Nowt on the tellybox so just watched #Gladiator2 for the first time. Knowing it would be bad. It's much, much worse than that. #film #reviews

It gets wilder. 🤯 bowlingatvincent.com on the breakdown of international law (& everything). #Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Gaza #Netanyahu #Starmer Pic at the Colombian border, via Aljazeera.

Daft to consider OGS. #Carrick bit more likely to succeed but neither are more compelling choices - even in the short term - than #Fletcher. #ManchesterUnited still floundering. sportslaureate.co.uk

Quite fancied #Strasbourg but will accept #Celtic. Packing suitcase and some bibs.

US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Certain that #Starmer read my blog before upping his game. bowlingatvincent.com #Trump #Greenland #Venezuela #Ukraine #Russia #Gaza #Netanyahu

It gets wilder. 🤯 bowlingatvincent.com on the breakdown of international law (& everything). #Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Gaza #Netanyahu #Starmer Pic at the Colombian border, via Aljazeera.

Short post on -yaknow- the death of international law. bowlingatvincent.com - Stormy Weather. #Trump #Venezuela #Gaza #Netanyahu #Starmer Pic: Aljazeera. Colombian border.

Short post on -yaknow- the death of international law. bowlingatvincent.com - Stormy Weather. #Trump #Venezuela #Gaza #Netanyahu #Starmer pic: Colombian border. Aljazeera.

Psychotic.

The Daily Mail: a daily drag on the nation’s sanity, dignity and prosperity. Rocking back and forward in the corner shouting that Brexit was a win and improving on our relationship with the EU is a BeTRaYaL of all the special things it cannot name. Subverting failure. How very dare we.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

‘The word manager has become central to the regime-change. #Amorim was strident, in his last presser, about how he was recruited under that term’. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ManchesterUnited sportslaureate.co.uk

#PowerChords is a #music-lovers book about growing up through #punk. It calls out for Angels of #Protest to re-energise rock’nroll & challenge privilege & prejudice all over again. Buy at your fave indie #bookshop or here(?) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...

*Did write* about #Amorim. Here: sportslaureate.co.uk #ManchesterUnited #United #PremierLeague #coaching #writing #blogs pic from BBC Sport

#PowerChords is a #music-lovers book about growing up through #punk. It calls out for Angels of #Protest to re-energise rock’nroll & challenge privilege & prejudice all over again. Buy at your fave indie #bookshop or here(?) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...

‘The word manager has become central to the regime-change. #Amorim was strident, in his last presser, about how he was recruited under that term’. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ManchesterUnited sportslaureate.co.uk

Yes. & there’s no reason this couldn’t be temporary - or recoverable by a sane #US administration in the future. But plainly we should act; it’s morally, legally & politically right. #Trump #gangsterism

'Mediocre players were failing to do their jobs... but so too was #Amorim. Not scary enough to demand improvement and get it. Not convincing enough to free up creativity and flow. Not inspiring enough to be really followed, culture-wise. So responsible'. #ManchesterUnited sportslaureate.co.uk

*Did write* about #Amorim. Here: sportslaureate.co.uk #ManchesterUnited #United #PremierLeague #coaching #writing #blogs pic from BBC Sport

It’s time for Starmer to find some backbone. We can’t tiptoe around hoping to be spared, Under Trump, the US is not reliable ally, friend or partner. Where Congress won’t act, other world leaders have duty to call out Trump’s behavior for what it is. Many Americans will also appreciate such clarity.

oh the lols...

The bad thing www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

May write more about #Amorim & #United but havva shuftie at my last post on bowlingatvincent.com which *does include* some thoughts on #ManchesterUnited - as well as other BIG STORIES...

Won't last... but really is a blizzard here, now. Love it.

*Rilly could* write a book about my walk out into the snowy lanes. Partly coz there are tractors down our track & blokes from all over the universe, in flimsy waterproofs, getting ready to work on the veg in the fields. Weird, rich... & now in a blizzard. 👀 #Pembrokeshire #winter #lifesrichwotnots

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

NEWS: A source confirms DOJ has NOT provided Congress the legally required explanation for redactions in the Epstein file releases, despite a Jan. 3 statutory deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

#Finn’s a sort of nice private schoolboy who talks a lot of sense. He was notably animated by #Smith’s brain-fade - #Labuschagne robbing his wicket with a pie-cum-halftracker. 336 for 6 at lunch, #Eng. #Ashes #Aus

Nobody could have predicted this.

TRUMP: “We need Greenland” The guardrails are gone

#Root goes to his second ton of the series. Seems chuffed. 265 for 5. #Ashes #Aus #Eng

Enter Swann on comms. Mute - obvs. #Ashes #Aus #Eng

Fantastic ball from #Starc does fit #Stojes, who gets a feather. Nobody’s quite sure if #snicko is lined-up but #Aus ain’t complaining. 229 for 5, with #Eng’s advantage now precarious. #Aus #Eng #Ashes

#Brook brings out the baseball bat against #Starc. Ugly. Loops up & over mid-on. Could go anywhere but no matter: dead rubber *&* he has runs on the board. But ugly. Within two mins he has dabbed #Boland to slip. So another gift, in fact. 226 for 4. #Eng #Aus #Ashes

Update: #weather in #Sydney looking good, so tactical kip in front of ‘Sands of Iwo Jima likely, followed by another night on the settee. #Aus #Eng #Ashes #trauma 🤷🏻‍♂️

Something thrillingly & wonderfully old-school about an absolute thunderbolt arcing impossibly away from the beaten keeper. Late-on, to equalise. As we ancients used to say - ‘check it out on Match of the Day, tonight’. #Fulham #Liverpool #PremierLeague

High-octane stuff, but not great quality. Neither side capable of knitting more than four passes together. Sesko misses another good chance: his inconsistency or lack of quality-in-execution typical of the game. Mixed. #LeedsUnited #ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague

Goal from nothing. #United badly caught out. But #Cunha robs one back immediately. 1-1. #LeedsUnited #ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague

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Mamdani criticises Trump for regime change and breaking international law - While Starmer appeases Trump

Nice move & helluva chance for #Dorgu, approaching half-time. Poor effort… but very ordinary player, for me. 0-0, with #ManchesterUnited marginally the better(?) The home team need to get that bear pit thing going. #LeedsUnited #PremierLeague

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

Know there’s nothing on this but suspect it will turn spiteful at some stage. Oof. #Starc, who has been ordinary so far, gets #Duckett. 35 for 1, #Eng. #Ashes #Aus

Did not plan to be watching. Our lot batting. *Not yet* hiding behind the settee. 21 for no loss. #Ashes #Aus #Eng

The EU needs to wake up, because this is what Stephen Miller’s wife is posting.

#Starmer & #Cooper. Just embarrassing. Hypocritical; gutless; immoral as well as in patent disregard for international law. We need a regime change here almost as much as the world needs it in Washington. #Trump #Venezuela

It’s way beyond time to refuse orders.

I go 3-0 up with 12,000 steps, large glassa white and big chunka pannatone, all before you lot have checked yer flippin toktiks... #NewYear #lifesrichwotsits