‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’

It's grotesque

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

BOING BOING BOING BOING.

Every day, at least 10 children in Gaza lose one or both of their legs.

Read that, and then read it again.

In the coming reckoning, the politicians who facilitated this will go to prison, and the journalists who cheered it on will have their careers and reputations destroyed.

'This isn't a football match. This is people's lives.'

Francesca Albanese pushes back against the tendency to brand people 'pro-Palestine' or 'pro-Israel', telling @mrjamesob.bsky.social that 'one injustice does not justify more injustice.'

Thanks to the brilliant Arts Depot I'm doing two more Work In Progress performances of my new solo show IS IT TOO LATE NOW TO SAY SORRY? on 24th July. Looking forward to adding new ingredients for this one. Please join me if you can. www.artsdepot.co.uk/event/adam-l...

Enabled by your government.

Go on George!

Five or six nil and he will be gone before end of season.

Styles wanker. I’m afraid Mowbray has allowed discipline to fade away under his watch. I don’t know where we go next and he hasn’t been helped by a poor set of players but Tony Mowbray has to go.

Hate to say it but I think this job is too big and too early in the recovery of Mowbray.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Coffee, Cerys and sunshine in the Pyrenees. Perfect Sunday morning.

Got a lot of time for Adrian Chiles going to Liam Payne’s funeral in a West Brom coat given their mutual love of the team.

A lil tip for the folks with shoe polish on their lips today :)

Good afternoon. Here is everyone ever.