Mick Farthing

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway.

No Guimaraes No Joelinton No Tonali It will be a disgrace if we don't cook Newcastle midfield tonight.

@NUFC7890 Can't believe you're whinging, son. Making a tit of yourself

You’re fucking joking me? Pushing him to the front after that performance he dished out today? Fucking hell. We need standards setting at this football club. This is fucking embarrassing. Even worse than when Howe was fist bumping the crowd after beating the worst spurs team in existence away. #NUFC

@KeruboSk Once Upon A Time In America

If someone offered you $100,000 to watch the same movie for 24 hours straight, what movie would you choose?

The GREATEST and most LEGENDARY bluff in the history of TV.

@catandthecrow @ScrtDrugAddict Great shout. My brain can't handle that possibility!!! 😂

Imagine being alive but not being massively into music.

@UTDTrey There's only one United! ⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫⚪⚫

“WHO IS THAT TEAM THEY CALL UNITED?” YOU WILL FIND OUT TODAY😂😂😂

@sinceApril1970 @cyp_toon Grimsby away!

@cyp_toon Exactly right. Since 1970 they have been able to build me up to knock me down without trying. Moments like this, Albert’s goal, Ryan Taylor over the wall. Dan Burn’s header at Wembley, Supermac at Hillsboro & more are the hooks they use to keep me coming back for more.

I’ve had a 50odd year love/hate relationship with #NUFC it’s moments like this that make every second of it worthwhile

@WhoDey_UK 🙏🏼

Here we go folks. On the 10-year anniversary of the Bengals playing Washington at Wembley... surely it'll be a rematch (although this time at Spurs)

@90sFootballUK1 Robert Lee!

And the best midfielder your club had in the 90’s was???? 👇🏼

@epicballerdaily @robertmdaws What a player 🙌🏼

@robertmdaws Arthur Antunes Coimbra. Zico. Flamengo icon.

ZICO 🇧🇷

@leethommo It's the poppy stuff that they started with. Just Can't Get Enough and all that. Not a patch on the rest of their catalogue but everyone seemed to rate them purely for that and never change their minds

It’s mad how unloved The Mode are on a mainstream level here in the UK. Their entire catalogue is just incredible. Foreign chums get it… why not us, en masse? #TOTP

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧☕️🫖💷 The Billionaire in Monaco Telling Britain What to Do. The man who tried to put a secret gagging order on everyone in UK through a private court and lost. He applied for stilts for his home because he knows the environmental damage he is causing creates floods. He owns Manchester United and he seems not to like foreigners and pays £0 tax in the UK… The Billionaire in Monaco Lecturing Britain While Britain Foots the Bill Sir Jim Ratcliffe gets treated like a national oracle. He says something and it becomes a story. He offers an opinion and it is framed as common sense. He is presented as a serious voice on what Britain should do next. That deference is the mistake. Because the first thing that matters about Ratcliffe is not his “straight talking”. It is where he chose to live for tax. In 2020 he moved his personal tax residence to Monaco. Monaco does not levy personal income tax. HMRC does not publish individual tax returns, so there is no official public number for Ratcliffe’s personal UK tax bill in 2025. Nobody outside HMRC can prove a figure. What can be said is simpler and more damning. He put himself outside the UK personal income tax system in the year people were still absorbing the cost of everything that system has to pay for. Before Monaco he was one of the UK’s biggest taxpayers. The reported figure from the Sunday Times tax list for 2017 to 2018 was about £110 million. Then he left. This is the core contradiction. Britain is expected to treat him as a patriot industrialist while he has legally chosen not to be part of the basic national deal that keeps the country functioning. The deal is simple. People who live here pay into the system that keeps the roads open, the hospitals running, the regulators staffed, the emergency services funded, the flood defences repaired, the courts operating and the local councils able to clean up the mess. Ratcliffe opted out of that deal personally. Then the public is told to trust him on the environment, on energy, on what Britain needs. His wealth is built on the petrochemical business. INEOS is not a quaint manufacturing success story. It is a fossil fuel and plastics empire. That matters because fossil fuel extraction and petrochemicals push costs outward. The profit stays private. The damage and the management of that damage is socialised. When pollution happens, it is regulators who investigate, prosecute and monitor. That apparatus is paid for by taxpayers. When industrial plants need state support to keep running, the support comes from taxpayers. When climate impacts worsen and flood risk rises and infrastructure gets hit and councils need emergency spending, that is taxpayers again. Now look at what the UK has already handed to INEOS. In late 2025 the UK government announced a support package of over £120 million for INEOS at Grangemouth tied to keeping the ethylene plant running and protecting jobs. Separate reporting has said chemical companies owned by Ratcliffe received up to £70 million of UK state aid over the 2022 to 2025 period. This is the picture. Public money, private relocation. Then there is the countryside. INEOS pushed hard for UK shale. It built a huge portfolio of licences and talked about fracking as though the public should accept rigs, traffic and landscape change as the price of modern life. When people resisted, INEOS did not just argue its case in the open. It went to court. In 2017 INEOS pursued wide injunctions aimed at restricting protest including against “persons unknown”. The civil liberties point was obvious. A private corporation was trying to create a legal perimeter around itself that could chill lawful protest. The Court of Appeal later narrowed the approach in the related challenges and the episode became a symbol of corporate power testing how far it could go. That matters because it shows instinct. Not persuasion. Containment. Now add the personal hypocrisy that sticks in the throat.

@ochocinco No way! Who Dey The Lads! ⚫⚪🟠⚪⚫

L’enfant Terrible

UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: £0 UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000

@HLTCO Eddie in 100%. I can't understand anyone saying otherwise. Completely transformed us since he joined and now our first trophy in 56 years. Not even a serious question in my mind.

Newcastle fans following me, I’m curious… Are you Eddie Howe in or Eddie Howe out? I’ve seen a fair bit of chatter saying that fans are turning on him, is that the case? If so, I’d be genuinely interested to know why. It’s always better to ask those who watch every week.

@GallowgateShots And an extra £5 if you have the nerve to want to pass your ticket onto a family member or friend

Another ticket price increase for Champions League game. £65 for a ticket to see #NUFC v Qarabag 🤯