Crap news re Sheffield Wednesday. Lower league football clubs being at the mercy of the happen to be wealthy happening to fancy themselves a bit of club ownership will always be an incoherent and unjust system for institutions that gather all meaning from local community.

Bristol to Edinburgh is around one fifth of the price to fly than to go by train.

Amazes me that ending the Rwanda plan is still included on the Big List of Big Things that Labour have achieved in office.

Tactical voting to keep out Reform will be a big thing at the next election and I have to say Your Party are going to make it a whole load more complicated. But something about NATO makes it absolutely vital apparently.

Vote Labour to keep Reform out is a busted argument.

The huge amount of the argument that holds Labour's vote up is that they are the only option available. If polls and election results keep going this way there will be a tipping point where this argument evaporates and so does the party.

The Labour government tried to throw British Muslims and West Midlands police under the bus to try and protect Israel from some bad PR. Astonishing.

If the motivations behind an enquiry are to satisfy the various prejudices of those with vested interests rather than make recommendations to reduce the possibility of something continuing to happen it's probably not going to go well.

Aaand they went with 'it's unfair if they are cost-effective'

We've gone from "legitimate concerns about the pace of change in communities" to this absolutely chilling juncture in the space of ten years. The trajectory of norm erosion, and the consequences of that for minorities, were entirely predictable. So where will we be in a decade's time?

You can rewire a house, unlock a door and rebuild a bridge. This is pure verb salad.

Some sanity and genuinely informed journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Busy working out all the ways it wouldn't be cost-effective.

There is clear, unquestionable evidence that huge numbers of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are racist, provocative and hostile toward Arabs and muslims. That there are thousands of anti-semitic Brummies waiting for the opportunity to attack anyone Jewish is an huge assumption based on demographics.

She's either deliberately chosen not to (very easily) check if this is true or she's lying.

Andor does such an amazing job of demonstrating just how terrorism and resistance can be manipulated by imperial powers to their advantage without it being some mad conspiracy.

A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles

Turns out it wasn't on Laura K but on Trevor Phillips. Still, Ed Miliband can't be unaware that the entire UK is a no-go area for the nationals of many countries, including their football fans, because the UK will not issue them visas.

Lisa Nandy, Ian Murray and Keir Starmer en route to Tel Aviv for emergency talks with the anti-semitic Tel Aviv police who have banned Jewish people from watching football

Great description of Andor in one re-cap as a Star Wars that feels 'neither long a go nor far away'.

Article refusing to be explicit here, but presumably Villa's assessment here was that it was likely their stewards would be racially abused or worse by the visitors

I will keep banging on about this… …because it is clear that the UK political & media class is utterly broken. To the point whereby local democracy, trust in the police, quality analysis, honesty, and public safety are all being deliberately sacrificed.

It’s batshit coming from the right it’s completely reasonable from the left.

Jenrick was a full on casual at 5 but got into ecstacy at 7 and really mellowed

We might ask how the centre and right uniting to defeat the anti-racist left - by screaming accusations at them about their supposedly Hitlerian racial hate - has somehow become a consensus of centre and right xenophobia and racist incitement, with unified support for genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Barney Ronay is an undoubtedly excellent sports journalist. That article is jarringly poor journalism without even getting into the disagareement.

The UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) has some choice words… …for a PM who aggressively inserted racially-charged accusations into a local safety issue, seeking, seemingly on personal whim, to override well-informed local law & democracy mechanisms, and risking public safety.

'largely good natured fun' conflicts slightly with the Tory line at the time. Still good to see 80s hooligan violence getting the 'simpler times' nostalgia treatment.

It is utterly, despicably bereft that the rolling news all day today has been the British Monoparty Establishment's dedication to uphold the rights of openly fascist football hooligans with a track record of violence. Further evidence of a governing class with zero moral legitimacy in our world.

You have to marvel at how relentlessly insulting British politics is

The government's race to negotiate for fascist football hooligans to be given permission to travel to a football match is being live reported by the BBC.

I searched in vain in this report for a single mainstream politician expressing an ounce of concern for the dignity and safety of the sizeable Muslim population in Aston and Birmingham. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think it's probably fair to say Starmer has been answering the phone a lot since the Maccabi ban was announced.

Given the manner in which football hooligans have historically been natural canon fodder for universal 'neanderthal' and 'pond life' contempt, there's something surreal and jarringly transparent about the media and government's coddling the grouping when it comes to racist Israelis.

Wilfully misunderstanding football, policing and flags here - all 3 of his specialist subjects!

Cool. The line from the Prime Minister is that being a violent white supremacist hooligan is a protected characteristic of Jewish identity. Maccabi firms will absolutely attempt a pogrom in Birmingham

British.

No matter what, climate change is going to remain the the biggest issue this century. Having to deal with fascism and the centrist capitulation to it is a distraction, and in many ways a deliberate one. Green politics has to be a major force from here on out.

What is the point of building new homes, if they are: a) too expensive for people to live in, and b) don't have essential services like a GP surgery or a school nearby? Very concerning that the Housing Secretary doesn't seem to understand that... or doesn't care.

Who runs Labour’s housing policy? The biggest profit-driven big developers, that’s who. Not councils, not Mayors with carefully Green-influenced policies, not housing co-ops or charities, not even housing associations. And definitely not homeless families.

That the labour party see anything Zach Polanski is doing as a "threat" rather than the ideal ally in a desperately difficult time for the UK is pretty much everything wrong with them. Labour dropped* the torch of representing the people, Greens picked it up. *threw away/sold/etc

I foresee see a lot of the media's favoured red line positions being met head on like this and thus losing all previous traction.

Has Israel stopped starving & murdering Palestinians? Have all the Palestinian hostages been released? Are the settlements being dismantled? Is the occupation over? Do Palestinians have the right to return to their homes? Do we have accountability &justice for Israels war crimes?

"Who are the 'detainees' released by Israel?" the BBC don't enquire.

On the 6th of October Israel had about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners. Today, *after the exchange* Israel holds at least 9,000 prisoners, most of them have not been charged. Conditions in prisons became intolerable after Oct 7. Torture and starvation are standard.

Honestly the only positive in the Your Party shambles is that everything that's failed the left previously seems to be contained there.

Lewis Goodhall: 'But that's ridiculous has Trump ever directly advocated for a single state authority??!!! Has he? Absurd!'

And another of our great western democratic media channels holding our government to account by pushing them to go further in their anti-protest crackdowns.

Cornerstone of our democracy BUT...something racism, something racism, something something.

The Left must unite! Also here are some lines in the sand I've invented for the sake of it.