Nick Willder

Happy retirement to Robert Woods, who helped define the “Sean McVay offense”, was totally fearless across the middle, full of great personality, and had the coolest nickname ever. “Bobby Trees”.

All this absurdly unpopular and ineffective rhetoric about the need to treat immigrants like garbage to keep Reform out and it turns out he'd rather a Reform government than step aside for someone who might be able to deliver for Labour voters.

The absolute indignity and classlessness of it all.

No one wants to see your AI cartoon. It’s bad for the environment & wholly uninteresting & unimpressive.

You want a cartoon of yourself? Ask your kid to draw you. Get your friends together to make some art. Fly to New York City & get a street artist to draw you. Just enough with this AI slop.

Mad and embarrassing for the sport that everyone knows this happens and yet nothing’s done about it. Absolutely not helped by Karl Dickson just admiring himself on the big screen when he should be consulting with the TMO

I just saw a commercial suggesting Chat GPT can help you keep up a running habit in the new year and thought of all the researchers, psychologists and authors whose years of work studying habit change, exercise, etc. got stolen to make those "AI" recommendations. Fucking bullshit.

In "celebration" of thr Pepto Bismol ad now being on the radio, I took some popular radio-friendly songs and added the "Diarrhea" guy.

"I stayed on Twitter through Nazi-ism and the owner causing 600,000 Africans to die so if you think a bit of child pornography is going to get me to leave you are barking up the wrong tree my friend"

Some people apparently

world-class chud tom brady wearing a single glove on his right hand and a big headset on his head while broadcasting the eagles vs bills game

my demands are simple, mr. bond

Jewish community leaders in Birmingham

Standing outside Villa Park

Saying they support the ban of Maccabi

Saying it's nothing to do with religion, or against Jews

"It's a genuine safety concern against hooliganism from Maccabi"

The New York Times, an organisation that appears to be a newspaper, is feeding a load of 'brown liquid' to its readers.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.

Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

Opposing morally repugnant anti-immigrant policies using economic arguments is like trying to convince somebody not to shoot your dog because they can't afford to buy bullets.

Queen

Liam Coen made the right decision at the end of Jaguars-Bengals. Never go from a 3-point lead to 6 late!

Defense gave up a 92-yard TD drive to Jake Browning. If Jags kicked the FG, what makes anyone think the defense would have then stopped Cincy?

Good process, bad result.

I don't want Keir Starmer to change direction and suddenly come out swinging against Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.

I want him gone and replaced by a Prime Minister who believes that pandering to racism is unconscionable and that anyone suggesting it has no place at the heart of government.

Keir Starmer's refusal to tackle the threat of the far-right and the upsurge in racism that it's causing is not just a giant political mistake and a disgraceful moral failing, it's the gravest dereliction of duty by a Prime Minister since Boris Johnson's response to Covid.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride.

They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

This obnoxious weirdo can absolutely do one with his poisonous little take on what the British people think.
He lost the right to appropriate our opinions when he foisted his prejudiced and dishonest Brexit shitshow on us and told us that’s what we wanted.
Reform is the grim hangover of that failure

That big news I teased yesterday?

I've written a book!

Attacking the Space: Inside Rugby's Tactical and Data Revolution is the book I wanted to read as a rugby obsessive kid. It will be released on the 29th January 2026, the pre-order link is:

geni.us/AttackingThe...

1)

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

Farage is a rat scurrying into darkness. Oh, wait ....

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass

This

A word on immigration. Don't prejudge this, just listen to the data, and then consider what the solution is.

The UK has a falling birth rate. This means that - unless things change - each generation will be 25% smaller than the one before.

Patriotism is about caring for your fellow citizens – all of them, not just the ones who buy peerages. It is about decently funding our national institutions and investing in our collective futures. It involves delivering a full and enriching education for the next generation, and providing decent care and respite for the elderly and vulnerable. It’s about ensuring we have a capable and well-founded health service, a justice system that is open to all – and which applies equally to all. Patriotism is about ensuring equality of life chances, and the possibility of a home and a family. It recognises that it doesn’t matter what colour, faith, gender or sexuality you are: every person in Britain is equally British, and division demeans us all. But simply being British isn’t enough. We live on this planet with billions of other people, and we have to make it work. So patriotism is building sound and convivial relationships with our neighbours and allies. It is tackling global climate change in congress with the entire world, not seeking ways to screw our rivals and condemn our grandkids to a terrifying heat death. Patriotism is about crushing corruption and fostering decency, rather than the other way around. Those things are patriotic. Not flags. Fuck your flags. Flags are just the wrapping paper around those things, and nothing more. Yet increasingly they’re wrapped around a hollowed-out nation.

Wrote this about flags and patriotism in 2021 (in The Decade In Tory). Stand by every word now.