So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment

Then we should make it impossible for you to drive

Amazingly, Reform are still trying this line

Morgan come pick up your boys, they made it to America

It's not improbable that Reform fall below 20% in VI by the end of the year. It's reasonably likely that some Lab to LD/Grn voters will give Burnham the benefit of the doubt. What's definite is that both happening will lead to a flurry of terrible "whisper it, the two-party system's back" articles.

Much respect to Messi the middle aged king for knowing you only need to pay attention for the final 10 minutes of the meeting

Farage will never lose in Clacton. Like Great Yarmouth it is a deeply reactionary seaside town (we do it differently on the Jurassic coast!). But the more focus on his dodgy mates and total grift, the less control of the narrative he has and the worse it is for Reform nationally. That does matter.

I like how the European teams in the world cup draw have split into an EU half (France, Spain, Belgium) and a non-EU half (England, Norway, Switzerland).

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Great article about how much e-bikes, etc., cut oil consumption: arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11... I was thinking of getting an EV last year but got an ebike instead. I love it!

So after spending years posing as a political martyr for being "debanked", we now find out Nigel Farage was also reported by bankers to the National Crime Agency over money laundering concerns, after secretly taking millions of pounds from a crypto billionaire

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Based on the quality of Argentina in this game England are never going to have a better chance to get to a world cup final (and lose to France).

"Emergency podcasts, sir. Thousands of 'em"

The security stuff is legitimately awful... but it's also something faced by all MPs, especially female and ethnic minority MPs who I would wager more than match Farage in terms of the threats they receive, aimed at them and their families. They don't accept £5m crytpo donations

Good to see both of the cheaters out of the World Cup Walking ego Ronaldo who started this “suspended” red card bollocks by cosying up to Dump And Team USA (fuck, yeah) who used the same tactic - or at least Dump did and Poch didn’t have the balls to stand up to him Off you pop

A rather astonishing article for the editior of ConservativeHome to write. Remember when they were the party of law and order? And that was their strongest suit?

Well there goes NATO, totally worth it 🥰

oh my god oh my *god* no offence but if I were the keeper you'd never see me again, I'd change my name, I'd move deep into the Andes, that'd be it for me

Belgium head coach, Rudi Garcia, on his conversation with Folarin Balogun after the match: "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

The Tony Blair Institute partner with Oracle, who argue they need large data centres that would stretch current UK grid capacity and therefore need additional fossil fuel energy. TBI are entitled to make the case and the public are entitled to see their corporate sponsorship on all announcements

Bruno Fernandes and Bernardo Silva are both 31 and have sacrificed their prime years at international level for Ronaldo

London’s newest cycle lane: Shaftesbury Avenue. We’re busy expanding our network of Cycleways across the capital to make it safer for people to travel by bike. And cycling has soared, now there are an average 1.5m bike journeys every day. 🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈

What a hero. Saved us from extra-time and sent Ronaldo out. I love Premier League winner Mikel Merino

Goodbye Ronaldo. 😉

If you can reverse a red card, you most certainly can reverse on street parking into a bike lane.

Loved Haaland as Hans Gruber’s right hand man in Die Hard

The positive of Balogun is it's the first time a Republican has intervened to reduce a black man's sentence.

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

What should have happened 30 June 1998 “Hi yeah FIFA, yup Tony here. Look about that Red Card… you see you have the David Beckham way, you have the Diego Simeone way, but have you thought there could be a Third Way ?”

"I know it's not the sort of thing you usually do Mr Havelange but speaking as a nuclear power we'd appreciate Gascoigne's yellow being overturned and the match result annulled"

World Cup Coverage:

I do think UK politics would improve dramatically if we could get politicians to accept that the apprenticeship structure isn't suitably for large chunks of the labour market.

Vozinha, Cape Verde’s 40-year-old goalkeeping hero, now has more Instagram followers than all active NFL, MLB and NHL athletes, and all but three NBA players 🤯 The power of the World Cup is unmatched 🇨🇻

So close! This is actually the opposite of the lesson of HS2.

Australia-Egypt is a great matchup bc a lot of the ancient Egyptian gods made out of 3 animals grafted together are actually naturally occurring animals in Australia

Have we thought about the concept of morally onside ….

The UK public's concern about climate change and support for renewable energy remain high, a long-running attitude tracker finds. Latest polling undertaken in March and April. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Scenes we love to see Ronaldo with his hands on his hips looking grumpy

Luka Modrić and Cristiano Ronaldo…

something very funny about seeing the offside cgi thing recreate cucurella's hair

Modern Family started airing in September 2009, when gay marriage was legal in only 5 states. I would argue that it very much did have a profound cultural impact: normalizing American mainstream audiences to the idea of gay couples as cringe suburbanite parents.

Spain and Brazil’s habit of having their former World Cup winners all wearing suits, sitting in row and glowering down on the game, makes them look less like supporters and more like mid-level management conducting an uncomfortable performance review.

New bike lanes. New bike parking. New crossings. New e-bike parking. New sustainable drainage. New trees & planting to come 💚 #London this morning.

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

I'm trying to think of any other issue where the EHRC would look at a 2-4% failure rate which leads to services being withdrawn as acceptable. There isn't one.