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@AVFCOfficial What a pass by Leon Bailey #UTV!

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@jmgilkes From where I was sitting it looked like Bailey slipped bye Bizot? What was he thinking!

Bailey has to share some of the blame. Horrible pass #avfc

@SkySportsPL The worst commentary ever on the Aston Villa v Notts Forest match #AVFC

@KirstieMAllsopp Stamp duty should just cover the govts admin costs not be a source of revenue. It prevents people ‘getting on their bikes’ for work opportunities in other locations, it slows the ability to upgrade from starter homes so blocking supply and prevents downsizing or ‘right sizing’.

A strange tale, a girl gets a job & buys a flat aged 24 in Leeds for £117K, 6 years on she’s living in London, her new partner receives some money in his grandfather’s will. Now together they can get a mortgage & spend a max of £850K on a home in the capital. He’s never bought 🧵

@jspujji Emoji fire

One founder I know sleeps 3 hours a night and mainlines Red Bull. Another runs a bigger company and coaches his daughter's basketball team. They both face the same chaos, but one is thriving while the other’s dying. What the hell is the difference? I spent years obsessing over this. I read every leadership book and hired a bunch of coaches. Then I stumbled on this simple concept that sounds like corporate BS: "Above the Line" vs "Below the Line" thinking. ⬇️ Below the Line: you're in fight-or-flight mode 24/7. Every email feels like a fire and every meeting is a battle. ⬆️ Above the Line: same shitstorm, different brain. You're curious instead of defensive. Problems become puzzles. Sounds simple, but it’s not. So I created this stupid-simple daily check-in. Like, embarrassingly basic. Five questions I ask myself every morning. Takes 2 minutes. Then I track what sends me "below the line" (aka Zoom calls 😂). After a few weeks, my COO pulled me aside and said "whatever you're doing, keep doing it." I'm not saying this fixes everything. Your burn rate is still your burn rate. But if you're tired of feeling like you're constantly putting out fires with gasoline... I turned my whole system into a PDF. The exact questions, the trigger tracker, everything. Drop "️‍🔥" in the comments if you want it. I'll DM you the link.

@JesseTayRiver Pina colada’s on the roadside in Cuba. Fresh coconut and pineapple straight into blender with ice. Add your own rum. Tried pina colada everywhere! Nothing like Cuba on side of the road!

Apparently my daughter feels like she'll "always be chasing the high" of a potato salad she had at a family friend's funeral 3 years ago

@lucky___deluxe Recommend multi generational holidays . We love going with our children and 1 grandchild and are able to help out with the fun stuff and also babysit!

@pegobry_en If you use a dryer for drying top quality clothes you ruin them! Use of a dryer means you are not a silk and cashmere wearer!

How many of them have air conditioning at home? How many of them dry their laundry by hanging it up? How many of them own a car? More than one car? Sorry but this is cope. Plenty of really poor countries have pretty tourist-friendly downtowns—so?

@PQMagazine @ICASaccounting @ICAEW @ACCANews @CIMA_News @CIPFA Thank you @PQMagazine for a wonderful evening and also for a very unexpected award! #PQ #HTFT

Congratulations to all our winners at the 2025 PQ magazine awards. You can check out our highlights video at: youtu.be/YO-92UOysyw The full winner video will follow. We will be covering the awards in the next issue too. @ICASaccounting @ICAEW @ACCANews @CIMA_News @CIPFA

@VillaViews_ Agree I am with Tom too. the FA banned women's football in 1921, saying the sport was “quite unsuitable for females” and warning that it should not be “encouraged”. The FA council revoked the ban in ….1971. 50 years lost practice!

I'm with Tom on this. Not only do I disagree with Brazil but the way he speaks is the worst kind of dismissive, entitled male arrogance.

@JoshThorndike8 @TomBowenJourno the FA banned women's football in 1921, saying the sport was “quite unsuitable for females” and warning that it should not be “encouraged”. The FA council revoked the ban in …… 1971. 50 years lost practice!

