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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:

why not simply ban Amazon in that case :) if they can't obey simple rules then they shouldn't be allowed to operate in this country :)

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

One minute they’re a newborn, the next they’re knocking back babyccino’s and looking like they’re saving for a housing deposit

Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.

Sony tried teasing the upcoming release of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ All the top comments destroyed them for stopping PlayStation disc production in 2028

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Did an interview with a US journalist about Brexit yesterday. He asked if I'd been surprised by anything that's happened. Usually I'd try and think of something to avoid looking unimaginative. But I couldn't think of anything. It's been pretty much exactly as shit as I expected.

Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones

Zohran’s speech at the Knicks ceremony & Obama’s speech at the presidential center opening are cousins — two different ways of getting at the belief that hope is a choice, that hard work is worth it, that setbacks are never permanent & long odds are not fate. Stubborn collective optimism is back!

i fear we have no choice but to fill the reflecting pool with beans

So belonging is the antidote. United was never a synonym for same. We won't arrive at "United" until everyone's included and cared for.

The argument it crystallized: belonging isn't soft. Authoritarianism's core mechanism is isolation. Convince people the neighbor is the threat, keep them fighting over crumbs while a few hoard what they take from all of us.

For days now in New York, I've watched belonging happen at scale. Not forced by crisis, but by joy. A championship. A city holding every difference it has and belonging to each other anyway.

Three lions? In this economy?

Booksmaxxing: how reading became sexy

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Yeah, this is my city.

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

the cspan kennedy center stream has just convinced me once again the democrats could raise $5 billion by auctioning off turns on the dozer to bulldoze the ballroom

Good morning and here is your Weekend FT gift link highlight thread. First, a thing to worry about: Fearmongering over global spread aside, we need to look at why Ebola came back and how unbelievably underprepared we still are for the next “Disease X” pandemic as.ft.com/r/0bd03331-e...

Utterly disgusting that this killing is getting hijacked and used in this appalling way. These people should be ashamed of themselves - only they don't know what shame is.

Pelley, who has been at CBS for more than two decades, reportedly railed against the new executive producer of "60 Minutes" in a tense staff meeting Monday.

Happy one-week anniversary to the Couple Days Peace Treaty

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today on why a lot of the AI/jobpocalypse debate misses the point. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Now on £22.8K of £24K needed! Please help them over the line so they can get all the equipment they need for the day. 🙏 —> gofund.me/610c85234

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

Review of my collection 'STAR: poems for the Christmas Season' in Fortnight magazine. From tinyurl.com/mu2trecj or any bookshop, Amazon or me. Also No Alibis, Belfast; Caban, Cardiff

You know, Lauren Laverne is also worth a shout for a potential host. #Strictly #ItTakesTwo

It's not even that new; Mitchell and Webb were spoofing it in 2010, but it's more prevalent now because as others have said they have to assume viewers are only half-watching... youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc?...

RIP Diane Keaton

Behind the scenes on Strictly Come Dancing Movies Week. Audience singing Build Me Up Buttercup to warm up... #Strictly #StrictlyComeDancing #singing #audience #behindthescenes

Alexander Hamilton could not more accurately describe Trump and the danger to liberty of such a man.

Our current president is a such a man that Alexander Hamilton wrote of....

Been thinking how the training environment has been adapted to support Ellie. However, I've been wondering if the judges have been briefed on how to critique her dancing, especially if negative, or how to lessen the stress of announcing and/or judging her in the dance-off #strictly #ItTakesTwo

Vote correctly. #Strictly

My loves! Huge congratulations to all our couples in tonight's #StrictlyComeDancing – what a sensational first live show! ...This is going to be such a magnificent series! Who were your favourites? Much love, Anton XX 😘🕺💃❤️ #BBC1 #iPlayer #Strictly

Craig you’re being a BITCH tonight! #Strictly

Just watched the entire Jimmy Kimmel monologue with my students and I must say, that is just the best First Amendment teaching video I've ever had. Even regardless of how you think he did - I think he hit every right note - he hit every critical point that they need to understand.

Jimmy Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs." When a country is going down the path of authoritarianism, they go after comedians first.

The Trump administration’s attempt to silence Jimmy Kimmel appears to have backfired.

Jimmy Kimmel is breaking records on YouTube, Spotify is waging war against "spammy" music, and "60 Minutes" is coming back this Sunday. Details in today's Reliable Sources: cnn.it/3KIqtly