☠️🐈‍⬛ Dave

The goal will do Rak-Sakyi good hopefully he will keep improving and give us another option. Him. Junior, Million Bocat and Thomas coming at you would be a hand full 😀

Also Cisse didn’t half put a shift in

Agreed, can’t wait for Junior to be back l think that will make a big difference

It’s been a while #StokeCity 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️

Cisse 🙌🏾

The speedy of Cisse to get there for the goal was a joy 🚀

Well doesn’t that goal just sum things up 🙄

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paed...

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Doesn’t seem much money does it!

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

Russian firms have routed $8bn of trade through British island territories since invasion of Ukraine Anti-corruption group Transparency International have catalogued ‘sanctions circumvention’ channelled through ‘unaccountable jurisdictions’ Russian companies have used Britain’s secretive island territories to conduct $8bn (£5.9bn) of trade since the invasion of Ukraine, according to a report that highlights the flow of goods ranging from oil-drilling equipment to luxury yachts linked to Moscow’s political elite. The analysis, published a day after the fourth anniversary of Russia’s assault on its neighbour, raises questions over the role played by the British overseas territories in enforcing sanctions designed to turn the screw on the Kremlin. Yachts linked to allies of Vladimir Putin. Drilling kit for Kremlin-backed oil projects. Coal linked to Ukraine’s pro-Russian ex-president. A jet linked to the Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. Continue reading...

Russian firms have routed $8bn of trade through British island territories since invasion of Ukraine

Reform UK by-election campaign boss suspended over tweets Reform UK's Gorton and Denton by-election interim campaign boss Adam Mitula made the posts on X.

What first attracted a man accused of using a highly offensive racial slur aimed at black people & making a derogatory remark about Jewish women to a party led by Nigel Farage?
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Pooh was enjoying the warm February weather but didn’t understand why it rained so much ….

Days after Andrew Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

Are the authorities looking into that time Boris Johnson ditched his security to party in Italy?

😂

That’s a highly addictive App

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.

When I do interviews for TV and radio (when they want a retail story) you should see the surprise on their faces when I say we are doing well, it doesn’t fit the narrative.

Big money is being spent on convincing people everything is terrible

Happy birthday 🎈

UK electricity prices have raced ahead of the pack

UK electricity costs have not merely risen in line with global trends did but soared.

British households have gone from paying ordinary costs by international standards to footing some of the highest bills in the world.

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Sir Douglas Bader (born 21st Feb 1910) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the 2nd World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. After retirement he toured school venues giving speeches. #DouglasBader

Keeping a close eye on the #Canadian Skip in the #Curling final #WinterOlympics

My wife has just said that we can’t lose to a team with Laurence Fox and Alex Horne in it 😵‍💫

Very good

Closer examination of the Epstein files provokes fresh questions about Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and his brother Christian’s development of the One Hyde Park super-prime apartment block: messages within the latest release appear to contradict their tax-avoiding account of the project.

What a contrast 😂

I drove down for the WBA game, had a cuppa with a pal and went back again

You would like to think so, have you tried tagging some bigger accounts?

1970: L 0–1 to Tottenham Hotspur
1976: L 1–2 to Tottenham Hotspur
1981: L 1–3 to Middlesbrough
1987: L 0–1 to Coventry City
1998: D 1–1 with Nottingham Forest.
2004: D 1–1 with Wigan Athletic
2009: D 2–2 with Portsmouth
2026: D 2-2 with Leicester City

Undefeated in 39 years on my birthday 😜