Britain can choose to be a partner in [Europe] or accept a role as adjunct. Or it can be circumscribed by the Brexit cult of sovereignty that sees regulatory harmonisation with Europe as colonisation but welcomes subordination to US tech giants and industrial lobbies, which it calls free trade.

Lovely bit of #ipswich nostalgia, set to a piece of music produced by AI youtube.com/watch?v=fk0d...

The state of things. A thread 🧵

Great discussion between two of my favourite commentators and columnists @nickcohen.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

It's a beautiful day 💙 #itfc

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

In Trump we've got the most transparent President in history in terms of saying what he's thinking and talking to journalists on the record. And it's entirely useless because what's happening in his brain is a monkey playing cymbols.

Excellent interview with Russell Osman - well worth a listen - especially for #itfc fans of my vintage!

Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty… Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made? Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in? I’M SO CROSS!

Mark Ashton, Your time at the club has to end now I'm afraid. As CEO & Chairman the buck stops with you and as fans we've been lied to and gaslit. This IS the end. Not the end of the beginning. Not the beginning of the end. The end. All the best, thanks for 99% of what you've done. #itfc 💙

This week's #itfc blog - on something unforgivable bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/p/speechless

Ipswich Town is a special football club. They’ve got so many things right over the past five years and beyond. But they got this badly wrong - and now they should apologise. My thoughts ⬇️ #itfc www.eadt.co.uk/sport/259698...

Politics and football don’t mix? Tell that to Ipswich’s players, who are not happy about Farage’s visit. What a mess, and many tough questions still to answer: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Today I did the same and wrote to #itfc

The political party in question has posted a video of the visit yesterday. There is footage showing a shirt being signed. If you screenshot and zoom in it looks to me like it says "To Mark" I wonder which Mark at #itfc had this shirt given to them? Enquiring minds etc

Not an email I expected to have to send to be honest #itfc

̶R̶u̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶T̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶A̶d̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶t̶y̶ Running away from Diversity Sandwiched in-between the clubs annual Foundation fixture and an #ITFC womens fixture, the club hosted Nigel Farage at Portman Road today. We don't know what the purpose of Farage's visit was. Maybe #itfc can clarify? Really disappointed

What is the point of the Constitution if this criminal is not impeached and removed? Seriously.

Francis Fukuyama on Trump: "The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ backyard and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it."

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman | The Guardian #auspol #quitgpt #ai https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Looks over shoulder and sees looking glass disappearing into the distance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who could possibly have seen THIS coming! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

Meanwhile, Britain finds itself lost between two worlds. We were told we didn’t need Europe, we could rely on the transatlantic relationship. They couldn’t have been more wrong.

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

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This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

❓"Do you think that Brexit has actually delivered what people were promised?" ⬇️ "An economy that look's like it's 8% smaller. Trade down 18% on 5 years ago. Food and drink down 24%." ❌ "16,500 firms have stopped trading with Europe." 📝 "Paperwork costs appear to be about £8.5 billion/year."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

This article highlights the problem: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

£100 billion of trade a year and over a million jobs since Brexit have been lost. We agree with Sir John Major, Brexit is a flop, but now, we must fix it.

Authoritarian echoes: how America is mirroring Egypt and Russia open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Can the public really tell this? Or are they simply force-fed it 24 hours a day?

Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...