Labour’s issue is thus They inherited a broken system Starmer is generally OK at every aspect of his job except two - communicating the “why” of economic policy and if there’s any wiggle room in it - allowing the far right to dictate policy areas

And honestly, still better vibes than 25/26 Maribor who, lest we forget, had a manager leave after getting smacked in the head in a training ground brawl between players.

Planned train from London - 90 mins straight to home stop Actual trains - London to Sheffield, Sheffield to Stockport, Stockport to home. 4 hours on top of the 75 min delay to actually going anywhere and having to move train stations. Love British infrastructure.

In London on work tomorrow so staying over. How is it that the Gower St Waterstones (far from London’s biggest) still wipes the floor with Waterstones Deansgate?

If you wanted to betray a complete lack of understanding of how football in Glasgow works, stating “As a Glasgow boy, I want one of the Glasgow teams to win” definitely does that

open.spotify.com/track/2LHJ7e... Oh, if of Montreal are revisiting this second half of Satanic Panic-y vibe for the entire new album, then this’ll be an AOTY contender.

Wuuuuuuuuu!

Swiftly become an all-timer of a final at the Crucible and onto a final frame decider. Incredible drama.

FT Hearts 2 Rangers 1 And then there were two as Rangers essentially eliminated from the title race. Hearts battered them in the second half and it’s them or Celtic now. But Rangers could play ultimate spoilers on Sunday as they travel to Celtic - can Hearts take it all before the final day?

2-1 Hearts! Spittal just rescues the ball from going out and the pull back finds Shankland who does what he does and does it so well. Excellent goal.

Big 15 mins and a big goal - Kyziridis allowed to cut in for the first time and whacks the post straight to Kingsley to stroke it home. 1-1!

HT Hearts 0 Rangers 1 The more it went on, the more Rangers were on top. Took Hearts’ frontline out of the game completely and, while it’s not dominance on the scoreboard, Hearts desperately needed the reset. Big 15 mins ahead at the start of the half for them.

Rangers strike first with a heavily deflected Sterling volley on the end of a long throw but, all in all, very even so far.

Biggest game of the bank holiday weekend about to start - Hearts-Rangers is a straight up title eliminator. If Rangers lose, their title challenge is over. If they win, it’s three teams at the top with one point between them with three to go.

New The review of the past weekend as there's trouble at the mill ahead of next weekend's Vecni Derbi. open.substack.com/pub/hyfprw/p...

After a promising start, the Miami GP has largely fizzled out and hard not to think rescheduling to avoid the rain is part of that. It’s been more entertaining than the dire sprint, but absolutely roll on Montreal to show us some decent racing.

This is a match for the ages at the Crucible. Incredible drama.

By the by - the winner? A banger.

Vukovar survive another week by winning the bottom two clash in the HNL. Still four points behind Osijek with three to go, but they could have been down tonight and now they have momentum

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-sh... The main thrust of the article isn’t a great look for Mahmood (but possibly explainable) but the end of the article is pure box office and there’ll be a SpAd resigning over that in the near future, no doubt

Crazy stuff. Fair enough given it’s evidently mutual but Kofi not being a lifer is a shock, WWE having burned money by not following up on their turn and then giving AEW a chance at running Bucks-New Day at Wembley is insane business logic.

One more from Segecic today and you have to think that may be his World Cup place for Croatia almost assured now. He’s come from nowhere to get it but it’s clear Dalic and Olic think he’s ready already.

RIP Alex Zanardi. Legend of his sport and legend in what he overcame.

This. This is the good shit.

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Felt Wu Yize would take it all at the start and nothing to dissuade me of that notion yet. Vafaei is playing well but getting smashed. Him and Murphy would be a blockbuster final.

New writing Channelling my inner @michaelbochel.bsky.social and starting a regular update series... open.substack.com/pub/hyfprw/p...

Whatever the truth of the matter, the fact that Starmer has now established a precedent that, if you’re accused of wrongdoing, you can just whip the party to avoid oversight is positively Trumpian.

Luka Modric was operated on earlier after suffering a broken cheekbone - the break is a multiple fracture and not a simple one but, save for meaning he'll be wearing a mask, his World Cup will not be impacted

US Sport needs to stop trying to make Vegas happen. From no teams to potentially four in under 15 years.

Trump taking an L to an Iranian? Fantastic decider to take him into the Quarters and perhaps a dark horse to win at the Crucible now.

It’s NINE in a row for Crvena Zvezda! A 3-0 win in the Veciti Derbi takes them out of sight in the Superliga

Hearts win the Edinburgh Derby It turns next weekend’s Hearts-Rangers game into a title eliminator as anything but a win for the away team will surely end any hope of a Rangers title. Hibs host Celtic next.

Hearts make the breakthrough! It’s been incessant pressure and Spittal fires the league leaders ahead with 4 to go

1-1! Looks like an own goal but Hearts won’t care - can they convert it to all three points now?

Hibs down to nine now, but still 1-0 up. This is shaping up to be an epic second half as Hearts have to turn this around.

After Hajduk only drew with Rijeka, Dinamo have been confirmed as Croatian champions once more so they can start the party ahead of their game with Varazdin in 5 mins…

And then the classic bit of Hibs keeping throws another massive swerve into the title race. 80 mins of 10 vs 11 now.

Standard UK politics - can't do anything to improve the democratic settlement the country is based on because, invariably, it won't help the self-serving party elected to deliver it.

New writing The strongman is gone and the ramifications could be huge in football throughout the region. But how does Orban's fall from power impact clubs in other countries? open.substack.com/pub/hyfprw/p...

Weekend Maths! Croatia - Dinamo will be champions if: Hajduk fail to beat Rijeka in Sunday's 3pm KO Dinamo beat Varazdin straight after that one Serbia - Crvena Zvezda will be champions if they avoid defeat hosting Partizan on Sunday. If Vojvodina beat Zeleznicar, their European spot is confirmed

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I mean, I despise this lineup at the minute, but holding black magic ceremonies on TV to try to change the form 15% of the way of the season reminds me why I could never not love the Mets.

That was a very fun second half for a neutral between Leicester and Hull. As open as it gets, as wasteful as it gets and, for Leicester, as bad as it gets.

A pox on Wales for putting this match on the final day of group action of the Euro U19s in the venue furthest for me to travel…

I suggest the same but to bar/deport people for crimes against acronyms.

Look at Stage 2 here, Manchester-Sheffield. Looks brilliant: www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/tou...

In addition to getting the name of Banks wrong (his sci-fi is Iain M Banks), Musk also misses the sheer cynicism of Banks who, by his own admission, felt that we as a species were too stupid to actually be anything like The Culture.

“Obstructing public sidewalks…”