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Steve Yates

@yatesyman.bsky.social

I'll do this bit properly one day

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boy that's a war crime

04.03.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

That's another gripe of mine. I fear he may have destroyed our most expensive signing by trying to turn him into a utility player when everyone can see it's just not working.

04.03.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also I fear bit by bit Hurzeler
is shedding this side of its youth and creativity. Is Babis injured? Not even on the bench tonight.

04.03.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bloke in front of me today said FH feels Minteh doesn't train hard enough. Which isn't great, if true, though he always does hus share on the pitch. But to my mind we simply cannot afford to do without his directness and creativity.

04.03.2026 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Good for Ed Miliband - who’s also doing far more than the Torygraph, the Tories or Farage to insulate the UK from volatile fossil fuel prices, lately driven up by Trump’s war with Iran

bsky.app/profile/jack...

04.03.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Might repost this daily until these same papers admit that it's correct, and eventually start pretending they never supported the daft orange goon in the first place.

04.03.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You certainly are. And we made it extra easy by gifting you a goal inside 10 mins. At which you decided - rightly - that one was enough

04.03.2026 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever Hurzeler's problem is with Minteh, he needs to get over it. He's far too good for the bench.

04.03.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thought we were the better team. And we weren't great by any means.

04.03.2026 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The 4 minutes Raya spent lying on the floor pretending hurty shoulder + subs + ritual time wasting.

04.03.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

George Graham must be proud.

04.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*boring obviously

04.03.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had thought the 'Arsenal are noring' narrative was likely a bit overcooked, but having seen them up close tonight it is, if anything, underdone.

04.03.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

04.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 790    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 13

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

03.03.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1058    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 13
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Mothers campaign group to leave Newham flats Members of a women's group occupying flats in a council estate near east London's Olympic Park are told by a court to leave the premises.

"Sir" Robin Wales is the guy who tried to force a bunch of single mothers living in temporary accommodation to move miles away from Newham - the Focus E15 campaign

They then occupied social housing that had been left empty for years on his watch www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

04.03.2026 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Go well mate.

04.03.2026 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GB News loses Β£22m, taking their total losses to over Β£130m. Except it's not a 'loss', it's an investment by Paul Marshall in providing a propaganda service to platform right wing grifters, gobshites, conspiracy nutters and contrarian fuckwits.

04.03.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1065    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 16

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

04.03.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1212    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 18
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Spanish PM SΓ‘nchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

04.03.2026 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7481    πŸ” 2563    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 412
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1399    πŸ” 497    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 16

A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the MΓΌller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. MΓΌller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.

04.03.2026 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 19

Depends how wide you cast the RnR net. To my mind it's a punk rock song. Part of the same family, but not the same thing.

04.03.2026 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bob Power, Engineer and Producer Who Excavated Hip-Hop's Low End, Dead at 73 Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died.

The great music engineer and producer Bob Power has died. An absolute legend, producing records for Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and on and on.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

04.03.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Janie Jones by the Clash
The Seed by The Roots/Cody Chestnutt

And too many hip hop tunes to mention referencing jazz

03.03.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, but you have some interest in holding shit propaganda to account.

03.03.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wrote and published these a lot quicker than ipso, too.

03.03.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œFor all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.

Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...

But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?

03.03.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 652    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 42

Absolutely spot on.

03.03.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s changed Nige? πŸ€”

03.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0