And here's the piece I wrote about Kevin Keegan along with my favourite goal of his. open.substack.com/pub/karlcopp...

This is actually worse.

Man, what a chapter. I need to catch my breath. What a journey!! Jane motherfuckin Austen is the best to ever do it.

25% off preorders from Waterstones this week! go go go!

FUCK ‘EM UP, ELIZABETH BENNET!!! bsky.app/profile/trun...

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

Last of the summer live Breakfast Wraps from @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social with @knoxharrington.bsky.social @craighannan.bsky.social @johngibbons.bsky.social (eventually) on World Cup final, tribute to Keegan, US tour and more www.youtube.com/live/eNCuqNU...

"Why can't I get dates?"

Me on buying 2 defenders and 2 forwards to get to a position of equilibrium, a position of relative strength. (PS - This isn't saying not to buy a midfielder, just being one in/one out in that area). mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

lmao if your reaction to the prime minister committing to abolishing rough sleeping is "this won't play with the median voter" then you really have drowned in the cult of savviness

/r/LabourMPs My Labour MP keeps responding to valid criticisms with non-sequiturs and excessively saying ‘mate’. Anyone else having this problem?

Andy Burnham promised to "rewire Britain" in order to "end 40 years of neoliberalism". All of the evidence from his Cabinet appointments suggests that what we're really going to get is Starmerism without Starmer bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/a...

Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES

This is what Burnham does though. He keeps others in positions that he knows are bad/questionable to then abscond himself from responsibility. Over a decade he has just ignored anything to do with the police in Manchester, leaving us under special measures for 2 years. No intervention when needed

Nothing more broke lib brained than "social progress is when you also let the gays run the killing industrial complex"

This was honestly insane. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

Worrth remembering that Andy Burnham has a long record of being anti-immigration. He's kept Shabana Mahmood in place because he agrees with her

That's what our rights are to these people, 'tokens' to particpate in society that they dish out and take away.

A bit about Kevin Keegan, who died today. I was there at his Anfield debut and remember it clearly. A personal piece that asks why he isn’t thought about more highly by Liverpool fans tonyevans92a.substack.com/p/keegan-nev...

Burnham keeping Mahmoud as Home Secretary shows he’s fine with the way Palestine Action are proscribed, so that’s a good indication foreign policy is gonna stay the same. nothing to really disprove the idea that he’s Continuity Keir.

Kev thoughts www.theanfieldwrap.com/2026/07/kevi...

Ending neoliberalism with... John Healey?!?! Be serious now

Some words on Kevin Keegan www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/news-op...

'Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia?' Nesrine Malik The Spectator's descent into GB News-esque squalor. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I really like Nico Williams you know.

Relieved for the cookie monster more than anything

Just seen The Jockey biting his hand there. An absolute whopper.

Strong "we've all seen football" evening by your accounts. Switch on after 90 seconds. You don't have to watch it. We've all seen football.

A few events for The Umbrella Man and Other Stories have recently been added to my Linktree. London, Manchester, Grantham, and Dallas Ticket links here - linktr.ee/4hundredblows

This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.

Just learned that our local cheese shop - a small, single-venue store in South Norwood - will be paying more corporation tax this year than the whole of Starbucks UK. Maybe Andy Burnham's Labour Party should take a look at that.

"The Thatcherite presumption was that the private sector would step in and provide better for people than local councils." Time build more council houses again says @danielhewittitv.bsky.social on the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social podcast @goldbergradio.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-times...

You’ve got to ask yourself why the most thorough, astute, hard working and revelatory journalist over Brexit, Trump and Russia was the most attacked and mocked by the British media establishment, and hauled through the courts? The answer to that is very damning @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Doing this while disbanding DSIT would be a very silly move. (Also, this 2-line job description does not fill my heart with joy. AI is mostly peripheral for public service delivery, which is still mostly "fixing the basics". V diff policy agenda to biz.)

we see a lot of loser behavior these days so I'm pretty inured to it, but this still took my breath away

It's absolutely due to the PM, who chose neither to use his government's powers as a regulator or legislator, or to exercise moral leadership to fight the forces in politics driving this stuff.

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

I am very "pro-business." Also, my position on Brexit is that we cannot reverse it & that immigration must decrease further

That sense of the country feeling stuck is the whole reason the UK has gone through a succession of PMs but each time the focus is still on pandering to xenophobes

There are just a handful of tickets left for my Edinburgh preview show in London next Sunday. Tickets are just £5 and you can get them here - fixr.co/event/the-um...

This is exactly what I mean when I say, they could’ve done this any time they wanted, for any excuse they wanted to use. It’s never hard to tell, when the British press decide that a politician is an impediment to whatever fucknut programme they’re pursuing this week, one that must be removed.

I've been pretty scathing about Andy Burnham, the differences between him and Keir Starmer being almost all vibes and no substance, and the likelihood that the people who were disappointed by Starmer's policy agenda will be just as disappointed by Burnham's. Nothing thus far is changing my mind.

If true, this *is* genuinely something the gilts markets should panic about!

If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.

That the same David Blunkett who colluded with the Sun to demonise refugees and famously shrieked "machine gun the lot of them" on the phone about a prison riot? Said towns were being swamped with migrants? Said Roma had to change their behaviour? Has Burnham just declared himself a racist prick?

Me on Liverpool's squad issues and opportunities: mailchi.mp/theanfieldwr...

If you know something relevant and helpful, could you maybe do better than the cry/laugh emoji? Given that all the lads doing the three wise monkeys routine is precisely how we wound up with this shitshow to begin with.

I suspect the major difference with this form of American interference in British democracy, and whatever they’ve been up to since World War II, is that this time the public have been told about it.

But this is impossible, given the bullies, ideologues and self-indulgent factionalists were all ruthlessly hounded out years ago by Sir Keir Starmer, using his mystical lawyer-beams. If what Neil is suggesting is true, then that would suggest the public were subjected to years of idiotic Bull Shit.