Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

Trump promised to: 1. Immediately lower prices 2. Immediately end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza 3. Cut taxes Trump actually: 1. Increased prices 2. Failed to end the war in Ukraine of Gaza 3. Unilaterally implemented one of the largest tax increases in history

@mcyeeehaaa.bsky.social has just provided an update on Broadway Boy & Celebre d'Allen... Fingers crossed for good recovery. ##GrandNational #HorseRacing

Dilemma for the jockeys here. Big question is whether card or coins will add less weight?

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Why is a British national living in Turkey an "Ex Pat", but a Turk living in England is an immigrant?

Your regular reminder about opinion polls... youtu.be/6GSKwf4AIlI?...

Please help save Reading Football Club from their awful ownership and sign this petition. ✍️ t.co/0U9qcChMqz #SellBeforeWeDai #ReadingFC #FansUnited

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Englefield CC in Berkshire #cricket #cricketgrounds #cricketground #villagecricket #clubcricket #beautifulcricketgrounds #cricketuk #cricketuk🇬🇧 🏏

This week in 1993: QPR and Man City gave us the most appalling 20 seconds of association football since records began. These men are heroes. We thank them for their service.

Keir Starmer: “If this trial had collapsed because I or anyone else had revealed crucial details while the police were investigating,... then the vile individual who committed these crimes would have walked away a free man. The prospect of justice, destroyed for the victims and their families.”

🚨 Tree Planting Crisis 🚨 Planting 11,500 trees next week and our usually reliable supplier cannot come through. We have no wooden stakes or guards. Does anyone have a few thousand spares knocking around? Can pay and pick up. Site is north Wales (Nannerch). @northwaleswt.bsky.social

Enjoyed this lighthearted update ahead of Wetherby on Saturday...

Happy New Year from the @thetdn.bsky.social cartoonist Remi Bellocq!

Happy New Year everyone! I'm aiming to make as many people smile this year as I can. So here's day 1 of 365 days of smiles. It's a panda playing with a snowman. #365DaysOfSmiles

Afternoon all, hopefully all of you good people are fully prept for crimbo and are not out last minute shopping. Today's xmas feast is made up of 2 closed 2 current of which 1 is Irish. The answers will be at the normal time of 6.30pm all your Likes Guesses and Reposts are very much appreciated Thks

The most overused combination of words in horse racing commentary, "already they".

As another #farmersprotest takes place today in London, I thought it would be useful to create a "damage to UK farming" timeline, from 2016 to 2024: 2016 Tories Boris Johnson & Michael Gove win the Brexit referendum, meaning UK will leave the Common Agricultural Policy. No farmer protests. 1/9

Do TV presenters who say "we'll see you again..." know something we don't?

Full time, and absolutely not one for the purists, but a 1-1 draw away at top of the table Wycombe and the points tick up. Thoughts using #EPR3

Can someone please tell Coral that a 'barraca' is a shed? Presumably they mean 'marraca' which is shaky thing...

For the majority of my life I don't remember it. Then commercial operations in the UK 'discovered' it and proceeded to ram it down the throats of the population.

Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.

Excellent performance by Brighterdaysahead to beat State Man at Punchestown, and if she learns to hudle a bit better she will advance even more.

I notice Berkshire is the latest county to acquire 'National status' with the running of the Berkshire NationalHandicap Chase at Ascot on Saturday. In my 40 years of living and/or working in the Royal County I don't remember it being a hotbed of local nationalism, but life often surprises!

Without doubt one of the best trainer blogs in racing. Always thoughtful and eloquent www.kinneston.com

First past the Bluesky Winning Post... where's everyone else? #HorseRacing #Ascot

In his splendid autobiography 'A Moment Towards the End of the Play', Tim West suggests the following for his tombstone, in memory of many terrible detective thrillers from his early days in Rep: "Is he...?" "I'm afraid so"

Snow Dragon clearly had the Wetherby juvenile hurdle chaos well planned! A big bag of carrots on the 11/1 winner?

For all of you……

Just a little perspective..

#UselessFactAlert Kinbara Firstdraft, hurdles winner at #AyrRacecourse today, is the only jumping runner to date for his sire Koropick(IRE) who ended up gelded and running in handicap sprints off official marks in the 40s.

Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year? A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.

Blow A Fortune caught my eye at Kelso first time out. Stayed on nicely here in the novice hurdle at #AyrRacecourse and will be interesting handicapped and up in trip.

Nice round of jumping by Immortal Fame in the #AyrRacecourse opener. Step Out jumped well enough but couldn't get to the winner. Kandor 'off the bridle early' and fell when the pace picked up.

R.I.P Timothy West 💗

Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state 🧪

Watering at #AyrRacecourse seems to have just eased the ground enough as it's now 'Good' all round. Low key stuff in the main but off there in the hope of spotting something for the future. Last race at 3.25 is handy as I'll get most of the way home in the light.

...and it's 'bollards' to Bluesky!

Congratulations Lucinda Russell on training your 1000th winner at Kelso. Happy to say Apple Away & Kingston James have been part of that total. Well done to Jockey Patrick Wadge too. Very good Jockey for tbe stable to call on. Here I am with Lucinda & Scu at Cheltenham in January.

While it wouldn't have been convenient for some, the early start at #KelsoRacecourse seemed to work today. Decent size crowd and most able to drive home in the light which is a pleasant change this time of year. Sun didn't shine but time would have mitigated against low sun problem if it had

To earn a year's training fees a horse at the bottom end of the class scale has to win a minimum of 5 races. Captain Teague has just earned his year's training fees for just running past the Exeter winning post. #BritishRacing has a problem.

This track came up on my music stream today. The world needs plenty of this at the moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGx...