Time for UEFA to break with FIFA. They're dragging the reputation of football through the mud. I thought Blatter was corrupt; Johnny Childish is even worse.

The Latin in my "bio" is a John Cooper Clarke joke btw

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

Only just learned that "mob" is an abbreviation of the Latin mobile vulgus, "fickle crowd" 😬

Is Trump stuck in 1996 or something? Trump owned Miss Universe contest in 1996. The winner Miss Venezuela allegedly put on weight so Trump called her Miss Piggy.

Characteristically stupid and dishonest "politics of greed" response from John Redwood here. He's so discredited by his Brexit lies that I'm amazed anyone asks him his opinion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brush tapas www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...

THE WEEK IN TRUMP Unbanned swastika Called female journalist piggy Whitewashed murder of a journalist and sold latest military tech to a close ally of China Threatened his political opponents with death penalty TOP PICK Reissued Putin's own 2022 plan to end the war by Ukrainian capitulation

BBC : Sorry we accidentally made it seem like you made a *direct* call for violence, now fuck off!

I like the Joyce carol Oates post and it's a shame she rowed back on it by pretending she wasn't referring to Musk specifically.

So we're supposed to believe that Trump wasn't behind January 6th??? This is very sinister. The capture of British media by the far right is one of the more horrifying developments of the last ten years. Lisa Nandy needs to use whatever influence she has to reverse the Tory/Trump bias at the BBC.

No www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"...and in the "French story of the year" category..." 77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...

Frustrating how much of this asylum hotel report is being framed. This is absolutely something inherited by Labour from the Tories. Not only the Tories signing the contracts but the Tories stopping processing asylum claims from irregular arrivals.

Would be a shame if this Daily Express poll didn't go the way they hoped... Vote here 👉 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

Starmer shouts about his mistakes and whispers about his progressive successes. The far left hate mob on bluesky is getting close to why I left twitter. With very different motives, they're taking us down the path to fascism. The left is forever divided which is why the left loses elections

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

I think they mean "the best" for consumers, thanks to the NHS. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

en.protothema.gr/2025/09/16/w... This is intended to convey the idea of military might, austerity, self sufficiency- the Spartan Mirage. Sparta also relied on its allies, the Peloponnesian League, to do their fighting and its conquered and enslaved neighbours, the Messenians, to do all their work.

We packed these angry, unChristian bigots off to the New World on the Mayflower without thinking through the long term consequences for the world. Divisive, aggressive, horrible people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Farages arse served up to him on a silver platter. UK politicians please follow suit, it should be easy

The proofs are here! Not not long to go now... 📚

The Large Gymnasium and the Amphitheatre but mainly the trees #Pompeii

@absinthemiasma.bsky.social 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Sums it up really. Ignorant xenophobia.

Worth mentioning that this is based on the plot of Aristophanes The Frogs www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

How we secured a 10% US tariff part 15.. Nazi electricity supplies www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Nice work if you can get it. No change at top or bottom. Man U, Spurs to improve. Shear (pun intended) genius.

Well done England. Watched it with 2k Spaniards in the amazing Plaza Mayor in Salamanca. I was the England fan.

My god there are organised block lists run by idiots who argue that Labour (the only party which can keep Reform out of power in 2029) is a far right organisation. Bluesky is in danger of becoming the mirror image of Twitter.

📌BREAKING: UK to lower voting age to 16, while GOP looks to eliminate voting altogether in the U.S.

Prince of water towers. Jumbo in Colchester as seen through the oldest intact archway in the country which was part of Claudius' triumphal arch, when he made Colchester capital of his new province. Victorians built a pub on top of it 😐

Aristotle thought tragedy purged the two negative emotions fear and pity. Fear's understandable but you need to live in either a warrior society of modern America to understand why pity might need to be burnt clean

Kent Police have created a problem for themselves

An outrageous attempt by Kent police to silence legitimate protest by a single person at a roundabout in Canterbury has massively back fired. There's now a large and very noisy protest on the same spot.

The UK spends less on welfare than almost any EU country & yet Labour have allowed for the “scroungers” rhetoric to mask their cruelty. Again. Brits need to learn that they too can have nice things. They just need to stop falling for the most obvious propaganda & stop voting for neoliberals.

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." --U.S. founding father Thomas Jefferson

Nice and easy to keep tabs on England's tenuous lead in the test match

FPTP entails the death of nuance in political debate. Another reason that we desperately need PR.

My favourite book. A unique, poetic, very funny existential nightmare.

56. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien An incredible insight into how working in the civil service will eventually drive you to madness. 💙📚

Inside each of us are two cats #fourthofjuly #fireworks

Shout out to Radio 4 for reminding me I had this on my shelf, unread. What a cover

On rachel reeves' upset in pmqs.. Has the right (and hard left) learned nothing from Kate Middleton. That sometimes when things look wrong, it's because there's an intensely private reason for it and you'll look a twat when the truth comes out

I've never been to a music festival. I've no interest. I'd rather see individual bands I actually want to see Similarly, I've been to lots of restaurants but I've no desire to go to a banquet