I did my weekly shop at one of Aldi or Lidl this week, and I couldn't for the life of me tell you which one it was

Very cool that the current choices for Labour leader are "man who can't do politics" and "man who can't do politics, but in a way that terrifies the bond markets"

There's a lot of things that are disgusting about this story, not least the way it's been completely ignored by sports journalists. If the FA had done their job and changed ground regulations the last time this happened, Billy Vigar would still be alive. It should be a national scandal

It is both incredibly The Labour Party and Andy Burnham to nuke your credibility as a leader on the very day you launch your campaign

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

@barneyronay.bsky.social Hi Barney. This is the 2nd time in 2 years that a non-league player has received a life-changing injury from a head collision with a perimeter wall, because the FA can't be bothered to update ground regs. Fancy taking up the story? www.thesun.co.uk/sport/368025...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says www.bbc.com/news/article...

The extent to which "dealing with the USA" is now functionally the same playbook as "dealing with China" is tremendously underappreciated

Robinson supporters throwing glass bottles at police and counter protestors while singing "Tommy Robinson". So much for the peaceful protest

There's currently a busker playing "Bella Ciao" on a loop at the Millennium Bridge as a big crowd of flag-wielders crosses the river

The area around the south bank currently dominated by flag protesters and running clubs and... you can tell which is which

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Be careful going into central London today, as there's a national meet-up of people who comment "KEEP POLITICS OUT OF FOOTBALL"

Barney is rather overthinking "there's a small core of Stop The Boats types who start it the anti-Starmer song and everyone else is in agreement enough to join in" www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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British politicians and journos writing heartfelt tributes to Charlie Kirk is at least as weird as when they were writing heartfelt tributes to George Floyd. What happened to This Is Not America.

Those "the USA won't have a full-blown civil war but it will look a lot like 1970s Northern Ireland" takes currently aging like fine wine

In The Future news, I can't sign in to Microsoft Authenticator because it tells me I need a code from Microsoft Authenticator

@jim.londoncentric.media Saw this, thought of you etc (very interesting timing for a promotional event...)

Not to take major geopolitical events and make them about the Labour party, but the current UK government doesn't do enough to demonise Putin as The Reason Everything Is Bad imo, and somebow Keir Starmer gets the blame instead

In a world where trust in the media is through the floor and people are already losing their marbles over what's real and isn't, I feel like trying to trick people with superimposed pitchside ads on football broadcasts is not a *great* thing to be doing

The irony of ITV showing Anusol “Sitting Uncomfortably” adverts superimposed on the hoardings while the Marakana loudly shouts Kosovo Je Srbija on prime time TV shouldn’t be lost on people

The traffic around central London notably worse this morning than yesterday (@jim.londoncentric.media)

Bookies' odds for the next Labour leader are fascinating (they don't have a clue and the second favourite is someone who can't be Labour leader)

Tube strike central London is a good reminder that private cars are terrible and we should just ban them in the entire city centre

I had a sudden realisation yesterday that the "woe yoy yoy" bit of Buffalo Soldier is just the theme tune from The Banana Splits

I need to know who did this

When Denmark v Scotland is on the licence fee funded BBC, why do we still have to put up with obviously fake digital pitchside ads localised to the UK market? #DENSCO

The hot new thing on X is the conspiracy loons getting each other excited at the idea that the Fabian Society is a secret society deviously working to turn Britain into a communist dictatorship

These Premier League games are made unwatchable with all these blinking LED ads and the complete lack of any atmosphere or excitement, I don't know how you people do this every weekend

Exciting that the Hamburg derby is on the iPlayer and various YouTube channels this evening (1930 KO). A lot of English football fans are about to discover what a football match with an atmosphere sounds like

In a year of Labour putting major restrictions on legal immigration to appease immigration focussed voters they have gone from 35% to 19% in polls, immigration is now a higher profile issue, and both right opposition parties have moved to calling, either as leaders or as MPs, for mass deportations.

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Flicking between Arsenal v Leeds and St Pauli v Dortmund on the telly. It's incredible how sterile and flat the Premier League game feels compared to the German one.

@jim.londoncentric.media Question you might be interested in - how does the decision to rename the Oval Invincibles as Mumbai Indians London not clash with the Surrey's EDI goals (second bullet), particularly concerning south London's large Pakistani population? www.kiaoval.com/wp-content/u...

I'm not sure how naming a team after an ethic group fits with Surrey and the ECB's DE&I politics (amongst the dozen other reasons this name change is catastrophically stupid) www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025...

Britain accounts for 40% of phone thefts in Europe www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

@duncanrobinson.bsky.social I will be stealing "Bosh Britain" to professionally pretend to other London marketing wankers that I have a unique insight into the true national id, thank you

@jim.londoncentric.media This doesn't look promising from the Picturehouse Central

It's a sign of how anglo-centric our media is that I've not seen anyone discuss this. If it was in the US it would be absolutely everywhere. The sad, unbelievable and disturbing story of the French influencer who died in the middle of a livestream www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

It's incredible how much worse podcasts are to listen to when the panelists know they're being filmed. A 45-minute discussion gives way to 45 attempts to go viral. One person says something relatively mundane and the others go 'OH MY GOD NO WAY' with their mouths open. What a waste.

If you went back to the 2000s and told someone the future has a website called "x dot com" that has heaps of pornography they probably wouldn't be surprised until you said the UK Prime Minister and Elmo from Sesame Street post on there.

Long past time to normalise talking about slavery as being in the same ballpark as what the Nazis did imo

Watched some of the Premier League highlights from the weekend and two things really jumped out at me: 1) a lot of the atmosphere felt really flat 2) the shouty pitchside LED ads make it look cheap and trashy For a TV product with a premium price point, it doesn't feel very premium anymore

I think we need the government to explain to the nation's parents that I'd your child is not old enough to wear headphones or watch something on mute, they are also not old enough to be parented by a screen

I still have an alt on Twitter for cricket stuff and, if you've left, I don't think you realise how much it is now literally wall-to-wall actual Nazi propaganda

WHY IS EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THE HUNDRED SO BAD THIS? PEOPLE ACTIVELY WANT TO GET BEHIND LOCAL SPORTS TEAMS, THIS SHOULDN'T BE HARD. PICK A NAME THAT'S AT LEAST VAGUELY LONDON-Y AND BUILD A LOCAL IDENTITY AROUND IT. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. www.bbc.com/sport/cricke...

Happy start of the football season! Great news for everyone who's been suffering withdrawal symptoms for the last, erm, two weeks

It's absolutely mad that Destination X actually got made into a TV show. That pitch must've been wild

the scenario we all feared