to see a balanced spread, meaning all clubs are treated equally...

Came across this piece of historical inaccuracy in the museum of Liverpool. What do we think blues?

Came across this piece of historical inaccuracy in the museum of Liverpool. What do we think blues?

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Stealworkers

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Not that I think it should be given, but if Everton had scored that second arsenal goal there’s a 100% chance it would be ruled out for the three players stood in an offside position. Not only that, the commentators would be all over it.

Elmo isn't going to be pleased

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Hot up there Alan?