Gökçe is pronounced ‘gotcha’

‘Fool’s Gold’ as a nickname for pyrite is possibly older than the existence of the USA, but sure let’s pretend it was invented to insult your boomer aunt being scammed on Facebook marketplace

CURLING!

even by the 23rd Century they still hadn’t solved iPad multitasking

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

BBC news piece about how from over 100,000 we’re down to a few thousand telephone boxes. “But enthusiasts are still finding new uses for them.” 👀

Remembering the legend Sir Bobby Robson on his birthday. Pictured here with Tony Dorigo at Italia 90.

This is worthy of a further points deduction.

Across many years as a parenting columnist, I've written about vaccine heistancy multiple times. Each time, I've tried to be sensitive and empathetic to these people but, if I'm honest, nothing has ever gotten closer to my true feelings about them than this meme from a decade ago.

Pulling out of a nosedive to knock over the form team in the EFL is what you need to do if you’re gonna win the league. Cmon city, let’s close the deal! #PUSB

IN AD 2026 WAR WAS BEGINNING

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Never heard this before and it doesn’t really align with my experience in the early days either. Where has it come from?

the Black Panthers were right

One of the big reasons why this is such a shot of nostalgia is Football Italia came at a time when there was no free, live football in the UK. A whole generation hungry for live games and this was your feast. Imagine if the Beeb actually secured full rights? Did a Gazzetta magazine show?

This is how BBC Alba introduced Serie A 🥹

1906. Yep. Wise. Not pissed.

Amazingly, the referee got even worse after this.

rest in peace

Villa fans chanting ”you’re not fit to referee” when they should be down to 9-men and their goal shouldn’t have stood is hilarious levels of delusional

No further questions your honour.

Is Quentin Tarantino the guest editor of the Northern Echo now

“My life hack is crippling ennui which I have decided to frame as a virtue!”

More bad news for Yannick Bertrand

Peter Gabriel is 76 today! Then I realised my dad would be 76 this year too if he was still with us. The inexorable march of time.

A non-dom billionaire has about as much right to comment on anything happening in this country as I do about any other country in which I don’t live or pay taxes. Which is to say: zero. Nothing. Shut up Jim Ratcliffe, you’re a citizen of Moneyland and nowhere else.

The wheels might have come off our promotion charge but honestly it’s somewhat refreshing not being even close to the most basket case football club in England. #pusb

This is what is so exhausting about the mainstream parties. Rejoining is the goal, the destination. But even saying *that* invokes their tutting eye-rolling cynicism, because they are bereft of ambition or purpose. They just want to be stewards of the status quo.

Thomas Frank invited in for a quick chat this morning

ONE DOWN

Why did every website and app suddenly decide to change the icon for ‘share’ to look like an upside down reply icon?

I have of late—but wherefore, I know not—lost all my mirth.

amazing that every time i bring this up people are unaware of it. he really got away with it

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Well today has been thoroughly miserable. Ate some more crumble and then for dessert had the misfortune of needing to travel by train back to London, which today took nearly 4 hours.

The portrait of Queen Elizabeth on two coins released by the Royal Australian Mint has drawn criticism, despite proving popular with collectors.

We would prefer if he would sign on as a full time cast member, but agreeing to guest host will guarantee a full series order.

Just a slob like one of us

It’s been four years and the Rings of Power haters are still really mad.