@sjmaskell.bsky.social
Well. Who knew?
*Warning: this post may contain sarcasm.
*Warning: this post may contain sarcasm.
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Well. Who knew?
*Warning: this post may contain sarcasm.
*Warning: this post may contain sarcasm.
TL:DR
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TL:DR
This. In spades.
And worst of all, there is still no plan for fixing social care. Right now, around 160 people are stuck in beds at Winchester Hospital because there simply isn’t a care package available to get them safely home. This Budget offers them absolutely nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This. In spades.
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REVEALED: the Abramovich and Glazer legal playbooks, from threats to total nonchalance open.substack.com/pub/sporting...
REVEALED: the Abramovich and Glazer legal playbooks, from threats to total nonchalance
Two stories from 2023 elicited markedly different responses from two massive Premier League football clubs. One was threatening, the other took actual facts into account
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
REVEALED: the Abramovich and Glazer legal playbooks, from threats to total nonchalance open.substack.com/pub/sporting...
Want.
There is no earthly reason why this abomination should have ever been conceived, let alone developed and marketed. And even less rational justification for it being so unfathomably delicious or utterly addictive.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Want.
Football friends. Give this chap a follow and subscribe if you can. He writes good and was a good friend to #Pompey in our dark days.
A bit of a follow-up to what I wrote about Wolves a couple of days ago. Small wonder the fans are so furious.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/gary-oneil...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/gary-oneil...
Gary O'Neil's rejection of Wolves is a damning indictment of the way that club is being run
It feels unusual to be writing about the same club twice in a row on here, but the situation regarding the new Wolves manager is too interesting to pass by.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Football friends. Give this chap a follow and subscribe if you can. He writes good and was a good friend to #Pompey in our dark days.
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I feel that ugly arse cheeks are grossly over-represented in our media.
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Morning, m'dears, here's something on Sheffield Wednesday, and hope being the oxygen of football supporters.
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unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/theyre-all...
They're All Wednesday, Aren't They?
Sheffield Wednesday are now under the care of administrators, in an example of how fans can control the narrative of a failing football club
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Morning, m'dears, here's something on Sheffield Wednesday, and hope being the oxygen of football supporters.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/theyre-all...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/theyre-all...
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On the subject of Aston Villa's Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the hapless response of the British government.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/siding-wit...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/siding-wit...
Siding with the hooligans is on brand for a government that seems determined to trash its reputation
The government's handling of the upcoming Aston Villa Europa League match reeks of a degree of incompetence for which they are now rightly known.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On the subject of Aston Villa's Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the hapless response of the British government.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/siding-wit...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/siding-wit...
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Bad news for Sheffield Wednesday fans. Chansiri may be planning shenanigans, should Wednesday end up in administration.
footballleagueworld.co.uk/sheffield-we...
footballleagueworld.co.uk/sheffield-we...
Sheffield Wednesday facing potential Dejphon Chansiri administration twist - It involves Hillsborough Stadium
As if things couldn't get worse for Sheffield Wednesday fans, even being forced into administration may not end their connection to Dejphon Chansiri.
footballleagueworld.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Buried away in "local news".
You'd think a story like this warrants a *bit* more attention.
Buried away in "local news".
You'd think a story like this warrants a *bit* more attention.
Far-right extremists jailed for terror plots
Three Nazi-worshipping extremists convicted of terror offences are sentenced.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Buried away in "local news".
You'd think a story like this warrants a *bit* more attention.
Buried away in "local news".
You'd think a story like this warrants a *bit* more attention.
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How many UK politicians now demanding that fans of an Isreali football club with far-right, violent Ultras must have their right to attend a match defended at any cost had anything to say about the complete destruction of Palestinian sporting infrastructure and the killing of 300+ football players?
Israel's genocide in Gaza has killed more than 300 footballers. Its deliberate obliteration of civil infrastructure and cultural identity has destroyed every stadium and training pitch. A yet Fifa and Uefa take no action.
youtu.be/cfjDXFif8Yw
A powerful film from @thepitchinspection.bsky.social
youtu.be/cfjDXFif8Yw
A powerful film from @thepitchinspection.bsky.social
Gaza's Vanishing Stadiums. The Football Story That Is Being Ignored.
YouTube video by The Pitch Inspection
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
How many UK politicians now demanding that fans of an Isreali football club with far-right, violent Ultras must have their right to attend a match defended at any cost had anything to say about the complete destruction of Palestinian sporting infrastructure and the killing of 300+ football players?
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Pleased to confirm that my words are in @wsc.co.uk this month, I barely even need you to guess on what subject.
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pleased to confirm that my words are in @wsc.co.uk this month, I barely even need you to guess on what subject.
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Half an hour left before this goes hopelessly, uselessly out of date.
www.fotmob.com/topnews/2323...
www.fotmob.com/topnews/2323...
Preview: Leeds United host Spurs in lunchtime kick off
Inconsistent Leeds take on stuttering Tottenham in an early Saturday kick-off in which they may just cancel each other out.
www.fotmob.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Half an hour left before this goes hopelessly, uselessly out of date.
www.fotmob.com/topnews/2323...
www.fotmob.com/topnews/2323...
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Wrote a thing about Graham Potter, West Ham, and a loss of identity last night, whose plight says something broader about london in the 21st century, I reckon.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/graham-pot...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/graham-pot...
Graham Potter was a symptom of West Ham United's lack of identity
Graham Potter was the worst possible managerial appointment for West Ham, but this was unsurprising, considering that the club itself seems to have mislaid its soul.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wrote a thing about Graham Potter, West Ham, and a loss of identity last night, whose plight says something broader about london in the 21st century, I reckon.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/graham-pot...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/graham-pot...
Has anybody considered the problems of using #AI when the power goes down? The relevance of #climatechange seems pertinent here. #NHS #Starmerspeech #Labourconference
September 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Has anybody considered the problems of using #AI when the power goes down? The relevance of #climatechange seems pertinent here. #NHS #Starmerspeech #Labourconference
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A quick note to say that I am available for freelancing work. Because frankly I'm not getting enough through at the moment.
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A quick note to say that I am available for freelancing work. Because frankly I'm not getting enough through at the moment.
This.
Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.
September 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This.
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Older kid turns ten years old tomorrow, so I wrote this about that decade.
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unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/single-par...
Single parenthood and I: the time goes by so quickly, yet also so slowly
Old kid turns ten years old tomorrow, and if that isn't a time for slightly mournful reflection, when is?
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Older kid turns ten years old tomorrow, so I wrote this about that decade.
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/single-par...
unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/single-par...
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Morning dears, the Sheffield Wednesday boycott, and why Leeds fans should be involved in it as well.
footballleagueworld.co.uk/leeds-united...
footballleagueworld.co.uk/leeds-united...
Leeds United should hit Dejphon Chansiri with a further blow - Sheffield Wednesday fans are doing the right thing
Leeds United fans could send a statement to both Dejphon Chansiri and the EFL by joining Sheffield Wednesday fans in a boycott of their EFL Cup tie.
footballleagueworld.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Morning dears, the Sheffield Wednesday boycott, and why Leeds fans should be involved in it as well.
footballleagueworld.co.uk/leeds-united...
footballleagueworld.co.uk/leeds-united...
@uglygame.bsky.social so, who are messers Smith and Fish? #MorecambeFC
August 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@uglygame.bsky.social so, who are messers Smith and Fish? #MorecambeFC
Just how far are the Israeli government allowed to go before we lose the fear of being ‘anti-semetic’?
Israel has just wiped out an entire Al Jazeera unit!
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Just how far are the Israeli government allowed to go before we lose the fear of being ‘anti-semetic’?