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@ALANMYERSMEDIA Sorry Alan, whilst I can accept mistakes I still can’t accept Clive Thomas 🤬 ask @HealththruSport

I liked football when a ref could make a mistake every now and again, we’d talk about it that night and after MOTD we’d move on. We’d all accept that mistakes happen, what we have now is just total nonsense and has ruined the game for me

@atrupar Oil prices are dictated globally. So oil costs wouldn’t be reduced. Extracting further oil would be very expensive and would still be sold at the global price and would take years to hit the market. The current issue isn’t caused this government but by a war causing a price hike.

@atrupar Thatcher sold the oil and gas rights to the oil companies and took the profits to reduce taxes. Norway retained their rights and invested all profits into a sovereign wealth fund that couldn’t be touched. The profits from that fund now pay for such things as pensions.

Trump: "Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World. Tragic!!! Aberdeen should be booming. Norway sells its North Sea Oil to the U.K. at double the price. They are making a fortune. U.K., which is better situated on the North Sea for purposes of energy than Norway, should, DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! It is absolutely crazy that they don’t… AND, NO MORE WINDMILLS! President DJT"

@RealJamesWoods 6.9% of the uk population. There is also no constitutional "right to bear arms" in the United Kingdom. Gun ownership is legally considered a privilege, not a right, with strict controls under the Firearms Act 1968, law’s further tightened after Dunblane.

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

@Orinocopat @jayblue1970 @PhillipsPOBrien The UK finished paying its World War II war debt to the United States on December 31, 2006.

@jayblue1970 @PhillipsPOBrien We didn't start the war in Ukraine and we didn't start the wars in the last century in Europe. But we finished them for you. Are you guys ever gonna settle the tab for that? Cheers.

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

@KemiBadenoch Are you serious 🧐 the whole reason we have an energy crisis is because of Trumps war.

Rather than chairing yet another COBRA meeting tomorrow, the Prime Minister should cut energy bills, get Britain drilling, and axe the tax rises. Here’s my letter to Keir Starmer👇

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170 million building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top. #ReformUK #NigelFarage #GBNews

@AndyMoscrop @henrywinter But the premier league believe that a team should have anticipated the Ukraine war.

@henrywinter Can we all forget about Russia invading Ukraine and just get Roman back 🤦🏼‍♂️ absolutely embarrassing what this board has done to the club

Everton have all the togetherness, defensive determination, fight and threat on the counter that Chelsea lack. Everton are a team. Chelsea are a collection of individuals. Everton have some strong characters in their team, some leaders. Chelsea don't have enough of them. Nobody seemed prepared to take responsibility. Where was the fight? Pathetic, really. A performance that was an insult to their supporters. Some players look like they want out. They certainly don't look like they're fighting for their young manager, who's obviously struggling. Liam Rosenior was given a lesson by David Moyes in team balance, organisation and motivation. The apprentice got schooled by the master. Rosenior will get the blame for performances and, sooner or later, pay the price. But this slide, this abject level of performance, is also down to recruitment, to the board. #CFC #EVECHE

Business with @John_B58: Double Standards 🗞️mtag.substack.com/p/business-wit…

Our @AHunterGuardian nails it here. Football fans, Evertonians in particular, are not naive enough to think the Premier League will be fair and well-governed but the shamelessness of the double standards on display this week is still breathtaking

💬 "There appears to be an inconsistency between the Premier League's viewpoint when it came to punishing Everton, and that of Chelsea" 🗣️ @KieranMaguire on Chelsea's record fine & #EFC's previous points deduction 🎙️ @GiuliaBould | #bbcfootball bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

@henrywinter The big clubs are hovering up the best talent and then eg Chelsea using the academy as a source of income

8 of the 16 players Barcelona used last night were nurtured fully, or partly, by the club. That breeds togetherness and identity. Whether for reasons of financial necessity or club culture, more English clubs need to re-assess the balance between recruitment and development. 1/2

Well worth a read!

Trump's full rant on Cuba: "I think Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form, you know. Taking Cuba. I mean, whether I free it, take it -- I can do anything I want with it, if you want to know the truth."

@henrywinter What amazes me is that the mitigation has been applied 3 times to the penalties. Also that the fines will not be paid by Chelsea, but by the charitable foundation set up to support the victims in Ukraine.

Best analysis of the situation I’ve read 🙌

@ds37alwaysred @LBC The guidance was Introduced under the Tory government. It’s a very misleading headline, but now news because we have a labour government.

@LBC I mean it’s beyond parody. Labour need to go, literally everyone can see that.

Children’s drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, councils tell teachers lbc.co.uk/article/childr…

Nigel Farage has kindly asked we stop sharing this video of him talking about why we should privatise the NHS 💙 You know what to do!

Nicked from another page. Nice to know the MOD has a sense of humour… Never Mess with Officialdom! Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long career. He received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, based upon his years of service, that he would receive in addition to his pension. The letter read: "Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren, We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely Army Paymaster” Lt Colonel Maclaren replied; “Dear Paymaster, Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68,500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III. By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p. I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course. Yours sincerely, Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Retd)” A month passed by and a stout manilla envelope from the Ministry of Defence arrived, it read: “Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren, We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month. We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p. However, we also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles; The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 The Civil War 1642 -1651 The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) The Boer War (1899 -1902) World War One (1914-1918). We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Quartermaster's Stores by you on completion of operations: 9765 Cannons 26,785 Swords 12,889 Pikes 127,345 Rifles (with bayonets) 28,987 horses (fully kitted) Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners. We have calculated the total cost of these items, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p. We have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course. Yours sincerely . . . .” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

With rumours swirling around Matt Godwin becoming the latest Nathan Gill — allegedly accepting Russian money via Hungary, I wanted to re-up my articles from last year. In October, I wrote a four part series on Reform UK and some of their, let's say … dubious donors. Nick Candy. Harborne. Cottrell. Russia. Iran. They're all in there, and a whole load more. I'm currently preparing an update with their most recent donor drops … watch this space. Did you know that, between Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf, they have 'donated' or 'loaned' the party almost £4 million between them? That their largest donor, Christopher Harborne's total donations, to date, equal £22,715,000 — almost twenty-three million pounds. Somebody REALLY wants a Reform UK government. Nothing to do with crypto deregulation, I'm sure. 🫣 Anyway, if you have some spare time on your hands and would like to understand a little of where Reform UK gets its seemingly unlimited cash supply from, then take a read. I've lovingly re-edited them into 𝕏 Article format for ease of use! Part One: x.com/donmcgowan/sta… Part Two: x.com/donmcgowan/sta… Part Three — The Two Georges: x.com/donmcgowan/sta… Part Four — The End?: x.com/donmcgowan/sta…

🔴Reform’s Plans to Import Trump’s Authoritarian ‘Project 2025’ Blueprint to the UK Far from defending British independence, Reform and its by-election candidate Matt Goodwin are taking blueprints – and cash – from a global network of American hardliners bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/ref…