Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

A wildly racist and utterly dishonest choice of picture

If only we had a Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. It would be really nice if that position existed and its occupant could use their position to hold the BBC accountable for serious racism-minimising nonsense like this!

The BBC spinning for Farage. Laundering extreme policies. I’m done with making excuses for them.

Never in doubt lads

Europe toying with Trump’s blood pressure by retaining purely because of the Hovland half point, admirable

Lowry you beauty

Surely one of these European lads have got a bit of something about them

DELETE DELETE

This is very exciting and utterly unenjoyable sport

Fitzpatrick rolling that in after DeChambeau’s theatrics is glorious

Techbros are really a danger to us all.

United women doing their best to salvage a weekend again. Very comfortable win over Liverpool. Big test next week against Chelsea

There are bigger longstanding issues as to why United can’t beat Brentford away and they shouldn’t be relying on refereeing calls, but it doesn’t change the fact this should’ve been a red card and would’ve changed the outcome of the game had it been given. Appalling.

Manchester United after they beat Chelsea

I'd like to say it's a real shame this Ryder Cup isn't more evenly poised going into Sunday

There we go - so presumably now everyone has free rein to scythe anyone down running onto a ball in behind as long as they do it before they get to the ball

What the actual fuck is this? So if a player is clean through running on to a through ball and gets hauled down, it’s not a red because he’s not controlling the ball?! FUCK OFF

Honestly feel like that performance looked a lot like the sort of turgid display you’d sometimes get in a Saturday 12.30 KO after a really draining midweek European away. Only we were far too terrible to even qualify for the Conference League and had a full week to prepare.

You sack him now and take your licks for the decisions around appointing him in the first place or you sacrifice another season, with all the financial and reputational damage that entails. Your move INEOS

Going early in the hope of at least jinxing an equaliser (which wouldn’t change my view) - should be the same outcome for the manager as well. Winning two games in a row being still beyond us isn’t good enough

This is reminding me of Ten Hag’s last game at West Ham. Every reason to be thoroughly pissed off with the officiating but it can’t mask what has been an inexcusably awful performance and that this just isn’t acceptable

yeah I think the explanation here is that both refs decided that the foul, while properly a pen, was soft enough that it shouldn't be doubly punished this is vibes reffing explicitly against the plain text of the rule but hey that's our game #epl-live bsky.app/profile/doug...

What an absolute joke.

Ref not giving that red himself is diabolical enough but it not even being a red after an interminable VAR wait is beyond a joke. And as a result Bruno has to wait an eternity to take while they make subs

At least we’ve got 2 keepers and three centre-backs on the bench to really change things up

Michael Crick: “today's Nathan Gill accepting Russian bribes conviction storh wasn't mentioned on either the BBC Ten O'Clock News or Newsnight. Gill, Farage and Reform must be delighted.” @cornwallchar.bsky.social @rosatkins.bsky.social

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Racism on the Elizabeth Line. Sophia Choudry says she can feel a regression in social norms this summer after the progress across generations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It would be nice if pro-Labour accounts who were like "yeehaw we're finally got Reform where we want them" after Farage's Tylenol gaffe would stop to note that not only did Starmer not hit him on this weak spot but he chose to instead echo Farage's message to a newspaper THAT NO LABOUR VOTER READS

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

Get McSweeney gone. Boot out Starmer. Find the closest thing to a proper leader available and give the country a go having the sort of Labour government they thought they were voting in.

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests

Dire framing. Strategically and morally bankrupt.

Wow study of a new surgical / gene therapy intervention shows 75% slowing in progression of Huntington's (which was previously more or less untreatable) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farage is so determined to suck up to the Trump administration that he's willing to put the nation's risk at health through dangerous insinuation. That's what is really going on here and its disgusting.

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whenever you legislate for more powers, you shouldn’t think about what your government would do with them, but what a future bad (evil or incompetent - or both!) government might do with them.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

I don't usually do politics, and don't really want to today, but I had to say something. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/single-par...

When your response to fascism is that 'the numbers don't add up' then you've lost all sense of what matters to humanity.

“This policy is a fucking disgrace and will do harm to the people it affects, our economy, our services, and it’s morally reprehensible” is the correct response not “haha your numbers are wrong and it may not even be legal”

this place has a lot of flaws but i have zero tolerance at this point from people that won’t leave X complaining about it

This should be an opportunity for the other parties - Reform's proposal is extreme, violates basic fairness norms, and would threaten millions of people who have made their lives here and played by the rules. This approach should be condemned as nasty, unworkable and contrary to British fair play.