Steve Gedge

What’s the word I’m looking for?

Absolutely bang on by @jonathanliew.bsky.social

The Mail calls out racism on its back page, while promoting unsubstantiated, outright racism on its front page.

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How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

Here we go…

My Sunday morning alternative… courtesy of a Belgian genius

Three wins still needed to be absolutely sure, but next season could be very interesting. As could April 11 - somehow I don't think PC is the sort of person who's going to see that as "just another game".

That was a truly brilliant piece of management - take off members of a depleted squad and yet a reshuffled line-up goes on to win. Never mind another level, PC's substitutions are in another galaxy compared to his predecessor. Starting to think that if #ncfc had had PC in 2019-20 we'd have survived.

You're not wrong; however, let's not forget that your employer is happy to endlessly publish the same sort of rhetoric. Some might consider anyone who works on the Daily Express to be a disgrace to the profession.

The Foreign Office have issued official advice for UK citizens who now live in Dubai:
"You're on your own you tax-dodging bastards! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!"

In all seriousness Infantino would probably float the idea of Russia being invited.

Three separate Labour scandals in one day is quite an extraordinary number.

They're benefitting from the attention of the whole world being elsewhere thanks to Trump's bloodthirst.

Funny how bull****
has a habit of coming back to
bite your arse.

Norwich City - Foggo: 'I loved it here and never really wanted to leave' - BBC Sounds Norwich City hero Kenny Foggo was back at Carrow Road recently.

This match also saw a starring #ncfc role from Ken Foggo.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Norwich 3 Luton 1 from October 16, 1971 on the Big Match Revisited on ITV4 this morning. Truly football from another age, not least because there was only one TV camera position at Carrow Road then, above the River End terracing. Made for some imbalanced viewing. #ncfc

My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5

Pecksniff: Greens get it, but have the others lost the plot? In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

* Greens surge. Labour in denial

* Farage now feels Rupert Lowe breathing down his neck

* A Tory organiser boasts of love for Kemi on the doorstep – they got 1.9% and lost their deposit.

Our diarist Pecksniff with his jaundiced take on this week’s politics ⤵️

voters in Scotland, Wales and England ganged up against him.
As things stand he'll get big support in rural strongholds such as Lincolnshire and - sadly - Norfolk, but his appeal just isn't wide enough to win seats across Britain. Hard to predict what sort of coalition eventually does take power...

A decent Green candidate could certainly beat him if Starmer insists on continuing with his Thatcher-tribute "there is no alternative" approach to governing.
And you are also right about Starmer. Three high-profile byelections he - and his adoring chums in Fleet Street - expected Reform to win, yet

The venerable @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social's diary is always a highlight of the week. I feel you will be taking a closer look at Norwich now. If the Greens take four of the seven city council places up for election in May they take control. And if I was Clive Lewis I'd then feel worried about 2029.

Football Collector’s Fair // The Forum Norwich

Football Collectors' Fair at The Forum.🔰

A must for any football fan, whatever team you support. Sunday, 22nd March. 10am - 4pm in The Atrium.

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On the Stall City 🟨🟩 #NCFC

Kemi Badenoch’s statement following the Gorton and Denton by election: Labour created the monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes and yesterday that monster came back to bite them. As I've said many times before, we are a multiracial country, not a multicultural country. If you stir up grievance politics between groups based on religion or race, as Labour have done for decades, as Reform are seeking to do, and as the Greens have done successfully in this by-election, you are pitting neighbours against each other and you start to unravel the culture of tolerance that makes Britain great. Our country is not broken, but this by-election showed that Labour, Reform and the Greens are trying very hard to break it. Labour trying to buy people off with more and more benefits spending. Reform telling people you can't be British if you aren't white. The Greens running a nasty, sectarian campaign while simultaneously wanting to legalise crack-cocaine. Clearly this election was not about who would be the best MP. But there was only one sensible candidate standing in Gorton and Denton, and it was Charlotte Cadden - a former Deputy Chief Inspector, a mother, a woman who fought for single sex spaces and dignity for women and girls. While the other parties race to the bottom, Charlotte embodies the new Conservative Party. This result shows Keir Starmer's premiership is finished. He lost authority a long time ago, a mere hostage at the mercy of a divided Labour Party that cannot decide who to replace him with. He has lost the support of his voters, his MPs and the country. He is in office but not in power. If he had any integrity he would go. Keni Buderach Kemi Badenoch Leader of the Conservative Party

Oh my word.

Unhinged springs to mind!😱

Badenoch’s “only sensible candidate” won just 2% of the vote!

Hang it in the Manchester Art Gallery 💚

He might just as well adopt this as Labour's new logo:

An early preview of Saturday's Daily Telegraph...

Well, the plumber fixed the drip

Starmer’s entire approach, from his project’s earliest days, rested on the new core coalition of younger, more urban and ethnic minority voters had nowhere else to go. That idea is in tatters.

As I wrote yday, it arises from Labour not valuing the coalition it has and romanticising one it does not

Hannan's another one in the Daily Mail.
"This is how democracies unravel. Long after the Green Party's victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election has been forgotten, the campaign and the precedent it set will continue to disfigure our politics."
Three years of this rabid nonsense to come...

Excellent!

'The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

NEW | ‘The Green Menace': The Daily Mail's newest scary stories for Middle England

Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, the paper's working hard to cast the Green Party as mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-green-...

A campaign which will be kept up for the next three years. In Venn diagram terms Daily Mail readers and potential Green voters are two circles several light years apart.

Matt Goodwin, who was **checks notes** a professor of politics, made a mistake? Yeah, right...