Brian Bethell

“…they don’t know why.”

It’s a complete fucking mystery isn’t it, bellends.

Staggering that 24% of voters in this advanced country continue to believe in a bunch of entitled bigots with unworkable policies, whose very ideas put us in the abject chaos we are in. Truly God awful idiots, and I make no apology for saying that.

As Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick his Shadow Chancellor, here's a quick reminder of the sort of man Reform wants to put in charge of the nation's finances

The “you have to be Christian to be British” proposition is not worth debating. It’s abject nonsense. You know it and they know it. Just call it out for the racism it is.

They call you racist, they call you xenophobic, they call you islamophobic - every ism and phobe under the sun. But they never call you wrong,

A Rupert Lowe backing, Chinese speaking, UK nationalist, posting a painting by the Italian artist Raphael, of a possibly fictional Greek born Cappadocian who was appointed the patron saint of England by an Anglo Norman French speaking Plantagenet king.

What could possibly be more British than that?

I'd like to know who the first restaurant customer was who said "Well that sounds delicious but I think I'd rather just have its foam."

Drake meme but with Goodwin's stupid face. He is disliking "women with kids on benefits" but liking "women with kids on incentives"

Only just seen this wonderful photo.
By the somewhat pained look on President Trump’s face, am I right to presume our Liz has her finger firmly stuck up his rectum?
😬

🤣

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects.

Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Italy captain Michele Lamaro ended his post-match press conference with an impromptu tribute to referee Hollie Davidson - a moment that reflected huge respect for both the occasion and the official. Davidson made history in Dublin as the first woman to referee a men's Six Nations match, delivering a composed and assured performance in a high-intensity contest. After answering a series of questions about the narrow defeat, Lamaro chose to close proceedings with this message:

"I want to emphasise that the referee, Hollie Davidson has been outstanding. It's obviously the first time ever for a woman referee in the Men's Six Nations, and I want to congratulate her. She has been doing so much for world rugby and our game and I think it's an important thing to say. I appreciated the work we did together today on the pitch. Whatever the decision was, I was backing her and making sure everything was going the right way so I just want to congratulate her and thank her for the effort on the field."

Compare what happens in your average football match with what Italy captain Michele Lamaro said about Hollie Davidson after Italy’s narrow defeat in Ireland yesterday. Both of them are heroes.

Vintage black and white photo of a smiling boy in a sailor outfit, with signatures overlaid.

15 February 1934 | Hans Ament was born in Vienna - one of the Jewish children from the orphanage in #Izieu arrested by the Gestapo on 6 April 1944.

On 30 May 1944 he was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz where he was murdered.

Finally

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
1/

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.

Nigel Farage labels Jim Ratcliffe a 'tax refugee' Nigel Farage has defended Jim Ratcliffe, describing him as a 'tax refugee' and saying his comments on immigration were "correct."

So refugees are okay now are they Nigel? Providing they're not seeking refuge here?
And Ratcliffe isn't a refugee. He's a greedy, immoral crook.
To equate a billionaire with some poor sod clinging desperately to a dinghy is sick, even by your standards... 🤮

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

This from Stella Creasy is spot on.

‘You, Boy!
Follow that Nadhim Zahawi chap and scare the shit out of him!’

He thought the award was for his work with minors.

Blue Moon Podcast - A Manchester City Show: 27: To Bert or Not To Bert? After a remarkable week, where Manchester City won at Anfield for the first time (in front of fans) in more than 20 years, David Mooney is joined by City fan Liam Wright and, from Sporting News, Do...

🎙️ NEW #MCFC PODCAST

😎 Late drama at Anfield
🤯 League double over Liverpool
2️⃣ Second half issues
📺 VAR, shirt pulls, hair pulls
🔴 #ManCity vs. Salford City
☔ City's wettest games

With @davidmooney.co.uk is:
@liamctid.bsky.social | @domfarrell.bsky.social | Danny from One Up Front

Blue Moon Podcast | Patreon Regular topical and nostalgia Manchester City podcasts

Please become a podcast member and support the show. It's just £2 each month and, for that, you'll get:

🔹 Each episode with NO ADS
🔹 Nostalgia shows on Mondays
🔹 Extended interviews

You can also get a one week free trial:

Pyramid A special Cold War Steve giant pyramid postcard and limited edition print! It is a long running CWS tradition to release a new giant postcard...

Now available as a Giant Charity Postcard and ltd edition art print!
👇👇👇👇
coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/pyra...

People holding a sign saying ‘End Unnecessary Suffering.’ Big Ben is in the background.

Spurs fans right now

Manchester Exchange railway station, 1968 (Manchester Libraries). Opened 1884 by London and North Western Railway, closed 1969. Most of it was actually in Salford.

I spent several hours with Gisele Pelicot in Paris

She is remarkable

This Sunday her only UK TV interview airs across the BBC

Vintage black-and-white photo of a woman wearing a decorative headscarf, gazing into the distance.

12 February 1910 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Blanka Krausz, was born. She was a piano teacher.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
---

▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q