We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

No idea why Tuchel is getting all the hate over his squad selection. Toney's experience playing in half-empty stadiums under an authoritarian regime could prove invaluable.

Why Rejoin cannot be Labour's answer Labour keeps learning the wrong lessons from Brexit. Burnham has something which Labour has lacked- a theory of power. Something Rejoin would fatally undermine. Latest piece from me. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-rejoin...

1/ A Russian State Duma deputy just admitted something the Kremlin has tried to hide for years: Russia cannot sustain a long war 40% of the federal budget now goes to war and security. Not growth Not healthcare. Not infrastructure War is eating the state alive "https://t.me/agentstvonews/15419"

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Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles that struck Kyiv contained more than 100 Western-made components, FT reported. Ukrainian experts found the assessed missiles were built in Q2 2026 and carried chips from Texas Instruments, AMD, Kyocera AVX, Harting and Nexperia. #Ukraine

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser

Burnham for PM. Gary Neville put up for Manchester mayor? The City fans'll love it.

⚡️ General Staff: Russia has lost 1,343,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,020 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Four years ago, President Vladimir Putin offered Moscow and its business elite a de facto deal: 'support my war in Ukraine, and in exchange you won’t have to think about it.' In the past week, that deal was broken. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As ever, refereeing (& assistants) is atrocious in women's football.

Coming back home, pondering how they'll fill their evenings now they've lost their seat.

Carl warned us

Radu Hossu: The dynamics of the war are shifting in Ukraine’s favor for the first time since 2023. And I can back up what I’m saying with several arguments: 🧵🧵

I'm all ready for Matthew Syed's column tomorrow: "ChelseaFC deserve all they get after the disgraceful background of Roman Abramovich, episode 924".

'A government spokesman said "we are commited to proposing important legislation to benefit the common people but then postponing it as often as possible in favour of less important issues"'.

'Acting...hardest game in the world, innit...?'

Not that Trump calls people 'horrible names' of course....

💥Orbán heads to the US in June, where family members already live, while loyalists seek MAGA think-tank jobs and visas after the election defeat. Meanwhile, oligarchs & cronies are shifting wealth abroad, largely to the Middle East. @floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social's story quoting @vsquare.bsky.social

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Absolutely shocking story with the twist that she deeply admired Trump and his hard core anti immigration policies until she herself was detained.

Uh oh: Somebody saw his horrible 33pct approval/67 pct disapproval numbers and is lashing out online all hours of the night. Shows just how laser-focused he is on the lives and economic hardships of regular Americans.

NEW: The Green Party is STILL bad at being green (FREE TO READ) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-green-...

Questions for ChelseaFC owners: Why couldn't you get sponsors after winning Club World Cup? Who's to blame for buying dodgy wingers (& selling a decent one) when team needs strengthening elsewhere - managers or scouts? How difficult is it to alienate fans of two clubs at once (CFC. Strasbourg)?

ChelseaFC top brass doing what is now termed 'doing a Keir Starmer' by sacking Rosenior for carrying out their plans, instead of sacking their themselves.

Told you so. It takes time...

This seems the right interpretation of this fiasco.

Russia screams “disinformation” at the UN while burying its own dead. Amb. Melnyk: - 30–35K Russian troops lost every month. Recruitment failing. Cash incentives no longer enough. This is not strength. It’s attrition masked as propaganda. www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics...

"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden." "People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that. Did that sound different in your head?

Why is it a 'complex decision' to share 'sensitive information' about key appointments with the Prime Minister? This is pure Yes Minister!

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games. The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. 📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social 🔗 nyti.ms/3QaZJwX

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands.

This headline is not true (even though the IMF itself seems to believe it) The UK's annual average growth forecast downgrade for 2026 is larger than others. But this is due to what happened in 2025, not what might happen in 2026 due to Iran war...

Q4 2026 over Q4 2025 UK growth forecast downgrade is smaller than Japan and Italy's - and the Eurozone for that matter IMF largely to blame for not highlighting economic activity that is forecast to take place in 2006 rather than that which has already happened

I'll look out for her on the bus.

"He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send him Matthew 5:9. That's the Chicago Pope way."

It's important, when King Charles visits the orange narcissist, that Charles praises Trump's efforts to cut off the world supply of oil so that the world switches to renewable power sources such as windmills at an even quicker rate.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Warner: "How blockading the strait gets it open suddenly -- I don't get that logic"

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

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Up to a point....

The Iran war is costing the US more than half a billion dollars a day, according to estimates, about a tenth of which is the price of destroyed equipment. As the Pentagon seeks an extra $200bn from Congress, critics are warning of American overstretch. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/6bkJHbQ

These 'political realists' in US academia have caused nothing but trouble since their adulation of the theories of war criminal Kissinger. Smaller states the victims of the 'great power' delusion when reality is Russia is broke and US heading for fascism.

Least surprising news shock.

Badenoch: 'It was completely wrong to start this war but the UK should have supported it, no, hang on...'