Infantino lifting a mandatory two-match ban so Ronaldo can play in the opening games of the World Cup is a pitiful wink at Trump - “Look Donald, I’m a corrupt president too!” If there was a shred of decency in FIFA, committee members would be walking.

That’s a Labour budget. We’re in business.

Kidding ourselves if we think that Farage voters didn’t know he is a racist. It’s why they vote for him.

What many of us realised. Howe coached Isak into a sharp cutting edge, and built a team around serving him. The goals - and Isak’s inflated market value and opinion of himself - duly followed. Slot failed to spot most of that, possibly due to a similarly bloated sense of himself.

As gangs of racists, petty criminals, domestic abusers and paedophiles wrapped in flags chant and sing about “our country and our women and kids,” we are in the 250th anniversary year of Samuel Johnson’s ageless perception that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

Since the threatened lawsuit, BBC have found a backbone in reporting Trump’s insanities. How about taking the next step, Gibbsy, and opening hunting season on Farage and our other wannabe Trumps?

Questions from qualifying. Will Norway win the World Cup? Are the Faroes picking Danes with Faroese grannies? Who is Troy Parrott? What happened to Italy? Gibraltar?

Great thing about Thomas Tuchel’s success is that all the xenophobes were just waiting for him to fall flat on his face. They still are, but we’re spared the morons until next summer.

Clearer than ever that Farage has encouraged Trump to bankrupt the BBC. May he reap the whirlwind.

Chris Mason really doesn’t like Labour not breaking its election promises.

I’m going to sue the BBC for ten gazillion dollars unless they give me twice that tomorrow.

Farage telephones Trump for a chat about the BBC. Trump promptly announces that he’s suing the BBC for a billion. C’mon. It would be funny if the BBC only belonged to Johnson’s Tory/Reform placemen. But it’s as much a national asset as the NHS.

Trump is mortally offended by the BBC’s routine edit of one of his speeches, which in no way distorted his message or the truth of the event. A couple of weeks ago he broadcast to the world a real video of him flying over New York dropping real shit on the inhabitants. Okay.

Trump is mortally offended by the BBC’s routine edit of one of his speeches, which in no way distorted his message or the truth of the event. A couple of weeks ago he broadcast to the world a real video of him flying over New York dropping real shit on the inhabitants. Okay.

The BBC getting a mob of Tories and worse to discuss on air the mess that Tories and worse have made of the BBC.

Two of Newcastle’s three England squad selections didn’t finish the match. The third wasn’t picked.

Musk’s problem with wit - he has none - is typical of the far right. All of them, Farage, Trump, Robinson, Hitler, etc, are/were incapable of original humour. They can’t distinguish it from insults and bombast. Reasons?

Communist cats conquer city. #Caturday

This extraordinary photo. The key is, it’s Trump acting with what he considers to be presidential dignity. You can’t buy that stuff.

From sea to shining sea!

Samir Zitouni. Farage will be spitting nails. Musk will claim he’s a white South African who changed his name.

No sooner was last night’s incident announced than Farage was all over it like a bad smell. Insinuating malfeasance and poking his mob, while brave people brought it under control. Today it’s tumbleweed turnpike in Farageville, as he regroups for the next opportunity. Pure slime.

Eight minutes between the 999 call from a moving train and arrest of the suspects is an incredible response rate. Well done to cops, train crew and supportive government.

Odds on at the bookies to win at West Ham today. That feels right, but shouldn’t invite the fickle fingers of football fate.

“The name’s Monde. Beau Monde.” #Caturday

There’s now an Earl of Inverness slot going begging. Big renovated castle and all. Should be a shoo in for Billy Connolly.

This line… “You’re fed up with Tory lies and incompetence? So you should be. Don’t worry though, we can proudly offer you Son of Tory, the bold Reform, with added racism, thuggery and ignorance to liven up the lies and incompetence. Vote early, vote often.

It’s that time again… MFS pics of guising in South Uist less than 100 years ago. Those kids had fun!

Genuinely interesting and valuable people like Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman were banned from the UK for no good reasons, compared to Elon Musk’s current hysterics. Ban him, or let him come here and put him in house arrest for subversion.

The great communicator this morning. He has either A) aced a crash course in translating such country names as South Korea into pidgin Welsh, or B) fallen victim to one of Robert Kennedy’s hungriest brain worms.

The Labour Party defeated fascism on several occasions in the 20th century. It must do so again in the 21st - no other British political body can or will. Anything else is self-indulgence. We can build Jerusalem later.

“Grokipedia”! He’s never had an original thought in his greedy little brain.

“The doctors at Walter Reed are very low IQ individuals. They had to ask me what day it is, and who is the president of the United States.”

Be more like Caerphilly.

This deserves your attention on #Caturday

Carrphilly turnout 50%. C’mon… How did the BBC fall into the hands of people who’ve never heard of by-elections?

If Arne Slot keeps spending hundreds of millions on duds he’ll soon get acquainted with smaller clubs. Hartlepool is nice this time of year.

AI is bizarrely bad. Tried it for a couple of Highland historical searches. Got the equivalent of “Winston Churchill (1856 - 2004) won the First World War as the UK’s first woman PM. Married to Gary Oldman…”

@tortymurray.bsky.social Gaye, are you in Skye or Alentejo?

He has since deleted it, but this post from when they had a hissy squabble remains boggling. It carries a dozen different interpretations. All of them are jaw-dropping.

A consolation is, you know the contractors demolishing the White House won’t get paid. He’ll stiff them out of their bill. Why change the habit of a lifetime?

Just wondering… if Trump didn’t stop at demolishing the east wing, but turned his bulldozers on the main body of the White House and continued the wrecking spree, how long would it take the Republican congress to say, Could you stop now Mr President? Pretty please?

Fairly regularly in world history a deranged personality achieves unexpected power, and proceeds to feed their insatiable psychoses. It always ends in tears. We are now watching that process spin out in real time, in the most powerful nation on the planet.

What Caligula did next. The White House today. This actually does look like psychotic behaviour. Forget impeachment, it’s time for the padded cell.

Everyone got Isak wrong, other than the staff and executives, and some fans, at Newcastle. And they weren’t going to haul down his price by saying, Here look, we didn’t just coach him up four levels, we carefully picked a team to feed him. Them’s the breaks.

Snow kings… melting in the sun.

“We’re with the band.” #Caturday

If Ofcom can fine Royal Mail for late deliveries, it can close GB News down for dressing up far right propaganda as “news”. #priorities

Wishing Georgia Meloni’s politics were just a little simpatico, because her open contempt for Trump gets better and better. It’s not just unconcealed; it’s on full display.

Look out America. Trump will return from this Levantine orgy bolder and more belligerent than ever. He’ll be up for anything dreamed up in his own and Miller’s tortured dreams.