If Haaland wasn’t injured, you really do have to wonder about the decision to take him off…

"One of the great benefits of devolution and independence is that it gets rid of one of the most insidious obstacles to development – that of “having someone else to blame”. " - excellent by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social:

One of the things that annoys me about The Discourse surrounding the upcoming release of Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey is the complaint from Chudsville that Nolan should have "cast actual Greek people to play Greek characters."

There are many, many things I would like to say about civil service HR and disciplinary processes which would get me into trouble, so let me just say that I am so, so heartbroken for her family and I hope (but don’t expect) that this will lead to real change.

Labour’s complete failure to tackle the plight of higher education must change under Burnham. If you care about creating good jobs across the whole UK, there are very few industries that do more for this aim than universities. But the sector is collapsing before our eyes.

'Britain does not need more people who give speeches on subjects they barely understand for a few likes on social media' is, in fairness, quite a brave thing for Kemi Badenoch to say

This is an improvement - but it’s also morally essential to explicitly recognise that war crimes have been committed (rather than this hedging about them “appearing to have been committed”)

Absolutely essential apology. Starmer’s moral failure on Gaza was his single most destructive act for the party and its voters.

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This game has “Morocco sneak a goal, park four buses, two trains and a ferry” written all over it

Looks like Bono had the Edge over Mbappe there

Good lord did I misread that.

So it’s official that there aren’t enough MPs left to nominate anyone else

I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).

binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”

The mental image of someone checking their Ring doorbell and then Count Binface appears has absolutely sent me.

This is genuinely disgusting and terrifying.

So what you’re saying is that the Greater Manchester by-election is being… Binned off

It’s coming home

It turns out he was in fact afraid of the sound of the starting gun

When the Hearts of Iron save starts to get real weird on you

Fair play to her, this is quite funny

I’m not entirely sure that spending the summer campaigning against a bin while the press continue to publish stories about his finances anyway is going to help Farage very much. It is also, crucially, very funny.

I’m sorry, but this is some utter bullshit. As someone who thinks TMO has overall been positive for rugby, I supported VAR when it came in. But this isn’t fair or right. Get rid of VAR ASAP.

Farage running against himself while claiming to be the victim of a concocted conspiracy might be the most on the nose example of the far right’s persecution complex I’ve ever seen

Time for Egypt to Park the Ship

This is the best outcome imo. No one stands, don’t move the writ, turn it into a farce.

This is pathetic and also has a significant chance of backfiring

This speech really takes me back to being a waitress in the local village pub and not being able to close up because that one guy keeps ordering real ale and won't stop talking

I’m not sure that whining about how despite having loads of money you’re not that well off and life is very hard goes down well with anyone, even Farage’s usual support base

Nigel Farage to announce that Reform will stop having physical MPs and instead shift to digital-only MPs by 2030

Oh so it’s just a pity party

The level of insight is astonishing

Marine Le Pen having to leave campaign events early to avoid setting off her ankle monitor, like a presidential campaign brought to you by early-career Jamie Vardy

I am hearing that on his deathbed Nigel Farage received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Not above a lazy edit

“We’ll go frickin mental” might be the most embarrassing four words ever written

10/10 no notes

This is heading towards one of three outcomes (assuming Balogun plays): 1. Belgium win 2. USA win, no appeal/CAS finds in their favour 3. USA win, CAS finds in Belgium’s favour, only option for sanction is declaring that the USA forfeit the match, all hell breaks loose

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-5 points for not writing "thank you for your attention to this matter" as the salutation

this is a pure example of a nonsense person, we love to see it

I give it a couple of hours before there's an Early Day Motion to this effect.

Yeah this is class in a way that the Harry Kane knighthood one wasn’t.

An amazing new entry for “most pointlessly non-committal position Starmer has taken has PM”

On this occasion I do in fact have to support this kind of silliness

This is honestly an excellent response and I don’t really understand anyone who is mad about it

Yeah same actually

“The Imperium of Man would champion AI usage” is a take so nuclear that it’s an unintentionally perfect demonstration of the pitfalls of lazily using AI to create media