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.

Not that fussed about international football, especially given geopolitics around this year's #worldcup but fair play to Tuchel, he isnt picking on reputation and big clubitis.

Well this Kenyon guy seems charming. #makerfield

The first English winner of the USPGA golf tournament in 107 years is from Wolverhampton and his name is…Aaron Rai. Let’s just unite the kingdom around that achievement for a minute

Reform won't like this. Aaron Rai, son of immigRant Kenyan Indians, born in Wolverhampton. About to win the #uspga

How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "

How twattish some people are. A guy pops up being sanctomonius, and then announces he is 'popping me on mute'. Talk about pompous and self-important...blocked.

This is why a wealth tax is essential, even if only as a gesture. Hugely disappomting that a government with 'labour' in its name hasnt even opened a debate or commissioned research about feasibility of making tax on working less penal than asset/wealth ownership tax.

So unexpectedly are we now Team Wes? Rejoining EU and PR are preconditions for me, before we even think about anything else. Boost to economy and to democracy, then we can at least be on the pitch as opposed to shouting at each other from sidelines. Burnham might be the man for PR; Streeting for EU?

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Having a Wulfrunian night. Aaron Rai at #uspga and George Fouracres on #snluk

Who looks at these flags on roundabouts and lampposts and feels pride? Far right thugs and racists. And who looks at them with fear and loathing? Everyone else. National flags are being used as Nazi bunting by Reform and the far right. Let’s call this what it is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🚨 Richard Bacon on Newsnight. “If the project is to keep Reform out… they take 5m in cryptocurrency, say Nigerians should be melted down into potholes… if you replace Keir Starmer with @andyburnham.bsky.social would they beat Reform? Yeah, bc the project’s so important, it’s worth it.”

Five million quid, he says.

Cc. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

After the Celtic, Arsenal and West Ham #VAR decisions I think i might genuinely be finished with watching top flight football, any future #wwfc promotion notwithstanding. 2/3 technically correct. One an outrage. But all would have been u noticed in oast years and still are in Championship down.

Just saw the description of Farage as “The Cunt of Murky Crypto” and I’m in awe at the genius. (The person who posted it couldn’t remember the original source - anyone?)

Makerfield may be the most important by-election in all our lifetimes. Potentially a would be PM who hopefully will a) enact PR to lock Reform and Farage out forever & b) get us back to EU and give us all a big boost economically. One of the last rolls of dice to save our way of life. Big stakes

The standards committee must decide if this gift could be related to political/public role. A defence could that a £5m gift was "purely private" + "wasn't political in any sense at all" (May 5th) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... To say "reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years" disrupts that

Optics. I support a Wealth Tax. I think it will be of limited value as a revenue raiser, but inequalities between capital/asset wealth and earned income now so marked that social contract is fraying.

CALL TO ACTION!!! Please support the decent journalists actually holding Farage to account. Please share far and wide! 👊💥👍

Larry has just posted this

OMG the posts mentioned in this article are disgusting. Make no mistake, the rise of those people to power is on our mainstream media. Years of destructive elevation of nasty politics. This is the result.

@alexballingermp.bsky.social has called for #keirStarmer to go. Be interering to know if based on policy issues or self preservation, given the Reform cancer consuming #halesowen. To me 1. PR & 2. EU re-entry are precursors to any #labour relaunch/leadership. Anything else fiddling while Rome burns

"Incremental change won't cut it" Very true Sir Keir. The Brexit red lines must go, or you must go. Positive change and a hopeful vision for the UK must include the UK's return to Europe, For our values, security, and economy we must rejoin the EU. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Technically correct, probably. But there were other infringements in same incident. An Arsenal player had arms all round waist of a West Ham forward for instance. I just dont like #var in any circumstances, but to effeftively decide the title, i dunno, sits uneasily. #whuars

To think three months ago I had no idea who this man was.

For all the romanticism about the #blackcountry re sense of humour/salt of the earth etc (some of which is true) the way it voted in #localelections showed it to be an area of .gullible, easily-led, insular, racist, misogynists. I know people are scared and frustrtaed but this is not the way.

Summer is officially here. #countycricket

ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate

So tragic… That the people who have been lied to and left behind by politicians for decades …are now falling for the most transparent con of all.

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Nigel Farage's beaming face is featuring heavily in the local elections coverage, but the truth is that the real architect of Reform's gains is the man whose disastrous 'Blue Labour' strategy we were confidently told would prevent them bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

This is my childhood home. Ex Tory MP.elected for Reform..working class area. Blue collar. Trad Labour. 80% for right-wing bloc. Insane.

So by my reckoning 23/25 #dudley seats won by Reform. Shameful. Its incumbent on all of us to start talking politics at the dinner table, in the pub, at the match, wherever. We can't confine ourselves to echo chambers here. Its 1931 ish now. We mustnt let this happen to us. #localelections

StopReformUK.vote is where i would generally advise people to look toninform #localelections #le26 vote BUT in my 35/35 Reform v Tory ward it still says to vote Labour. I do think there is a differnce between Reform and Tories. As a one off Ive voted Conservative today. #anyonebutreform

Thinking of voting Tory for first time in my life tomorrow. Council ward is trad Tory. Parliamentary constiuency is narrow Lab and projected to go Reform. No Green presence. LDs in another ward but zero chance. Keep Reform out has to be the priority. At council level, its logically the Tory.

The #snooker

This might be the most disgusting policy proposal I've ever seen from any British party.

I 'borrowed' this from an anti-Reform group on Facebook. I wish I knew a name to give the credit to, but I don't. It's a very useful summary of the career of that nice Mr #Farage. Such a fine, honest, upstanding fellow...

First visit to Molineux since January. Awful game. Possibly the worst non Bhatti era top flight match, ive seen. But i dont get the Edwards vitriol at all. This season is irrelevant. Least painful of the 6 top flight relegations ive seen. All the blame should be at Fosuns door. #wwfc

Exc: This week Nigel Farage explained an undeclared £5m donation as essential for security He cited an "outright arson attempt" on his house. But @theobserveruk.bsky.social has established that police are investigating the incident as a burglary observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer got free glasses = media outrage Farage gets £5m = very little fuss Something terribly wrong with UK media.

And people say #snooker is boring...

This is a very good article about the alleged rape in Epsom which never happened, and how false rumours about migrants sparked near-riots. It squarely and correctly blames social media algorithms - but I think it misses the complicity of politicians, even from traditional parties.

Your occasional reminder that the far right is a cult of victimhood. Not metaphorically or whatever, it actually is; the main draw - great replacement theory - is entirely based upon the idea that you, a regular nobody, are suffering because of who you are.

'Bluebells here, bluebells there, bluebells every effing where...' never known anything like it. Stunning. Weather or climate reasons?

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

'A whack job whose brain is distorted'. Great self-awareness, anyway.