About 3.4% growth across goods and service exports over 12 months up to the most recent figures - beating the consumer price index

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has urged House of Lords to urgently modernise disciplinary procedures so that Peter Mandelson can be stripped of his peerage and removed from upper chamber.

BREAKING: Gordon Brown says he has asked Cabinet Secretary to investigate disclosure of "confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein. Former PM says he first asked CS to do this in September but biz department found no records.

London continues to lead. Last week we were ⤵️ Recognised as one of the greenest global cities with spectacular green spaces and cleaner air. Named the ‘new Hollywood’ - attracting record investment. Ignore the haters: London is the greatest city.

Feel like the long ball to Mbeumo would be more effective it was a long ball to Sesko with Mbeumo running off him...

More positive business/economy news. New business in last quarter up 10% on previous quarter. People are putting their dreams into action on the back of our Labour government

Mocking someone's addiction relapse because they happen to be a Jewish person who treated Palestinians with a basic level of humanity is really really low. I honestly don't know how you can do that and still see yourself as a good person fighting the good fight.

People are criticising Arsenal as a team that relies too heavily on their physical approach from set pieces, but i think they deserve a lot of credit for the way they gather the ball in at line-outs, then really drive the maul forward to get over the line #SwingLowSweetChariot #Twickers

That Arsenal defence is easily the best in the league. Scoring three against them doesn't happen often and it doesn't happen by accident. Now, don't go and fuck it all up against Fulham next week...

This is Manchester United we are talking about 👍🏼

Well. Bloody hell. Bloody bloody hell. Crikey. Flipping heck. Bloody hell. Wow. That's amazing. I think most fans (myself most definitely included) thought we might be lucky to get a point out of City and Arsenal. 6 points. Unbelievable. And neither win was lucky. Bloody hell. Wow.

Seven? Fuck off.

That's another stunner, absolute beauty from Cunha!

Wow. What a hit that is from Dorgu!

He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland. His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.

They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.

So it sounds like Farage is feeling the pressure over his previous praising of Trump. He's running scared and cancelled an appearance on the BBC this morning at short notice. Farage and Reform are on the way out! Time for the country to reject him entirely, once and for all.

Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.

Steady on Michael...

Cracking view from my seat today

3 full backs, 2 right wingers and no centre forward. What could possibly go wrong...? Come on United...

Welcome Eric Dier ...Or Christian Eriksen, knowing United.

this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen

Excellent bit of VAR - took ages to find a reason to disallow a goal absolutely nobody thought was remotely controversial. Bonus points for using a still frame where Semenyo was being rugby tackled.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

"Tools that create vile, degrading, non-consensual images should never exist – to paying or non-paying users and X must stop hiding behind excuses & work with the regulator to comply with the law" "Now it’s time for X & other platforms to step up. No more excuses. If they won’t act, we will." 2/2

Well said @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social "Images that are AI-generated are no different to those which have been created in real-life and the police must relentlessly pursue perpetrators" "Limiting Grok’s image generator to paid users is a pathetic half-measure." 1/2

So in all likelihood that ends the Darren Fletcher era - don't think anyone expected much from someone who's only meant to do the job for 6 days. But he does leave us with one astonishing revelation: if you pass the ball to your striker more than 2 or 3 times a match, he's much more likely to score.

Thankfully that marks the end of a really tough run of games against all those teams struggling near the bottom of the table, and a home cup game. Nice easy run now though, City and Arsenal up next - ideal way for an nterim manager to ease themselves in, because INEOS timed their mess amazingly.

Well that was pretty terrible, fully deserved to go out. Would be great if the interim manager is one that can teach highly paid professional players to control the ball and pass it to a team mate and do some work instead of just panicking and hoping. Won't hold my breath with these players though.

Defending: optional now, apparently. What was that?

New name for Elon Musk's X just landed

This a UN diplomat. Lebanese-born Mohamad Safa, the Executive Director and Main Representative of the organization Patriotic Vision (PVA) at the United Nations, won't be going to the World Cup this year because the USA is not safe to visit.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

The Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill The bill is expected to be introduced to the House of Commons today (it's first reading, without debate). It will deliver on Labour's committment in the budget to scrap[ the 2 child cap on benefits, living 450,000 children out of poverty. 1/2

Final day of the season: 17 teams can either go down or get the final Champions League place

Better team by far and should have won by 4 or 5, but because this group of players are utterly incapable of playing football when they're winning a game, they've thrown points away again. They can't defend a one goal lead, why do they keep trying to do it?

Every single bit of luck is going Burnley's way, unbelievable.

Good goal, but Martinez and Shaw should be doing much better.

Bit shit that Berrada, Wilcox and Co clearly raided Amorim's coat collection the moment he was out the door.

Good pass, good finish - Sesko needed that. Been playing well but needed the confidence of a goal...

If they could just put a bit of pace on those crosses to Sesko rather than floating them towards him so he has to stop his run, then step backwards and generate all the power himself, that would be great.

Bizarre game so far - one way traffic but Burnley have been ridiculously lucky. Not had a shot on target and they're winning.

If I have one wish for 2026, it's that the people of the United Kingdom would engage their brains a little more when reading the 'news' and thinking first, before reacting. Would significantly reduce my stress levels.

Sorry Tyler, pretty clear who the favourite child is in the Fletcher household... Team looks good, nice to have a few back from injury. Now they just need do that thing where they run a lot and do a load of goals to the other team.

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

Alright Jim, maybe just leave football to football people - you stick to sacking people and not paying enough tax...