Patrick Lappin

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

Over at the other place they have become experts in crowd control around football matches.

Republicans will never cease to claim 39-year old white guys are "kids" and 12-year old black boys are "men"

there also seems to be a bit of sour grapes around enthusiasm for the guy, which, I mean, I feel fairly cynical most of the time about everything but at some point you gotta accept that most people do not engage in politics like us weird fucking nerds and enthusiasm is not, in and of itself, a sin

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Very funny that the government thinks highly qualified people who speak English even better than the locals want to live here to be chased down the street by drunks waving flags 🤣

Medications that sound like Northern Soul singers #1 - Rennie Deflatine

I am once again begging you to boycott Tesla

One of our great strategic failures as a society is our horror of freeloaders.

Many potentially effective policies are discounted because of this.

his house. Not him.

I must be the one millionth to say it (but I've searched and I can't see one), but isn't the solution that we all repeatedly burgle Sam Altman forever? For our development?

sherman, for the love of god!

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

yeah, they changed it when it became, y'know, a bit mainstream.

Go to the greengrocer's counter. Ask for more ginger, but then immediately take a step back, look at the door, then back at the greengrocer, and say, "not ginger. I want ginger."
He'll give you the ginger with heroin in it. And it'll be free because you know the code. Trust me.

It’s the despair that’s going to kill us Time to cheer up

My hero is a farmer, not a duck. Which will only make sense if you read this new piece by me, the start of a new substack which I am bravely calling How To Run A Country.

howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/its-the-de...

Marco Rubio whispering to Tr*mp.

“He’s still cutting the grass, sir“.

‘The closest she got was telling us she wanted a country “where people are judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin.” Right now, she doesn’t even have a shadow cabinet like that.’

Looks like we are avoiding mass redundancies as a result of the lack of usefulness of AI, but also getting mass redundancies as a result of the lack of usefulness of AI.

Again back to my belief that Major's much-derided 1990s speech about long shadows on the cricket ground, warm beer and maids cycling to community is in actual fact a very valid and positive view of small c conservatism. The Conservatives as they are now just hate people and the country in general

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

Honestly I hate Jenrick more than Farage. Far more sinister because of the speed of his transformation from off-the-shelf Tory mediocrity into dead-eyed National Front race-baiter

Dozens of sex toys have been found washed up on a Scottish beach.

RISQUE GALORE

It’s also odd that we have an official opposition that cannot win on immigration *and* a government that cannot win on immigration - yet both seem absolutely determined the only fight they want to have is one on immigration.