These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hawthorn butterfly. A butterfly of the white family.

Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

VAR as sponsored by Coventry City #PUSB

There was just a beautiful moment in the England v Costa Rica where the commentary dream team of Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon just ran out of things to say, and so they just shut up. Can we have more of that, please?

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

As ever, Coventry flags well represented at the England game. #PUsB

How Europe revived a city Britain had written off EU investment helped turn a Merseyside in decline into a growing regional economy. This is one insider's account westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/europe/...

Celebrating British and Irish Entertainment 😆

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

Just spotted that Tottenham are bottom of next season’s Prem and Nottingham Forest are in the relegation zone. Has a league ever been so heavily dominated by the first half of the alphabet? #pusb

I seem to have scored the winner for Northern Ireland while out for a walk.... which was nice #NIRGUI

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

This is an important chart from @brankomilan.bsky.social below. But the UK story is *very* different, as this chart shows.

Good to see Kai Andrews get a good run out in the Wales Ghana fame. With DaSilva and BTA, we seem to have had a decent set of performance, especially given it is the close season #PUSB

Mt Fuji, Shizuoka , Japan

"What would an economy built around the common good actually look like?" We're well into the C21st and we still don't know? Economist @mazzucatom.bsky.social has been talking and writing on this subject for decades. Might Labour finally pay attention? John McDonnell did. youtu.be/n-QIUbSOlFc?...

Wonderfully meta. Anti-immigration economist and ideologue George Borjas wrote a paper claiming immigration policy researchers (vast majority of whom, unlike him, are broadly positive about immigration) allowed their results to be driven by "ideology". Turns out it was a coding "error"...

The facts on Bradford clean Air Zone share.google/AgWug5tmXIVM...

Guess which former Coventry player is sliding into the World Cup #PUSB

I am hoping Frank Lampard is warned of the Peter Reid clamity in a world cup / Euros year. A former big name player, enticed onto TV duties, then gets back late in the summer to find most of the transfer business has been done whilst he was paid to top up his tan and watch soccerball. #PUSB

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

'Leftwing' does not have to mean fiscally loose. "More open policies on migration and Europe and a fairer tax system would be economically “left” of the present government. But they would improve the public finances and reduce the deficit." Me in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7235...

Anyone with a County Court Judgment cannot get a job in a bank, never mind run the country. Yet this is the man some people genuinely believe should be prime minister. A man who apparently: · was unaware of a £9,400 debt · was unaware of ..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate

Imagine if any other party leader told such a ridiculous lie, especially one leading the polls - Nigel Farage’s Russian hack claim ‘without any merit’, former NCSC chief says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

two different interpretations

What an absolutely brilliant bit of content. Fantastic by both of them and the club! Frank isn't going anywhere, is he? Although I liked Doug's power play of making Frank face into the sun and squint! 🤣🤣 #PUSB youtu.be/MjZHyWovk0U?...

I am so furious about the toilet BS, which creates a totally bizarre environment in which nosey people can stop anyone from having a wee. What sort of govt feels good about creating the means to stop people having a wee? We need more free public toilets, not ways to make it harder to go to the loo

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

With kids around this age, I feel this report completely misses the point and does nothing to fix the issues. Despite calling for not stigmatising kids and genralising, it has the opposite effect and sounds like another Tory-esque policy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Hadn't put two.and two together that today's Championship drama is all down to Frank Lampard. He was one of thise that blew the whistle on dirty Leeds when they did this to Derby. And the subsequent law changes #PUSB

archaeologists have unearthed what many are calling "the most metal shit anyone's ever seen"

And requiring 5 times the power and water supplied to surrounding counties.

"There is a squirrel picking on the little birds!!"

Yass

Watching the 'highlights' of the incident again, Eckert really kicks off.... and you know who was itching for a scrap... yupp... Adi Vivash was held back ...

The Championship playoffs this year have really put the league in a bad light. It makes you gald we're not in it. Fan trouble at both first legs, some unpleasant moments in the Millwall game, spying on your opposition (then the stalling of a reply) ... now allegations of stuttering and homophobia.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. ~ Francis de Sales Je Shen (China b. 1973)

Never forget:

Although I've tried to switch off from football, I have just seen the Championship game by game track. It is truely impressive that Coventry have always been in the top 5, top four since October and top 2 since December. Everyone else has been low down in the league at some point. #PUSB

FIFA doesn't speak for football or the fans. It is dead inside.

Ah Scotland

Confirm very much today witg her personal message to Jay.

It feels like Christmas morning #pusb

#PUSB youtu.be/6FGDMYwLH5w?...

youtube.com/shorts/U8bki... WHAT a way to end the season. #PUSB #Coventry

EFL goal of the season announcement for Josh Tymon. *Simms and Torp* .... "Hold my beer" #pusb

1431st.... is that good? #pusb