David Phillips
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Someone might want to tell Jim that Monaco, where he lives, is 75% foreign-born.
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'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Someone might want to tell Jim that Monaco, where he lives, is 75% foreign-born.
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Rather funny that The Mirror published an article only 39 minutes ago titled "4 reasons Tottenham STILL haven't sacked Thomas Frank".
It's been deleted.
It's been deleted.
February 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Rather funny that The Mirror published an article only 39 minutes ago titled "4 reasons Tottenham STILL haven't sacked Thomas Frank".
It's been deleted.
It's been deleted.
A reminder that Gianni Infantino confirmed there will be a 2026 World Cup final half-time show.
A reminder also that the Laws of the Game state that players are entitled to a half-time interval not exceeding 15 minutes. There is no proposal to change this in the IFAB AGM.
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A reminder also that the Laws of the Game state that players are entitled to a half-time interval not exceeding 15 minutes. There is no proposal to change this in the IFAB AGM.
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As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time?
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
A reminder that Gianni Infantino confirmed there will be a 2026 World Cup final half-time show.
A reminder also that the Laws of the Game state that players are entitled to a half-time interval not exceeding 15 minutes. There is no proposal to change this in the IFAB AGM.
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A reminder also that the Laws of the Game state that players are entitled to a half-time interval not exceeding 15 minutes. There is no proposal to change this in the IFAB AGM.
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Hurrah. Bluesky has drafts.
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Hurrah. Bluesky has drafts.
God levels of shithousery achieved.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uproar in the Maldives as football relegation battle decided by last-day no-show
There is uproar in the Dhiraagu Dhivehi Premier League in the Maldives after it was alleged one of the leading clubs sought to escape relegation by failing to turn up for a match
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February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
God levels of shithousery achieved.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
And the world's biggest selling/most streamed album this year is likely to be - mostly if not all - in Korean with the title referencing the (entire) country's most famous folk song.
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM
And the world's biggest selling/most streamed album this year is likely to be - mostly if not all - in Korean with the title referencing the (entire) country's most famous folk song.
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After today's #lfc defeat I'm not sure my historic affinity with Washington (State) sports - the first ever college football game I saw in person was the Huskies - can handle this evening.
February 8, 2026 at 7:55 PM
After today's #lfc defeat I'm not sure my historic affinity with Washington (State) sports - the first ever college football game I saw in person was the Huskies - can handle this evening.
Tomorrow marks 1,100 days since Manchester City were formally charged with over 100 offences by the Premier League.
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Tomorrow marks 1,100 days since Manchester City were formally charged with over 100 offences by the Premier League.
That's a heartbreaker.
February 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
That's a heartbreaker.
Just too slow to react.
February 8, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Just too slow to react.
Remarkable that you'd allow Dom to take a free-kick with only a two man wall. Stupid from Man City.
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Remarkable that you'd allow Dom to take a free-kick with only a two man wall. Stupid from Man City.
O'Reilly appears immune to the cumulative fouls yellow card requirement.
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
O'Reilly appears immune to the cumulative fouls yellow card requirement.
Doubtless some sort of and naturally completely unrelated honour coming in the New Year.
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BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Doubtless some sort of and naturally completely unrelated honour coming in the New Year.
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As a definitively non-professional athlete I'll never fully comprehend the risks to their health and wellbeing professional athletes will take in their pursuit of success even when fit, never mind with a very recently ruptured ACL. I hope Lindsey Vonn is able to completely recover.
February 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM
As a definitively non-professional athlete I'll never fully comprehend the risks to their health and wellbeing professional athletes will take in their pursuit of success even when fit, never mind with a very recently ruptured ACL. I hope Lindsey Vonn is able to completely recover.
Sylvain Boyer also designed "Ecobranding", ways to be more sustainable and economical with just a small amendment to logos.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Sylvain Boyer also designed "Ecobranding", ways to be more sustainable and economical with just a small amendment to logos.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Here's the @nytimes.com somehow yet again spectacularly unable to say explicitly in a headline that Donald Trump is a racist.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
Trump Posts Video Portraying the Obamas as Apes
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Here's the @nytimes.com somehow yet again spectacularly unable to say explicitly in a headline that Donald Trump is a racist.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
I don't know why it was phrased this way: "there's no way the Premier League can say they're going to relegate Man City to League Two". The PL simply has the power to *expel* a club from the league - what happens after is between the club expelled from the league and other competition organisers.
February 6, 2026 at 10:14 AM
I don't know why it was phrased this way: "there's no way the Premier League can say they're going to relegate Man City to League Two". The PL simply has the power to *expel* a club from the league - what happens after is between the club expelled from the league and other competition organisers.
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This is a fun story, involving an Arsenal fan in the 1990s, the Pen Pal section of the club magazine, 22 letters from Arsenal fans around the world, and WKD Blue... can you help finish the story?
February 6, 2026 at 9:55 AM
This is a fun story, involving an Arsenal fan in the 1990s, the Pen Pal section of the club magazine, 22 letters from Arsenal fans around the world, and WKD Blue... can you help finish the story?
I think we've found the new definition of marginal gains.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
‘Penis injection’ doping claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada
Wada is to investigate claims ski jumpers are injecting acid into their penises to game the suit-measuring system
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
I think we've found the new definition of marginal gains.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
McSweeney seems preternaturally disposed to ensuring that politicians from Labour's centre-left to left aren't involved in running the great offices of state. He may not have ambitions about specific outcomes, but he certainly has ambition about shaping the direction.
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There's something unnerving about someone who clearly wants power but not for any definable reason. McSweeney clearly has no great ambition to reshape the state - but he also doesn't seem to want personal glory, attention or fame, or he'd be more visible. He just wants to stop anyone else having it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM
McSweeney seems preternaturally disposed to ensuring that politicians from Labour's centre-left to left aren't involved in running the great offices of state. He may not have ambitions about specific outcomes, but he certainly has ambition about shaping the direction.
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An excellent article that risks being undermined by a dreadful headline Duncan presumably had no hand in writing and which neither appears in nor is, as far as I can see, implied.
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What is the point of Keir Starmer staying as prime minister?
February 5, 2026 at 9:12 AM
An excellent article that risks being undermined by a dreadful headline Duncan presumably had no hand in writing and which neither appears in nor is, as far as I can see, implied.
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