Lottie keeping England grounded ahead of today’s World Cup opener v South Africa… Me for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

This flow chart does not help spell my name

girlypop what are you gaining by intentionally fanning the flames. what is your goal here.

i think we need a vegetable scientist...

It's probably not a great sign that I follow NRL pretty closely, and top English clubs at this time of year routinely sign Aussie players I've never heard of

#NRL The New Zealand Warriors announce the re-signing of back-rower Maarire Puketapu until the end of the 2027 season. www.nrlnews.com/2025/10/02/n...

I am increasingly convinced that Sarah Vine's headline writer quite justifiably hates her

A cool thing to do with journalists who don't use alt text on big screengrabs of text, is just fucking mute em. You don't need to see sloppy shit from people who fucking suck at their jobs. Just mute em. If the text is really important, someone *will* repost it with alt text.

Dispatches from the frontline

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

Me on 1st January when someone asks me how many of the holiday grapes I've eaten:

We are at Labour conference, telling members about the impact of the proposed bathroom ban. It would devastate trans people’s lives, create unworkable business challenges, and alienate voters. This would be Labour’s legacy on LGBT+ rights for a generation. But it’s not too late for them to stop it.

Just a reminder you can go down your Discover feed and 'show less like this' every picture without alt text

And then fail even at that

Like, that's the subtext here. The "dark path" is a Reform victory, but since Labour have already conceded every talking point to them, their sole strategy is now to ensure they survive as viable opposition to what is apparently the unerring, unquestionable will of the people.

If I was an allegedly centrist Prime Minister of the UK who is facing being wiped out by fascists in a few years, I probably wouldn’t be building them infrastructure with which they can track & surveil citizens. But that’s probably just me.

Ah no, 2025 actually comes before 2022 there because of their fucked up timezones

Hannah Botterman: I just thought— can I swear? Extremely panicked host: You cannot swear HB: I just thought fudge it #RWC2025

Zoe Aldrcroft showing incredible stateswomanship for someone who must have a category 5 hangover #RWC2025

Commonwealth Sport should be relentlessly sounding out Rwanda about whether they would care to host the Games

“𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒔” We heard from Alex Matthews on the emotions surrounding the #RedRoses World Cup win as well as the success of #RWC2025 as a whole for #WomensRugby

The government thinks they can find a compromise position on whether or not something is genocide is the kind of thing someone trying to satirise pathological centrism would make up

In celebration of England's World Cup win, everyone's gender to be Hannah Botterman for one week

Oh, and let's get Canada in the Six Nations while we're at it #RWC2025

In fairness, Sophie de Goede deserves that #RWC2025

CBEs all round Arise Sir John Mitchell Meg Jones WPotY SPotY Team of the Year (joint with the Lionesses) Keighley renamed Kildunne Statue of Hannah Botterman in Trafalgar Square etc 🌹 #RWC2025

🎵 Driving that train 🎶 Amy Cokayne 🌹 #RWC2025

🎵 Driving that train 🎶 Amy Cokayne 🌹 #RWC2025

Having Ellie Kildunne in your team is how Broncos fans must feel having Reece Walsh in theirs #RWC2025

I am once again asking 🌹 #RWC2025

"We die once but we live every day" – Meg Jones 🌹 #RWC2025

John Mitchell seems nervous 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦 #RWC2025

The puppeteer's union has rejected my slogan "We Need More Hand Jobs!"

Black Ferns put the cue back in the rack a while back, and it's fine, they've got enough, but it's not very Black Ferns like 🇳🇿🇫🇷 #RWC2025

Braxton Sorensen-McGee's greatest strength as a rugby player is not being bound by the laws of physics #RWC2025

Twickers is pretty full for the Bronze Final – good to see 🇳🇿🇫🇷 #RWC2025

They're inflating a sperm whale in my town, which is a strong contender for the oddest sentence I've ever typed

Full of sadness to hear about the death of Sir Menzies Campbell, or Ming, as we called him. His incisive intellect made him a formidable debater, though he was unfailingly courteous and always a gentleman. He spoke with power, authority and moral clarity in opposition to the Iraq War. He was right.

Ming had a generous spirit, and on many occasions I benefitted from his wise, and nuanced, advice - on political matters and even my half-marathon training schedule. Many years after his Olympic career his passion for sport shone through.

If I'd set up a UK Gov petition that got a million signatures and then noticed the typo, I would be mortified

I keep postulating that the government's primary objective is to ensure a Reform government as early as possible, and obviously that's silly, but it does make their otherwise comically inept political strategy vaguely explicable

When people say “but all the European countries have ID cards” tell them to shut up. This will not be the same. In Europe I’d get an ID that identifies me as who I am. This country wants to make me a target by stripping my Article 8 human rights and making me reveal my medical history to everybody.

It is the year 3857. 3am. The mummified cadaver of Tonty Blair creaks upright, drags on a wetsuit, and shambles outside, heading for the pressurised bubble that preserves number 10 Downing Street under the waters that flooded London when the ice caps melted. The prime minister sleeps fitfully.

COMMERCIAL BANANAS AREN'T A STABLE THING SO EVERY SO OFTEN THEY STOP WORKING AND THEY HAVE TO REPLACE THEM WITH DIFFERENT BANANAS – THIS LAST HAPPENED IN THE MID 20TH CENTURY AND ITS WHY BANANA FLAVOURED STUFF DOESN'T TASTE LIKE BANANA COS IT TASTES LIKE THE OLD BANANAS

Ever since I learned that the old banana species (big mike) still exist instead of going extinct I have had urge to find a way to get my hands on it

I'm sorry, what? Have I had a stroke?

These will be great for the toilet police, and really useful for Reform to do their mass deportations and disappearings

Luckily, many of them are African women and therefore unimportant to Sebastian Coe and the athletics TERFs

There are a whole lot of women whose lives are about to be totally upended because genitally-obsessed bigots can't accept reality.