Leigh Jones

Why let the game flow when you can appeal to the referee (herself a 13 year old girl) for every minor or marginal infraction?

When the six year olds who can barely kick a ball get in each other's way, why say "find some space", or "give each other room", when you can simply shout at the girls "Why did you do that?!".

I have to say the absolute worst thing in my life right now is when I take my six year old daughter to play football and her opponents are coached by two men.

Always, without fail, overly competitive, and speak to their teams in ways which they don't realise undermine their teams' enjoyment.

Very fitting he was replaced by someone who was knighted in Johnson's resignation honours having spent less than two years in government.

Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field The enormous pile of rubbish is called an

Prime example of why the contract between the public and the police is breaking down, regardless of long term crime trends. Thames Valley Police don’t even think it’s their job to investigate this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Buddy, I don't even read my own emails.

The legendary cat meme that started an era

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

and so we move one step closer to the creation of Hitler Park

Hell yeah.

In all seriousness, you're selling this to me!

screen grab of Sun Sport artilce about IOC ban for trans women including a picture of Cisgender Boxer Imame Khelife

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

In 'A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master' Freddy Krueger is resurrected by a dog pissing on his remains and I don't see why that wouldn't work perfectly well here.

Waiting times are too long. Let's abolish the NHS.

Key point in an important thread.

Two paragraphs from Michael Prescott's BBC memo: In reality, the first part of Trump’s speech: “We’re gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, “and we fight. We fight like hell....” came 54 minutes later. Fifteen minutes into the speech, what Trump actually said: “We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.

Four paragraphs from NPR's transcript of Trump's January 6th speech: Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.

UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’ A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.

No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.

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He's in front of the Parliamentary committee later, so I imagine he probably thinks that'll do.

I mean if you can just sharezone the thing why not.

There are very clear lines of responsibility in the editorial process, and the people all have names.

I'm not saying it isn't hard. You couldn't pay me enough money to be DG.

But if you're the sort of person who gets into that role, to not see out something like this seems a bit like you're bottling it.

It's proper David Cameron the day after the Brexit vote stuff, isn't it?

"This is hard, but I can just leave".

Dion Dublin shrugging

What a world

They were absolutely brilliant that day in Hyde Park!

There's a reason it was their first album to go to number 1 (and become one of the best selling albums in history).

Justice had a better guitar sound imo.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

If I'm reading the news on the radio I select stories I think the audience wants to hear, which isn't necessarily what I think is important.

It's a job, and the point of you being there is that you switch off your own opinions for your shift and deliver everything as objectively as possible.

The more I think about this the more furious I get.

Anyone who's known me since before I became a journalist, or who knows me in real life knows I have Very Strong Opinions on just about everything.

But you don't let that enter your work.