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Oh do fuck off Qatar weighing up bid for 2029 Club World Cup that could be played in winter www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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NOTE TO SELF: Next time google “what does this political party believe” before giving them $277 million

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One of the many reasons I could never get into Ted Lasso was that if you spend any time following non-League the real material is just so much weirder. We all live in a Streatham Rovers world.

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One of the great things about political strategists is that they are all, in fact, eminently replaceable. Indeed, it's usually best to replace them before they get to the 'you can't replace me, only I have the magic' stage.

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England European Champions again

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The way things are going I’ll be surprised if the BBC don’t insist on Kneecap’s set being dubbed by voice actors.

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Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform

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Despite all his faux Celtic supporting of course Rod Stewart likes Reform. Look at him. Him and his twin the Pimlico plumber fit right in. Relics

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Man of the people with another policy to make rich people richer. Handing the running of the country over to the people who crashed the world economy in 2008. What could possibly go wrong.

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Snowflake.

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Russia’s economy is in a worse state than publicly acknowledged and Putin plans to cut defence spending. A Bloomberg exclusive.

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Let's see how THAT goes down at Glastonbury 😆😆😆

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ITALIAN STYLE. WIMBLEDON SPIRIT. TOGETHER AGAIN. Presenting the 2025/26 AFC Wimbledon x Lotto Home Shirt. #AFCW 🔵🟡

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It’s weird to see the press still discussing whether you can say if the US is on the road to fascism when you can’t keep up with the number of warrantless arrests of innocent citizens by masked thugs

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Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported. Why? Because he won the Democratic primary to become the mayor of New York City. This is what fascism looks like.

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Whenever I hear people moaning about Glastonbury I like to remind them that the British summer offers up many global level cultural events -The Proms, Wimbledon, Edinburgh festival etc - and it's simply insane to think every single one should be entirely appealing to you.

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After Kemi Badenoch mocks Keir Starmer for skipping PMQs in order to attend the G7 and NATO summits, Conservative MP Mark Pritchard condemns her "partisan" jibes, adding that "I may get the whip withdrawn for saying that, but so be it. There are some things that go beyond party politics."

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Someone needs to set up a pro-joy, pro-success pressure group, that goes around telling people who write this stuff to get a better job and go out and do enjoyable things.

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Hegseth: "President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success." Move over D Day!

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People like Munira Mirza, who worked for, enabled or cheered on Boris Johnson, should consider their own responsibility for the rise of "celebrity" politicians & "consummate bluffers", who "care more about personal popularity than real achievements". 1/4 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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We Boomers have a relentless desire to destroy the UK despite getting more from this country than any other generation before or since.

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Israel is currently on a war footing but its main problem will not be wartime, it will be peacetime, when the society has time to reflect and to examine itself, just as it was during those 2023 protests. When the final death toll for this genocide emerges, I think it will be well into six figures.

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How on earth did JD Vance have the gall to lecture Europe about ‘free speech’

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"it said: 'New York's housing crisis has gotten so bad that a socialist might become mayor.'" "And just like that, even a Murdoch paper could understand historical materialism." @attackerman.bsky.social

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I know we probably know this but: New York’s murder rate is one of the lowest in America’s cities, at 5.3 per 100,000. That’s still four times higher than London’s, which is around 1.3 per 100,000. So if Mamdani turns NY into London…all good?

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A very rare, genuinely funny PMQs intervention

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”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

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Speaking as a Londoner: Congrats, New York on your (hopefully) new muslim mayor. But also commiserations on the absolute S-tier flood of baseless racist shite you're going to get bombarded with from your family outside the city from now on. Ask us how we know.

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People make fun of Netanyahu saying for the last 20 years+ "Iran going to be able to produce a bomb in a few months". How can that be true? What's missing here is that a great effort was made throughout to stall Iran and set it back. In the early 2010s it was Israeli cyber attacks 1/

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Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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They believe in one thing: Trump. It’s a cult.

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Every fucking news channel today youtu.be/TAj7S7lyHdA?...

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Zia Yusuf has published a response to our report on the Reform UK "Britannia card" proposal. It's disappointing: heavy on insults, light on substance, and revealing that Mr Yusuf cites an OBR paper he hasn't read. buff.ly/GUbqAei

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"I've helped some countries who dont know what the fuck they're doing bomb each other, by mistake"

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TRUMP: "[Israel and Iran] have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?"

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surely nobel peace prize worthy?

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It's here! It's finally here! It's Daniel Hannan Day! The future he promised everyone a mere 2 days before the Brexit referendum is so exciting, I think my heart may burst with joy when I step outside and experience it for myself. (Read it. You deserve a laugh.) www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

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Seems about right UK was at around 5% in the early to mid 1980s and sadly the world is probably more dangerous now than it was then

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This new strain of “I went to London. I saw some social problems that were the predictable cause of not spending enough on the safety net and on infrastructure. I decided it was the fault of immigrants. Also, London is finished but also too expensive” talk, among other things, is just loser talk.

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At some point, Republicans are going to learn what the Department of Energy does, right? Like... they have to learn at some point that it runs nuclear reactors and doesn't operate oil fields or whatever.

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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

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It matters so little to him that he mentions it six times in short order.

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#Trump just convinced every non-nuke nation that the best way to ensure their survival is to already have nukes. Bombing #Iran is expensive for Trump, in dollars, and in political capital. Imagine if 10 other nations now start or reveal nuke dev? Then what? Bomb them all? Idiot.

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Wow are we in trouble: JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are the "calmer heads" in this administration.

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