My home council demonstrating how there's quite a fine line between "might be okay actually" and "absolutely shitbone awful" for Labour

The Latvia manager looks like if Thomas Tuchel had started to turn into Santa

My kneejerk response to The Life of a Showgirl after one and a half listens is that the best Taylor Swift song to come out this year remains Lady Gaga's "How Bad Do U Want Me"

I was going to vote for her anyway but this pretty much settles it. Ten times clearer and more persuasive than any of the guff the Government has put out to date.

Paracetamol claims another victim.

This deputy leader election is going to provide a lot of schadenfreude for the soft left and I am very much looking forward to it

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If this is the first time the Cabinet has changed significantly since the election, why is it a reshuffle and not just a shuffle?

As a Manc I take no pleasure in saying this but it might be time to get Burnham back to Westminster. Mayor of GM is miles more important than being a random MP, but it isn't more important than potentially being the next PM.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Swap out Biden for Ed Miliband and this is probably mine

Overlapping full backs and a midfielder picking up the ball between the centre halves? Welcome back, 2010. www.nytimes.com/athletic/654...

Annual Premier League predictions done. Outside of a very obvious top 4 and bottom 6ish, everyone else I wanted to put either 7th or 13th. Do I honestly think Spurs will finish 5th? No, but someone has to!

I see we're at the point of waiting for The Winds of Winter where we magnify a single flippant comment from the author to demonstrate how ASOIAF was, in fact, never good in the first place

Once again I am asking "do they know that I'm not very good at football or are they behaving like they would in a game" (i.e. if they do the usual keeper thing of guessing a side I'd have a decent chance of getting it on target)

Fascinated by the 1% who think that labradors are fine with a licence but corgis are much too dangerous

Didn't know Green Day had gone folk

Slightly surprised that final joke made the cut after the Ozzy news www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DD...

Nothing like the ecstasy of a last-minute equaliser followed by the sudden realisation that you've taken off all your defenders

How many people saying this is counterintuitive also advocated for Labour backing a 2nd referendum in 2019 as a way of stopping the bleed to Lib Dems and Greens?

Solidarity obviously but I'm amused by the idea of people getting lost at Glastonbury because they can't work out which Palestine flag their mates are standing next to

Some solid flags at Glastonbury this year but I'm still waiting to see a Saw Gerrera "you have no idea where I am" one

Three of my four trains today were basically on time so of course the last one had to be half an hour late and have an inexplicable drip right next to my leg

Looking forward to finding out how Italy fail to qualify this time when the odds are *even more* in their favour!

Every time I start to feel bad for Betis and their ex-West Ham contingent, there pops up Antony and suddenly I want Chelsea to score more

What an excellent day of football

Let's all laugh at Sheffield United hahaha

Things like this remind me why I stopped listening to the audiobook of Get In - the more I learned about this one trick pony, the angrier I got that he's basically being allowed to run the country on behalf of a directionless PM

Labour, famously the party for people whose top electoral issue is wildlife and ecosystems

This from the AV Club's review nails what I loved about Andor and why I've not stopped thinking about it all day. It's so, so good on its own terms and yet it also manages to enrich and elevate the wider story that we all grew up obsessed with. Absolutely miraculous.

Genuinely gutted about this - lots of personal and very happy memories from Leadmill. An act of cultural vandalism from the landlords.

Obviously this is concerning but it's mainly county councils that they won this time and they aren't the decision makers on planning applications. Reform's ideological opposition to Net Zero also undermines the more sophisticated way that NIMBYs object to, and sometimes stop, these projects

Good thread. The party for (but not always of) the labour movement needs to recalibrate what that movement actually looks like now rather than fetishising the people and places that it used to look like.

The Ghorman episode of Andor really asks the brave questions, like "what if the Battle of Kings Landing was good?"

Arsenal easily could have won that tie but the reasons they didn't were entirely predictable.

Happy ten years since I had a 10pm nervous breakdown!

Genuinely ridiculous tie

I have questions about the sanity of the MP making this analogy

well done lads for publishing this on the hottest May 01 since records began

Can't decide if it was really good in-game management from Pep to bring on Doku to run at Disasi or just really dim from Emery to think that Disasi can play at right back

Brilliant from Arsenal. Matched City's 5-1 aggregate demolition of Real from two years ago in a very different way

The Dippy Egg hot cross buns from M&S are fine but they're basically just creme egg muffins. The Bramley Apple ones, however, are absolutely elite.

Arsenal will be encouraged at how Villa managed to get at PSG while also bricking it about how easy it still is to blow a three goal lead in the Champions League

I always said she was the 21st century Nixon

The demographic of her fans is part of it but there does seem to be more opportunity for legacy acts to have a "long tail" career than 20-30 years ago - all the money is in touring and plenty of middle aged people are happy to pay £100 to see their teenage faves every five years

This is their crash. This is on them, too.

Bill Ackman freaking out about tariffs and saying "this isn't what we voted for" is as clear a crystallization of conservative self-delusion as you could ever ask for. Yes it is you idiot, you voted specifically for this! He talked about this NON STOP

Suddenly not looking quite so bleak for Altrincham - unbeaten in three having lost five in a row before that. Two consecutive years in the playoffs would be a huge achievement when usually staying in the 5th tier is the target.

anyway quite plainly no matter how economically socialist or liberal (in the European, normal sense) you are, most countries in the Anglosphere require much more housing for the banal mathematical purpose of "there are thirty year olds living with their parents"