Steve Gedge
@stevegedge.bsky.social
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Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Leicestershire County Council has announced it is to pay consultants £30m to carry out a cost cutting review.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
They said it would be £1.4m.
They lied.
They said Reform DOGE would do all this.
They lied.
You can’t trust Reform UK.
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The scale of the Motorway Box plans for London is still staggering half a century on. Some of the plans just defy belief.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The scale of the Motorway Box plans for London is still staggering half a century on. Some of the plans just defy belief.
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NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Best country visited?: Apartheid-era South Africa
Which person in the world would you most like to visit?: Enoch Powell
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Which person in the world would you most like to visit?: Enoch Powell
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I found Malcolm Allison's Shoot! profile on my research, and I figured if Kevin Hectors was boring, this might redress the balance
A plug for his toy, and as for who he wants to meet......
(From Shoot! - 28/10/1972)
#Shoot #shootmagazine #ManchesterCity #MCFC
A plug for his toy, and as for who he wants to meet......
(From Shoot! - 28/10/1972)
#Shoot #shootmagazine #ManchesterCity #MCFC
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Best country visited?: Apartheid-era South Africa
Which person in the world would you most like to visit?: Enoch Powell
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Which person in the world would you most like to visit?: Enoch Powell
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Mark Fotheringham?!? Can we not get someone without an #ncfc connection now?
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/155496...
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/155496...
Celtic coach Mark Fotheringham emerges as contender for huge English boss job
CELTIC coach Mark Fotheringham is a contender for the vacant Norwich City job. SunSport understands former Canaries captain and highly experienced Fotheringham is under consideration by Carrow Road…
www.thescottishsun.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Mark Fotheringham?!? Can we not get someone without an #ncfc connection now?
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/155496...
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/155496...
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Manchester Evening News publisher pays £16k damages to Bob Vylan frontman
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays £16k damages to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Manchester Evening News publisher pays £16k damages to Bob Vylan frontman
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
We'd all love it if this was an Arkell v Pressdram scenario. Sadly, however...
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We'd all love it if this was an Arkell v Pressdram scenario. Sadly, however...
They always end up eating their own...
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
They always end up eating their own...
"Bryan Gunn, an older goalie, beat me at running in training" - Jamie Cureton #ncfc
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November 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"Bryan Gunn, an older goalie, beat me at running in training" - Jamie Cureton #ncfc
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Ben Knapper is an utter fraud who has little/no talent other than pulling wool over the eyes of successive #ncfc owners and doing a disappearing act when it comes to engaging directly with the fanbase/media.
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Ben Knapper is an utter fraud who has little/no talent other than pulling wool over the eyes of successive #ncfc owners and doing a disappearing act when it comes to engaging directly with the fanbase/media.
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The #ncfc business model is based on selling lots of season tickets. If you lose the first 30% of your home fixtures how is that going to encourage people to renew next year? Knapper and Manning need to go for business reasons alone, never mind the fact that we're bound for League One.
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The #ncfc business model is based on selling lots of season tickets. If you lose the first 30% of your home fixtures how is that going to encourage people to renew next year? Knapper and Manning need to go for business reasons alone, never mind the fact that we're bound for League One.
Knapper should be sacked immediately after putting his name to this statement yesterday and Manning doesn't have the tactical nous to salvage the situation. #ncfc
November 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Knapper should be sacked immediately after putting his name to this statement yesterday and Manning doesn't have the tactical nous to salvage the situation. #ncfc
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Time to celebrate, dear readers, as we at the Muckrakers Arms raise a glass on our 200th diary edition 🥂🍻
To celebrate, we turn our steely eye to observe the LibDems, Farage, Badenoch, & Cllr Wortley's antics at Broxbourne... & ponder if Mamdani’s win across the pond will have ripples here...
To celebrate, we turn our steely eye to observe the LibDems, Farage, Badenoch, & Cllr Wortley's antics at Broxbourne... & ponder if Mamdani’s win across the pond will have ripples here...
Pecksniff: Mamdani victory hints at dramatic change to a new politics here too
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Time to celebrate, dear readers, as we at the Muckrakers Arms raise a glass on our 200th diary edition 🥂🍻
To celebrate, we turn our steely eye to observe the LibDems, Farage, Badenoch, & Cllr Wortley's antics at Broxbourne... & ponder if Mamdani’s win across the pond will have ripples here...
To celebrate, we turn our steely eye to observe the LibDems, Farage, Badenoch, & Cllr Wortley's antics at Broxbourne... & ponder if Mamdani’s win across the pond will have ripples here...
