It wasn't until John Major became PM in 1990 that being a football fan was remotely socially acceptable for Tories.
Thatcher hated the game and regarded supporters as scum.

Why have BBC news got appalled quoted? As if to suggest it’s not genuine?!

If you ignore all the announcements and spending commitments that is of which there were many

Labour wins power from the centre. Labour doesn’t like choices involved in governing. Labour moves to the left. Labour governs to the left with no mandate. Labour loses power. Labour moves further to left and loses. Labour moves to the centre to win power. Repeat repeat repeat. Infuriating.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?

Surprise surprise, now the Reform UK councillors want more pay.

The scene at BBC News as Chris Mason is persuaded to make just one positive remark about Keir Starmer.

We can either fight amongst ourselves about not being perfect or we can deliver change that only a Labour government would.

The result of a panic reshuffle that made little sense. A crisis of Number 10’s own making unfortunately

Did the government get their response spot on at the weekend no. But you have to consider WHY rather than just shout oh look the government is stupid.

And who led those insinuations? Not Reform, Musk or Robinson but the bloody Tories! Ergo the Tories have abandoned the centre right and echoed the far right. Where was this in their analysis? Nowhere because it’s too easy to shout stupid stupid government

Had to turn off @newsagents.bsky.social this morning for their inability to consider why the government’s language at the weekend was cautious. When they called out the far right and Musk before they got accused of saying opposing immigration is far right. Or its racist to care about grooming gangs

Isn’t that missing Natalie Elphicke?

The Guardian have been publishing this all week and ignored by BBC etc. It’s nice to see it get some traction but it makes me furious over their actual corruption compared to when a Labour minister sneezes.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

I’m really tired of smug know it all journalists that do nothing but criticise. Whatever the government do, it’s wrong and they know better. We’re going to end up with Farage in number 10 because not everything Labour do in office is perfect.

I don’t know Charlie Kirk is or why he was killed. I’m very sorry he was. But can somebody explain why this is leading the news on the Today Programme?

It’s absolutely nothing to do with the media’s failure to provide balance on this issue

It’s always Labour’s fault. It’s Labour’s fault he was ill informed. It’s Labour’s fault the other hosts didn’t challenge. It’s Labour’s fault the producers didn’t prepare the show properly

Large parts of the English press and radicalised X users are increasingly out of touch with public opinion.

Seems all you need to do to get a sympathetic front page these days is plead guilty to inciting racial hatred by calling for people to be burned alive inside hotels

She pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a judge. Starmer had f all to do with it. She knows that; the Telegraph knows that.

And the irony of saying this ON the radio!

The utter snobbery of Justin Webb on Today stressing “media studies”.

Yep!

Technically Bannan isn’t a Wednesday player either.

Surely anyone with half a brain always knew that the era of clicking a tick box to confirm that you’re over 18 was going to end someday. It seems broadly sensible to me. Any objection on data grounds can be handled by GDPR.

I’m sure this will dominate the news for a week like it did with Labour …

And in a lose lose situation. Big case for don’t go to PMQs, rest / work away from parliament. But if they did speculation would be that she’s toast. Can’t win.