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Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

Michael Carrick to remain in charge of Manchester United after they decide against sacking him: www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

I've been a bit quiet here lately and that's cos things have been busy! We're in the middle of more gigs at the Moth Club, and then TOMORROW is the premiere of our new single, Young and Dumb, which you can hear on 6 Music some time after 11am. Join me in gathering round your wind-up radios 😍

Farage is charmless and thin skinned. Whatever political stardust he once had has long gone. Burnham is playing his EU hand brilliantly. Closer and closer cooperation with our friends across the Channel is inevitable.

Meanwhile the coverage of the Lib Dems, currently with 71 MPs, remains restricted to what stunt Ed Davey has recently done, and when the Lib Dems were polling over 20%, the BBC based their non-coverage on number of MPs.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Good morning, let's celebrate an extra hour by reading some good stuff. Here's some FT Weekend gift links, when they're gone they're gone it's rude to complain everyone judges you etc etc.

Miserable, murky, wet. We've got our country back.

In no particular order Cars Food Eating out Supermarkets Air quality inside and outside Access to music Radio TV Primary Education Healthcare Holiday destinations Park runs Mobile phones The internet Banking Warm homes Greater gender equality Acceptance of same sex relationships etc etc

imagine being the one person in the world who pays a thousand pounds to meet Amol Rajan, and taking him back to your house that is covered in Joe Orton-style collages of Amol Rajan and showing him the tattoo of his face on your upper thigh and how unfair it will be when you also go to prison

Ouch

I can't find a single word on the BBC website about the ITV expose of the shenanigans at Reform. Strange that....

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is as good as everyone says it is. But also note that the - I’ll be polite - ‘hostile questioner’ had no fear for his physical safety and walked away humiliated but unharmed. Would this be the case at a MAGA event?

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

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Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

It’s going to be really hard to continue to have any interest in the Premier League as long as city are allowed to play in it. #MCFC #Cheats

At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …

Only one word to sum up that result: Sham.

English football just finds itself in a completely ludicrous, damaging situation now. And it has been a very long time coming

As disappointed as I am, this is probably the perfect result to sum up the sorry state of the Premier League as it stands. We’re watching a sham. The cheats still prosper.

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

Reform announcements are reported by BBC News as though the party is a government in waiting. Reform has 8 MPs. Do they report Hartlepool United's plans for their victory parade in May after winning the FA Cup?

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader

Diving into Manchester City, sham contracts, Abu Dhabi, and the fragility of our world order, with @adamcrafton.bsky.social @theathletic.com: youtu.be/IBBrmyEXlF8?...

My weekly reading of the funeral notices in the Dewsbury Reporter and another family requesting mourners to wear the colours of Leeds United. A football club isn't just about football. It's about identity, shared experiences and belonging to a community. #lufc

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

From the new Private Eye

Badenoch thinks voters have the memory of a goldfish with a particularly short attention span. We remember 2010 - 2024. #CPC26

I feel the same about novelists reading out loud their novels.

I'll remember Esther Rantzen for an interview printed in a magazine I read in the dentist's. She was talking about grief and loneliness after the death of her husband. Her comment that she had plenty of people to do something with but now had no-one to do nothing with struck me as really profound.

I never pass up the opportunity to spread this image a little wider...

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".

If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

This is the fundamental difference between Labour and the right. The latter craves power and relishes using it. Labour is terrified of it because of an imposter syndrome rooted in the belief - shared by the right - that England is a right wing country which sometimes allows Labour to govern.

Somebody please explain to Mahmood that - for all her performative cruelty and targeting of care workers - she'll never be cruel enough, tough enough and heartless enough to impress the Reform UK electorate.