One from the archives: "What about university tuition fees then, will you remain committed to scrapping them?" "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes." "So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?" "Yes. Thats why its a pledge"

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

It's Brazil's legions of foreign fans I feel sorry for.

Statement from Belgian FA.

Oh. With thanks to @migueldelaney.bsky.social for the heads-up.

🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Stiff Records’ first ever release, I will be talking about the label and its incredible roster of artists at Cromer Community Centre on Friday 14 August. Book your tickets here wegottickets.com/f/17178 #stiffeecords #norfolk

Left: Keir Starmer celebrating ending the two child benefit cap as part of his legacy Right: Keir Starmer suspending 7 Labour MPs for wanting to end the two child benefit cap

Swifts fly 14,000 miles to breed in Britain. Now they're running out of places to nest. Kate Moore tells why one Norfolk birdwatcher has been counting their homes.

Don’t you just love Daily Mail polls? 😊🇪🇺

They were obsessed with crushing the left and that meant they didn’t actually spend much time thinking about what they were actually going to do. This is post hoc rationalising of their fuckery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

BBC confusion as it publishes Telegraph style story abt middle class British life. The Telegraph has two middle class stories: a) middle class escape from the tyranny of socialist Britain; b) middle class folk downtrodden by the jackboot of socialist Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

62 years ago today, a nine-year-old boy saw little men wearing white hats “throwing stones and mud at each other”, and the next day, thousands of people crowded into a park in search of the Liverpool Leprechaun of 1964 and had to be dispersed by police 🧵

Ipswich spent £113m on player purchases after promotion, which was around twice as much as the previous 15 years combined. It was also tenth highest in the Premier League, as they tried to catch up with more established rivals #ITFC

The "around 130 people" watching Nigel Farage speaking in a Holiday Inn on the outskirts of Norwich this evening. Hardly anyone under 60, possibly 70!

A curious definition of what the Gestapo did from Kemi Badenoch, this.

It's a long time since the Telegraph has been a serious newspaper, but in what universe is this an accurate summary of what Burnham said? The collapse of any distinction between "News" and "Comment", particularly in the right-wing press, is not just a problem of social media.

It just keeps getting better and better

Try building 150ft-high, toxic bonfires like these, in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow, or Inverleith Park in Edinburgh, expect to be Arrested and Jailed. In Belfast and Larne, it's encouraged. The Council pays for the cleanup! It's 2026. Why on EARTH is this allowed in parts of 'The United Kindom'?

Did not know that... 'Even though much of Spain is to the west of London, its clocks are an hour ahead, fixed to the same time as Germany. Franco aligned Spanish time with Nazi time as a symbol of unity with Hitler’s Germany—and the country has never changed back.' open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

@benseager.co.uk One for you? From easily the best account on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdvX...

1976 and all that... Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have caused global temperatures to rise 1°C since 1976, but comparable UK heatwaves are now 3°C hotter, and would peak at 38-39°C. (Oh look, same as this week's temperatures...) theconversation.com/we-recreated...

Attention All Shipping autumn tour dates just announced, dandies. Tickets via www.shippingshow.co.uk/tour. See you out there!

This is absolute dereliction Exeter university is home to world leading experts in corruption and kleptocracy (among other things) Now it’s facing being cut to ribbons www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Of course he has...

Go on - guess. You will be AMAZED* to find out which non-BBC free-to-air channel it will be on. *not amazed in the slightest

I see it's not just Norfolk where the local Newsquest title is aiding and abetting the far right! (From @privateeyenews.bsky.social )

64% woke, 69% neo-Luddite - my closest match is Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Every left-leaning politician is castigated as “anti-business” for wanting multinational corporations to pay tax. Can we start labelling businesses as “anti-humanity”? There’s far more evidence for it.

If you voted for Brexit, voted to turn your back on Europe, because of a promise from Michael Gove, then I have no sympathy. Really, the arrogance of looking for special treatment now after turning your back on us. Fuck off. 3

Finally covered by the EDP, just the two days on from the Daily Mirror. Pathetic.

It’s all a bit Midsomer Murders…

If 91-year-old Archie Macpherson is going to start criticising the very least he can do is spell the manager's surname correctly. And Dalglish, Jordan and Gemmill all played against Iran in 1978.

'Do we have to invite your weird improv mates to the wedding?' 'Yeah, what's the worst that can happen?'

I think we might have a winner... #1976wasWAYworse #NoItWasNot (From today's letters page in Daily Telegraph)

There is no such rule, unwritten or otherwise. This is constitutionally and historically illiterate.

But 1976!

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

If you see this post an Archer. (Co-wrote Dexys Midnight Runners' Geno.)

If 91-year-old Archie Macpherson is going to start criticising the very least he can do is spell the manager's surname correctly. And Dalglish, Jordan and Gemmill all played against Iran in 1978.

Excellent timing, if they're trying to make themselves look like total maniacs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

64% woke, 69% neo-Luddite - my closest match is Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

🚨 BREAKING: King Charles says he paid £12.9m in tax last year, putting him in the top 100 of UK taxpayers

A Norfolk story completely ignored by the Reform-friendly Newsquest group - funny, that! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

"We now find ourselves watching each pub close its doors, the fun and laughter disappearing as this woke world we live in closes us down, the thought of a wet dog, oh no, end of the world." 🤔 Pubs are closing because of "woke" - not changing habits... www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2622713...

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

In what I think might be peak South London, a pop-up Kneecap merch store has opened next to Chatsworth Bakehouse.