Hi single guys and gals (but mainly guys because there's loads of gals already interested), if you're in south London at the end of the month and fancy a fun night to meet new people I'm hosting an event at the Staffordshire. Tickets on sale now: www.tickettailor.com/events/staff...

FUCK YES BOYS That someone's designed it is brilliant, but that someone's printed it, and whacked it on the bog door in the away end at Hillsborough is the tits. #ncfc (cc @tomusher.bsky.social )

Well done for winning Mamdani now please get ready for a deluge of bad faith actors personally blaming you as if you were Batman every time a single crime or bad thing happens anywhere in New York

Hey guys if you’re in London and single come down to this dating event I’m hosting on the 28th of this month

Was too ill to go out this year but fuck it, Ned Flanders

Victor Gyokeres is the perfect synergy of Jamie Vardy and Patrick Bateman

The key thing here where she observes that there was unity and purpose in hounding out the left but now that’s done, there’s just… nothing there. And that’s true, there are few ideas, there’s no project and no purpose beyond sustaining themselves in office while snagging a sweet post-politics gig.

Please kill me

The speed with which Liverpool fans have lost the plot is quite something. They just cruised to the title only last season and they've had an integral squad player die over the summer. They also bought a lot of huge players that everyone wanted for the future. Seems strange to be so catastrophic

What? Last season Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ajax in Amsterdam & their fans went on an anti-Arab rampage. Throwing rocks at homes displaying Palestinian flags, attacking Arab taxi drivers & chanting “Let the IDF win and f*ck the Arabs” and “Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there.”

'Early Evening, Piccadilly Circus' by Rob Pointon robpointon.co.uk

'Piccadilly Station from the portfolio Urban Landscapes No. 2' (1979) by Richard Estes (Private collection)

'Crossing', Petticoat Lane (2024) bu Doreen Fletcher doreenfletcherartist.com 👤 @doreenfletcher.bsky.social

'London Dreams: Sleeping Cat and BT Tower' by Edward Luper edwardluperart.com

In case Andrew says anything else that’s completely daft, here he is on the same podcast in late 2023, explaining the dynamic between the Labour Party leadership and the lobby journos.

It’s still weird that you have multiple parties running on making the country so shite no one will want to live here

No fucking way lol

Game's back. join.greenparty.org.uk

My faves

Mon the JTs

This might be my favourite

The font choice

Made one for Leicester lmao

My contribution

Saw this at the London stadium last week 👏👏

lmaooo

These are the last two that I was sent

Very much so

Honourable mention for this one

The woke football flags are so good. From the river to the key is incredible

I'm so distant from any form of sport that I didn't even know who Ricky Hatton was, but I liked the way this article explores links between his fate and successive governments' relentless persecution of the more obviously vulnerable.

Tom's 'The Ballad of Ricky Hatton' is easily my favourite piece of writing I've read this year and it's one I know I'll come back to time and time again. You should try to make time to read it too. www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

We're going to use military force to ethnically cleanse a nation of at least 10% of it's population: sensible politics of the everyman We're going to tax rich people more so everyone except rich people aren't totally fucked the whole time: fantasy politics of the metropolitan elite

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Polanski: I think there should be boycott of Israel Peston: A boycott of a democracy? How dare you Polanski: Well actually Israel just tortured a load of international civilians which is a war crime Peston: Wow would you look at the time

In other news my article on Ricky Hatton is the most read thing on the New Statesman website. You can read it here: www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

Serendipity

Incredible article that for some reason spends half of it attack Zack Polanski, a Jewish politician. Wonder if they’ll be any acknowledgement of how badly judged this was or it’ll just be another big important opinion that we all quietly pretend never happened www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence

The gap between the government, opposition and national press unifying over some ludicrous, wildly irresponsible, insultingly idiotic bullshit and that then exploding in their faces now appears to be down to about two days. I reckon they could manage same-day meltdowns, if they tried.