Snowy and muddy 60 min noon trail run earlier. Easy/steady along the Tees at Low Dinsdale/Middleton One Row in the crisp air and cloudless, sunny sky. #runchat

After 37 years, maybe now we’ll finally stop getting mentioned every time someone brings up FA Cup giant-killings. Well done Macclesfield and Crystal Palace for doing that for us. #pusb

Glad for the Rooneys that they produced at least one decent manager. #macclesfield

Incredible scenes from Macclesfield. This is why this is the game of our lives. #facup

If you like a flutter now and again, if they do win this, Sunderland would be worth a 5er for the FA Cup. More or less safe in this league, have the pure determination of a knockout match winning team. #SAFC #EVESUN

I wonder what it is about the £40k in payments made by the people running X to Rupert Lowe MP that makes him not want to support banning it for producing images of naked children for its paedophilic subscribers.

Defence Secretary thinks he’s still dealing with the United States of America and not dealing with a cabal of fucking psychopaths.

Starmer/Trump, latest: How it started…. vs How it’s going….

160-odd majority in Parliament yet can’t or won’t emergency legislate to immediately stop websites creating images for an audience of nonces extreme misogynists? Not good enough.

The idea that immigration anywhere is ‘uncontrolled’ and that’s resulted in broad negative impacts on countries comes from the same conspiracist nonsense as flat earth and the moon’s made of cheese.

Selectivity-Starmer strikes again: condemns the killing of protesters in Iran but killing protesters in the USA: ‘yeah, mate, you crack on’.

Trump just then: ‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not,’ Then Starmer:

Labour defends Trump.

Dangerous path. If it was good enough for the likes of Thatcher/Reagan to call out their allies’ potential breaches of international law, it should be a no-brainer for a Labour PM and their Ministers. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

Getting a whack across the backside with a bamboo cane from your headteacher, in private, in his office, as a totally OK school punishment.

Long for the day when having Daily Mail writer/correspondent on the CV is a surefire way of never getting a job in journalism ever again for people like Natasha Anderson with this ‘well, it was her own fault for being brutally murdered by a state-sanctioned, gun-toting thug’ undertone.

Sunderland deserves far more industrial history credit. Late-19th century, produced more new-ships than any other port in the world, was world’s biggest sheet glass manufacturer. Now found to be world’s leading producer of vital blade sharpening stones for Roman Empire. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every human life matters. But when a western life is lost we hear about their family, their life, their journey. Yesterday 14 Gazans were killed including 5 children. Can you tell me anything about any of them? english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

New column today: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Martinelli should be off for throwing the ball at Bradley. Then off for pushing him off the pitch. Shameful conduct, piss-weak refereeing. #ARSLIV

Mandelson wormed and connived his way to attaining the means and connections to ensure he’s largely immune to the ‘age of Trump’. The majority of us don’t have that luxury. Mandelson accuses European leaders of ‘histrionic’ reaction to Trump’s Greenland stance www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We fought the greatest war in history, one that left countless millions, killed, starved, abused and traumatised precisely because idiot leaders insisted that there would be great advantages in controlling the incredible natural resources of other countries.

I encourage you to research the firm response to fascism of Attlee's Labour party - and emulate it.

Good. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The UK are supporting a country that has committed extra judicial murders at sea, kidnapped a head of state, threatens to forcibly take territory from an ally and now comitting extra judicial murder on their own streets. And then lies about all of it! The US is a threat not an ally!

If murderous, armed masked thugs were marauding the streets in any given country in the global south, our Govt would be condemning it and not calling its facilitators allies. A UK govt - led as it is by an eminent lawyer, is shamelessly selective in their application of law.

Excellent frame by frame analysis by Brenna Perez: www.tiktok.com/@perezbrenna...

Incredible match. #NEWLEE

Replay confirms cheating there from Joelinton. Dunno what he’s crying over. Just pissed off cos Leeds been all over them 1st half. #lufc #nufc #NEWLEE

Harsh pen decision but no more than Leeds deserve. #lufc #NEWLEE

Tim Walz giving a masterclass in rock solid leadership in this presser RN. Emphasising state security services are there for the benefit of Minnesotans. Saying it’s a ‘patriotic and constitutional duty’ to demonstrate anger against ICE’s actions.

Got the measure of exactly what a Starmer Govt would look like not long after he duped his way into the Labour leadership and then went on to wave through multiple war crimes in Gaza. Must admit though, I didn’t have ‘international piracy’ down on my bingo card.

Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, will meet with representatives from Denmark to discuss Donald Trump's plan to seize Greenland.

When you would’ve laughed this off as fake, conspiracist bonkers this time last year but a year on, it’s true. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If I’m fortunate enough to live this long, knowing my luck, I’m in a care home with a shed load of similarly aged gammon dickheads who voted for this outcome in their 50s.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

The latest published accounts for Teesworks Ltd show an increase in dividends paid to shareholders - up to £30m, despite revenue for the year dropping to only £6m, @leighsus.bsky.social digs into what the numbers show

Whether it’s upholding international law or protecting women and girls, of late, the Government have developed a masterful knack of saying one thing and actually doing the exact opposite.

“I would say the best thing that Keir […] can do is be behind their doors and in their departments getting things right and changing our outcomes.” Just put that in Google translate. Comes out as ‘See yous, Stammer, boy. Gyit tae fuck, ya wee tube’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At least Ruben Amorim can take some consolation from the fact that Mike Tapp’s having to endure a much shitter Monday morning than he is.

Government reaction so far to the ongoing collapse of international rules-based security guarantees and blatant breaches of international law: Sunday morning ‘We wait and see’ Sunday afternoon: ‘We agree with it but at least the FTSE blah blah blah’ Monday: ‘It’s complicated’.

Got out of bed this morning, whistling zip a dee doo dah, doing star jumps looking forward to January. What else could anyone do after hearing from the PM that the FTSE top 100’s at an all time high?

You can’t be surprised about this Labour Govt’s selective promotion of international law after listening to their weak, mealy-mouthed responses to the Israeli state’s blatant criminality in Gaza these past couple of years.

Bobby gonna be a big loss with his ban. #pusb

More you see the replays, the more that’s a penalty. #pusb

As it stands, we have a Govt minister who won’t commit to urging other Govts not to kidnap other heads of state. #LBC

Darren Jones truly woeful on Times Radio right now. Managing to sound both condescending and craven. Answering “I’m not a commentator” when asked to comment on the legality of the USA’s actions in Venezuela just comes across terribly. The government would’ve been better just putting no one up.

No one’s asking Darren Jones to ‘make judgements on international law’. They’re asking his opinion as a minister on a particular point of international law. His Govt’s been doing exactly that in regard to other world events since they took office. Utterly cringeworthy. #TrevorPhillips