Tris
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Unconnected: the head of the football governance review for the UK government’s next job … head of regulatory affairs at Manchester City. Revolving doors. 🚪
January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Unconnected: the head of the football governance review for the UK government’s next job … head of regulatory affairs at Manchester City. Revolving doors. 🚪
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That was fucking superb
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
That was fucking superb
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Me this morning: Carrick is a sensible short-term option to bring some much-needed stability to the end of the season. Offering him the job permanently would be a clear step too far.
Me now:
Me now:
two men are sitting at a table in front of a blue screen on a television show .
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a blue screen on a television show .
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Me this morning: Carrick is a sensible short-term option to bring some much-needed stability to the end of the season. Offering him the job permanently would be a clear step too far.
Me now:
Me now:
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One of those performances where you’re watching him drift around, closer to the front line, picking passes and making runs, and remembering how incredible he can be.
(He was clearly still influential and productive from deep, but what we just watched was a different level)
(He was clearly still influential and productive from deep, but what we just watched was a different level)
Can't believe how good Bruno Fernandes is at football sometimes lol
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
One of those performances where you’re watching him drift around, closer to the front line, picking passes and making runs, and remembering how incredible he can be.
(He was clearly still influential and productive from deep, but what we just watched was a different level)
(He was clearly still influential and productive from deep, but what we just watched was a different level)
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For the first time in a while, it felt like watching United again: attacking with purpose, playing at pace, willing to take risks. Not perfect, not polished - but recognisable. The club needed it. Old Trafford, after some of the dross it’s seen this season, needed it.
January 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
For the first time in a while, it felt like watching United again: attacking with purpose, playing at pace, willing to take risks. Not perfect, not polished - but recognisable. The club needed it. Old Trafford, after some of the dross it’s seen this season, needed it.
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I’m all for the (within reason) tribalism in football, it makes it fun. But it proper winds me up there isn’t more cross-club fan action like this given the effect it had on the super league u-turn.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I’m all for the (within reason) tribalism in football, it makes it fun. But it proper winds me up there isn’t more cross-club fan action like this given the effect it had on the super league u-turn.
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This is exactly it. INEOS have made mistakes. I didn’t like some of the excitement that greeted Ratcliffe’a arrival. But the alternatives would almost certainly be worse. Really.
The answer is NONE. No viable alternatives we'd like exist. Realistic choices: vulture PE fund (see Chelsea) or sportswashing state. Crap but best bet might be Ratcliffe finds a takeover path, refinances, and actually gets decisions right
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
This is exactly it. INEOS have made mistakes. I didn’t like some of the excitement that greeted Ratcliffe’a arrival. But the alternatives would almost certainly be worse. Really.
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Third time in not much more than a week for the "falconry, ski-ing & horses" anonymous brief on SEND. What's worse: the Westminster insiders who put this toxic, nasty crap about or the journalists who blithely repeat it? PS ask an OT professional about autism, dyspraxia, core stability & horses
January 11, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Third time in not much more than a week for the "falconry, ski-ing & horses" anonymous brief on SEND. What's worse: the Westminster insiders who put this toxic, nasty crap about or the journalists who blithely repeat it? PS ask an OT professional about autism, dyspraxia, core stability & horses
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Exactly this.
Scotland, Wales & NI are ridiculously underpolled.
Between late September and Late November:
- Scotland had 2 polls (1 of those was commssioned by a party)
- Wales had 1 - despite one of the most remarkable by-elections in recent history.
- NI had 1
Westminster had over 40.
Scotland, Wales & NI are ridiculously underpolled.
Between late September and Late November:
- Scotland had 2 polls (1 of those was commssioned by a party)
- Wales had 1 - despite one of the most remarkable by-elections in recent history.
- NI had 1
Westminster had over 40.
Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.
December 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Exactly this.
Scotland, Wales & NI are ridiculously underpolled.
Between late September and Late November:
- Scotland had 2 polls (1 of those was commssioned by a party)
- Wales had 1 - despite one of the most remarkable by-elections in recent history.
- NI had 1
Westminster had over 40.
Scotland, Wales & NI are ridiculously underpolled.
Between late September and Late November:
- Scotland had 2 polls (1 of those was commssioned by a party)
- Wales had 1 - despite one of the most remarkable by-elections in recent history.
- NI had 1
Westminster had over 40.
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Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."
er, no.
er, no.
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."
er, no.
er, no.
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let he who was not obsessed with Hitler as a schoolboy cast the first sto- oh wow okay you're all picking up stones, huh. really thought liking Hitler was a more universal thing than it was, well you learn something new every- OWW stop casting stones at me
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
let he who was not obsessed with Hitler as a schoolboy cast the first sto- oh wow okay you're all picking up stones, huh. really thought liking Hitler was a more universal thing than it was, well you learn something new every- OWW stop casting stones at me
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But this time... it's literally true!
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Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?
There is an actual interesting little deceit in the budget, namely ther have the OBR still forecasting based on increasing net immigration back to 300-350k whilst the Home Secretary is promising to bring it down from 200k, which does dissolve about half the headroom, but somehow we're doing vibes.
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Right, this is the thing, "the Budget is not honest", okay, sure, I'm with you, "because they made things seem worse than they are" - are you on glue?
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Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Under future rules
Renew status? 1995, 98 x6
Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012)
Citizenship 2013
news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...
Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK
The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.
news.sky.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mo Farah would not have been a British citizen for the 2012 Olympics if Labour had introduced their new asylum plan.
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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109 kids are falling into poverty every day because of the two-child limit.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
109 kids are falling into poverty every day because of the two-child limit.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
The government must scrap it for all children.
Please share.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Wait, but didn't the voters know that Mamdani once referred to his father's cousin as his aunt?
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wait, but didn't the voters know that Mamdani once referred to his father's cousin as his aunt?
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This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
October 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This such a perfect patriotic 🇬🇧 Fleet Street cock-up. It's one thing for a news outlet to be duped by a competent hoaxer. Excruciating, yes, but there's a fairly long history of such fuck ups. But to put out a statement SAYING you'd been hoaxed but you'd actually just emailed the wrong guy?
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Unpacking Labour's humiliation in Caerphilly, with @bwalker.uk
Unpacking Labour's humiliation in Caerphilly
It's not the first time Labour's seen humiliation in "the valleys". But never like this. Once upon a time Plaid Cymru's leader Leanne Wood took the
www.newstatesman.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Unpacking Labour's humiliation in Caerphilly, with @bwalker.uk
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My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/plaid-smas...
Plaid smash Reform to win in Caerphilly
These are the key takeaways from a massive night in Welsh politics
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October 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
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Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Broadcasters - especially the BBC - have been working hard to ensure they give a voice to the 25-35% of people willing to vote Reform (and harder groups within that, like anti-asylum protest and Tommy protest)
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics
Need to pay as much attention to the unheard majority who fear that form of politics