Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

Or, hear me out, maybe women don't need lectures by the likes of Matt Goodwin? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-matt-goodwin-gorton-denton-children-women-b2918340.html

Good times. For the uninitiated this is Philip from Sandbach’s finest moment. @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/list...

Pliny in his study Bodleian Library Arch. G b.6; Historia naturale di Caio Plinio Secondo, tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino; 1476 CE; Venice; f.5r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

"If any criticism is needed, it should be directed towards those who have offered little contribution to our life here and have instead spent years siphoning wealth out of one of our proudest institutions."

Well, well Big Jim.... How's the Old Trafford project going?

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I LOVE this!

This will need a boost today from my working class friends who dared to fly too high. Or clever people who research it. Social mobility discrimination is a v niche audience. @haylesben.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social @steveakehurst.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social

Outstanding reading, brilliant insight.

Dear Keir You've been given an unbelievable opportunity to reset this government and remember (a) you're Labour and (b) what Human Rights are. Please take it. Yours in forlorn hope A voter

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

And I wish it were true. I'd love a bit of uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism. So would the economy.

Whats most depressing about this is its not really news, and I'm 100% not at all surprised. Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Emma Ends the Drought For the first time since she stunned the world to win the 2021 US Open as a qualifier, Emma Raducanu will play for a WTA title. The top seed gets one helluva workout from Oleksandra Oliynykova for 2h 49m, but comes through in the end, winning 7-5, 3-6, 6-3.

Starmer's refusal to sack McSweeney is a masterclass in his signature crisis move: There's an obviously right thing to do, which he'll obviously have to do at some point, but he won't do it until the crisis has done the maximal possible damage and he'll get the least possible credit for doing it.

Lots of great lines in this furious piece but this, on McSweeney asking if PM could be US ambo part time, replacing Karen Pierce, is 👌 “This gives you a good indication of Westminster’s relative assessment of value: One full-time experienced woman is worth less than a part-time inexperienced man.”

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

The Trump administration is creating a "slush fund" to turbocharge MAGA groups in the UK and EU, according to the FT. This is code fucking red for democracy.

They are #curling in Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow!

One of the Lewis Chessmen - currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #LewisChessmen #NMS

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This guy just feels like the antidote to these times we live in

Why not build a new Parliament next to the Birmingham end of HS2? Build a decent serviced apartment block next to it, so that MPs who need to stay there can do so without paying extortionate nightly rates to third parties. Surely better than spending £11-£40 billion on the Houses of Parliament?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

That‘s the spirit.

A fair point well made by David Aaronovitch.

Oh please, I love pelicans

Unbelievable

Steve Bannon, "We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We're not going to let you steal the country" "You can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want" "But we will never again allow an election to be stolen again"

There won’t be any tennis now on TNT Sports/Discovery+ until Roland-Garros, so if you’re not interested in any of their other sports coverage, here’s your reminder to cancel your subscription.

Something lovely for the weekend! A 4,500 year-old ancient Egyptian faience beadnet dress. Museum of Fine Arts Boston collections.mfa.org/objects/1465... 📷 by me #Archaeology

GB's Skupski wins Australian Open doubles title - BBC

Incredible day of tennis. You just never know what you’re going to get.

Once again, extraordinary things happening on the social media of the German foreign ministry www.instagram.com/reel/DUGW47K...

This is peak comedy #AusOpen

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

How do you find do you find someone to marry you?

Ok so Santa Barbara is tiny and it's so Richie Rich white they made a whole soap named for the place everyone that lives there is exactly who you're picturing and they're out in force against ICE. We're gonna win this shit.

I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story. An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.

Paging @iaindale.bsky.social x

The people of Gorton & Denton deserve much better than an opportunist extremist using their community as a platform for his own career. HOPE not hate will be actively campaigning to make sure Matthew Goodwin does not get elected.

NEW: Andy Burnham *blocked* from standing in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Of nine voting members on NEC group was 8-1 against him.

Fantastic thread

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Left: President Trump, "Canada lives because of the United States" Right: Prime Minister Carney, "Canada doesn't live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian" "We chose to build a bright future worthy of the ground on which we stand, we chose Canada"

Trump doesn't read. None of them read.

WOW, this is the earliest known group of chess pieces in the world! 🤩 It includes two foot-soldiers, two mounted riders, an elephant with rider, a figure driving two horses, and a figure driving a three-horse chariot. Ivory, AD 700s. Samarkand State Museum-Reserve, Uzbekistan. 📷 me #Archaeology

This week in San Antonio I met two traumatized young boys who were locked up for 6 weeks at Trump’s “baby prison” in Texas. Taken when they checked in for a routine hearing, their mother waiting in the car with their backpacks for school. It’s insane this is happening.