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π΅ Tears On My Pilau
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01.12.2025 18:59 β π 154 π 42 π¬ 32 π 13
Covid inquiry live: βInexcusableβ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnsonβs government had acted faster, damning report finds
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
20.11.2025 17:14 β π 4022 π 1421 π¬ 170 π 77
If The Proclaimers are not already in the studio recording βWeβre on the march with Clarkeyβs armyβ someone is losing their job.
18.11.2025 22:10 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Of course she has. The small matter of owing Β£122 million to UK taxpayers for her disgusting profiteering in a global pandemic means nothing to Michelle Mone.
NHS staff died in my hospital from the Covid they caught there - her dodgy PPE racket was vile.
26.10.2025 21:13 β π 1215 π 516 π¬ 41 π 29
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14.10.2025 09:55 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bravo, Barney.
10.10.2025 23:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
That was stressful. #GoCubsGo
03.10.2025 00:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Seeing (or more accurately hearing) the brain dead home fans at the Ryder Cup reminds me of a conversation with a senior member of the US team earlier in the year. βWith two Michelobs inside them theyβre going to be wildβ he predicted. He wasnβt wrong.
27.09.2025 20:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Beautiful, Grimsby. If only Ruben Amorim had the guts to watch that 18 minute shoot out he would have discovered the meaning and value of character.
27.08.2025 21:37 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
One more Premier League match to go on an inevitably extended opening weekend. At the moment it exudes the joy of a Speed Awareness Course.
17.08.2025 18:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Love how England and India are confirming a new form of cricket : Test 20.
04.07.2025 17:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Good band, gargantuan ego. Unwatchable.
27.06.2025 22:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Am I wrong to wish that walloper of a lead singer would somehow impale himself on his stick mic? (And spill his Guinness prop) ?
27.06.2025 22:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Calling all old gits....I'm writing a social history of 1966 for a book due to be published next year, and would love to hear your childhood memories of watching the World Cup. If you've got tales to tell I'd love to hear from you. Reply to this, please, and I'll follow you. Ta.
16.06.2025 10:36 β π 12 π 9 π¬ 9 π 1
Narrator: He did, ridiculously. Levyβs Game is not About Glory.
08.06.2025 15:29 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Sack Big Ange if you dare, Levy.
21.05.2025 20:59 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Brian might have overstated his abilities as a left back, but he was the greatest football writer of his, and subsequent generations. Acutely observant, instinctively kind, wonderfully articulate. Ciao, Maestro
17.05.2025 10:43 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
OK. Referee is terrible. But PSG, who were lesser than the sum of their parts in their Harlem Globetrotters era, now have the potential to become a Michael Jordan/Chicago Bulls dynasty. #ARSPS
29.04.2025 19:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Cyborg βsportβ.
20.04.2025 17:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβve been privileged to observe many great sporting occasions individuals and achievements but that is right up there. Rory McIlroy, a career fulfilled.
13.04.2025 23:22 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After one hole, this Rory McIlroy final round at Augusta has the air of an Andy Murray physcodrama at Wimbledon.
13.04.2025 18:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Manchester derby, neutered by corporate incompetence and nation state cynicism, is what happens when football is secondary to the big sell. The PL, VAR and all, has lost its soul.
06.04.2025 18:00 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Tough love, mate.
23.03.2025 21:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
One of the best of us, Lizzy.
23.03.2025 21:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ah, here they are, the bleeding experts.β Those of us who piggy-backed on boxingβs human drama in the Tyson era deserved Colinβs playful pisstaking. A giant of a journalist, an astute tutor with a generous spirit. Heβd hate eulogies but deserves them. Well said, Paul.
22.03.2025 23:15 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
VAR. The monster that is devouring football from the Champions League downwards.
12.03.2025 22:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Quelle surprise, Laura π
11.03.2025 12:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not a single penny of public money should be wasted on this collection of charlatans and their vanity project.
11.03.2025 10:54 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat
The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.
This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
02.03.2025 10:15 β π 2781 π 643 π¬ 260 π 56
A tsunami of truth : the best piece Iβve read in years.
02.03.2025 08:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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