Chris

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

It’s come to something when a photographer has to get legal advice, before displaying this photo in an exhibition, due to the risk of being prosecuted as a terrorist, but that’s exactly what I had to do yesterday. What a state this country is in.

The Return of the King For Tax Purposes

A reminder that Manchester City's UAE owners are playing footsy with the UK far-right, have been credibly accused of torturing scores of UK citizens, deployed an assassin to UK soil, and probably hacked 10 Downing Street. And unlike Man City, we publish our evidence 👇 fairsq.org/petropopulis...

I think if you look at the BBC’s general approach to rating verses bei c public service, it’s completely in line with how their news coverage has evolved. More Farage for ratings, less women’s sports

Our 5-year-old had her first scholastic book fair today at school, and I can't wait to get to bedtime so we can start on one of the new books she's picked up. Imagine wanting to pass on the privilege of that part of parenting to your phone. Incomprehensible.

The interrelationship between money, power, and self-interest is a poison that runs through the heart of so much of elite sport

One of the many reasons you should consider supporting our rebootfifa.com campaign is we have outstanding legal advisors, including @antoineduval.bsky.social, the subject of this profile in FAZ and one of many scholars who believes the EU can exert real influence on FIFA. www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...

Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'!

"Suggest you google this guy" Manchester City Council responded to my 2013 Freedom of Information request for details of their deal with Manchester City by flagging my background to City's chief communications officer. Deeply inappropriate (and that's being generous).

Not sure if it's feed selection-by-curation or a funny little trend, but loving the amount of GW/Warhammer chat on here this week. Getting back into it after ~25 years has been the best of the 'hitting 40' decisions I've made. Cannot recommend enough the joy of diving back into a childhood hobby.

This is, of course, the very measured and appropriate reaction of an organisation, and its supporters, that believes fully in its innocence

THREAD about WRESTLERS and ARCHIVES!!!

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

Freeing myself of both the smart watch, and the sense that I needed a smart watch in the first place, were liberating beyond belief. See also: fitness bands and anything else that made me believe that I needed to be self-surveilling for my own good.

Can City get expelled from the Premier League? What competition would they go into? What role does the independent regulator play? Who knows? Well I do, because I checked. Come, join me on a guided tour through the chaos...

They should've, but we should also loudly protest our partnership with we never have. We never had a real protest for Visit Rwanda, nor against Thomas Partey. A lot of Arsenal fans wanted Usmanov. It's them but it could've been us or any other club. It's pathetic. It's past time to wake up.

I just keep coming back to this. This was six months ago.

As someone who's worked for the last decade+ as a sports comms bod, I keep wondering what would compel you to advise the media strategy that Manchester City have used over the past five days. The only answer I can get to is: you wouldn't. It's absurd.

This is quite something. It wouldn't surprise me if the appeals procedures took an extremely long time from here, but the pressure for serious sanctions (given both volume and scale of findings of guilt) will be enormous.

Look, I’m not saying I was aiming for this, but I’m not not saying it either

I would like our Government to be outlawing, vociferously speaking out against and ruthlessly prosecuting members of what is clearly a paramilitary fascist organisation.

In any remotely sane time, this is the sort of thing that would prompt immediate political condemnation. Government inaction is an enabling factor, and they need to recognise it as such.

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

We can all mock this guy, but I remind you all that "deficit is a word that sounds like loss and we should avoid deficits" was also the underlying logic - the whole underlying logic - behind austerity, and nobody has yet been willing to come out and call George Osborne a dumbass over it.

KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.

There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.

No, you’re addressing your Japan cravings with microwave curry 🍛