Sean Leaf

@Socket1Sophie @robprogressive @HOFNSKIN He writes "money/biz books" but spends more on groceries than anyone else in Britain!

@robprogressive @HOFNSKIN Just done a quick price check at Ocado (M&S) so not the cheapest, far from it. Mature cheddar £3.35 Parma ham £3 British chicken breast fillets £4.80 You’re fucking dumb. Bet you vote Reform.

£5 for Cheddar cheese (locked in a security box) £9 for a chicken breast £20 for Parma Ham (not the most expensive) £34 quid for 3 items Just to make a f*cking chicken dinner Costs in the U.K. are WAY out of control

@HLTCO "Only A Game?" by Eamon Dunphy

A question for my followers… If you could only recommend one football book for people to read, what would it be?

@IainMacBets @mckaycoppins OK I think you guys are speaking at cross purposes

@Sean_Leaf @mckaycoppins No. Sportsbooks adjusted their odds based on sharp action, even if that means having lopsided splits.

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

@IainMacBets @mckaycoppins I like your points 1, 3 and 4 - but wrt point 2, surely that's exactly what bookies and totes do?

I have several issues with this article. 1) Someone getting a free $10k bankroll where they aren't responsible for any losses doesn't relate to any experience a sports bettor has. 2) The article is filled with inaccuracies about sports betting as a whole. An example: "The books are constantly adjusting their lines to keep users evenly balanced on each side of a given bet, in order to limit the risk of lopsided payouts, which would cut into their profits.". That's incorrect. 3) Despite being completely uneducated and betting like a casual, you were down less then $100 14 weeks into the season. Knowing that wouldn't paint a certain narrative, you started betting completely differently than you had through the first 14 weeks (once again, with money that's not your own). 4) You then went to Vegas to tail bets from probably the most notorious scammer and liar in the industry. 5) When even that didn't work out, you put everything you had left on one game, another strategy you hadn't used the entire challenge up until this point. Now, you're painting this whole "experiment" as proof that sports betting is bad, when you had to completely change the way you bet to lose as much money (that wasn't yours) as possible in the final weeks.

@OfMikeAndMen This would be extremely easy to prove. Is there any evidence?

My wife thinks I'm nuts because I believe many of the protestors in Minnesota are recruited, trained, funded, and coordinated by NGOs and foreigners. Many of whom, if not outright communists themselves, are communist sympathisers. Is this not obvious to everyone?

@navigatinglies "Tow the line" snigger

@cristo_radio @mandy83906280 It's been explained to you that nothing has materially changed under Rachel Reeves, and it was the Tories that broke the rental market (as well as failing to build enough affordable housing for 14 years).

@mandy83906280 Well according to the geniuses on here he’s either -making that up - financially incompetent - he deserves it all I hope he manages to work it all out tho, it’s a terrible time for the rental market

Just had a depressing call with my accountant. After repeatedly going through figures, it seems that selling my flat- which has the loveliest couple- is the only sensible thing to do. It's simply costing me more than I earn from it They can't afford to buy themselves, and love the flat, but unfortunately it just doesn't make financial sense to keep them sadly. Just booked in a valuation next week. I'd like to congratulate @RachelReevesMP @AngelaRayner @SteveReedMP and @Keir_Starmer for their complete inability to understand the consequences of their policies

@giles_fraser I am also interested to learn how this is a left/right issue. Eg both Labour and Reform voters want more police on the streets and quicker court dates for culprits. One difference is that the left tends towards more mercy when sentencing non-violent crimes (like Jesus I think).

Our church got broken into and robbed last night. Altar candlesticks taken. Thief cut himself climbing through broken window and blood everywhere, on altar, cross, candlesticks. As Jonathan Haidt has it in his Moral Foundations theory, it’s proved a classic right/left wedge issue

@JoJoFromJerz @StephenM Not only sons of immigrants, but wasn't Sinatra sympathetic to organised crime?

Fuck you @StephenM. Fuck you. open.substack.com/pub/jojofromje…

@omid9 The idea that you have to visit a country before you have the right to criticise its regime is ridiculous on its face. One of the few things individuals can do to make the world better is to withhold our custom from rogue regimes and firms that don't act in good faith.

Article re Riyadh comedy festival. Slightly different view from the one that’s been dominating online discussions. A view nonetheless from someone who was there on the ground. As ever, the Lyse Doucet of comedy. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@Martina They're not official courts. Just community arbitration centres.

That’s insane

@TRHLofficial As usual, aside from your colour-by-numbers knowledge of US history, you don't know what you're talking about. Britain has a good record of standing up for its citizens abroad, "pretty" or not (ffs). Would you offer clemency to a non-American breaking drug laws in the US?

Her fate is 25 years of dodging rape, a $136,000 fine and never having children because she had 2 ozs of blow in her apartment. Her trial was entirely in Arabic. Sadly, the UK doesn’t go to bat for pretty British girls, only the Islamic sex offenders who assault them.

@JoJoFromJerz As a European, I totally agree that access to guns is the main problem here. But additionally, the monopoly of for-profit healthcare means that mental health problems are less likely to be treated effectively in the US.

Guns are a uniquely American problem. The rest of the world has mental health issues. The rest of the world has ideological & philosophical division. They have social media, pot, porn, cellphones & video games. What they don’t have — is more guns than people, they don’t have more than 500 mass shootings in less than a year, they don’t have a populace paralyzed with fear that their child will be next. That THEY could be next. At least, not until they arrive here. After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semiautomatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world. In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks The rate of mass shootings went from once every 18 months to only one in the 26 years since. Canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting. So did Germany in 2002, New Zealand in 2019 and Norway in 2021. Meanwhile here in America… since the Columbine massacre, there have been a total of 428 school shootings in the United States. Since 1999, 390,000 students have experienced gun violence at school. Since Sandy Hook — mass shootings have nearly tripled. Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured. Firearms are the leading cause of death for kids and teens in the US. This. Is. An. American. Problem. There are more civilian owned guns in this country than there are civilians. It’s not the pot, the porn, the video games, it’s not the wrong kinds of locks, or too few “good guys with guns”, and it’s not the mental health issues. Nearly every other country on earth has those things. And they don’t live this way. It’s the guns.

@charliekirk11 Or pass some legislation to save thousands of kids' lives in the future...

Please pray for the faith community at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. Reports of an active shooter right now and as many as 20 victims. PRAY

@GoodwinMJ Why would you ask Brits? It's the opinion of the asylum seekers that is interesting. We Brits generally believe what Murdoch tells us is true, not what is actually true.

When Brits are asked why people keep entering their country illegally on the small boats, the most popular answer, given by more than half the population, was: to access welfare. Source: More in Common/Times

@donaldgmcrae @NickKyrgios Nicely written article, but it's no mystery why the BBC have dropped him: he posted misogynistic comments abut his ex. What's more, nobody has done more than The Guardian to show that journalists are much better at talking about sport than ex-players.

Thanks @NickKyrgios for talking so openly about his highs and lows, Wimbledon and mental health, the great wins and hard losses, always going against the grain and his live "Good Trouble" podcast next week where there is an open invitation to the hecklers theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun…

@ianbremmer Agree: Trump is a pretty nasty person, but more than that he is an idiot

german defense minister boris pistorius--accurately, in my view--on trump’s putin approach: “i don’t think he deliberately betrayed europe. i believe he simply misjudged the negotiation situation with vladimir putin — and his own influence as the us president.”

@coolhan01914940 @TheOnlyDSC You're so close.

@TheOnlyDSC We should have picked our own cotton.

This perfectly encapsulates “Black exhaustion”

@Iromg Yet you seem to be a fan of Trump?

I’m uncomfortable with rapism

@megsbeach @cameron_1969 @Patriotmom717 Now we see the Democrats were right

@cameron_1969 @Patriotmom717 Ok, well, good you acknowledge it’s a speculative claim. “Weirdo” was also used for democrats to describe republicans during build up to the last presidential election. I call my dog a weirdo when he tries to eat pebbles on the sidewalk. So, your interpretation is pretty silly.

I wonder who this Karen voted for..