You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

As @glennairey.bsky.social said a few weeks ago. Stoke City are not only winning but also look comfortably the better team too. We could do with a second though!

Friends, Is the Stoke game on the red button today? I assume all early starts are this season.

Growing organic grapes in one of Spain’s highest vineyards on the 'edge of what is possible' is a challenge that Rosalina Molina has taken on making wine at Altolandon in Mancheula in central Spain as she explains to Helen Arnold www.the-buyer.net/people/produ...

Alma Tavern, Harwich. Dinner with Atilla The Stockbroker. He had a lobster. 🦞 Sold out gig tonight. 54. Capacity 50. We had a 24 wine, wine tasting earlier. I'm mine sweeping.

This Friday, all welcome.

👀 ⛳️ 🏌️‍♂️ 🏆 #RyderCup

Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, opened on this day 1825. Its first line linked collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton. (Painting of opening day by Terence Cuneo, 1949, National Railway Museum.)

As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.

Breakfast of Champions this morning.

He was happy in the fight against gun control, But heaven knows he's miserable now...

@skipratmedia.bsky.social Sack off BBC QT, look at this stuff Leek Boy. Glorious!

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Kraftwerk make their sole British TV personal appearance on Tomorrow's World. Shame about the musical lapels never happening, unless as we suspect that was Ralf and/or Florian taking the piss.

Some people never learn....

Just because my nephew Joseph Farage admitted he was guilty of the sexual offence of upskirting, doesn’t mean all Farages are sexual offenders. That went under the radar www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2488393...

10 YEARS of “MUSIC COMPLETE” NEW ORDER Released 25.09.2015 via MUTE Includes the singles Restless, Tutti Frutti, Singularity and People on the High Line. #NewOrder #OnThisDay #MuteRecords

Flanagan and Allen are looking rough.

For my Merseyside mates, our first wine order goes into Ye Cracke tomorrow. I'm sure John and Stu would have loved them. Hope to be up for a bit of, err, staff training in the next few weeks. What could possibly go wrong? 😉🍷🍾🍻

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...

A quick set of recommendations I've put together of Spanish Civil War sites and memorials for people visiting the Basque Country. Any more suggestions? thespanishcivilwar.com/tour-themes/...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The longlist for this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year is announced a week today Fingers crossed for #WorkandPlay 🤞

Out in London town yesterday.....

Windsor Castle UK: activists from the collective @ledbydonkeys.org project images of Trump with Epstein onto the castle’s walls.

Sky Arts Awards tonight. Glorious. This is who we are.

Nominated for the 2025 William Hill Sports Book of the Year 'Work and Play: The Industrial Roots of English Football' is available via Pitch Publishing #WorkandPlay www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/work-an...

BBC News - Boy, 15, dies after stabbing in Moss Side - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Horrendous news from Manchester tonight. We don't know the circumstances but a 15 year old boy went to school and is never going home. Utterly tragic.

Rarely watch PL games these days..... But this Man City team would smash in a dozen against any team in the Championship. The gulf in quality is an ever widening chasm.

Should have no trouble getting to the bar in your local Wetherspoons today.

What a picture....

Oh Patti - Scritti Politti on BBC 6Music now. Haven't heard it in ages. Saturday mornings are just the best.

T20 Finals Day tomorrow, the biggest day of the year by a distance in domestic white ball cricket. Lancashire denied FOUR players as on England duty. How is that remotely fair or reasonable? Surely the scheduling needs to address this. Mahmood not even playing for England just carrying the drinks.

Salted Buttler making South Africa toast. EngvSA T20.

Starmer couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery could he. Mandelson should have never been appointed in the first place, and even if he was he should have been fired as soon as the letter became public. Starmer just trashes his own reputation fighting a lost cause all week. Zero awareness.

Stunning, food and wine menu tasting at Ark Fish in South Woodford today. I've supplied the wine since opening 21 years ago and new chef patron Aaron is taking food to a completely new level. I'm delighted to upgrade the wine list too. If you're local, give them a go. www.arkfishrestaurant.co.uk.

Danish patriots been out and about.

He's not wrong.

Legendary Joy Division studios marked with plaque. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of / have Why so difficult? I'd have. Sorry for being a late night pedant.

"I once bought a house then remembered that it was actually my girlfriend who had bought it"

Another couple of #vineyard shots from #Rioja.

Pretty confident that number 22 has the most Scottish name of all time.

Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads— “HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.” Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.

If the unbridled joy of England v Serbia just gets too much for you this evening then Film4 are showing The Killing Fields from 9pm. That should sort you out.

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Saw this. And immediately thought of this.

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