The first thing a new PM should be doing is demanding Ofcom intervene at GBNews

I hope the person who made this fitted sheet always has a perfectly ripe avocado exactly when they need it

I remember the men dressing just like this where I was brought up, as they headed off to the clubs and pubs. Great picture 🎯👌

Which fictional Labour MP would you nominate for the leadership race?

I still don’t understand how Ofcom permits a channel that has “news” in its title to claim not to be “news” so that it doesn’t even have to attempt to be impartial.

Girl on a Spacehopper, 1971, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #Saturday

Brutal, excoriating, painfully true. Worth your time.

“When Farage enters 10 Downing St, having been cheered on by my employer (the Daily Mail), he’s going to have to answer questions on the things we’ve been ignoring”

But now it’s gone. Horizon - the BBC’s main current science strand. Dead. Series 37, 2000 - 16 episodes Series 38, 2001 - 18 eps … fairly constant to 2007/8 then dropping to 9… rallying, but with more focus on diets perhaps… Crashing to 6 eps in 2019… 4 in 2021… 3 in 2022… then just one per year

A win over Brighton and a big meeting at Matfen Hall that could mean a big club reset and a plan for #NUFC - tf1892.substack.com/p/thru-black...

The seeds of ostracism were sown by Cleisthenes around 507 BC as a safeguard against elites who got too big for their boots – or showed signs of doing so – and posed a threat to the young democracy | Amanda Ellison

As well as being a moral obscenity, saying 'vote for us or we'll open concentration camps in your area' is threatening/blackmailing voters. It's not a message that will win many voters over outside their core 15-20%. I suppose at least it tells people who haven't got it yet what they are.

If everyone need an example of the power and privileges of money, read up on the history of enclosures. Simply, if the rich wanted land, they took it by force. Then used their paid for MPs to pass laws to make their actions legal. The origin of the expression 'Property is Theft'.

There is a limited window of opportunity to do something about this - as there was in the US in 2021-25.

Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.

bsky.app/profile/jame... Trainglimpsing

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

Just overheard a very worried old lady in the bakers asking if anyone had reported losing the £5 she found on the street yesterday. She'd been in all the local shops and had had no success. - "It might be their last one" What NE England lacks in wealth it makes up for in decency.

Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're going to have some tea and toast in the morning you might as well have a decent view to go with it. (I was going to put some commentary on it but I don't want to startle the neighbours in the morning with a strange Geordie voice). 😁

What a game this has been, man of the match so far is Sturridge's agent getting him these gigs on Amazon and Sky. Fair play.

This is also excellent bsky.app/profile/matt...

Even better with Countdown music!

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Eddie Howe made a load of big decisions at the weekend and there will be others to come this week and in the next few months - here’s my tuppence happorth on it all - ta for reading - #NUFC tf1892.substack.com/p/thru-black...

Shameless... "I joined motorists from across the UK" Look at carefully selected images to hide fact barely anyone showed up other than client media and lobbyists

Brexit benefits Income per capita in Poland forecast to overtake the UK

The reason you got a fine for driving in a bus lane was because you drove in a bus lane you thick racist whalloper www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The stunning mummy portrait of Eirene is one of the few mummy portraits that bears an inscription. It mentions the deceased as well as her parents: Eirene, daughter of Silvanos, her mother is Senpnoutis. May her soul live forever before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, the Lord of Abydos. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Farage said the NMW (£12.71/hr for 21+, £10.85/hr for 18-20) is too high. And he’s going to torch the welfare bill… Meanwhile, he’s the highest earning MP, trousering over £1M/year for not being an MP, taking foreign cash, investing in crypto with Kwarteng and just taking the piss out of everyone.

Has Richard Tice resigned from his front bench & deputy leader positions in Reform yet? It's a week since controversy over his unpaid tax came to light. It is way more serious than anything related to Angela Rayner. He called for her to go. But he remains in place. Why won't Reform take action?

My attention has been drawn to this delightful image.

Process for people like Mandelson Vs Process for people like Louise Haigh www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/730...

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Reform is corrupt. Tice is a tax dodging cheat. They want power to make money for themselves. The foreign bribes, the crypto donations, the bitcoin investments, Farage and Kwarteng’s cosy little deals… They’ll treat the UK and the NHS as their own fire sale. We must never give it to them.

Pundit guide to describing clubs trophy draughts: Newcastle United = Years since their last domestic trophy. Every other club in the world = years since they last won a trophy.

It’s THE SPECIAL for your matchday morning - get your pot of tea and breakfast of choice and settle down for the pocket rocket of fanzine content coming your way - tf1892.substack.com/p/the-specia...

Life of B̷r̷i̷a̷n̷ Donald.

Number crunching: Iran war From the new Private Eye, out now.

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

bsky.app/profile/this... "....and Jesus said unto the ringmaster, 'Divvin poke a tiger with a stick, wor kid, it'll bite you' and the ringmaster did indeed lay down his stick as he was reaching for his cuppa anyway."

Four years ago

The obituary of the 25/26 season is underway and we have a full finger pointing series underway - Matthew Philpotts is kicking us off with thoughts on the people running the whole shebang - or not as the case might be #NUFC - tf1892.substack.com/p/the-blame-...