Robbie Sinnott
@rsinaround.bsky.social
Finance, football, cryptic crosswords
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The suspense was killing me
Donald Trump said it was 'one of the great honours' of his life to receive Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize on Friday. on.ft.com/4piJZVf
December 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The suspense was killing me
Rule number one as a child: Never admit you are tired.
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Rule number one as a child: Never admit you are tired.
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
I’ve learnt more from In Our Time than almost anywhere else. He will be missed.
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ve learnt more from In Our Time than almost anywhere else. He will be missed.
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This has been a rough decade to be a supporter of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, membership of the EU and Manchester United.
August 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This has been a rough decade to be a supporter of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, membership of the EU and Manchester United.
I will never understand the tache. The look (suspect geography teacher), the impracticality, the itchiness. It’s not 1873 lads, give it up.
July 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I will never understand the tache. The look (suspect geography teacher), the impracticality, the itchiness. It’s not 1873 lads, give it up.
Human is seriously good.
July 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Human is seriously good.
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oh absolutely fuck these moral fucking cowards
July 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
oh absolutely fuck these moral fucking cowards
I’ll tell you who is not on the Mounjaro. My cat. Greedy bastard is all over the scran this week.
June 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’ll tell you who is not on the Mounjaro. My cat. Greedy bastard is all over the scran this week.
Don’t usually hold vendettas, but there is a pigeon who just sits on the fence all day long, emptying his cement mixer all over my clematis and I think he is a right prick.
This is middle age.
This is middle age.
May 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Don’t usually hold vendettas, but there is a pigeon who just sits on the fence all day long, emptying his cement mixer all over my clematis and I think he is a right prick.
This is middle age.
This is middle age.
How the hell is this man 39? Looks about 55. Does hate age you or does looking old make you hateful?
Stephen Miller: "The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at."
May 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
How the hell is this man 39? Looks about 55. Does hate age you or does looking old make you hateful?
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Two decades of the Glazers: a debt of morals at United with football paying the bill
Two decades of the Glazers: a debt of morals at United with football paying the bill
Fans protested against the leveraged takeover but were offered little support and the toxicity has had a lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Two decades of the Glazers: a debt of morals at United with football paying the bill
Tea…but on draught.
May 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Tea…but on draught.
20-20*
I fear they will get to 25 before we get to 21 but history shows these things go in ebbs and flows.
I fear they will get to 25 before we get to 21 but history shows these things go in ebbs and flows.
April 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
20-20*
I fear they will get to 25 before we get to 21 but history shows these things go in ebbs and flows.
I fear they will get to 25 before we get to 21 but history shows these things go in ebbs and flows.
Buschtaxi by DJ Koze must be the next White Lotus them tune. Unreal vibe.
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Buschtaxi by DJ Koze must be the next White Lotus them tune. Unreal vibe.
“His reign demonstrates how a small but determined clique of self righteous, self-selected extremists can dominate a society, rewarding their supporters with spoils and destroying those deemed unvirtuous”
Sebag on Savonarola
Sebag on Savonarola
April 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“His reign demonstrates how a small but determined clique of self righteous, self-selected extremists can dominate a society, rewarding their supporters with spoils and destroying those deemed unvirtuous”
Sebag on Savonarola
Sebag on Savonarola
Hey Jude.
Makes me want to heave.
Makes me want to heave.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Hey Jude.
Makes me want to heave.
Makes me want to heave.
Thought for the day: Why is a boiled egg so much more honking than a fried egg?
February 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thought for the day: Why is a boiled egg so much more honking than a fried egg?
Toilet flush in this Air BnB sounds exactly like White Lotus season 1 theme tune. Absolutely slaps.
February 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Toilet flush in this Air BnB sounds exactly like White Lotus season 1 theme tune. Absolutely slaps.
Ben Howard’s cover of Carly Rae Jepson is absolute bliss
January 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ben Howard’s cover of Carly Rae Jepson is absolute bliss
Remembering Gary the cat.
January 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Remembering Gary the cat.
Burmese python natural habitat….why did it not set up shop in Malaysia or Sumatra?
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Burmese python natural habitat….why did it not set up shop in Malaysia or Sumatra?
Baffles me there has been popes called Stephen.
Boniface, Urban, Innocent, Marcellus, Plus…..Ste
Boniface, Urban, Innocent, Marcellus, Plus…..Ste
December 17, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Baffles me there has been popes called Stephen.
Boniface, Urban, Innocent, Marcellus, Plus…..Ste
Boniface, Urban, Innocent, Marcellus, Plus…..Ste
PDF menus are not ok in 2024
November 30, 2024 at 2:45 PM
PDF menus are not ok in 2024