Tom Davies

Order in rounds like normal people, not one at a time. Have your card ready.

As we hurtle towards Christmas, tis once again the season for exceptionally poor pubmanship.
It's not that difficult ...

• Know what you want before you get served

• Order the Guinness first

• Bring your empties back to the bar

A pub is for life, not just for Christmas ... 🎄🎄🎄

Schmaltz, theatre and sharp teeth: Wrexham reveal the hard truth about football | Barney Ronay With the arrival of US hedge funders at Wrexham, there is no pretence any more. This is just another project, as it always was Tea and cake. Cobble-close streets. Collectivism. Sugar rush. Hollywood fairytales. And also, as of this week, a minority owner with historical links to celebrity paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Wait! Welsh cakes! Welsh tea! Aggregated tourism benefits. The sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. And also, at one remove, historical links to deceased celebrity paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading...

Schmaltz, theatre and sharp teeth: Wrexham reveal the hard truth about football | Barney Ronay

Similarly, wonder what he and Bill Clinton used to chat about...

Sport like large music gigs have become social media celebrity events. They're for influencers, the famous and wealthy to be seen at. The rest of us have to pay a premium to join them. As long as there are enough fans there to be seen bouncing around and providing atmosphere for the media clip up

I mean, England are never gonna get awarded a World Cup by this Fifa, so neither the government nor the FA have anything to lose by properly weighing in

Massive amounts of "nothing we can do guv" here from various custodians of our great game

Photos from Epstein estate include this grossness

I see corruption is termed “gambling row” these days.

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action

Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse

Another element aggravating me about this discussion is the number of people with these "well, actually" justifications that treat football solely as if it is an entertainment commodity, which it isn't, and it's not Fifa's mission to treat it as such

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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Strikes me as a man who's grown so accustomed to being indulged, he literally doesn't have the emotional range to accommodate anything less than full agreement.

FSA statement: World Cup ticket prices are scandalous - Football Supporters' Association Thousands of our members follow England across Europe and the world, where they are supported by our Free Lions team. FIFA’s greed means that many of those will have to make alternative plans in summe...

The prices set for the 2026 World Cup are scandalous, a step too far for many supporters who passionately and loyally follow their national sides at home and abroad.

Full FSA statement below.

thefsa.org.uk/news/world-c...

If you started siding with the right and being wary of the left because some leftists were cunts to you on social media you were never particularly left-wing to start with. I've had mad leftists and woke scolds say insane stuff about me and to me and it never made me hate centrists any less, bitch.

Mum wants to know what your Christmas argument plans are buff.ly/kceMiVF

Today in Stuttgart •. Extremist supporters of the Israeli • club Maccabi Tel Aviv who have traveled to the city sing openly in German streets: "You are Arab-wh*res (...) We will f*ck you and drink your blood (...) We will r*pe your girls." German police did not intervene.

This was yesterday, and it really is worth noting that this is what the political class and most of the press has been falling over itself to protect: the type of shit they would be demanding the army crack down on, from any other set of fans.

Well done Aaron Connolly who picks up another award as he wins The League One Player Of The Month for November after some stunning performances & goals for #LOFC…

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

"Just protecting women and girls"

This was an extraordinary, spine-tingling moment, recognising fearless and crucial journalism. I don't think I've ever seen a standing ovation like that at a journalism awards do.

That song and that album are a miracle. The greatest singles band of its era comes back after a decade-long creative hiatus with a - gasp - conceptual opus, a celebration of London which stands comparison with all others. It takes more than talent to do that, a lot of courage too.

“With Madness that felt important because you know how desperately a certain sort of pink-faced, St. George's flag-waving Reformer would love to embrace them as one of their own.”  | Pete Paphides Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

A few loving words about Madness and one song in particular.

Nothing says "free speech absolutist" like having the president you bought kick people out of the country for saying mean things about you. What a weak, pathetic little man. #TeslaTakedown

The terms and conditions of Barca's new crypto sponsor say that its product might be imaginary and that, if it does turn out not to exist, there's nothing you can do about it.

YouTube video by Anton PDC Darts song (official)

Time to crank out another ageless classic Christmas tune: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtGP...

Balancing of rights, and tolerance, is supposed to be "You don't call her a heathen, you don't call her a god botherer."

Not - "Jane gets to insult everyone, you have to conform to her beliefs and pretend they are acceptable. Also not being her friend is discrimination."

I get that the worst parts of the “cancel culture” era were not great, but maybe now that we seem to have lost any real form of social sanction for truly blatant racism, misogyny, homophobia etc, commentators who spend all their time railing against it could admit they had their priorities wrong?

I just don't feel like Kate Winslet or Timothy Spall's children are what's costing poor kids with acting talent their chance. They're missing out cos London rent is £3k so they're working doubles in Screwfix, while the kids of doctors and architects and executives and literal barons don't have to.

How can we draw more attention to this? They're Palestine Action hunger strikers who are now in critical condition in the hospital and the UK is just letting them die. It also feels like there is a media blackout