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Evertonian, on the left, a proud NEU member. Reader, Scottish heritage and Rugby League fan. Springsteen fanatic of course. 🇪🇺🌹🏴🇺🇦
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
First football of the season in leafy SE London suburbia. ghostoftomjoad.substack.com/p/beckenham-...
Beckenham leave it late on opening day
Step 5 football in the sunshine
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Beckenham town 1-0 Holland's and Blair.
Top class chanting and barrelling about from Royal Antwerp fans at London bridge. Off to play Millwall.
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
Exhausted firefighters wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes
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Congrats to Bev, who will do a brilliant job delivering a Greater Manchester that works for all. Thank you to everyone who put their faith in Labour, and the brilliant staff, members and volunteers who have put in a real shift during the largest by-election in British history.
Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
Bev Craig, the city council leader, succeeds Andy Burnham as mayor, reversing Reform gains in May local elections Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection, seizing back areas that recently fell to Reform UK and the Greens. Labour’s Bev Craig, the Manchester city council leader, will now succeed Andy Burnham and hold one of the most powerful political positions outside Westminster. Continue reading...
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If Reform win in Manchester it's a disgrace and I'm ashamed to have roots there. 25% turnout? What else have you got to do?
Chelsea get suspended transfer windows and £10m fine, which may as well be 10p? It relates to secret payments to agents when Roman Abramovich was owner. Remember Derby County got deducted 21 points. One rule for the big PL clubs. Absolutely disgraceful.
My word how Draconian. 10 million pounds. That'll ruin them 🙄 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Chelsea fined £10m and given suspended transfer ban by FA over agent breaches
The club escaped a suspended six-point deduction for the infringements after appealing against the original punishment
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De sponsoring of this kit (itchy and kept falling off) worked well.
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools
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I really like this podcast. They nail the whole FIFA thing here. youtu.be/qdZbwdP7svs?...
FIFA Have Gone Too Far This Time, Is the Commonwealth Games Still Relevant & Gaelic Football Madness
YouTube video by Business of Sport
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I used to really dislike the late 80's and early to mid 90's AC Milan team but that was because they were so good. Baresi played the game like he was in his garden wearing slippers. Poise, cunning and bravery personified. An outstanding player and gone far too early. RIP
Well done to Hibs and Motherwell tonight 👋👏
Love this from Andy. Replace the two words "World Cup" with "Manchester United" and he nails the Glazers and Ratcliffe problem at Old Trafford perfectly.
Corbyn basically went AWOL during the referendum campaign ! Perhaps because, as Dianne Abbott noted, he was really a Brexiter... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jere...
Jeremy Corbyn is ‘in his heart of hearts a Brexiter’, says Diane Abbott
One of the former Labour leader’s closest allies said he is ‘anti-EU’, backing up a suspicion many critics have long held.
independent.co.uk
I was so proud of my confrontation with a man playing loud music on the train that I wrote about it - grumpy face included
I confronted a man on the train over annoying new trend
Liam Thorp has had enough of a common public transport menace
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George Bradshaw, publisher of guides and timetables for travellers, was born on this day 1801 in Pendleton, Salford. Quaker. His timetables are said to have been unpopular with railway companies who found themselves tied to running services on time.
I'm assuming Everton weren't at our slick and efficient best then?
Nice walk near Chichester today. 13 hot miles but lovely breeze from the Roman harbour.
Just having a walk and trying not to think about Everton 🙄
Motorbikes and mountains: photographing the 2026 Tour de France – photo essay
Motorbikes and mountains: photographing the 2026 Tour de France – photo essay
Pete Goding has been photographing the Tour de France for 20 years – here he gives an insight into what it’s been like to document this year’s race
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