Angus Reid

I have been paralysed & a wheelchair user for 17 years. Since then, I have flown hundreds of times. I have never had worse service than this morning at Heathrow T4 Arrivals.

From April.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

The Electoral Sabotage Party?

You have to win a general election before you can do anything else. Starmer gets this AND achieved it.

Dividing the left - Corbyn brings the same electoral savvy which led to a disaster for Labour under his"leadership".

Self-indulgent

Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit??

Another myth, sadly...

My column

www.ft.com/content/3e9d...

In 2014, half of Greece's electricity was generated by coal.

A decade later, that share has fallen to just 6%.

Everton players with the best minutes per goal ratios in the Premier League (minimum 30 goals):

Lukaku - 1 goal every 175 mins
Campbell - 1 goal every 248 mins
Richarlison - 1 goal every 259 mins
Ferguson - 1 goal every 262 mins
Calvert-Lewin - 1 goal every 276 mins

#EFC

9 years since the Brexit referendum disaster and the public is clear they're sick of Brexit

Rejoin 56%
Stay out 34%
10% DK

Congratulations #oafc !

Strong Message Here - Yes or No? - BBC Sounds Helen and Armando ask, is there any nuance in politics? It's a simple yes or no question!

Shibboleths in political debate - really enjoyed this from Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci #strongmessagehere
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Also, striking how little praise there is on here for Darren England. Plenty of feedback for weak decisions but silence when refs do well ...

Strong by Darren England to stick with on-field decision. How can Mykolenko avoid the ball at that distance? Arms in natural position for balance. Nice one, ref! #fuleve

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 10: Beto of Everton celebrates scoring his team's third goal during the Premier League match between Fulham FC and Everton FC at Craven Cottage on May 10, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Since David Moyes’ first Premier League game back with Everton (15 January), only three players have scored more goals in the league than Beto:

🇸🇪 Alexander Isak (10)
🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah (10)
🇫🇷 Jean-Philippe Mateta (9)
🇬🇼 Beto (7)

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Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt sometimes!

Lots of funny comments here! 🤣

The comments didn't age so well, did they?!

I'm interested in buying the book. Enjoying the pod!

Like it! Yes, we got plenty of Amy Grant and I enjoyed it. 👍

I'm going to write a Christian dieting book: "He must increase, I must decrease."

I have more than 410k followers on X and fewer than 63k on BlueSky.

Yet the same tweet about Russian money supporting the Far Right in Britain has been shared fewer than 100 times on X and more than 1,300 on BlueSky.

That's how much of a propaganda tool X has become.

One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show. From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group, shipped the equipment to an Indian firm that is the biggest trading partner of the Russian arms agency, Rosoboronexport. H.R. Smith Group donated 100,000 pounds (just under $130,000) to Reform U.K. last year, two days after Nigel Farage was announced as the party’s leader. The company is run by Richard Smith, a businessman who owns 55 Tufton Street, a Westminster townhouse that is home to some of Britain’s most influential right-wing lobbying and research groups.

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

I’ve seen a lot of revolutions over the decades, and many have started off with overconfident actions like Erdoğan’s arrest of his main opponent, the Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. Erdoğan is in trouble, and he’ll have to be really careful now.

Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens travelling to the United States to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention.

Here:

The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again? Oldman got an Oscar nomination for his turn as John le Carré’s rumpled spymaster. So what’s stopping a repeat performance?

Agreed! Oldman's Smiley was brilliant, really hard to beat. www.theguardian.com/film/article...

Nice!

@andrewmg9.bsky.social where's your "banner" photo, Mark?

Let's hope the "for now" is short-lived