James Haughton

Just let him go to Newcastle at this point and start focusing on who is the best midfield partner for Bruno that you can get right now.

Strengthening the centre of midfield is more important for us than buying a new centre forward. The Everton game highlighted that, and it really should be our number 1 priority before the end of the transfer window as opposed to getting involved in a transfer saga over Sesko.

The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.

He's discarding the best progressive opportunity in decades by:
- refusing to raise taxes and borrow
- prioritizing welfare cuts for the poorest and disabled
- slowing planning reform and balking at EU re-integration
- ignoring the voting system
- embracing Reform's language and logic on migration

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person?

Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan

Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social

Free to read on link below:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.

NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data

By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

YouTube video by ITV News NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' at summit | ITV News

Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...

Over on X, the right wingers are melting. Some of my favourites 🧵

1. "NY will turn into London" 😂

Keir Starmer’s malfunctioning political machine Dissent against leadership is partly a result of poor policy rationale, partly poor MP management

The government is at risk of losing next week’s vote because a) the policy is bad and b) the political operation is bad:

Meanwhile, Putin and Netanyahu are treating him like a doormat and Trump just rolls over and plays dead. No point in flattering a narcissist. Treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen

It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

Wikipedia has a chance to be a free, universally recognized, and comprehensive counterpoint to slop, at a time when that is badly needed

There are a good number of X accounts celebrating, encouraging and inciting violence in Nothern Ireland.

The platform, the regulators & the government are too casual about the weak response to the incitement of violence in every flashpoint situation

Sponsored MindsEye streamer can't keep it together when telling viewers where they can buy the game.

Media corporations that self-censor and cave to the authoritarian regime's demands end up becoming state propaganda outlets. The transformation of Turkey's media landscape is a sad testament to this.

Tune into the Xbox showcase on Sunday where they'll reveal the next Call of Duty, made by a solo dev and 2,999 of his friends

Still gonna worry that this deal will collapse until we get the official club confirmation, but what a move this would be. Like Cunha, proven PL-quality and a goalscorer in a problem position.

If this gets done, then let's go and sort out the midfield.

These people will do literally anything besides making themselves useful by finding out what people need and providing it

Rupert Lowe recorded making antisemitic remark at parliament Exclusive: Former Reform UK MP made comment during a meeting with staff earlier this year, leaked video shows Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, made an antisemitic comment during a meeting in parliament earlier this year, the Guardian can reveal. Lowe, who was suspended from Reform UK earlier this year after a fallout with Nigel Farage, made the remark at a meeting where parliamentary staff were present. Continue reading...

Rupert Lowe recorded making antisemitic remark at parliament

This is coming from a Israeli source who is frustrated by Israeli decision makers and US involvement - probably an accurate take.
Barring last minute surprises, we can conclude that Trump's visit to the region - the most serious opportunity to end the war in a while - was missed.

“We’re not Powell we are Wilson/Callaghan” is not really the clever defence Downing St imagine it to be when briefing BS the house magazine of Blue Labour. Wilson passed racially discriminatory legislation and betrayed the Kenyan Asians, leaving them stateless for decades

Leaving aside the "strangers" language, the "defence" of Starmer here from @georgeeaton.bsky.social is that he is emulating the 1964-70 Labour government.

This is the government that passed the - deliberately. explicitly and admittedly -racist Commonwealth Immigrants Act.

Palestinian activist’s home ‘raided’ by Israeli soldiers for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The Settlers

This was a very well made film. Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph.

Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.