It’s a bit loud outside. Don’t these Gooners know I’m trying to sleep?

We live in a bubble in London a lot of the time. It’s inclusive and no one cares where people are from. This shite today pushes it into our faces. But equally it shows why we need to stand up against it.

Really distressing seeing POC clearly frightened by the fash marchers in town (as I was.) This is not, and never will be, acceptable.

The fucking GALL to put this on an article about a trans woman winning a discrimination case! British Bigotry Corporation

Starmer should call a shithouse election and watch Streeting fail to defend his majority of 528.

I just had a meeting talking about trains for an hour. Which is definitely the best hour of my working year so far, even the bio toilet discussion.

“It’s okay, it’s better than predicted,” says the Blairite. “You’re right,” says the Starmerite, “They said we’d lose 1500 seats and it was only 1496.” #Partytime

The petition by Jewish and Israeli people in Britain against Nigel Farage speaking at the rally against antisemitism tomorrow has been signed by 2200 and is still open sites.google.com/view/letterr...

Election results in London are very different to some parts of the country but I never thought I’d see the day when Labour had fewer than ten seats in Hackney. My ward, like most others, went Green but I still want to know who the 217 Reform voters were.

My WhatsApp is going wild with cricket and election updates and trying to extract the Gloucestershire wickets from the Green gains is exhausting.

Just ordered a gift for a relative without a mobile phone. I entered their landline as the contact number for deliver, only to be told that this wasn't valid as it must be 11 characters (that bit was OK) and begin 07 (that wasn't.) Another nail in the landline coffin.

That moment when you are compèring a monthly salon and ten Swedish Gooners turn up 😬. I now know how to say cheers in Swedish (skál.)

Possibly me as a womble.

Already feeling overdressed in Wigan. The sun is out and the locals have stripped off*. *Not totally

🇮🇹 Today in Italy is the Day of Liberation from nazi-fascism: we remember football's contribution to the Resistance against Nazism and Fascism. This is Bruno Neri, midfielder for Faenza, Livorno, Fiorentina, Lucchese, and Torino, three-time Italian national team player, and finally a partisan. 👇

Saw a vixen taking cubs up through our ivy earlier. For a moment I thought she had a kill, but it was her cubs being transported. Here she is

Bloke behind me is.clearly devastated to be flying Ryanair. His partner has an emergency passport (presumably it was lost or stolen.) “I imagine they’ve seen plenty of those here,” he chirped, the implication wholly unsubtle.

In Rome, just spent an hour with some very drunken Finnish folk dancers. As you do. They didn’t dance but I fear limbs may have been broken if they had (especially as it seems there are similarities with traditional Russian dancing.)

Anyone who’s ever worked near secure public sector projects knows that clearance isn’t a nice to have, even at lower levels. There’s zero chance any bypassing could have happened without ministerial sign off at Mandelson’s level.

Orbán conceding is a good end to the weekend. Magyar and Tisza are far from what I’d like for Hungary but at least Fidesz are out

Finally home five hours after leaving Burton. Full first class refund the only bonus.

I think I have been through about 20 counties today. God bless the railway system. And its delays, breakings, cancellations..

I’m quite zen about what happens this season. Whatever will be will be etc. some of our fans though… A long ball sails out, “Think about it Jackson,” is the shout behind me, as if the manager communicates every kick in realtime 🤦‍♀️ #afcwimbleddon

Like many out there I’m thinking of Iran tonight. Thinking of all the people who are hurtling towards wherever the hellish fever dreams of Trump propel them. The lure of power is truly vile.

Before the football down the road today I was compèring our monthly pub salon. Managed to avoid heckling from either West Han or Leeds fans .#winning

Two West Ham fans just came in the pub. Left too early lads.

If you’ve got a player wearing gloves in April then you deserve to lose. Them’s the rules.

Pubs where people reserve the dart board by writing on the blackboard. Proper.

Belinda Carlisle was amazing pre-botox

Keep getting upgraded to suites. I mean, I know I’m me but they seem to as well.

For a team that could get promoted today the atmosphere at Sincil Bank is terrible. A piped drum and the occasional generic song.

Enjoying the next 40 minutes. Until they are done Gloucestershire can still be promoted. #countychampionship

Happy “have you wintered well?” Day to all who celebrate.

Had a visit from a Lib Dem, the first I have seen in Hackney for a long while. They want to stand a candidate in our ward and needed people to say they wanted them to stand. I was happy to do so, though did say I wouldn't vote for them, which he was fine with. He knows some decent irl mutuals too.

GWR have halved the Sunday services to and from Bristol, we had reservations but both ways were full and standing today. There were 90 minutes between our train home and the next one - absolutely ridiculous.

Congratulations to everyone who survived all of the @thedonstrust.bsky.social emails over the past weeks.

Eid sweets from one Muslim neighbour, flowers from another. Community is great innit? #eidmubarak

Lost 2-4 in the most game of two halves ever and now squeezed on a train home in between all the bloody Gooners. Fml

My people. What a flag. And one of the Old Fans insisted on buying five of us a beer. #casertana #seriec

The only thing you need to know about the Wrexham “fairytale” is that pretty much every lower league fan wants Chelsea to win today. Any other week they all want Chelsea to lose.

You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.

Starmer had a chance to condemn bombing Iran, naturally he chose to pile in fully behind it.

The Iranian regime is horrendous, and absolute solidarity with those who have protested against it. But quite clearly Trump and Israel don’t have Iranian people’s best interests at heart. It is important to oppose unconditionally their murderous assault.

And now it has returned with Israel launching strikes replaced by the US launching strikes. Shabana demoted to story 2.

I looked at the BBC News app 10 minutes ago and it was leading with Israel bombing Tehran. Now that story has disappeared and the top story is Shabana Mahmood doing more racism. The Iran story is still there if you search, but not on the home page 🤷‍♀️

Two days on, not a single franchise, not a single county has spoken out about the ECB accepting cricketing apartheid in The Hundred. The England and Wales white ball captain scandalously called it “a shame.” Time for all of cricket to say NO to this shite. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

As I said. McHazel.

I always question the managerial capabilities of people who shout “faaaakin ‘ave ‘em, they’re shiiiit.”

I’m a bit Scottish as it happens. McHazel may be needed today. #T20CWC

Tremendous stuff Zim! 🇿🇼 #T20WC