Sam Minton

Feel quite sad for Salah, who must at same level both a) know he’s been crap this season and b) fear he will never recover his old form and c) has gone through a shock bereavement. (Which IMV continues to be crazily under-discussed when people talk about Liverpool’s poor form)

Stupid stupid stupid football.

Scott Boland faced 72 balls today.

No England batter has managed 60.

The winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 is…

Hannah Durkin for 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'. @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social

A big congratulations to Hannah!

"I hardly think one more lamprey is going to kill me."

Henry I died #OnThisDay 1135.

An illustration of Kemi Badenoch shouting at a scared child: “If you can’t afford to live then why did you decide to be born?”

Bang on, @bjennings90.bsky.social

Ben Stokes is the first England captain to take an Ashes five-for in Australia since Bob Willis claimed 5 for 66 at the Gabba in 1982 🙌

Early Ashes viewing = oh dear.

Whippet Fancier, Huddersfield, 1973, photo by Chris Killip.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.

Never liked football.

the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!

You know the ending of this story, right?

FIFA president Gianni Infantino will award the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize during the 2026 World Cup draw in DC on December 5.

The prize will honour individuals who have helped unite people and promote peace.

'Fetching in the lines', fisherwoman Lizzie Alice Hawksfield, Whitby, late 19th century, photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941).

James Anderson receives knighthood in Windsor Castle ceremony Fast bowler was knighted in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours in April

Sir Jimmy 👑

A queue of people waiting for free food from the St Ann’s soup kitchen, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1912.

The Trump Supremacy Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA

www.ft.com/content/1377...

I absolutely believe this.

A stacked bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Approval and disapproval of Trump's job performance." The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President? (%)."

NEW Economist/YouGov Oct 17-20
% who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump
U.S. adult citizens 39% | 56% (-17)
Last week 40% | 55%
Start of term 49% | 43%

Democrats 4% | 94%
Independents 27% | 65%
Republicans 85% | 11%
18-29: 25% | 66%
65+: 45% | 54%
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You’re in a complex moral area when the person being served ahead of you at the checkout goes back for items they forgot, and then takes ages. They’re within their rights. They are the queue leader. But it doesn’t sit right.

Woman passes Glue Terrace, Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 1950, photo by Bert Hardy. There was a glue factory nearby.

no problem

Niche football result of the day - the Faroe Islands picking up their joint biggest win ever.

I had a biology teacher who regularly used to say he 'should get the Nobel Peace Prize here' for his work in quietening down the class. To my knowledge he never was recognised by the panel.

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week.
A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift.
🧵👇

8 Park Square, Leeds - the home of Henry Chorley and the focus of the riot Stephen Richards CC BY-SA 2.0

In 1865 Leeds rioted over… beef fat. Cook Eliza Stafford sold two pounds of dripping from her employer, surgeon-magistrate Henry Chorley. She saw it as a perk; he called it theft. Tried in private by his fellow magistrates, she was jailed for a month and Leeds was furious.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Would you be happy if your fossilised remains became a museum exhibit?

Happy: 27%
Neutral: 43%
Unhappy: 18%

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