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Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

'Marine Le Pen is going to jail' is a truly beautiful sentence to write. Try it, it's such fun. I might just keep on writing it all day.

Newcastle Uniteds open top bus parade follows the exact route of Stings dads milk round

There’s the Oi Polloi lads, back in the game silver-raven.co.uk/blogs/news

Just marvellous youtu.be/xempnzVy3Vs?...

PARIS ANGELS // Perfume Paul 'Wags' Wagstaff RIP x aww

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, it smells of hashish, humping, and battycrease in here.

Your owning despot is pleased www.theguardian.com/football/202...

A truly awful weekend of association football

Ol' Dirty Bastard 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya" (1995) hiphopgoldenage.com/ol-dirty-bas...

🙏🏼 youtu.be/9ATAR1OQBi4?...

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

‘We spent £100,000 doing a gig in a scout hut!’ The Beta Band on debt, disastrous decisions – and their defiant comeback

The Beta Band are reforming for their first shows in 20 years - it's really happening! www.clashmusic.com/news/the-bet...

Lads, lads, 2025 might be an absolute shitshow but The Beta Band are touring again!

Congratulations to BRIT winners Charli XCX (Bishop's Stortford College, £38,319 per year), AG Cook (King Alfred School, £27,747) and The Last Dinner Party (Bedales, £52,075) for showing that people from ordinary backgrounds can reach the top in pop music, that most egalitarian of art forms.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer walks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to his motorcade after their meeting in Number 10

Oof!

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

‘Maybe he was a paedo? Anyway, rest in peace’

Last night I saw a response to abuse that a troll had sent to them, and they simply replied: “that's a great story and you tell it so well.” I love that energy, and think it can be used for any kind of nonsense hurled your way!

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

All hail! Praying the recent cryptic Insta posts are a prelude to a much needed reunion #thebetaband youtu.be/3PldHbXBOlw?...

Aged nineteen. Jumped out of an airplane, cracked an ankle. Walked it off. Aged now. Farted wrong. Dislocated a buttock

ELECTRONIC // Marr & Sumner A lesson in perfect style.

#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.c...

"big tech lost a trillion dollars" me:

Now that you think about it, crushing UK manufacturing to become a services based economy advertised as the gateway to Europe and then leaving the EU might have not been a great idea…

Make up your own damn minds

Innit, though?

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

I see the mask is off completely now

Thank you Loryn Brantz. Resist. Resist. Resist.

Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display

Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA