finally found a clip of that Erin Cuthbert free kick baHahahaaa

Chelsea battered us in the opening minutes then lost their heads in the most predictable way... Lauren James pointless early booking, Hampton stomping her feet after every goal, Cuthbert with the worst set piece routine I've ever seen. L M A O. Arsenal 3 — Chelsea 1 Onto the 2nd leg! #UWCL

Yesterday, Barcelona Femení beat Athletic Club 7-1, with 3 teenagers starting (Schertenleib, Serrajordi, Juliá) and 3 teenagers coming on as subs (Cámara, Fenger, López). 4 goals + assists between them. Teenage dream? ⚽️👟

mentally, i'm here:

Another day, another gaffe in women's football coverage... (read the caption) youtu.be/1-unq-OxWbc?...

Kids at a cafe, library, theatre, supermarket: 💥🔉🤪‼️📢😱 Kids at a football match, watching the player on the back of their shirt score a banger: 🤐🤷😴🫩🤫

✅ 5-0 to the Arsenal ✅ quadruple fullback (?) tactical masterclass from Renée ✅ Chelsea dropped points ✅ taught some kids a new swear word #BarclaysWSL #ARSWHU

commentator* just described Lucy Bronze as a "battle-axe" please god let's give COMMS jobs to people who KNOW THE MEANING OF WORDS 🙈🙈

Atrocity upon atrocity. Every detail here is worse than the last. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Teyah Goldie is so funny. Why would you dive here instead of just putting the ball out for a corner. Arsenal never score from corners anyway! 😅😅 #LCLARS #BarclaysWSL

The two highest rated players in the Villa City 0-0 draw were the keepers (Roebuck and Keating). City's prolific front 4 shut out. Long international break perhaps disrupted momentum.

Yet another game where Liv Smith gets fouled continually (5 fouls called, many ignored) and SHE ends up with a yellow card... Smith has received 40% (5/13) of ALL fouls in the game! #LCLARS #BarclaysWSL

Not the big story from the Mandelson files, but I just find this astonishing. Here is Peter Mandelson, having been fired as US ambassador in September (and presumably knowing what else could come out re Epstein), making threatening noises about employment rights and how he "expects to be treated"

London ppl: if you go to Tracey Emin @ Tate Modern, do not skip "Conversation With My Mum". You might have to wait because there are only 2 sets of headphones, but it's worth it. The most unexpected emotional gut punch. Changed how I viewed everything else.

5️⃣ Hedgehog percussion 🦔 Toy for a friend's baby (spiky-haired and budding percussionist). Modelled on the traditional frog scraper that makes a "ribbit" sound. I realize it makes no sense because hedgehogs don't make this sound! (I follow the grain, not the laws of reason.)

One of the weird "Green Nexus" papers I flagged on Pubpeer last November has been retracted by ESPR. It was also flagged by @gcabanac.cpesr.fr's Problematic Paper Screener. There are LOTS more with identical issues... pubpeer.com/publications...

🪵 Whittling Journal 🪵 In 2024, I decided to start wood whittling as a hobby. Never tried it before, but I always wanted to be a Mysterious Stranger Who Whittles Portentous Objects By A Campfire.

finished my first Listener crossword! 🏆 *with a starting hint from my Dad **it was a numbers one

The Crown Prosecution Service denies that the jury was misled in Letby trial but notably does NOT deny the claim that they sat on key evidence for *2 months* before disclosing it to the defence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

45 minutes 86% possession 4 shots on target 🙈🙈 Ukraine 0 — 0 England #UKRENG #FIFAWWC

... did you read it though? Seems very clear to me that she's saying it's a lucky *coincidence* for The Sun that they managed to do a silly piece on someone who *later* became important on the left. Not that they targeted him because of his politics at the time.

Hindmarsh's insulin poisoning theory - for which there is absolutely ZERO direct evidence - was foundational to the prosecution case.

Sally Clark Convicted in 1999 of murdering her two infant children, based on testimony from paediatrician Sir Roy Meadow and withholding of exculpatory evidence by forensic pathologist Alan Williams. Conviction quashed in 2003, but Clark died from alcohol poisoning just a few years later.

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about the Lucy Letby case is the idea that each conviction was independent of the others. ("1 wrongful conviction is bad luck, 14 wrongful convictions is impossible") Which, ironically, is the same statistical fallacy underlying the prosecution case!

-Statistically illiterate "experts" -Unfalsifiable medical theories -Withheld exculpatory evidence Where have we heard that before? Sally Clark. Angela Cannings. Donna Anthony. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It's not just inflammatory, it also undermines the one successful line of attack that Badenoch has deployed against Starmer (u-turns). Starmer can be Ditherer-in-Chief or he can be in the pocket of Big Muslim... but he can't be both!

Kemi Badenoch was never meant to be LOTO. She was meant to be the unwitting star of "Jury Duty (evil version)" — a reality TV show where we see how a mendacious narcissist responds to zany scenarios played out by actors.

Mahmood: "I do care about integration, but I also want to change the calculus of people that are about to pay money to people smugglers" ... the people smugglers provide complimentary copies of the Guardian in the small boats departure lounge, right? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Strike: when we bomb someone Attack: when someone else bombs us

2024: Labour Together briefs that donations were not reported to protect the "safety" of Trevor Chinn due to antisemitism. 2026: Josh Simons justifies investigating journalists who reported on the donations because one also wrote a book that "diminishes" Labour antisemitism. Grotesquely cynical.

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

1.9%

Might surprise people to know that in the latest British Election Study, Muslims are more politically fragmented than CofE Christians (measured by effective number of parties)

how it started / how it’s going

4) Don’t say only Labour can beat Reform if - thanks to the leadership's own self-sabotage - it’s not true. Because it will be true in many other seats, and now voters won’t believe us.

3) Don't play dirty. The bizarre claims about the Greens in relation to drugs and sex workers were desperate, embarrassing, and harmful. It is no wonder they did not work and instead reflected badly on our party.

I love fine art.

The Labour party has been outflanked on drug policy by institutions as various and reactionary as the Metropolitan Police and the fucking state of MISSOURI (legal recreational weed since 2022). Gutless, gormless little cowards.

40% very impressive in a "three horse race", but let's not forget it's ALSO the same vote share that Corbyn's Labour got in 2017, resulting in Matt Goodwin eating his book on Sky News ahahhaaaaahahaHAHAH

BREAKING NEWS: Green MP Hannah Spencer expands her property empire by owning Matt Goodwin

turns out McSweeney and the Blue Labour gang were wrong and the out of touch woke liberal elite Bluesky echo chamber bubble was right

*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe

The theory of issue ownership says parties should raise the salience of issues they are perceived to be "good at". The theory of issue pwnership says parties should act as if they have been hacked by their rivals – repeating all their talking points – followed by "no u".

Giant whiteboard in Labour HQ: ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶e̶r̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ ❌ issue pwnership ✅

good morning 🌞

very important video please watch

Really great reporting by the brilliant @pollysmythe.bsky.social on Criterion Capital and the billionaire philanthropist behind “one of the worst mass evictions in our capital’s recent history” www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

why did she say "hall" in a german accent hahaha

"Do Voters Respond to the Economy or to News Reporting on the Economy? A Mediation Analysis" by Mark A. Kayser and Michael Peress. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Jes Staley - former senior exec at JPM and CEO of Barclays - told the FCA he and Epstein were not friends. Let's break that rule that we can't call rich/famous people "liars". Thread: