Beestonbaggie
@beestonbaggie.bsky.social
WBA, St Pauli, decent music, good reads, cycling and other lost causes. Getting on a bit.
A brilliant response to Clarkson’s nasty little admonition. Great detail , well worth reading. Personally, I would have been tempted to just tell Clarkson, ‘fuck off, you grifting twat.’
Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d agoBrilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Lamentably amateurish commentary on the #commonwealthgames #athletics from the TNT team. You really miss the BBC on occasions like these.
Was this a good #TourdeFrance? On one level, seeing Pog pretty much wrap it up in the first week was disappointing. But there were so many great stories, great stage finishes, and then that finale tonight. It’s still one of the greatest sporting events on the planet, in my opinion.
Why on earth are #skynews asking Jenrick for his views on Burnham? Giving Reform free airtime. Is there really no one else they can find to fill the bulletin? Really poor.
What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.
Spain are incredibly competent at keeping the ball, but their basic game plan is to suffocate the life out of their opposition, and, consequently, the game. They don’t have much of a cutting edge. Argentina, while scruffy, negative and often underhand, won’t lie down. Result: boring game.
2/ This essential read lays out the story of how Carole has been tracking Nigel Farage since Brexit, how our institutions – including the media – went missing in action, and how being personally sued seemed to have a chilling effect on further scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Bellingham just has some “No fuck you” goals you don’t usually see outside of school football & it’s great
in a backroom in Singapore, a guy who just pulled off the greatest sports bet in history smiles.
Garry Sobers was a legend He was also inaptly named
Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3w agoI know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.
The final hilarity of “this government doesn’t have a culture secretary” is “how did it not occur to anyone to get Starmer an Arsenal Champions shirt signed by Mikel Arteta?”
Ian Boucher@desolationrow5.bsky.social · 3w ago‘The cabinet presented Keir Starmer with a carriage clock this morning’ is simultaneously the most British thing imaginable and also one of the saddest. Yes it was time for him to go but he’s lead their party for 6 years and country for 2 and he gets a carriage clock?
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
It may be Bastille Day, but France played like the ancien régime
I’m really heartily sick of disruptors being hard to disrupt things so that they become worse. Especially when those ridiculously well-paid sodding disruptors are no-nothing kids with zero qualifications hired on the basis of being able to solve a puzzle and seemingly nothing else. Bloody stop it.
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 3w agoMeet the 22-year-old Harvard drop-out bringing AI to the public sector William Tarr is among 30 new ‘No 10 innovation fellows’ on ‘tours of duty’ - and salaries of up to £200k - on Whitehall...
This is well worth a read as you gear up for Wednesday’s inevitably tense encounter.
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️@outsidewrite.bsky.social · 4w agoI know there will be a million articles on the history of #England v #Argentina ahead of Wednesday. So, I will get in early with one I wrote last year. #WorldCup2026 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Half an hour ago, it looked all over. Now it’s all ‘ova.’ Great match, psychologically. #thetennis
Ken Bates' programme notes when he questioned whether disabled supporters were faking it to gain cheap entry to Elland Road sums up the bloke. He was a twat. I love #lufc but wouldn't amputate my legs for a better view.
Farage sob story. ‘Oh how broke I’ve been! Oh how badly they have treated me! Poor me!’ Pour me another drink, ffs.
The guy who wrote this article for the NYT/Athletic would like to call himself a journalist. He’s an embarrassment to the profession.
Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 4w agoImagine writing about sport without having any sense of what makes sport precious. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
