Ben Watson

Ben Watson

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Securing a Leics v Middx final in the Metro Bank Cup would be very poignant on same day as the finale of the re-launched H*ndred. Let’s hope it happens.

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You meet a lot of people in academia, I suppose in all walks of life, who may not be all that they claim to be. If the media went after each of them the way they went after this lad, there'd be no room for anything else in the papers or on the phone-ins. I think we all know why he got the treatment

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But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

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PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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All this post match analysis is doing my head in. Fuck it. We weren’t good enough. That’s all. It’s fine. Someone was better than us. Cool. No one died.

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Got to go to work now and try not to have an aneurysm while non football fans try and talk me through what Tuchel did wrong

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I mean, I'm glad they're *finally* saying this stuff on the BBC. But either the likes of Robinson have only just realised this. Or they've been pulling their punches. Either should be a sackable offence for a high-profile political journalist.

Great crack from ITV co-commentator about ‘no franchises in football’ and quick as a flash he quipped: ‘Milton Keynes’ kudos and 🤣 (think co-comms is Andros Townsend)

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Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.

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I don't give a shit about football, but I just heard my favourite stat about this World Cup. Every single country taking part has universal healthcare... Except one. Can you guess ?

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Shocked I tell you. Shocked

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media

A decade+ since I was inadvertently invited to a Downing Street room with Facebook/Google/etc and Cameron walked in and asked everyone what they'd do to boost youth referendum turnout and a grand woman shouted "WE NEED GRIME ARTISTES, DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY GRIME ARTISTES" and I began to doubt Remain.

THIS

Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers while nothing really changes. This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country.

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This is objectively crazy isn't it? It's already been said repeatedly on here but *can you imagine* the news agenda if a Muslim man (or any non-white person for that matter) had roamed any UK street attacking people???

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism