Rob Minto

Mason: “some people will wildly agree, some people will wildly disagree with his [Ratcliffe’s] language and outlook”
An outlook based on total bullshit (12m).
This is not a serious journalist.

I think Forest are taking “Manager of the Month” too literally.

UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to tax-free Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits

This is disgusting language heaped upon falsehoods.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Quite. Harman's idea is that a female 1st Sec of State will "transform the political culture" like a magic bullet.
Well, depends on the person who gets job, and also, no, not if the boys club culture is deeply entrenched.

If the most important jobs (aside from actual PM) are held by women, but it's still a 'boys club', then I'm not sure one more figurehead woman will help 'turbocharge' protecting women, as Harman suggests. Much as that's needed.

Furious female Labour MPs urge Starmer to make a woman his de facto deputy Harriet Harman leads calls for an appointment that would ‘turbocharge’ a ‘complete culture change’ at No 10

This is so weird.
1) David Lammy is the actual Deputy PM
2) Lucy Powell is the actual Deputy Labour leader.
3) The 3 biggest cabinet jobs (Home Sec, Foreign Sec and Chancellor) are ALL women.
But we need a female 'de facto' deputy?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I don’t want to live on the fucking moon! It looks dry and dull and sad and there’s nowhere to swim. Invest in this planet instead.

I'm beginning to think it's CRUNCH time for Starmer.

Really worth a read.

The Myth of Morgan McSweeney – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The established press’ focus on supposedly ‘all powerful’ individual advisors often obscures the more important structural issues that come to define politics, writes Adam Bienkov

By popular demand, we are removing the paywall from this informative and prescient article by @adambienkov.bsky.social from last July's print edition

The Myth of Morgan McSweeney subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/75/t...

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss asks 'why should I not express how I feel?' Pep Guardiola defended his stance of speaking up about global conflicts by asking,

A follow up on Pep speaking out on global issues and still the BBC fails to mention he is paid £20mn per year by someone credibly accused of supporting a genocide in Sudan. The hypocrisy is off the charts, and the BBC is complicit in helping Pep wash his conscience.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It’s like living inside a beautiful screensaver

Well that’s a profoundly depressing thought. “Real life could be like a computer thing”. Ugh.

While it's obviously "conscience" not "conscious", the second is objectively MUCH FUNNIER.

Like it’s the News at 10 or something. The idea that this is justification for the gov staying on X is batshit.

Come on. £40bn is ludicrous.
The Notre Dame restoration was less than 1bn. Most Olympics cost less. This is a glorified office and debating chamber. It’s not far off the entire defence budget.

100% agree. Twitter was always tiny compared to Facebook. There could be that number of UK accounts if you counted all the UK-based companies and orgs that have / had an account. Some have many. But actual people? Seriously doubt it.

Using the platform encompassesa variety of activities and does not necessarily imply its primary role as a source of breaking news or political information

And Baroness Anderson has clarified her use of 'primary news source' - basically she misspoke.
data.parliament.uk/DepositedPap...

provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself.

UPDATE: I've had a response from the Cabinet Office!
"the statistics cited ‘19.2 million British citizens registered with X and 10.8 million families using the platform’ were provided by OmniGov, the government's media buying agency, who received this data directly from X itself."

Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years MPs and peers are presented with two renovation options and told to make a decision by the mid-2030s.

£40 BILLION?? Even Tottenham's amazing new stadium cost under £2bn. How is this even possible?

Also, make decision by mid-2030s? Huh?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's still awful journalism, and should stop. Either someone says something, and you put it on the record, or they don't. 'Understands' is lazy reporting. Is it first hand? Gossip? Just lifted from another publication? It might not seem big, but it's part of the problem.

I wish I was the target market for this

Bezos maybe bought it with good intentions but now happy to let democracy die in darkness

Ignore 'Whataboutery' accusations: Guardiola should be praised for speaking out

Th athletic gets more into it but ends up with “we all make compromises” which is better, but that’s still a huge compromise to make

www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Pep Guardiola: Man City boss 'hurt' by images of child victims of conflict zones Pep Guardiola has spoken passionately about children being killed and injured in conflict zones across the world, saying the footage he sees

The BBC reporting on this story is either utterly naive or complicit in the wash.
Pep Guardiola speaks out on conflicts - OK, fine. But NO mention of the fact that he's paid £20m per year by someone - Sheikh Mansour - who is accused of supporting genocide in Sudan.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

While the UK media is full of Epstein stories (mainly Mandelson, but others too), the US media (NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc) has pretty much NOTHING.

Alcaraz was 'lucky' his opponents were not as good, says Nadal's uncle Rafael Nadal's uncle and former coach, Toni, has claimed that Carlos Alcaraz was 'lucky' to have come up against opponents of a 'lower calibre'.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis...

This is nasty bullshit from Toni Nadal and he should get his facts straight and apologise.

thanks to the Epstein files we now know that Peter Thiel's dietary restrictions are over 2 pages long.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with artificial intelligence company xAI Deal comes as Musk pursues plans for datacenters and solar-powered satellites in space to propel AI

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
If you want AI to wipe out humanity, giving it access to satellites and rockets seems a good way to start.

Mandelson leaves Labour! Andrew loses some titles! Sorry, but this hardly cuts it as “justice”.

Alcaraz has won 7 of the last 14 slams. Even at this impressive rate, he'll still need NINE years to overtake Djokovic's 24.