Ben Walker

@CrewkerneGaz @louismosley you might enjoy this 🤣🤣

When a journalist asks Zack Polanski why he’s protesting outside Palantir’s HQ, he responds by psychically enlarging the chests of everyone and everything in the immediate vicinity. {Satire}

Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK to play Wireless Festival, as it would have been terrible to have a prominent public figure going round Finsbury Park condoning antisemitism

I can’t wait to claim I never saw this in 40 years time then demand thousands of pounds in compensation

@AdamClery They were sold out in various sizes on Monday lunchtime during the pre-release for members.

Fucking hell how many of those old Adidas tops did we buy today??

@christiancalgie Increase to personal allowances…

Those who are about my age/similar earners/university educated/renting in London: Can you think of any specific government policies since we turned 18 that have directly made us financially better off? The only thing I can think of in a decade is Jeremy Hunt's cuts to NICs

@DanNeidle And from memory isn’t one of the biggest components of this VAT and small business?

It would be lovely to think the “tax gap” is a few rich people we can chase down, and easily collect £47bn.

@NUFC Death. Taxes and bloody Danny Wellbeck scoring against us for Brighton 🙄🙄

Brighton take the lead again. [2-1] 84'

@BritainRemade Really positive that more attention is being focused on this. It would be a disastrous move. The Times picked this up in the summer and the figures in that article highlight the scale of the problem. thetimes.com/article/1f6163…

BIN THIS RUBBISH TAX! The Government is planning a 3,000% tax hike on sending builders' rubble to landfill. Joe builds homes. His costs would go up from £4 per tonne to £126! It would end his business and any chance of Britain building 1.5m homes. Sign our petition below👇

@jk_rowling Good to know that if identify as a zebra, ‘put in the work’ and paint myself black and white and feel like a zebra I can become one!

Cool argument. Men aren't women, though.

@SavMondo @SkySportsF1 Savage 🤣

@SkySportsF1 He’s allegedly agreed that new contract and now he can go back to banger racing.

RED FLAG! George Russell has crashed at Turn 16 🔴

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

@SCP_Hughes It’s frightening … this article in The Times covered this a few weeks ago and highlighted that this a 30 fold increase in costs. @Ben_A_Hopkinson Housebuilders and steelmakers sound alarm over £1bn landfill tax raid thetimes.com/article/1f6163…

Potentially toxic landfill is currently taxed at £126.15 per tonne, while harmless inert waste like soil or concrete is taxed at £4.05, and nothing at all if it is filling up quarries. Almost all landfill from construction falls into the latter class. However, the Government is abolishing the quarries exception and switching all landfill up to the £126 per tonne rate. So for most construction projects, that is an increase of over 3,000%, or between £22,000 and £28,000 per home. This is one of the factors driving the current collapse in housebuilding in London, where most newbuilds are in apartment buildings that have deeper foundations and generate more inert landfill from displaced clay. It is not clear that No10 even knew this decision had been taken. But it is a major contributor to an unfolding disaster, and the Government needs to get a grip on it fast. Important work here by @Ben_A_Hopkinson.

@SkySportsPL Six years but he can be a little bitch around the 2-3 year mark and a contract means nothing

BREAKING: Liverpool confirm the signing of Alexander Isak on a six-year deal from Newcastle for £125m 🔴 Isak will wear the No.9 shirt at Anfield 9️⃣

@ToonPolls Love it - hound him Toon Polls!

Alexander Isak hate watch starts now 🐀 #NUFC

@City_Chief Standard hypocrisy from Liverpool

The most #ManCity have ever spent in a single window was £275m (16/17) 💰 Liverpool just casually drop £463m 🤯 Nearly DOUBLE. But yeah… tell me more about how City are “ruining football” 😂🔴

@CraigHope_DM How on earth did this line get past the sub- editor: “Liverpool’s brute wealth and capacity to spend has certainly been less than either City or Newcastle, who have both been able to turn to Gulf state entities as sponsorship partners.”

@CraigHope_DM An insightful read as ever Craig. However, while reading that piece.. I also came across this nonsense from your colleague - dailymail.co.uk/sport/football… The statements here about Newcastle spending power are laughable

🇸🇬 In the foyer of the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore, just hours after news had broken of Alexander Isak wanting to quit Newcastle, one of his team-mates casually remarked: ‘Yeah, he’s gone.’ 👇 The inside story of the transfer story of the summer… dailymail.co.uk/sport/football…

@JacobsBen I always thought this option might be better than some others touted. Hasn’t worked at Juve but he was a hot prospect prior to his move to Juve with Arsenal looking at him. His ceiling is higher and Eddie Howe is masterful at getting the best out of players

Newcastle United have been offered the chance to sign Dusan Vlahovic. Sources in Italy say Juventus raised Vlahovic as a potential replacement for Liverpool target Alexander Isak. Juve are willing to accept offers around €30m in order to get the Serbian striker off their wage bill following the arrival of Jonathan David. As it stands, Newcastle are not planning to proceed. Also unclear if Vlahovic would be open to a move to St James' Park. Newcastle remain keen on Brentford's Yoane Wissa and are set to make a second bid for Wolves’ Jorgen Strand-Larsen, even though Wolves insist they don't wish to sell.⚫️ 🤝 @alex_crook

@brunoog97 Captain. Leader. Legend!🙌

Mixed feelings. We will never give up under any circumstances. We deserved more, but many times football is not fair. We stick together. There is still a lot ahead, and your support will always be fundamental. Howay the lads.3️⃣9️⃣🖤🤍

@RobGutmann @henrywinter But Liverpool bid on the player Newcastle targeted as Isak’s replacement. If Isak was the priority, why do that? £110m is low given the unofficial contact at £120m, the premium attached to CF and only £2m than LFC spent on Wirtz with no PL experience.

It’s a bid in the context of proclamations/briefings of ‘bids need to start at £150m !’ And at one point ‘it would take near £200m!’ Those numbers were insults to intelligence. LFC probably thought, there’s a balance that needs correcting here. In no universe did they expect £110m to be their final offer, but probably felt something close to £120m plus add ons would be the right market price. £110m is as near as dammit a British transfer record. It’s a low ball number but hardly ‘an insult’. Newcastle’s ‘proud and tough’ Saudi owners would’ve served their club’s interests far better by showing ‘humility and guile’ and gotten the player shifted in June, and then had the proper money (PSR headroom) to secure targets in July and not spent the entire summer looking like a small club desperate to hold on to a player destined for bigger and better.

On the “Civil Wor” at Newcastle, maybe if Liverpool had acted earlier and offered a proper fee for Alexander Isak, a world-class centre-forward with three years left on his contract, Newcastle would have had time and funds to bring in a suitable replacement. £110m was disrespectful to Newcastle (and Isak). And who are Newcastle going to get at this late stage of the window with suitable targets moved elsewhere? Yoane Wissa is not like for like. Newcastle need two anyway with Callum Wilson gone. It’s very easy to see why Newcastle and their proud, tough owners who don't like losing - or losing face - are playing hard-ball and determined to keep Isak. The saga continues. #NUFC #LFC