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Lets put BBC’s obsession with 4 prisoners at large freed in error into perspective👇🏼👇🏼
Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too
BBC said nothing
Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼♂️
Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too
BBC said nothing
Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼♂️
At least four prisoners freed in error still at large, BBC told
The government is under increasing pressure after a number of high-profile wrong releases.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Lets put BBC’s obsession with 4 prisoners at large freed in error into perspective👇🏼👇🏼
Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too
BBC said nothing
Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼♂️
Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too
BBC said nothing
Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼♂️
Ben Knapper lives in a fantasy world at a time when #ncfc reported a "significant operating loss" of £25.5m in the most recent 12-month period, compared to £0.6m recorded in 2023-24.
"[Liam Manning] also has a proven track record and experience of the level, and we firmly believe he is the best
"[Liam Manning] also has a proven track record and experience of the level, and we firmly believe he is the best
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ben Knapper lives in a fantasy world at a time when #ncfc reported a "significant operating loss" of £25.5m in the most recent 12-month period, compared to £0.6m recorded in 2023-24.
"[Liam Manning] also has a proven track record and experience of the level, and we firmly believe he is the best
"[Liam Manning] also has a proven track record and experience of the level, and we firmly believe he is the best
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This is actually astonishing, stoking up more division, club vs fans mentality. When a senior player abuses a fan online, gets lauded by the owner and promoted to the XI instead of being ungracefully sacked. Marked it at the time as a key, they set the tone and here we are. Our club is gone #ncfc
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is actually astonishing, stoking up more division, club vs fans mentality. When a senior player abuses a fan online, gets lauded by the owner and promoted to the XI instead of being ungracefully sacked. Marked it at the time as a key, they set the tone and here we are. Our club is gone #ncfc
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This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This investigation from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social is absolutely staggering. It is very common in Sheffield (I live in this bit) to have a leasehold, often with hundreds of years left on and pennies in ground rent. This is extortion pure and simple. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
At some point Starmer and McSweeney will make the out-of-his-depth Akehurst a minister and then still be surprised that they don't win the next election.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
At some point Starmer and McSweeney will make the out-of-his-depth Akehurst a minister and then still be surprised that they don't win the next election.
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One for my old inky pals.
The New York Post didn't back Zohran Mamdani, so did this hit job on him.
Mamdani fans bought every issue, giving the NYP its first sell-out edition for years, throwing the paper's management in a political/financial conundrum.
The New York Post didn't back Zohran Mamdani, so did this hit job on him.
Mamdani fans bought every issue, giving the NYP its first sell-out edition for years, throwing the paper's management in a political/financial conundrum.
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
One for my old inky pals.
The New York Post didn't back Zohran Mamdani, so did this hit job on him.
Mamdani fans bought every issue, giving the NYP its first sell-out edition for years, throwing the paper's management in a political/financial conundrum.
The New York Post didn't back Zohran Mamdani, so did this hit job on him.
Mamdani fans bought every issue, giving the NYP its first sell-out edition for years, throwing the paper's management in a political/financial conundrum.
An #ncfc draw versus the bottom side will no doubt be reported back to Attanasio as a corner being turned. But we began the game four points adrift of safety and that's still the case now. To stay up this is the sort of fixture you have to win, Knapper and Manning should be told while getting P45s.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
An #ncfc draw versus the bottom side will no doubt be reported back to Attanasio as a corner being turned. But we began the game four points adrift of safety and that's still the case now. To stay up this is the sort of fixture you have to win, Knapper and Manning should be told while getting P45s.
“I’m confident that he’ll be a great fit for our squad and brings not only the on-field qualities that we have been looking for, but leadership and desire to help drive our club forward."
What the utterly deluded Wagner said in 2023 when #ncfc signed Duffy.
What the utterly deluded Wagner said in 2023 when #ncfc signed Duffy.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“I’m confident that he’ll be a great fit for our squad and brings not only the on-field qualities that we have been looking for, but leadership and desire to help drive our club forward."
What the utterly deluded Wagner said in 2023 when #ncfc signed Duffy.
What the utterly deluded Wagner said in 2023 when #ncfc signed Duffy.
Four years ago tomorrow #ncfc sacked Daniel Farke and haven't put a foot right ever since.
As at Brentford there should be an image of Knapper, Webber and Adams in the directors' box looking thoroughly pissed off, but it wouldn't be a surprise if Manning makes it to the weekend.
As at Brentford there should be an image of Knapper, Webber and Adams in the directors' box looking thoroughly pissed off, but it wouldn't be a surprise if Manning makes it to the weekend.
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Four years ago tomorrow #ncfc sacked Daniel Farke and haven't put a foot right ever since.
As at Brentford there should be an image of Knapper, Webber and Adams in the directors' box looking thoroughly pissed off, but it wouldn't be a surprise if Manning makes it to the weekend.
As at Brentford there should be an image of Knapper, Webber and Adams in the directors' box looking thoroughly pissed off, but it wouldn't be a surprise if Manning makes it to the weekend.