This is genuinely the single most needless self-inflicted political clusterfuck I've seen in some time. It was a council selection: all Badenoch had to do was get him dropped as a candidate. Instead she's turned it into a multi-day saga she now personally owns.
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 15h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
What if we ban walking and cycling to solve air pollution?
Laura Laker@lauralaker.bsky.social · yesterday“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...
The latest instalment of our sentencing series contains court outcomes that are at times as bizarre as they are harrowing. road.cc/news/july-20...
I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet
Stop the Odyssey discourse: this is sensational. 🥰 www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/people/...
'I can't sparke!': Legendary rugby commentary immortalised as Xscape lift voiceover ahead of Yorkshire Day
The voice behind a legendary piece of rugby league commentary, described as ‘the most famous and most quoted in history’, will now greet visitors using the lift at Xscape Yorkshire.
wakefieldexpress.co.uk
“By Sunday, about 3,000 volunteer hours had been logged and an estimated 285kg of nurdles had been recovered by the ‘people’s army’.”
‘There’s no nurdle fairy’: thousands mobilise to clean up plastic spillage in north-east England
Volunteers painstakingly gather plastic pellets washing up on beaches after ship collision on 19 July
theguardian.com
Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
The Guardian review section praises both a novel about a vacuum cleaner becoming sentient, and a film about a woman reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner. 🤔 Is this a major new genre which has somehow passed me by? #hooverlit
"Sources with knowledge of the scheme say the intention was for Infantino to become the chief executive or commissioner after his presidency, with a basic salary — before any bonuses — of $30million (about £22.2million) a year". More stellar reporting by @martynziegler.bsky.social for @thetimes.com.
Gianni Infantino clinging to power as efforts to oust him intensify
Support is flooding away from the Fifa president, who will likely be asked to resign at emergency council meeting and is scrambling to establish base of backers
thetimes.com
Charlie Kaufman is reportedly adapting Susan Orlean’s critique of Emily Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoSUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS
A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
Special Report: Stripped Tees
IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...
private-eye.co.uk
This is yet another fascinating music explainer from @rhodri.biz and also makes me eager to hear oompah versions of other post punk classics. 👍 🎶
Rhodri Marsden@rhodri.biz · 5d ago(In fact I once made a video about my long-standing confusion over Going Underground, but I won't be making a similar video about "Navvy" by Pere Ubu because the potential audience is negligible by comparison)
A morning nurdling amid the seaweed. Plenty of plastic pollution still around. 😒
The re-recorded 'disco' version of "Angel Eyes" was released as the 3rd single from Manifesto on this day in 1979. This German TV performance shows Bryan Ferry in his lime green suit by Antony Price which he wore extensively promoting the single on television. #roxymusic #onthisday #fashiondesigner
Should go further and threaten to boycott/withdraw from federation if Infantino is still in place this time next week.
Robert Shrimsley@robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 6d agoNot only is the right decision in principle it's smart politics to go straight in for the kill - its the best chance of stopping the whole plan before it gathers any traction in other parts of the world.
Phew, the interminable absence of football since the World Cup is over! New @wsc.co.uk season guide gleefully received. 😁
Litany of failure here from Port of Tyne and companies involved in perhaps worst ever plastic pollution event in UK/Europe: No immediate containment of spillage No mention of spillage in press releases until day 4 *Still* no large-scale clear-up operation Nurdles found 20 miles N and S of Tyne
Port of Tyne criticised over River Tyne plastic nurdle spill response
Port of Tyne says it acted to tackle the spillage of nurdles once it was aware.
bbc.co.uk
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.“This incident is believed to be the largest recorded nurdle spill in Northern Europe and the UK.” @northwildlife.bsky.social
I feel hopeful about the talks today on fixing our broken care system but this is just the beginning. A solution is desperately needed. I will always stand up for family carers through this process.
So sad witnessing the wildlife today feeding on and around the nurdles on #NorthShields Fish Quay 1/2 Crows
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It is very hard to see how anything other than a secession of all UEFA countries from Fifa (which other confederations would follow, as the WC is worth very little without European teams and markets) can put a stop to the assault Infantino and his US friends are leading on football.
Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
This sounds very promising. Here's hoping. 😬
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · last wk.Burnham announces: 1. Casey will bring forward her review by a year to summer 2027. He wants it to focus on creating a National Care Service that is ‘highly integrated’ with the NHS. 2. He will look at improving pay and progression of social care workforce. 3. Cross party talks to begin today.
My theory is Infantino is only interested in money and celebrities. His dream is a franchised 'all-stars' tournament, where future* Ronaldos and Messis 'compete' in contrived celebrity teams. Two hour half time shows, laws of game scrapped. Sod inconvenient countries and fans. 👍 *and current 🤷♀️
James Dart@jamesdart.bsky.social · last wk.Concacaf joins Uefa in criticising Fifa’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors: ‘We are deeply concerned by the lack of due process’
