“Free speech for the Right is sacred but they want free speech for the Left to be contingent. It’s all fun & games until they’re offended.” From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/from-a-lef...

From a Left-Wing agitator with a book to flog

This edition is a bit meta. Consider it a sequel to yesterday's Rod Liddle obituary.

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If the H*ndred’s TV figures are not way up, I’ll be surprised. Literally, no other sport to watch right now. Actually not much on, at all. Entirely free window They will ‘roll the pitch’ to say it is not. But it is

Abdul El-Sayed’s win represents a big blow to the politics of bygone days. Because if one campaign can show that *that* much money and *that* much old guard support doesn’t guarantee victory, it cracks open what can be imagined. It widens the aperture of what’s possible.

Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever?

Prem was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC.

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Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein collection every fortnight?

Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.

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It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Had a dream last night that it rained. Some crazy shit going on in my subconscious

What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.

Good luck to Dom Ballard at Bristol City - hope he goes higher. Can't remember another Orient striker who was so prolific in both quality and quantity of goals, if only for a season. That goal at Cardiff...

Gutted to see him leave Leyton Orient but wishing Dom Ballard the best of luck as he joins Bristol City…👏 Proud of you Dom, totally deserved, go & smash in The Championship.🏆 Take care of him. #LOFC

It’s all going well over on Substack notes…

For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk

Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition

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More incendiary stuff. Prince Ali, the FA president from Jordan, who was a rival to Infantino in his first election in 2016, alleges FIFA attempted to effectively blackmail theJordanian FA, withholding funds until they had provided backing to Infantino for next year’s election.

First the European Super League, now Infantino’s World Cup sell-off - latest edition of The Football Fan on what defeating these schemes can teach us.

Why the defeat of Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan should encourage everyone who loves football

Five years on from the European Super League, another greed-is-good scheme has been defeated. How significant are these events?

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column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

David Squires on … Gianni Infantino clinging to power as his Fifa empire crumbles

Our resident cartoon imagines some of the crisis talks at Fifa as its president scrambles for support after a botched World Cup plan

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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

Very telling in Webb and Rajan's tribute was Liddle saying of the EU 'I effing hate them and want to do them in' when Today editor. Webb glibly says he was ahead of his time. No, this is openly admitting that the editor of the BBC's flagship political programme openly had a strong political bias.

The BBC is so keen to self-flagellate that it is currently playing a clip of Rod Liddle slagging off Radio 4 to Mike Graham *on the Today programme* as an example of his “wit”.

Hungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of shutting down nuclear power plant amid drought crisis – Europe live

Hungary comes ‘within millimetres’ of shutting down nuclear power plant amid drought crisis – Europe live

PM Péter Magyar says country nearly forced into decision as extreme heat and low water levels in Danube pose challenges in region Hungary has come “within millimetres” of having to shut down its nuclear power plant overnight, prime minister Péter Magyar said, as low water levels in the Danube continue to pose challenges for countries in south-eastern Europe. “Around 1:30 a.m. we were a few millimetres away from completely shutting down the Paks Power Plant, but then the water level stopped falling and by morning it had risen 1.5 centimetres. The last turbine is currently operating safely,” Magyar said on social media. Continue reading...

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Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

Anyone that knows Brick Lane in London recognises that building a datacenter in the middle of it is absolutely the most stupid thing to do. Then there's the issue of resources, not least water in the rapidly drying city. Overriding local government is the opposite of what Burnham claims he supports.

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes A £500m redevelopment of the Truman Brewery estate in Brick Lane, east London, has been approved, clearing the way for the construction of a datacentre, offices and apartments despite opposition from Tower Hamlets council and local campaign groups. The housing secretary, Angela Rayner, made the decision in a letter issued on her behalf last week by the housing minister Matthew Pennycook, rejecting demands from the council and campaigners for for the site to be used for hundreds of homes instead. Continue reading...

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If someone was aggressive and unpleasant to people they didn’t know / never met, but also really nice to their close friends, I’m not sure the second thing makes the first thing OK. It’s a bit of a low fucking bar, to be honest. It’s hardly worth celebrating. “Was nice to eight selected people.”

Deep down what really bugs me about hacks having this ‘oh he was lovely really’ reaction: how it utterly ignores that journalism is meant to be information for the wider public, not entertainment for other hacks.

I will be exceedingly pleased when we have finally moved beyond the age of columnist as naughty man boy and the age of columnist as judgemental authoritarian dad. Goodbye to the age of tells it like it is (if you are a naughty man boy or judgemental authoritarian dad)

Disappointed by an all-male panel on how to fight the far right, which goes on about the billionaire media baddies & setting up your own media, but says v little about the need to show up in your community to fight for & protect public spaces & local services so that ppl aren’t so atomised & angry

It's almost like owning a football club is harder than "Welcome to Wrexham" makes it look!

US ownership in not-here-for-the-long-haul shock

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Charlton up for sale again as US owners look to cash in after three years

Here's a free to read piece on our new site, courtesy of @tomdaviese17.bsky.social which goes some way toward explaining why we're doing what we're doing #LOFC

The Times They Are A-Changin' (Again) • Leyton Orientear • Leyton Orient FC independent news

Local journalism has been in crisis for some years, creating a vacuum in which speculation and misinformation thrive. But it doesn't have to be like this...

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