Must we wait for an ITV drama before this gets taken seriously?

Two really poor calls in as many minutes by video referee #BravCat

Genuinely hot in the early sun on the terrace this morning …

Such has been the difference between the two halves of the match, I’d be very interested in the betting patterns #NewVQua …

Our right to protest is under threat. I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social petition to stop new police powers that could shut down many peaceful protests and weaken our democratic rights. Add your name too: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/rig...

Once you couldn’t tell the difference between political parties YOU CAN NOW #VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton #VoteHannahSpencer #JoinGreenParty > join.greenparty.org.uk

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.

A shameful day for the International Olympic Committee and President Coventry. #ioc #winterolympics

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

#Epstein was co-owner of a Silicon Valley venture fund controlled by Peter Thiel, billionaire founder of defence analytics giant Palantir Technologies, which holds more than £670 million in UK Government contracts. Palantir has tentacles that reach deep into the British state and institutions.

The most underrated places to visit in Britain in 2026, according to the Telegraph. 1 - The Bowes Museum 2 - Williamson Tunnels 3 - Menai Bridge 4 - Clevedon Pier 5 - Lavenham 6 - Maunsell Sea Forts 7 - Beverley Minster 8 - Isle of Bute 9 - Stamford 10 - Yarm www.timeout.com/uk/news/most...

A member of the Abu Dhabi royal family secretly invested $500 million into the Trump family’s crypto company, gaining a major ownership stake. Months after inking the deal, the U.S. gave the UAE access to 500,000 advanced AI chips per year. The corruption is breathtaking.

Hockney. The cliffs looking from Sewerby Park (where I used to play my club cricket) towards Flamborough.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The sheer scale of media outrage this week about plans to lift hundreds of thousands children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the real priorities of the British press www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...

"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves "But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"

This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

Old enough to have seen Gordon McQueen punching David Harvey at Elland Road …. and not getting booked, let alone sent off. 1976? #LUFC

Sign the petition to stop Boris Johnson’s allowance: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/strip-Bo... 2/2

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Some of the Ashes TV comms is, well, ordinary.

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Shameful from #Waitrose www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've had enough. The UK is a rich country, so why are our schools falling apart, our hospitals understaffed and millions struggling to get by? The 0.1% and corporations are robbing us blind. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...

Really struggle with England constantly picking Bethell on potential. Rehan offers as much if not more with the bat and a hell of a lot more with the ball. Key’s obstinacy/arrogance. See also son of best mate Crawley.

I just signed the campaign calling to ban politicians hosting shows on UK news channels. 38d.gs/leqi

ReformUK councillors and their ilk, are a reflection of what a Reform govt would look like. They all assumed that it would be, chatting to few locals, maybe cutting a ribbon, being chauffeured around in limo's, when really they are mainly uneducated, lazy, chancers, racists and grifters.

Leicestershire Reform UK is a mess. Dan Harrison must resign, it’s been calamity after calamity. Leicestershire Reform finance lead steps down as opposition slam group's ‘inexperience’

That Latvian national anthem was beautifully sung.

The UK must stand up for human rights and reject calls to leave the ECHR - Sign the open letter www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Great to see Rehan included …. www.theguardian.com/sport/99-94-...

🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.

Morning folks! Unfortunately no Leicestershire commentary on the stream - Northants do their own. However full comms with self and Radders via BBC Radio Leicester and BBC Sport.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Champions! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Having just squelched my way across the outfield, I can promise you there is no chance of any play today. And it’s still raining. #LeivKen.

Dry and sunny at Gracers, but outfield is pretty sodden and wind currently preventing removal of covers. We won’t start on time. #leivken

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

Will this be the day? @leicsccc.bsky.social prepare for play on a day which could end with the Foxes winning promotion for the first time. Full comms BBC Sports Extra 3 from 10.30.

Will be watching @leicsccc.bsky.social via the video stream www.youtube.com/live/so_7aQ7... today. starting 4 day games on a Monday always feels wrong @richr23.bsky.social