We stan a straight cis man who unapologetically receives gender affirming care

Someone’s going to extreme lengths to avoid saying whether he’ll leave West Ham this summer

I will never not enjoy US presidents losing their tempers with Netanyahu, and this one from Trump is a fine addition to the burn book

Me when my brother has ignored my WhatsApp message for more than a day:

The fact that other parties just keep going “Farage is an unstoppable force of nature, what can we possibly do to stop him?” is an act of reckless negligence and every politician who bleats about “legitimate concerns” should be held in the same regard as Vichy collaborators

Sorry everyone, the bad weather is my fault: I have a dentist appointment today, so I have a half day at work and thought I might have a couple of hours to enjoy the afternoon after my appointment. So that’s on me. I endeavour to do better x

NEWS: Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Kyiv, striking a 24-story apartment building and causing a partial collapse with people potentially trapped under rubble. At least four people were injured as fires broke out across multiple districts, including near a kindergarten. 1/

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Poor choice. Joao Neves was MOTM and in general is one of those players whose footballing IQ is just so obviously at a higher level than 99% of players

Chelsea fans can empathise with Arsenal fans, because we also know the pain of your centre back sending a penalty into orbit in the Champions League final

TIL both Arsenal AND Paris Saint-Germain have a sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda

Starting Odegaard and Trossard suggests Arteta wants to dominate possession tonight. Which is…ummm…a brave choice

As soon as that Salah post came up, I was certain Slot would be sacked before long. Probably the right call, his off the ball/defensive coaching is appalling. Iraola as replacement is baffling though: his style is high intensity and requires A LOT of running, and this Liverpool squad is REALLY slow

The hours spent tending the rose bushes in garden last year are paying off, very strong showing from my boys this year

5 years today since the 2021 Champions League final. Objectively not as exciting as 2012 but will always be special to me because I was there

Apparently someone has slipped me LSD, because you’ll never guess who I’m seeing on this question time panel…

I know I chose this career, but seriously: if you think that’s it’s too *easy* to get a visa to come to the UK, then it just means you don’t know what you’re talking about and have never had to do a visa application

Really cool that we’re using AI to do necromancy

every day I learn about a new kind of insane gender anxiety the GOP wants to make my problem

Not selling Gordon in the summer of 2024 was a huge mistake by Newcastle. Probably would have got at least the same price as now and wouldn’t have had to sell Elliott Anderson. Generational fumble and they’ve ended up selling Gordon anyway

Lots of what Blair is proposing in that essay is total nonsense, but I do think it’s worth reading this essay from the TBI in 2022 on illegal migration. Don’t agree with a lot of it and you don’t have to either, but it does at least attempt to address the issue institute.global/insights/geo...

Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.

That poor guy, he’s gonna be absolutely bombarded with hatred and the worst people in the world demanding he be fired (probably on broadcast tv and/or in national newspapers before long) just because this freak wanted online clout

Me envisaging this line being trotted out by Starmer’s supporters constantly for the next few months:

Every pundit who genuinely believes Burnham would call a snap election thinks the wallet inspector is real. I don't know this for a fact, I just know it's true

Somewhere, a Labour strategy bro is asking a focus group if they’d support a law that bans the weather from being too hot

Pretending that substantially lower migration is cost-free is no more honest than pretending migration has no consequences, writes Jonathan Portes

I say it every year but it's summer time, which means these are the only two acceptable menswear options

Hugh Grant playing Jeremy Thorpe:

Side note but no one had a bigger sense of humour failure over Joe Lycett’s Kuenssberg appearance than this guy. He was tweeting obsessively about it for *months*

Lots of us will remember being finger-wagged for being nutters by this weird dork, now busily pimping this crank conspiracy theory to anyone who will buy

Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

I really want one of these sanctimonious "omg Libya was so bad and evil and harmful" types to be put in a situation where they are the CinC of a nation with the power to stop an imminent slaughter and people in beseiged areas are begging for international help And just go "No, not our problem"

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

Rachel, last summer every member of your government was saying how these exact people were wonderful and not even slightly racist. Their behaviour has not changed

And what's more, they have actively chosen it because they have convinced themselves it's popular. I would almost prefer it if they were doing it on principle. But they have chosen to promote bigotry and make excuses for racist violence because they think it will make them popular!

Manchester is kinda correct if you take into account that what we call London isn't technically a city and the biggest actual city in the UK is Birmingham

This links well into one of my pet peeves, namely the Mike Bassett stereotype of English managers: by far the most boring football the England national team has ever played has occurred under the non-English managers

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.

I'm uncomfortable with transphobia. Why do I have fewer rights than a transphobe, just because I’m uncomfortable with bigotry?

a very hot trend right now is every politician/party/faction about whom you for a single millisecond entertain the thought "perhaps they might be alright" doing something completely fucking disgusting before you have time to blink

This guidance makes me feel physically ill. It's so pointlessly cruel and destructive. And you just know that any successful legal challenge against it will be seized upon by far-right demagogues as a way to take away all our human rights

Correct decision and Maguire has no right to be surprised. He is an adequate reactive box defender but he is unable to close space in midfield or defend large spaces. I've been shocked at all the football writers who insisted Maguire should be in the squad and I'm glad Tuchel is smarter than them

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery