Kevin Mitchell

Whwn it’s tough to feel sorry for millionaires … Sleepless nights, $1.4m owed: Aussie golfer’s LIV nightmare - The Australian

@mrjamesob.bsky.social If the citizens of Piddington village think they’re in some modern version of Passport To Pimlico, they are not quite getting either irony or post-war existential angst.

I can agree with much of this, but not all. KP has never been an easy item. He is passionate, a good thing in a sea of, let’s face it, mediocrity. But he has a bit of “victim” about him: never wrong, always put upon. Cricket does not encourage the whinging rebel. So this rebel has much to prove.

@paulhayward.bsky.social did you watch the burying of the priest’s curse in the GAA final! And probably the longest victory speech by the Mayo captain since Castro was in his pomp.

What a win by Mayo! If you know the story, you know the story. And it’s some story

A different view of the AI monster …. usdemsocialists.substack.com/p/bernie-san...

If this version is accurate, Stokes and Atkinson are guilty of drinking an hour after a ludicrous curfew and watching a rugby player miss Atkinson with a punch. No police. No charges. And then they left… How nightclub incident unfolded for Stokes and Atkinson - The Times and The Sunday Times

A somewhat curious take, concluding with a judgment by Gower, whose buzzing of the Gabba in a light aircraft cost him no more than a fine he could afford, while John Morris, his co-pilot, never played for England again. Stokes set to be left out of England squad for second Test - The Guardian

Surely the curfew doesn’t apply after the match is over. Might as well tell them to go home to mum! The real issue ought to be the actual incident- which sounds like it didn’t “develop”. Ben Stokes considers resigning as England captain after nightclub incident - The Times and The Sunday Times

If you haven’t seen his latest rant…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social check this from the excellent Heather Cox Richardson: “Weirdly, he kept referring to the U.S. as “your” country when he was speaking to Welker, and to “your” elections. It was almost as if he was a foreign observer offering criticism of the U.S.” Weird, no?

The judge wrote in his 94-page ruling that it was "crystal clear" that the arts complex was named for the late president John F. Kennedy. He also ruled that the center could not wind down its programming and close for two years of renovations – at least for now.

And this is a good thing, right? Or will the usual suspects pile in like useful idiots?

If anyone doubted that the BBC’s Chris Mason was an agent or, at least, a willing dupe, for the opposition, you’d only have to listen to his outrageously biased take on the Government’s move to tweak sanctions on Russian oil and gas. He knew the facts and twisted them beyond recognition.

Who is funding Nigel Farage and why does he keep dodging the question? youtu.be/CiuDIzdcp8o?...

One hell of a scoop. Sayonara Keir.

Struggling to think if there’s ever been a worse football pundit than Alan Smith. He had another shocker at Spurs-Leeds tonight.

This is what they voted for: unadulterated racism.

Why, “the White House”? It’s Trump. Say so!

One man put us in this deadly quagmire. One man is wrecking our economy. One man’s immigration agents have terrorized our communities. One man has ridden roughshod over our system of government. We said "No Kings" 250 years ago. Congress must say "No Kings" today. If not, they must be replaced.

“… a whole civilisation”?! The balloon has just confessed to genocide.

Dozens of politically vulnerable foreign nationals (including Brits and Americans) are often among the 5k-plus held in Iranian jails at any one time. And Trump is about to bomb the hell out of them, indiscriminately and with no remorse.

5,000 kids arrested?!

Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ann Coulter have all slammed the president, with the latter accusing him of war crimes.

The slaughter of 168 Iranian schoolchildren in Tehran - independently verified but denied by the world’s most brazen liar, Donald Trump- will one day be remembered as the biggest US war crime since the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam in 1968. Shame on you, America - and a lingering pox on your president.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The investigative group Bellingcat says newly released video “appears to contradict” U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed over 165 people at the start of the war raging in the Mideast.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said he received a call from President Donald Trump to dispute that he knew about Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $200 million public relations campaign that was primarily used to boost her image.

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

Brian Allen 🚨 Gavin Newsom isn’t mincing words: “Trump owes families their money back. $1,751 per household.” Trump illegally taxed working Americans through tariffs. Took hundreds of billions. Got caught. Got ruled against. Now he needs to return every dollar. No excuses. No delays.

Getting seriously heavy now. No way is this over, whatever Trump, Bondi and all the gangsters might imagine.

Did you know Spurs have a player called Miracle Adewole? He scored against Arsenal in a 4-1 win for the under 18s this week. So, all good for Sunday’s derby, then.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just wow and double wow… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Still clearing the swamp…

The Olympic committee bans an athlete from Ukraine for wearing a helmet honoring war dead but it’s totally cool if one of the major people planning an upcoming Olympics was mentioned in the Epstein files. See, this is the kind of shit we are upset about

Do we feel pity or revulsion? I’m going full on revulsion… www.facebook.com/reel/1411735...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

British police are assessing a complaint that ex-prince sent confidential trade reports to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Seems rumours of Starmer’s demise were not quite on the money… is there more to him than we suspected? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Inspired!

Go Spain!

More than one way to skin a cat, and the Times have twisted the numbers artfully here. If you look for it (last paragraph), 63 per cent of Labour voters want him to carry on - which is surprising! Starmer’s Labour sleazier than Tories, say third of voters - The Times and The Sunday Times

“The Israeli officer told me: ‘Why did you return? Tell the people of Gaza: pack your belongings and get out" Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border say they were blindfolded, interrogated, and beaten by Israeli forces. www.middleeasteye.net/news/blindfo...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... this charmer ?

Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all; her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity. How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The US is now formally out of the Paris Agreement, one year after it triggered the exit process from the climate treaty. It has subsequently announced it will also withdraw from the UNFCCC and IPCC.