Their keeper and that linesman have saved them from a proper hiding this evening. Three points from a heavily rejigged starting XI and a solid debut from Sam Johnstone. Can't really complain.

KT left for dead there.

Tounekti in goes outside his man shocker!

Trying hard not to be too down on Tounekti but he's making it very difficult.

Something matador-esque about the way Hassan just puts his foot on the ball and stops while he decides which way he's going to go round his opponent.

Oh look, it turns out that successive British governments have been “feigning helplessness” over Israel’s criminality and have merely been “paying lip service” to a peaceful resolution. Exactly like we’ve been saying they were for years. And all it took to notice was the government doing something.

Spain's ban on gambling sponsorships had inter wearing a blank shirt in the cl tonight and it was 😙👌

Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff.

In an infamous series of experiments in the 1950s, Corporation engineers attempted to determine the tilt required to throw yer granny aff a bus. After many failures, the task was admitted to be impossible. (Virtual Mitchell: www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitch...)

media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.

Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.

Bushmen FACT: Crocodile Dundee lived in the same street as his arch-rival, Crocodile Dundee United.

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

Genuinely don’t think I’d have so little self-respect, if I were a journalist, as to give these obvious and insulting lies any credence

Nigel Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' in foreign donor talks

The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.

bbc.co.uk

I can let the first one go, I could easily be wrong that it's the wrong frame. The second one is misuse of VAR for me. VAR can't overturn the onfield decision, and the linesman didn't flag. The angle they give the referee isn't even close to being good. The onfield decision should stand.

The problem with VAR in Scotland isn't VAR itself. It's the implementation of it, and the people trusted to operate it. Couldn't trust them to officiate a game fairly without VAR. Can't trust them to officiate with it.

Robbed of a 4-1 win in a top of the table clash by some baffling refereeing. St Mirren deserve a lot of credit for making a game of it.

Yass! Daizen Yangda beautifully teed up by Duran.

Need a whip-round to send AJ to Lourdes. Donovan is not the answer.

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 5d ago

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

Police intel is good enough to allow pre-emptive raids on young women in Quaker meeting houses but mysteriously lacking when it comes to balaclava’d thugs blocking transport infrastructure. Funny that. 🙄 news.sky.com/story/ridicu...

'Ridiculously heavy-handed' Metropolitan Police criticised after raid on Quaker meeting house to arrest protesters

One Quaker was incensed by how the police "flooded" the building - so much so that they pointedly did not offer the officers any cups of tea.

news.sky.com

Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns

Look, unless they're holding signs saying they oppose genocide, there's nothing that can be done x

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 5d ago

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

there are now no fewer than five separate financial scandals engulfing Reform UK www.ft.com/content/0426...

The five financing scandals facing Reform

Nigel Farage and his party are facing growing scrutiny over transparency and the source of donations

ft.com

...and that's why I'm the best possible person to be the First Lord of the Treasury.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 6d ago

Farage confirming how blase he is about accepting cash: "I'm not an expert about how family trusts work... I have no idea how this works.... I ask a question of the people around the table, "Is this legit?"... I'm told they're going to give us money... I basically didn't give it a second thought."

Farage’s stupidest comment to date: “They got a couple of our contractors to say things that perhaps should not have been said. They have been removed this morning”. Contractors. That would be his long-serving aide and the person who devises Reform policy, very senior people. No way out.

With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.