As reported, Robert Baloucoune returns from injury to start the Challenge Cup final in Bilbao No place for a Werner Kok farewell game, while Rob Herring misses out

This looks as inept as the Conservative government that Starmer replaced

On the tube

"Tech workers [...] have been creating their own A.I. replacements." Meta, which just reported record revenues, announced it would train AI models on employees' work, then fired 1000s. No layoffs though for those building AI models on employee work. Peak predation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/t...

You read the latest news about NATO, Iran, and Ukraine, and then you look to London with the current inner-Labour hissy fit, combined with a peevish PM devoid of direction or strategic thinking, and it all just seems maddeningly inward-looking and, dare I say it, provincial.

HEAD OF TEETH

Continuity Burnham www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Immigration controls but make it Manchester

NONCE GOGGLES®

I bet she'd be willing to give it a go, though.

“The Post could not independently determine who is behind XFreeze.” Hmmm in three minutes I found a SoundCloud account with a different alias that uses the same email address as this guy, and in another five minutes I had a personal Facebook, phone number, and birthday.

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. #glasgow #ironwork #dragon #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

The original cars with their much larger restyling versions issued years later [📹 roma_urraco] Original post

Oooh. This could be a very good move from Ulster.

'I've really loved my time here and I’m in no rush to get out of Belfast' (✍️@rugby_ie) #Belfast #AngusBell #UlsterRugby

Montpellier vs Ulster. 3 meetings. Ulster: 3 wins. Montpellier: 0 wins. The last meeting? 40–17 to Ulster. Now they meet in a Cup Final. Can Montpellier rewrite history? 🏉 📅 Friday | San Mamés, Bilbao | 21h00 CAT #ChallengeCup #MontpellierRugby #UlsterRugby

English clubs are like a dog coming back to its own sick. apple.news/AxzzEiM_iQsW...

Try of the Season Nominee | Angus Bell 🥵 (📹@URCOfficial) #TryOfTheSeason #AngusBell #RugbyHighlights

"The problem is that ‘political activities’ in PPERA have been interpreted far too narrowly in recent years... [we] estimated this loophole was concealing about £5m of contributions at general elections. Given what we know now about Harborne’s gift, it could have been £10m or more in 2024."

NEWS! Jury reaches unanimous verdict that Elon Musk and Sam Altman are both massive c**ts newsthump.com/2026/05/19/j...

When you time it wrong and u are still in the queue when the e kicks in

56 clean breaks vs 55. Montpellier lead Ulster by one. But Ulster concede 14 fewer penalties and win every defensive stat. The data is split right down the middle. 🏉 📅 Friday | San Mamés, Bilbao | 21h00 CAT #ChallengeCup #CCFinal #UlsterRugby #MontpellierRugby #Rugby

(The U.K. government has been totally incompetent for years)

Pep Guardiola to leave Man City at the end of the season, which means someone else will have the incredibly tricky job of going out to spend half a billion pounds of blood soaked oil money on players every summer.

Nathan Doak an ever-growing influence for Ulster after impressing Andy Farrell on his Ireland debut. The 24-year-old scrum-half will be key in Bilbao on Friday night: the42.ie/7040486

“Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty. You’re listening to the boy from the Vatican City. Hell is damn hot…”

Great to see ABC news doing this - that's Rebel News panicking because if everyone does it they no longer have a business model @news.abc.net.au

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

Brexit increasingly resembles a form of necropolitics through which the will of the living is outweighed by the will of the dead

It’s been a truism for well over a decade among those of us who do focus groups on any sort of social research topic that potholes matter. Literally and conceptually. Do groups on, I dunno, dentistry and potholes will come up. I’m sure Westminster types don’t get it. But it really is A Thing

THIS IS CINEMA

Taco Monday

Fair to say the reaction to Andy Burnham’s speech in Leeds - to an investment summit, of investors - was mixed. The tone was more Makerfield stump speech/Labour Party conference

I assume I'm not the first to spot the parallels between Johnson undermining and then taking over from Theresa May in 2019, after the latter suffers terrible results two years into her premiership, rescuing the party, and what Burnham is doing with Starmer?

People who would not in a million years ever suggest someone speaking Arabic was grounds to attack them - who would rightly think anyone arguing that was horrifyingly racist - seem to have a blindspot when a Jewish man in a Jewish area is beaten up by a masked gang for speaking Hebrew

EXCLUSIVE: ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir "The [ICC prosecutor's] charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.”

Dress for the job you want

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is actually closer to Widnes. It should therefore be renamed Widnes Mel C Airport

You know that incredibly obscene joke that ends with the punchline “ladies and gentlemen…the aristocrats” “Ladies and gentlemen…FIFA!”

Adult life is just saying the sentence "Yeah but next week will be a bit easier" every single week until death.

American and British are roughly the same in the most expensive restaurants, and in mass-produced lower end restaurants, dominated by American brands. In the middle the main difference is that in Britain we don’t consider condensed soup an ingredient.

Took a piss next to Irving Walsh in a SoHo pub once.

Daily Mail "SCIENCE"