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YouTube video by Week in the Tackle Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray

Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.

Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!

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Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray

Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.

Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!

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Messi v. Muller, Salah Dropped & Dunny Battles A Stingray Podcast Episode · Week In The Tackle · 03/12/2025 · 51m

Muller v Messi in #MLSCup and the latest in a long line of disappointments from Lucas Paqueta.

Plus: Dunny gets attack by a stingray!

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Probably because the political media are all gossip columnists. You’re all transfer window influencers in a state of constant hysteria. In that landscape, how do you think bold policy would have been reacted to? You all would have gone wild. I’d argue the two child cap lift was pretty bold.

The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press

How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.

Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.

Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week

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After ten years…

We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe Breaking free from the EU has undoubtedly deepened the UK’s malaise, and it’s no use denying it

The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it.

https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f

All political news is covered like the transfer window. Breathless gossip. Half truths. Scoops. They’ve all got addicted to the hysteria. There’s no depth.

I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.

The coordinated hysteria of the right wing media is making the Sunday politics shows and basically every Sunday paper impossible to digest. It’s always been right wing coded, but this is something else. They’re all in a wild frenzy, every day. They’re all GB ‘News’ now.

It's definitely reasonable to criticise the pre-budget comms, which were fairly shambolic (which, as ever, comes from strategic confusion). But this is all a massive overreaction.

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.

It's hardly a massive difference.

Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...

I’m being stupid. This is why the target has moved back to welfare, because migration has provably gone down. All pushing the Reform agenda of austerity and welfare cuts which worked so well for 14 years… when they were all Tories.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

I think it’s a good thing when the state takes care of the welfare of its citizens. This ‘benefits street’ stuff is disgusting.

The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...

Net migration has fallen again to 204,000, the lowest level since 2021 and is forecast to continue falling over the coming years.

Not that you would know it from the endless coverage of Britain's supposed "immigration crisis"

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

YouTube video by Week in the Tackle Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?

That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!

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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?

That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!

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Liverpool Crumbling, Guardiola Crosses the Line & Muller beats Son Podcast Episode · Week In The Tackle · 25/11/2025 · 49m

Just how bad is the pitch in Vancouver? Can you have a good artificial pitch? Should Pep Guardiola be banned for his cameraman confrontation? And is it too early for the Christmas tree?

That’s @WeekInTheTackle this week!

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Here was Robbie Gibb's "hugely impartial" take on the BBC, before he joined the board, as written in the Daily Mail

BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"

‘Reset’ with the EU looks more like ‘upset’ as Brexit damage mounts | The Observer

"One of the terrible ironies is that Reform’s leader, Nigel Farage, is now capitalising on the unpopularity of a government whose laudable aims have been frustrated by the economic damage caused by a Brexit behind which he was the prime mover." ~AA

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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

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Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...