Hydra break....

"Deal done with UEFA. Here we go! Newcastle United to be fined £5.2m by UEFA, deal agreed. UEFA only ever wanted to fine Newcastle!"

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Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

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Man of the people 👇

A question put to Steve Reid yesterday by Trevor Philips, mischievously enough to mask the prejudice: "why should Londoners be forced to subsidise the less productive North?" (Because everyone knows those who stay up here are idle & lazy - not subject to huge economic disparities)

This was the biggest judgement call of Badenoch's leadership and she got it badly wrong. She then blamed Labour's refusal to back the war on Muslim voters, "whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle east, not the British national interest". It was a shocking, shameful episode

Says the man who broke it with Brexit

To boost living standards, Burnham also needs a serious plan to reduce the Brexit penalty, which costs the UK at least £30bn a year. www.arguably.uk/p/we-cant-af...

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

If you're not binning off the late games, (22.00 KO is a late game) and just watching the ten min highlights on the iPlayer the next day without knowing the score, particularly in games you pretty much know are going to be shite or dead rubbers then you're clearly doing it wrong.

Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

"I should just point out that this is the eighth time we have invited unelected gobshite Zia Yusuf onto Question Time."

In an odd development today, the Co op in sunniside has started selling porn mags again.

It’s Saturday morning so here’s another issue of THE WEEKENDER to distract you from the heat and doing anything productive - ta for reading- tf1892.substack.com/p/the-weeken...

Me, whenever I have to do the job for which I’m paid.

Speechless.

Can I just congratulate Scotland? They've went there, won their first game, their fans will have had a ball, gave them hope etc and then after getting predictably beaten by two superior teams have, unlike eight other charlatans, done the decent thing ..... 1/2

Part 2 of Chris Waite’s surgical analysis of the Power, Corruption and Lies of modern football - the Premier League, Independent Football Regulator and a lot more besides - today’s superb (and long) football read from TF - tf1892.substack.com/p/tf-summer-...

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Galloway lives in Russia and has done since last year. Feel this has rather gone under the radar.

Never forget "We don't want too many Leicesters".

They're not even pretending it's a fair competition.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Reminder of Great British Patriot!! Nigel Farage, laughing his socks off as the pound crashed on the night of the EU Ref 10 years ago Making the rest of us poorer

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

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😳 BREAKING: 100% of Britons Now IN FAVOUR of Brexit! 🇬🇧 #BrokenNews

How conventient for political journalists, to all be gathered in Downing Street once more, so they can interview each other, to ask "how did this happen?", without ever acknowledging that, at least in part, they themselves are how this happened.

The Sky News helicopter is currently following Andy Burnham's train all the way down to London. Unclear what exactly they expect to happen en route

And when we complain about the 'mainstream media' this is exactly what we mean

Can't help but think that the media's obsession with days like this makes them happen more often than is really necessary.

Munoz goes to Liverpool, Tonali looks to be heading out of #NUFC new shirt sponsor, Yasir speaks and some fans get excited for no reason - new TBAWE - ta for reading - tf1892.substack.com/p/thru-black...

Chris Waite with an outstanding piece of writing on the state of modern football, the independent regulator and so much more - buckle up for a fantastic read - tf1892.substack.com/p/tf-summer-...

If they were being honest about Brexit they would be talking about the voter manipulation that the press also participated in. They would be talking about how Brexit wasn't the "will of the people" but deliberately manufactured. Brexit hasn't failed it's done exactly what it was supposed to do.

More of that 'pure cold rage' they called for

Just in time to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum with a seventh Prime Minister in that time. Whoever took back control, it wasn't the occupant of 10 Downing Street.

This is where every footballer or coach is if they get a very late call up to join the world cup or European championships according to every single commentator who ever lived.

While the world continues to speak the language of ceasefire, families in Gaza continue to bury their sons and daughters. Since the ceasefire was announced in October 2025, 265 Palestinian children have been killed across Gaza. That is an absurd and devastating figure.

Saturday's the day we play the game.

Do you think the press is this clueless? Did they really not see a strong Burnham win coming? Or did they push the version of events they themselves favoured? They’re not impartial. They decide who to promote, who to shun, who to scrutinise and who to wave through. They influence rather than report.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

At the same time the Side Gallery in Newcastle, home of the North's iconic world-class photograph collection has had to close. And yet another Thames crossing in the offing. Could Andy Burnham really turn this Londoncentric economy around?

In 1930, Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin said this about Lord Rothermere: "the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own ... goes to your head like wine ... [such people seek] to dictate, to dominate, to blackmail." Let's hear our pols say it of Musk.