Mark Freedman

Same.

Brilliant!

Go for it Stephen.

No.

How to deal with sex pests...

Was Ryan Sidebottom a descendent?🏏

Encouraged by people like Thiel.

TBF they have been good over Ukraine. Even Johnson was. Despite the Tories taking loads of Russian money.

Yep. Good luck with that. Mind you, Corbynistas would come out with nonsense to defend Magic Grandpa.

It is easier to reaffirm your prejudices with social media.

Too late to shut it down I think.

‘We have had enough of experts’. We had enough of Gove a long time ago. Goodwin has just found a niche where he can get publicity and make money IMO.

It is easy to go down rabbit holes on social media. That probably wasn’t the case before.

Richard Ayodade, a family member, is not exactly keen on him!

Welch was the first Assistant Referee, and refereed a PL match in 2023. No idea about the scarves!

Worst of all, the government has all too often seemed ready and eager to talk about vulnerable groups – welfare recipients, the trans community, migrants – as though they’re a problem to be addressed, rather than our friends or neighbours or family members, or simply human beings deserving of human dignity. It does this in large part because it thinks the most important voters want it to. It has not stopped to consider what the long term effects of such an approach might be. Some of this may stem from economics: it’s simply easier to be generous or redistributive when the pie is growing than it is when we are fighting over scarce resources. But partly, too, I think it’s the fragmentation of politics in general and a change in the culture of Labour in particular. The party has always been a coalition of groups that more or less hate each other, but who for most of the last century understood that, under First Past the Post, they needed to cooperate to win power. But in a multiparty age, the benefits of tolerating people you despise are less obvious; and the uncivil wars of the Corbyn years have left both grudges and a taste for purges. Throw in the fact Starmer’s most senior role in private life was running the Crown Prosecution Service, where he had employees not colleagues, and the result is a Prime Minister intensely relaxed about simply kicking out people he finds difficult. All this is, of course, extremely stupid. At the next election, the party would ideally want more people to vote for it: telling those who criticise to piss off at every opportunity is an odd way of going about that. The lack of a language of solidarity,

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Superb stuff Jonn.

Could be.

37 local heritage sites to benefit from £15 million boost to breathe new life into communities across England Heritage buildings are set to benefit from £15 million of funding as part of the government’s ongoing commitment to ensure our heritage is fit for the future

37 buildings will benefit from £15 million of funding from the government’s Heritage At Risk Fund.

The chosen projects will restore heritage sites serving disadvantaged communities and which demonstrate strong local benefits, from job creation to cultural events.

A list is included in the article.