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There’s no believing that handball decision is there, Luke? Digne jumps up 3-4 yards inside the box, lands 3-4 yards inside the box and stands in the same position - inside the box - protesting his innocence!

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Yes, @evernote.bsky.social! As a bloke with a northern accent I can now look forward to a future of audio transcriptions in English rather than Welsh!

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

NUST are sickened by the appalling racist abuse received by Joe Willock on Instagram yesterday.

❌There is no room for racism anywhere

@srtrcengland.bsky.social

Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik It’s not just the triumphalism in the White House. Leaders loth to oppose this gangsterism must think how that looks to Putin, Xi and in the UAE, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik

My take would be because they have a toxic culture which emanates from the very top.

Though, I can’t imagine they’d get away with it without a challenge. All that brand identity must be totally locked-down.

It would be amazing if it just soared!

The US is now a rogue state - look at its extrajudicial killings off Venezuela’s coast | Simon Tisdall These widely condemned strikes are just the latest sign of Trump’s imperialist revival – and the collapsing before our eyes of the rules-based world order, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Si...

A 'new era of state lawlessness [has] taken hold around the world.'

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread way of life and their strange support for prominent Reform MP customs, but Reform MPs Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of comprise only 0.7 percent of the minorities on television. House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce. right. Every time you turn on "I'm not prejudiced. Some of the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. Kuenssberg." There are too many people with She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."

Private Eye.

Recall that Trump's father was the child of immigrants, and that his mother and two of his wives were immigrants.

For example: www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

McKinsey is always good value, Kev.

The signing of the bloke in the middle one of the least good bits of news in my remembrance.

Led By Donkeys have got Fartrage's number.

Oh, for the love of all that is good!

Any photos of Elliott Anderson, comms team? Still one of our own!

Is the international break finished yet? #nufc

This is a thing of beauty, mate!

Newcastle sell Alexander Isak: Inside club's transfer window Newcastle United have had a breathless end to the transfer window after the club agreed to sell Alexander Isak and struck a deal to sign Yoane Wissa.

‘So begins life after Isak.’ Great article this; well worth a read. #NUFC

Now, now, James, play nicely! Enjoy him, he’s certainly a huge talent.

Put it like that, Kev, and it represents very good business, imho.

👀 #NUFC

#nufc

Maybe in time we’ll get more realistic. We’re always going to feel the loss. But, maybe then it would hurt less… feel less personal.

Maybe then we could love, and be loved in return. But not lie to each other about what it really means; and wish each other well when comes the season to move on.

After all we, as fans, have more than enough love for our club to go around. And, there’s more than enough magic in football without us all agreeing to live under some kind of spell of total devotion and timeless loyalty.

Maybe we shouldn’t require that of players; people who, at the end of the day, signed a contract not a lifetime covenant.

Maybe we don’t need it from them either. As long as they’re doing their job well… doing all they can, giving of their best.

Maybe players like Alexander Isak don’t really love our club like they make out they do. But maybe we shouldn’t expect them to either.

I’m not saying that football should be cold, hard business. But neither, perhaps, should it be a pretence of unbridled passion and undying loyalty.

But, in our ecstasy, our adoration, our fanaticism, our partisan sense of triumph… maybe we’ve bought into a lie or at least allowed ourselves to believe a half-truth.