Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

German journalists always seem to show them themselves up when they write about foreign countries. The plonker responsible for this article (and presumably their editors) thinks that Cornell University is in New York. It’s fine not to already know that obviously, but maybe do your research next time

I would take Ronay seriously on this if he hadn’t, repeatedly, (articles on Lineker and Maccabi 2x) refused to actually speak about specifics when it comes to Israel. Here it’s - accurately - massacres, starvation, slaughter etc, but in the other case it’s his usual vague sophistry & wordplay.

It isn't a problem you can triangulate round. if a not-anywhere-near-radical enough climate plan is too out there to win power in your political system, then your options are kill the planet or kill the political system. There's nothing else

Ronay effectively doubling down on his original comment piece on this match, pretending the leaked police intelligence report never happened.

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The Taz alleges that during sweeping budget cuts, Berlin's CDU directed taxpayer money for "fighting antisemitism" to a real estate company led by the German equivalent of "John Doe" registered as business number 12345 with a tax number of 123456789.

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff. I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Der @spiegel.de redet Mamdanis Ergebnis schlecht mit Verweis darauf, er habe nur 50% der Stimmen geholt. Dabei wird komplett ignoriert, dass Mamdani als erster Kandidat seit 1969 mehr als eine Millionen Stimmen holt und anders als die Demokraten bei den letzten Wahlen zwei Gegenkandidaten hatte.

In what a former finance senator called “a party-political misuse of taxpayer money,” the Berlin CDU allegedly forced its former and current culture senators to distribute funds according to its own agenda “against repeated documented objections” of administrative employees. archive.ph/Ppcmo

he is so, SO good. (in this instance I don't mean his politics, though that too in general)

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

1x Fahren ohne Fahrschein = 60€ 2x = 60€ und interne Meldung 3x = Anzeige 4x = Geldstrafe 5x = Bewährungsstrafe 6x = Gefängnis 1x Parken ohne Parkschein = 20€ 2x = 20€ 3x = 20€ 4x = 20€ 5x = 20€ 6x = 20€ 7x = 20€ 8x = 20€ 9x = 20€ 10x = 20€

Extract from more recent Goodwin post. He really should never be allowed on the BBC - or any other reputable broadcaster - again.

Das permanente Gerede über so genannte „Tabus“, die jetzt endlich gebrochen werden, geht an der Realität komplett vorbei. Als würde nicht permanent über angebliche Gefahren der Migration debattiert werden. Als wäre Rassismus nicht längst hoffähig geworden in diesem Land.

Zohran is cooked! he has no chance against the ELECTRIC CHARISMA and good with talking words ability of Hakeem Jeffries

Featured story: His wife visited him in ICE detention on his 50th birthday. She couldn’t even bring him the card she’d made. They could only speak through a phone, divided by a thick pane of glass. It was one of few times she’d ever seen him cry.

One thing AI is genuinely good at reproducing accidentally is the very strange feeling in dreams where the normal logic is off by varying degrees at a time

According to German politicians and journalists both German and British national media are secretly run by Hamas

Omar El Akkad never heard of Die Zeit

Deutschland hat ein schlechtes Stadtbild, weil jahrzehntelange systematische Unterinvestitionen das Land langsam von innen heraus zerfressen haben. Alle Probleme Deutschlands sind auf Sparmaßnahmen und Rassismus zurückzuführen.

It’s striking that when students chant “From the river to the sea” professor of semiotics Jon Lovett says it’s definitively an antisemitic call to kill and/or expel Jewish Israelis, but when a bloke has a Totenkopf tattoo its 🤷🏼‍♂️

Which makes 2 insitutions - AVFC and West Mids Police - saying "look, maybe we shouldn't facilitate people coming here and attacking our people", versus the entire political class deciding "no, actually, it's very important that British Asians who work at Villa Park be racially abused"

Article refusing to be explicit here, but presumably Villa's assessment here was that it was likely their stewards would be racially abused or worse by the visitors

It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.

completely unsurprising. UK police forces have cooperated closely with European counterparts over football policing for decades. If (say) MUFC are away at Feyenoord, GMP’s football unit may send officers to work directly with Dutch police on match day. they police routinely share intelligence.

As usual Liew puts Ronay - the idiot’s thinking man football journalist - to shame

Played probably the most unpleasant match I’ve experienced today. The oppo (whose captain is a white man with dreads, lol) were dirtiest team I think I ever played. One prick got sent off, 2nd yellow (like his 8th yellow card offence), and also racially & homophobically abused several of our players

Will Stancil not understanding that the Civil Rights Movement wasn't just the one march he saw on a film strip seems to be about right.

The fact you think “encourage a person via a socia media post to attend one demonstration“ is synonymous with “organise a person [in the context of a political movement” is precisely why your claim, while it may be narrowly true on numbers, is utterly facile

I’m going to be writing about police violence against #Palestine demos in #Berlin for the LRB. I’m keen to speak to anyone who has been effected, or who has other insight or expertise they wish to share (lawyers, court observers, etc)

Liberal pro-Israel politics in the United States and the Anglosphere writ large relies upon an idealized version of a state which does not exist, a political elite which does not act the way the West pretends it does, and a civil society which is far more conservative than the West likes to imagine.

Another international human rights organisation (this time UNOHCHR) criticises Germany for the criminalisation and police violence to which Palestine activists are subjected

Proud to have Kerstin Casparij at our club www.theguardian.com/football/202...

starting an occasional thread of comments from underneath songs on YouTube "My dad used to open the sun roof in the Honda and blare this song. I was so embarrassed but he was so happy and now it’s one of my best memories. I love you dad!"

Der Regierungssprecher stellt klar: Merz hat nur als CDU-Chef ein Problem mit nicht-weißen Menschen im Stadtbild – als Kanzler natürlich nicht.

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ernsthafte Bitte um Empfehlungen für guten deutschen Rap.

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.

The half-arsed nature of the Germany section of this article very much reinforces my low opinion of their Berlin correspondent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

that somebody, even someone who committed the most depraved, unspeakable crimes, can be murdered in prison, is a problem. The last inspection of HMP Wakefield found that violent incidents had increased, and that 3 quarters of prisoners reported feeling unsafe at some point of their time there

An diesem intellektuell unredlichen Artikel stimmt nur eins: Wer heute von „Antideutschen“ spricht, verkennt die Historie… „Ultradeutsche“ wäre viel passender. Trauriger Tiefpunkt: die Diffamierung der „All Eyes on Gaza“-Demo, inkl. Falschinformation taz.de/Debatte-um-A... 1/

The death rattle of an intellectually impoverished faction of self-important hatemongering ghouls, raging against their increasing irrelevance since the German right wing has taken up their pet cause with gusto, putting behind it all the force of the rabid nationalism they always claimed to despise.

Their example of @eliferalp.bsky.social being "polarizing" is a quote with which we already know a supermajority of Berliners agree. So.

to be fair this doesn’t sound very different from any other big US tv channel

Reminds me of a volunteer fire fighter in East Germany who set fire to a refugee home, then reported for duty to put the fire out.