Chris Irvine
@chrisirvine.bsky.social
First newspaper byline 1978, mostly The Times/Sunday Times, #rugbyleague majorly. Sport, politics, vino #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 🏉 🌹 🍷
Our Worst Prime Minister. 23,000 people died unnecessarily, because #borisjohnson did not take #Covid pandemic seriously. He joked, he mucked around, prevaricated, failed to act and then he partied.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our Worst Prime Minister. 23,000 people died unnecessarily, because #borisjohnson did not take #Covid pandemic seriously. He joked, he mucked around, prevaricated, failed to act and then he partied.
Gearing up here in Milano for Champions League Final ⚽️
May 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Gearing up here in Milano for Champions League Final ⚽️
The Ladybird Book of Grifters
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Ladybird Book of Grifters
Here in northern Queensland #StateofOrigin
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Here in northern Queensland #StateofOrigin
Sad but painfully inevitable. History keeps repeating and Cornwall the latest tombstone. The biggest breakthrough was Super League innovation in 1996 but all that is unraveling and game at pro level in UK is back in intensive care. NRL takeover a mirage at this stage.
🌐 Cornwall RLFC folds due to finance issues
#League
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/articles/c87px8vlrvxo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
Cornwall RLFC folds due to finance issues
League One side Cornwall RLFC fold due to financial issues, just four years after being formed.
www.bbc.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Sad but painfully inevitable. History keeps repeating and Cornwall the latest tombstone. The biggest breakthrough was Super League innovation in 1996 but all that is unraveling and game at pro level in UK is back in intensive care. NRL takeover a mirage at this stage.
Looking from other end of the #rugbyleague telescope here in Oz, you can’t blame the NRL cooling on any Super league takeover. What a bloody mess the club game is. And yet an Ashes series this autumn catching fire. As for the game down under, it has never looked or felt stronger.
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Looking from other end of the #rugbyleague telescope here in Oz, you can’t blame the NRL cooling on any Super league takeover. What a bloody mess the club game is. And yet an Ashes series this autumn catching fire. As for the game down under, it has never looked or felt stronger.
History may not quite repeat but it does rhyme #StandwithUkraine
If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two.
Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time.
But fear of war led to war.
Don’t repeat the mistake.
#SlavaUkraini
Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time.
But fear of war led to war.
Don’t repeat the mistake.
#SlavaUkraini
March 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
History may not quite repeat but it does rhyme #StandwithUkraine
USA voting with Russia, North Korea and Belarus (in throwing Ukraine under the bus at the United Nations) tells you everything you need to know to know about Trump’s America 🇺🇸 🇰🇵 🇷🇺 🇧🇾
February 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
USA voting with Russia, North Korea and Belarus (in throwing Ukraine under the bus at the United Nations) tells you everything you need to know to know about Trump’s America 🇺🇸 🇰🇵 🇷🇺 🇧🇾
Reposted by Chris Irvine
Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis
Why Trump clings to Putin.
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The Nazis crushed a liberal democracy in 6 months. Trump’s done it in 1 month. And he says Zelenskyy is a dictator! Stand with Ukraine.
February 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Nazis crushed a liberal democracy in 6 months. Trump’s done it in 1 month. And he says Zelenskyy is a dictator! Stand with Ukraine.
What fresh hell is this? Every morning you wake to a litany of Trump lies as he plays footsy with Putin - apparently Ukraine started it! Despicable, deluded and downright dangerous. Stand with 🇺🇦
February 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What fresh hell is this? Every morning you wake to a litany of Trump lies as he plays footsy with Putin - apparently Ukraine started it! Despicable, deluded and downright dangerous. Stand with 🇺🇦
Nippy at Headingley. Defrosting. Wakefield thoroughly deserved their 14-12 win. Great teamwork, commitment and persistence. Leeds disjointed, lacking in ideas. Lots of muscle but little nous #SLLeeWak
February 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Nippy at Headingley. Defrosting. Wakefield thoroughly deserved their 14-12 win. Great teamwork, commitment and persistence. Leeds disjointed, lacking in ideas. Lots of muscle but little nous #SLLeeWak
The Happy Couple
February 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Happy Couple
Will St Helens v Salford Reserves live on the BBC Saturday come with a health warning for viewers? Only in #rugbyleague …
February 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Will St Helens v Salford Reserves live on the BBC Saturday come with a health warning for viewers? Only in #rugbyleague …
Bit of a first. I agree with Clarkson
#BrexitDisaster
#BrexitDisaster
February 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Bit of a first. I agree with Clarkson
#BrexitDisaster
#BrexitDisaster
Reposted by Chris Irvine
Brexit nailed by @iandunt.bsky.social …
Brexit five years on: A triumph of lies iandunt.substack.com/p/brexit-fiv...
January 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Brexit nailed by @iandunt.bsky.social …
Reposted by Chris Irvine
Who made this 🤣
January 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Who made this 🤣