Peter Bottomley

Complete rubbish; he has 3 1/2 year contact until July 2028 + 1 yr option

Why do you spread this complete bullshit; he has a fresh contract signed this summer until July 2028 + 1 year option

Sonny Baker 0-76 in 7 overs as England massacred by South Africa today: didnt I hear a *pundit* on BBCRadio4 this morning saying this lad was going to win the Ashes for us 🤣

Bramley Moore gets a good write up in the Observer today

Wigan, 1961, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

Trump is deliberately ratcheting up violence in Los Angeles | Moustafa Bayoumi

#OnThisDay 81yrs ago my dad Phil Bottomley was part of the assault phase on Juno Beach with the King’s Liverpool Regt, 8th Bn, ‘A’ Coy led by Maj Max Morrison. They landed “under intense machine gun & mortar fire” Seriously injured at the Battle of Falaise Gap in Aug ‘44 dad died in 2016 RIP #DDay81

"We don't know the meaning of losing.."

Mark Carney - Everton. 💙🟦◻️
Well done Canada
#UTFT

More Burnley history … Mark Carney the first Canadian PM ever to have been in the Turf Moor tunnel .. and the first to be an Everton fan. Added to which he is a top bloke and dead smart. Canada has chosen well and Trump should STFU with his 51st state BS

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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau:

"Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

#Trump was #TheManchurianCandidate … discuss

On this day in 1939 RN cruisers Exeter, Achilles & Ajax led by Cdre Henry Harwood intercepted the German heavy cruiser Graf Spee off the River Plate estuary, the Allied vessels forced the more heavily armed German ship to seek shelter in neutral Montevideo, later the Graf Spee (below) was scuttled

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Tonight at the UFC, the four weird ex-Democrats who now control the Republican Party.

He supports Trump, that is all

The fact that Jenrick - who supports Trump for the Presidency - is leading in the Conservative leadership contest tells you all you need to know about the Tory membership; remember, checks notes, they also chose another Trump acolyte … Truss

A diagram of a complex mechanism for readers. The caption explains “when the quantity of unread books reaches a specific weight, the mechanism restricts the reader’s ability to add to their stockpile until the backlog has been reduced.” The “restriction” is achieved by placing a cloche over the reader’s credit card, library card and bookshop loyalty card, and smashing their internet router with a mallet.

This week’s Guardian Books cartoon.