Sunderland and Leeds deserve enormous credit for this season. Proved lazy pundits wrong. Nice touch for both teams to beat established Premier League opposition today. #lufc #safc

Nuno has the same expression as a seal about to be clubbed to death by a hunter. #NEWWHU

How many #lufc fans believed in their wildest dreams that the season would be this enjoyable? I bloody well didn't...

UNITED ARE BACK!!!!!! WHAT A TEAM!!!! #lufc

We actually look like a Premier League side. #lufc

Lisa Nandy is a disappointment as Culture Secretary. She has achieved nothing. Recall her being excused from an important vote as she was at the Winter Olympics. Never explained why.

The next time Andrew goes for a jog I hope there's a coroner as well as photographers outside his house.

France also gave null which is understandable. Would the UK have given points if the song lyric was "My my. At Khartoum, Gordon did surrender..."

Kemi Badenoch's self confidence is completely at odds with her achievements. She's full of herself. #bbclaurak

How long has Will Self looked like Mr Baxter from Grange Hill? #bbclaurak

There are few braver workers than North Yorkshire ice cream sellers. (Robin Hood's Bay October 2025)

My wife is away and reflecting on the comment by (I think) Esther Rantzen after the death of her husband. "I've got lots of people to do something with but I've lost the person I can do nothing with"

A charge that can be levelled at Starmer and Nandy is their cowardice at dealing with a broken media environment. For the record. Our neighbours are foster carers and lovely people, who we've known for 40 years.

Charlie Drake looks unwell.

Blimey. The Generation Game conveyor belt has some worrying items on it this week.

I don't know the exact date Andrew Neil last went for a jog but I recall it being covered on a Pathe Newsreel.

Wish Burnham would concentrate on the important issues facing the country such as time wasting, the shambles at corners and too few games that kick off at 3pm on a Saturday.

If you manage to stay awake for the entire jury point scoring you get awarded an MA in Modern European Politics. #Eurovision

My favourite Northern faux pas was an article confusing Dewsbury and Didsbury.

One of the lies leveled against the Left is that we hate ambition. The reverse is true. During a hospital visit today I was chuffed to see an old student, from a modest background, in a senior nursing role. She was managing the staff and ward with great skill. That's what floats our boats.

Today I discovered the UK gave Abba zero marks in the 1974 Eurovision contest. Not quite as shameful as the Tommy Robinson march but pretty close.

A real sinking feeling earlier when I popped into a neighbour's to tell them some news and they were all round their TV watching the coverage of the Tommy Robinson march on GB News.

One big problem if these want their Chelsea back Where can you find a dozen roadworthy light green invalid carriages to line up behind the goal on match days?

Tommy Robinson wants to unite the kingdom in the same way Bomber Harris wanted to protect Dresden.

Even in the North of England we can smell the fishiness. #CELHEA

Ye Gods. Sport can be cruel. #CELHEA

God knows what the Hearts supporters are enduring but I'm shitting conkers. #CELHEA

Teams like Hearts are one of the reasons I love football. Well organised, working their socks off for each other, the sum is greater than the parts. #CELHEA

I'm not an expert on Scottish football but does Callum McGregor do anything other than point and pass the ball 5 yards. #CELHEA

Bloody @philhay.bsky.social, he's made me nervous for a game that doesn't involve Leeds United. Come on, you Jambos. #lufc #CELHEA

In my 60 years of support of #lufc it's very unusual to look at Liverpool and not feel envy. Liverpool have more money and better players but we've got an excellent coach and an honest, likeable set of players busting a gut for the team every game.

Once declined free tickets to see Duran Duran (at Barberella's in Birmingham) because it clashed with Lou Grant on TV. No regrets.

The Bob Marley song/video is everything the Queen one isn't. The latter is self indulgent twaddle. The former is joyful and witty. #totp

He won't get many pounds in those pockets.

I like Jess Phillips but she was pretty vacuous on Sky News. "We're running an analogue government in a digital age" What on earth does that mean?

"I don't want to answer that. I don't answer those sort of questions" Nick from the Yorkshire Dales asked about whether he had a girlfriend on 7 Up.

Is tomorrow's FA Cup game the most uneagerly awaited final ever? A plucky Sovereign wealth fund v A dodgy oligarch's plaything. The really interesting game tomorrow is 400 miles away in Glasgow.

BBC and Sky vox pops are certainly getting the views of the "bored pensioner with nothing else to do other than hang around town centres at lunchtime" voters.

"You're not going to marry that Peter Smith" spat out by Rita Tushingham in A Taste of Honey. Always brings a wry smile from my wife.

I've only ever placed one bet. It was in 1975 with a few mates, it won and I used the winnings to buy Tres Hombres by ZZ Top. Fifty one years later, and I'm very tempted by Bridget Phillipson at 50 to 1 as next Labour leader.

My gentle simmer of resentment against Streeting and Burnham is going in the direction of rapid boil. Starmer is flawed but so are the pretenders. The economy is showing +ve signs and Starmer deserves kudos for Ukraine and Iran. Meanwhile, Farage is laughing into his pint at The Dog and Hammer.

The biggest threat by any Guardian journalist is being bored rigid when they go on and on about wild water swimming.

A measure of the demise of the Labour Party is the list of candidates for the 1976 leader election. Callaghan Foot Jenkins Benn Healey Crossland Barbara Castle should have been on the list, IMHO.

Downing Street might not block Burnham but what about the CLP? Some members won't take kindly to being used in this way.

He may not be everyone's favourite philosopher but wish Billy Bremner's "Side before self, every time" was understood by the Labour Party.

Approaching the 110th anniversary, and there's a documentary about The Somme on Amazon Prime. It is brilliantly done. Even if you've seen many similar, it is still moving.

Michael Buerk is flogging tiny gold coins on adverts during Sky News breaks. He's come a long way from "This is a famine of biblical proportions" in 1984. Is he that short of money?

Bridget Phillipson is excellent on Sky News. She's a tough cookie.

Streeting is outside the tent but all his piss is running down his leg. A huge miscalculation that will only benefit Reform.

Voters will be right to conclude that politicians who can't organise a leadership coup can't govern a country.