Matt Lowndes

Good

Up the haddocks. Well done Grimsby, my favourite away end and lovely people.

Waited all weekend for this. Now wishing I was in a field in Somerset. #theprodigy #glasto

Spot on.

Pathetic. I was looking forward to raving on the sofa.

What a win 🏏

Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff

extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10%

via me and Gill Plimmer

www.ft.com/content/1f6d...

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Would certainly have more control in midfield

He’s now too slow, legs have gone and that’s the kind of challenge you make when that happens.

I have a trade deficit with pretty much every pub in South London

The world is going crazy and yet it’s taken Wimbledon conceding a two goal lead at home to Barrow for me to lose it.

Yikes

Milton Keynes

For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast Deals market gets curtailed by the uncertainty delivered in the president’s first weeks.

Under 900 deals were announced in the U.S. last month, the quietest January in a decade, as the Trump administration’s first weeks delivered fresh uncertainty

Currently reading @torstenbell.bsky.social excellent book on Great Britain. Such a shame that much of his opening observations appear to have had little impact on the approach of the current government.

Brilliant. Lots of hazy memories of the 90s.

Was thinking the same. Bizarre decision

We are entering very strange times

I mean...

What is socialism, if not the state owning the memes of production

YouTube video by CBC News Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That

IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...

Lots of AI chat today. Let’s be frank, it’s only as good as the data we have and most of the data we have isn’t in a great place. IMO we need to fix that first.

Chris Anderson, the head of TED, was the first person to interview Musk after he announced his plan to buy Twitter in April 2022. On stage at the TED conference, he praised Musk's achievements and gave credence to the idea that the billionaire was saving "free speech."

How far we've come.

Don’t piss that cesspit one iota

YouGov update

Views of Elon Musk
19% Favourable
64% unfavourable

Views of X platform
16% Favourable
61% unfavourable

Was Musk buying Twitter
Good 10%
Bad 47%
Neither 17%

Musk misinformation/disinformation just went into overdrive

Airbus! Where’s the BA version?

Maybe Klopp wasn’t as good as he thinks he was. Slot has got this team playing superbly.