Andrew Haxell

Another world class goal. Superb run and finish as Anguissa puts Napoli 3-1 ahead. Inter defence ripped apart. So much for needing a false 9 or indeed a proper centre forward.

Criticism as Reform-led council set to spend £75,000 on new flags The council says union jack flags will be flown in 82 locations in a bid to foster

Reform council to spend £75k on 164 flags in 82 locations

I think local councils should fly flags in an untatty way & communicate well about . I doubt need such high cost.Missed opportunity for council to fly a few & partner business, faiths, culture, sport joining in
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Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."

In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.

Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

How to Defeat Nigel Farage The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on

Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.

It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

My reaction to the Government's White Paper on Post-16 Education and Skills. As it pertains to universities, it's a total botch that somehow manages to both raise fees and hack everybody off. The worst of all worlds, a bit like the rest of Labour's offer. Do have a read if you're interested. 👇

On the one hand the China spy story is a massive own-goal for Kemi Badenoch.

But on the other only about four people in the world understand what it is about and she isn’t one of them.

Oh

Key China spy case witness removed 'enemy' from evidence under Tories Security adviser Matthew Collins says the term

Kemi Badenoch’s ability to plant political time bombs that blow up in the face of the party she leads is truly unparalleled.

What’s particularly impressive here is she could have found this out herself before raising the profile of this issue at PMQs.
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Sad times! Really tough for all the staff, players and supporters affected. Hopefully new owners can come in and there can be a recovery from this low point.

Terrible news about Sheffield Wednesday. A grand old club brought to its knees by grossly incompetent and negligent ownership.
Sympathy to the supporters.
#swfc

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

Working from home lunchtime treats from the new addition to the high street in Morpeth. Great to have Pink Lane Bakery in the town. Delicious!

Proof that Nigel Farage hardly knew Nathan Gill, the traitor who took Russian bribes.

North East universities 'concerned' at overseas student levy hike The levy will pay for maintenance grants, but North East universities say there will be challenges.

"North East universities 'concerned' at overseas student levy hike"

Seems Nigel is a performative fraud.

Almost nobody in the Cons Party or beyond it had noticed that the Shadow Home Secretary with two other frontbenchers and 5 backbenchers tabled a bill in May to deport 3 million people - stripping almost every pensioner, parent or nurse who did not take out citizenship of their right to live here

Sky News now offering clarification.

They’d previously stated that the Maccabi ban was just about safety of Maccabi fans.

Now they admit it was also about Maccabi violence.

Ladies & gentlemen, our corrupt journo-political complex just got caught out.

Plans for Milan’s Serie A match in Perth thrown into doubt The Australian Football Confederation has come under pressure not to sanction the controversial game while Barcelona v Villarreal in Miami has already been called off

Serie A's planned Milan v Como fixture in Perth may be next for the scrapheap, hot on the heels of La Liga's shelved Miami game. There's some confidence within UEFA that game won't go ahead, and understand AFC coming under pressure not to sanction. Story: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I’ve been in meetings and a quantum physics lecture all day so I emerged to this and thought surely it’s no longer true. But there is nothing on the BBC website. Imagine Enoch Powell gave his rivers of blood speech and everyone just ignored it.

Mike Graham getting sacked from Talk TV for being a bigot is like being sacked from a basketball team for being tall.

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration

Strange that Kemi Badenoch only manages to find her voice on grooming gangs now, after being an MP for 8 years, including time as Minister For Children & Families then Minister for Women and Equalities.

The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove

And, of course, the nativist ghouls this performative cruelty is designed to appease either don’t know or don’t care about facts or figures.

Whenever politicians push anti-immigration policies they should be made to repeat the definition of "reciprocity".

The levels of exceptionalist ideology it takes to think that targeting people from other countries doesn't risk biting you hard when those countries respond is pretty astounding.

Date set for commencement of new student, graduate and work immigration rules - Free Movement New immigration rules were published today affecting a wide range of immigration routes. Most of the changes had already been announced in the earlier

In case you missed it: Date set for commencement of new student, graduate and work immigration rules | Colin Yeo

Mjällby making minor miracles in an extraordinary Swedish football story The former third-tier club with no financial muscle from a remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants are leading the country’s top flight

Mjällby have just won the Swedish league with three games left - and they haven’t simply won it, they’ve absolutely ripped it up. No asterisks or sugar daddies here, just the best story European club football will produce all year. From August, this is their tale: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality”

ie - control.

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