Simon Edmonds

He’s going to spend millions shepherding these fans every inch of their time in the UK. Am not hearing many politicians thinking of the inhabitants of Birmingham, apart from the local independent MP.

There was also Xtreme Couchening

Geshoppening
We did a lot of this with friends.

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

And does anyone believe he was a regular at the ‘away end’

MPs demand chief prosecutor explain China spy case collapse Stephen Parkinson is under pressure to say more about why the case collapsed last month.

Am not sure this current DPP is going to fare well in Parliament, looks likely his previous criticism of Starmer in the role is going to backfire on Parkinson. A bad outing may need him to review his position.

MPs demand chief prosecutor explain China spy case collapse www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have scheduled the brandy feeding for both the cake and myself 😎

Landmark global shipping deal abandoned under US threats President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".

Trump and the Saudi’s acting the global bullies
Landmark global shipping deal suspended under US pressure www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another stonker of a week for us - gaining from the Conservatives and the Green Party in Surrey and from Labour in Preston. The media might not tell you this but the Liberal Democrats are winning all over the place.

This week's by-election scorecard 💪

Lib Dems 7
Reform 1
Con 1
Ind 1

Kitchen smells Xmas fruit cake lovely
This Mary Berry might have a future in baking 😂😂
Smells a lovely recipe.
Now awaiting its regular brandy dousing.

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No further questions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My column annoyed somebody this week

Lovely, Safe travels.

Good use of the pension pot before Reeves get her hands on it 😎

Starmer condemns ‘wrong decision’ to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns

Starmer's knack for making simple stories worse. Banning away fans from games is pretty common as this story says. Best not politicised, but he has to go there. Badly advised. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

We should seek local solutions to our global problems Worn-out top-down approaches won’t help us build lasting shared prosperity

Yet another piece arguing that governments need to allow more innovation at the local level in order to tackle complex problems. And, no, I don’t believe that Mayoral Combined Authorities are a remotely adequate response unless they’re combined with fiscal devolution www.ft.com/content/2adc...

Why is the PM involving himself in a local policing issue?

It’s purely a policing issue designed to protect British residents from well-known hooligans who have been banned elsewhere in Europe.

This is wild. The PM is putting Israeli hooligans before Brits’ safety and the law.

How I feel about Starmer undermining UK police decisions on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.

Reform's Dame Andrea Jenkyns considers scrapping English lessons Dame Andrea Jenkyns says a £1m budget to teach foreign nationals

For the love of God just make your mind up whether migrants should be speaking English or not www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the reports I've seen, Israel football fans have behaved disgracefully abroad (although Ajax fans responded very badly too).

The way that football has sorted out such problems is by taking a very hard line on the clubs involved. Not sure Maccabi Tel Aviv can have any complaints.

At this stage I really don’t want to know what this machine would find 😎

Nobel Peace Prize candidate 2026

Bloody brilliant 👇

It’s a mystery why Trump missed out on the Nobel peace prize.

Always confusing 🫤

In today's least surprising news

I can imagine him being so cheesed off throwing a real tantrum walking up and down the M5 🤣🤣🤣

Ingredients for a Xmas Cake using a Dame Mary Berry recipe.

Tomorrow will be Xmas cake baking day almost 5 hours of it.
Courtesy of Dame Mary Berry recipe.

Brilliant analysis showing some real failings by CPS which others had questioned as well.