Andy Holland

'Every day Infantino remains in power is a fresh stain on an institution whose reputation is on the floor' www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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.

something utterly beautiful about the fact that the most hyped, gilded, oversold, VVIP’d football game of all time has been an absolute stinking turnip. sport will always find a way!

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture

World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected?

What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔

Two Reform Councillors had died before they were elected. Five have quit because they never actually wanted to be Councillors. At least four have been fired because they are vile racists. One is complaining because he thought he'd be an MP. One was completely made up Clown party

crazy how you can literally see bayern harry kane morphing into england tournament harry kane in real time

'Farage has pulled out of Kuenssberg' is a mental image I don't think any of us needed.

Q9: you accepted £5m for your personal security and _subsequently_ your house was subject to an arson attack. You are someone who can spend £5m guarding against a non-problem and turn it into a real one? And you should run the country?

Holy shit that list is so fucked up. It's not remotely the same as the best songs or even the ones you hear the most. But when you force yourself to choose quickly it's amazing what your brain insists on.

Activists have been putting up these signs around the Fairford Airbase from which the US is bombing Iran. Lets not let their activism go to waste.

that bleach has already been drunk

Meanwhile, in Florida… DeSantis ordered books about Native American history and Black history to be destroyed. 😡😤🤬 #Florida #Desantis #Fascism #History #BlackHistory #NativeAmericanHistory

How droll to provide evidence that he is a war criminal. Make sure you save this for when the WH lawyers say he should delete it

Every last word of this.

Breaking - GOP candidate for Gov of Minnesota drops out. Says he cant support federal “retribution” against Minnesotans… @startribune.com www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

Losers Gullis and Ben Bradley, now possibly disgraced Scott Benton will join Reform. Farage admits his party lacks experience. But recruits the morons and the pisstakers to make up for that. Reform: Loitering around the Tory bins seeing what bits of their stinking rubbish they can recycle.

Surely it’s a joke?

This is SOME recommendation. Thanks, Ed. 🎤

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

Police in Catania seize over 1,500 illegal fireworks discovered by a courier service at their hub. They contained a total of 255kg of explosives. When police detonated just 12 of the "fireworks" in a quarry, the explosion pulverised 300kg of rocks placed over them and left a crater 5 metres wide.

Whatever your views on the Messina Strait bridge, this highlights the amateurish approach of Meloni’s government in general, and Matteo Salvini in particular, to a highly complex project. I have no doubt they will be arrogant enough to overrule the decision of the court and go ahead regardless.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I know the Tory party is a rancid rotting carcass of a party but, Christ, surely we’re all beyond sick of them now. This lot won’t get back into power but they can’t even manage to be a responsible opposition. They’re just so grimly dismal, racist and thick. They reek of inadequacy. Just go TF away.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

This is true, and… It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job. Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was. "I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi." Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

Just saw this on Threads:

Cunts. You are too stupid to know you are finished. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers. The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness. (Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)

Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.

Free speech latest.

I may be pinching this. Apologies.

Tunisia, Qatar and Greta Thunberg's flotilla all bombed in one day by Israel. Can everyone please recognise who the terrorist is.

I know the Democrats are idiots, but are we really expected to believe their "plan" was to forge Trump's drawing to Epstein, then pointlessly keep it secret for 22 years, right through Hilary, Obama and Biden, 2 elections and Trump's entire first term, and then wait for Republicans to leak it?

It is a terrible TERRIBLE look. Madness.

Morning Bluesky. UK politics has gone mad. A fringe Far Right campaign to fly flags, a woman who went to jail for urging people to set fire to refugees saying she’s a “political prisoner” and a plan to commandeer jets to deport asylum seekers. All elevated to national discourse by the media.

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

andrea petkovic is a better writer than she was a tennis player, which is really saying something. her wimbledon rundown is just the loveliest, most thought-provoking thing andreapetkovic.substack.com/p/art-vs-spo...

So Paramount want to be bought. Requires Govt approval. On top of other fin problems Trump sued them for 60-Mins segment. Paramount shock everyone by agreeing to settle, for $16m Colbert mocks it, calls it a bribe. Days later they cancel him. They’re just so laughably crooked.