We have 6 people for Christmas dinner, but this is the volume of trimmings. Christmas, as we know, is really about the bubble & squeak

Since the time researchers started paying attention 150 ago, we've known that poverty and multiple disadvantage causes poor outcomes in health, education, criminal justice etc. It's an utter disgrace the situation is not only allowed to persist, but knowingly get worse.

People in poorest areas of England ‘more likely to need emergency care for lung conditions’

our festive episode is here, w @joshgardner.bsky.social We've even chucked in a song...

Festive pod incoming later this evening with @joshgardner.bsky.social Please posit your ##SHITGOOD arguments in the replies below..

Sounds like you will appreciate the legendary pre-gentrification 'barred list' from my local.

Pollock scores, commentary: "HP, delivering the sauce required..." CHRIST

Our latest episode here w @joshgardner.bsky.social , in which we consider Nativity Mullets, the inspirational Ollivon and brass band metal covers www.patreon.com/posts/430-ri...

Pod with @joshgardner.bsky.social tonight. Send your #SHITGOOD our way in the replies...

This is turning into a cracking weekend for Glasgow fans..

Thus far this season, the premier in European rugby's premier competition has the same vibe as the premier in Premier Stores.

For real tho, the Ospreys Euro kit having “Temporary Solutions” emblazoned across the front is a bit on the nose even for Welsh rugby.

I had a short period in the 2000s editing a cricket blog. Watched loads of it from being a kid. Drifted away from it as time and other pressures meant I couldn't give it the attention. I've picked a hell of a few weeks to start paying attention again..

At this point in his career, Etzebeth would have been better off just taking the maximum ban versus the legacy-destroying claim that he was shit-scared of a knackered 15-stone 23-year-old from Aberdare.

So, a disciplinary panel rules that going for the eye was intentional. Then decides there "need for deterrent" was zero in the aggravating factors to add to ban. Let that sink in, the panel doesn't believe intentional eye gouging requires a a deterrent.

Fan of 'the Jonah Lomu Rugby' video game? 🏉🎮🇳🇿 I've published a deep dive on the cult classic on The East Terrace. Please do share with fans of the game who you think may enjoy it (and the book it comes from). #videogames theeastterrace.com/jonah-lomu-r...

Steve Cropper RIP. If you want a perfect lesson in how to play gorgeous, mood perfect rhythm guitar, just listen to pretty much everything he did. A quiet giant.

Think about the best community or fellowship you've been or are part of. Think of the belonging, support, friendship and contribution to your wellbeing it brings. Imagine being brought together as a small part of that fellowship to be told you are no longer welcome. 1/

See France are in the Group Of Death. In that they are going to murder and dismember everyone else in it.

Me and @joshgardner.bsky.social talk the record wales defeat, and why rugby needs more Earl Weaver types

It's really, really easy not to stick any of your digits in someone's eye. It's degrees harder to do so. Etzebeth absolutely knew what he was doing.

"Sacha F-M as commentators are now calling him as the name is so hard to pronounce" His name is completely phonetic, so not hard to pronounce at all if you practice it. AKA, doing your job.

Biggar has absolutely committed to the tone-on-tone wardrobe concept.

I'll be here finding words to describe a live dismembering

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked, and behold a pale horse And his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him"

Yeah, thats kiiiiinda the problem.

This is going very well...

the latest episode is here, in which me and @joshgardner.bsky.social attempt to explain rugby matches for the 428th time. www.patreon.com/posts/428-gr...

Pod with @joshgardner.bsky.social later on, so fill the replies with the #SHITGOOD of the weekend for us.

If someone knocked on Healey's door and told him he'd won the lottery, his first reaction would be to question the calibration of the machine and state that he didn't like the jacket on the bloke that came to tell him.

The fuck was Sualii doing in defence there? Neither blitzing not pushing out, useless.

Doyle: "Blair Murray had a better day under the high ball, eh Dan?" <Cue Biggar flailing to support that while VT runs of Murray being beaten to every high ball>

"You're going backwards" "Don't worry about it" Welsh Rugby in 2025 in a nutshell

Honestly, this scoreline and performance looks like pretty much like most Wal v NZ in my memory. The difference is probably that this is a relatively poor NZ side; but this is not a showing by a side in hopeless freefall from Wales. It looks par for the past 30 years.

Reece evaded that tackle like it was personal public acknowledgement that beating a woman is wrong.

Why in the blue fuck in Plumtree still out there spraying his klutz effluent everywhere?

You have to admire the commitment to the bit

The only way this could get worse is if a wife beater scores a try. Oh...

Ian Tempest with same energy as my Auntie Kath when my bigger cousin Gary would run over me to score a try in backyard RL. "No! That don't count that. It's a bloody shame, he's only little!"

Alex Mann there, The Aberdare Hammer, wading in hard when the pasty threatened. #WALvNZL #pugilism

Dylan Thomas "do not go gentle" being used in a pre-match montage. Honestly, it's like they cant even be arsed thinking anymore

The WRU putting the effort in to design an entire app to turn your phone's torch on rather than just pressing the button that already exists is a wonderful metaphor for Welsh rugbyTBF.

YES!

Is Olly Lawrence injured?

Pod with @joshgardner.bsky.social later this evening. Firearms away with your #SHITGOOD below.

I've done several OTW player ratings pieces. I hate doing them, they are stupid and as Robbie says there's always a poor take in there. However, one of the things that informs them is the stats so this one re: Cracknell is odd.

"Please govt, prop up our profit model, but also don't dare regulate us or get up in our shit in any other way"

Is James O'Connor drunk?

I'll be here for the rest of the evening if you wish to join..