@TomBowenJourno Agree in principal but I’m sure I say this and many men will agree, it’s the standard of the women’s game that is holding it back. They do not get bums off seats, it is the opposite. The game is slow, the quality is lacking and I’m talking at the top level. 1/2

Alan Brazil's behaviour highlights exactly what women have been fighting for years, to have their voices heard. Dismissing the growth of the women's game is just blatant ignorance from someone who has the voice and platform to drive change. Do better.

@mbateman Ski club of Great Britain groups are active

I scrolled Facebook yesterday for the first time in a couple years What happened to it? I expected at least a decent amount of pictures of kids etc. Almost nothing. All ads and worse versions of twitter memes/discourse. Awful Where do people post friend content? Insta? Nowhere?

@RupertLowe10 The personal allowance should match the real living wage. Why even think about income tax until someone is earning in excess of basic needs.

We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends and PLENTY more. Here's a mad idea - reward hard work, and people might do more of it... It's all about incentives. It really isn't complicated. I sit in Parliament listening to Reeves and Labour MPs - honestly, they have NO idea what generates economic growth. It isn't more regulation, it isn't more quangos, it isn't MORE Government. It's individuals, and it's bloody hard work. Design the system around making that work pay, and we'll end up collecting far more tax. SIMPLE! Stop supporting the indolent and start fostering the productive. Make corporation tax the lowest in Europe. Go for it, undercut them. We should be ruthlessly competitive. This Government's plan? Slapping an enormous tax on employment. What do these fools think will happen? Honestly. If ANY of them had any real business experience, they might understand the consequences of their actions. I've built businesses, created jobs, invested in passionate young people. I've been there and done it. It hurts, and it can be very challenging indeed. We need a Government that even vaguely understands it. This one certainly does not.

I voted Morgan Rogers as my @AVFCOfficial Player of the Month! 🗳️ Vote for yours at #AVFC avfc.co.uk

@fesshole Remarry quickly

I have an irrational fear of attics. Lived in the same house for 20 years and never been up there. Petrified if something happens to my husband what I will do about accessing everything up there.

@DiBrander Mum took me for a Coke float after shopping in Huddersfield town centre in 70’s . Loved it. Definitely happened in England too!

My kids think it’s gross that hubby & I used to put ice cream in Coca Cola as kids. Guessing it was an 80s/90s thing? Or, was it a Scottish thing? I think it was called a float.

This is the brutal reality of life for women under the Islamic Republic in Iran. A woman in Tehran sent me this photo of her scarred back, flogged for the “crime” of showing her hair. Yet, she refuses to be silenced. Holding a Woman, Life, Freedom slogan, she took this photo as a powerful act of defiance, declaring: “The morality police arrested me for resisting their van. My ‘crime’ was unveiling. After months of court hearings, I was sentenced to 74 lashes. The cleric overseeing the punishment stood there to ensure it was carried out. I won’t give up my fight against this brutal regime, but we are fed up with living as prisoners in our own homeland.” Her scars tell the story of oppression, but her courage speaks of a revolution. This is a barbaric law, this is terrorism. How is this different from ISIS?

@PaulEmbery What do you mean ‘again’. When was this the norm?

Nobody should rest until we again secure an economy which allows parents to raise a family, live in a comfortable home and enjoy a decent standard of living (e.g. own a car, take an annual holiday) on the wages of one earner. That should be a prime goal for all political parties.

@paullewismoney @Frances_Coppola It’s the ones that will be affected that are relevant. Stick to the point!

Farmers angry about losing 30 year old concession that lets them avoid all inheritance tax bit.ly/3NS3IKD even though the vast majority will, on HMRC figures, not be affected by it

@tannerdaniel77 @john_holtend @_Matt_E Agree. What happened to ‘those with the broadest shoulders’ The cost of public transport should be a high priority to keep low. Why increase the fare cap but leave high earners unscathed! Ridiculous