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@laurennUTD All of this is true. But the biggest factor for me is wealth inequality, which has stripped the competition of its integrity. There have been maybe 4 unexpected winners in the past 36 years whereas there were 3 in the 1980s alone and 4 more in the 1970’s. It’s too preditable now.

One of the great tragedies of modern football the way the FA cup has been devalued. 1) Always after last league game 2) Saturday 3pm 3) Semis at neutral venue (not Wembley) 4) Replays in earlier rounds 5) On both BBC & ITV

@shillcock_paul I’m sure Celtic and Citeh enjoyed it but not much fun for the rest of us. Honestly didn’t even realise it was the FA Cup final today, which was an impossibility a few years ago…

How dull and corporate is football these days? Celtic win the league yet again while two sports washing oil clubs contest an FA Cup Final virtually no one cares about Totally soulless

@LizWebsterSBF @AndyBurnhamGM Burnham should join the Greens…

🔴 @AndyBurnhamGM on BBC today: “I think Britain has been on the wrong path for 40 years.” 👍 It started with de-industrialisation, bus deregulation, and the privatisation of life’s essentials. 👏 We need to… get the basics back under public control so that people can afford their rent, their energy bills, etc. 🙌 He wants Labour to “change and once again [be] the party that people in this borough knew… I don’t blame anybody who has gone away and voted for other parties. I want them to regain their trust… I want Labour solidly to become a working class community.”

@sahouraxo @ejmalrai What happened to ‘not in front of the children’, @ABlinken ?

Israel is dropping bombs on children in South Lebanon burying them alive beneath the rubble. This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

@ILoveSnooker_ Ronnie’s great but ‘athlete’ is a bit of a stretch for a snooker player…

Ronnie O’Sullivan

@TAFKASB He is an accessory to genocide.

What exactly has Starmer done that is anywhere near as bad as what the fucking Tories did for 14 years? That is a serious question. What have I missed?

@wyattreed13 There are estimated to be approximately 65,000 dead, orphaned or amputated children in Gaza. @ABlinken ought to be in The Hague…

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his wife PANIC when confronted about killing a generation of children in Palestine while their own kids are present. “Please, with the children!” They plead. Activist responds by asking if it’s “just your children” they care about says she’s feels sorry for their kids — “one day they’ll grow up and read the news.”

@chris_sutton73 It’s not true that the best team always wins, and certainly not when the margins are so fine. It’s the width of the woodwork or a toenail being offside. Feel for Hearts but ultimately it’s just a really poor reflection on the SPL when Celtic can be so inconsistent and still win

Have to feel for Hearts and Derek McInnes they have been brilliant all season 👏👏…but Celtic’s mentality monsters found a way. How this Celtic team did it I couldn’t tell you but in the end the best team wins and deserves it. All this” just another title “talk is bollocks 🍀👏

@MarkKleinmanSky Breaking: The UK Government is planning to allow criminals to negotiate settlements for their crimes rather than having to face jail time. It’s believed this will help reduce waiting times for courts cases and free up prison spaces…

Exclusive: The Premier League is proposing to allow clubs to negotiate settlements for breaches of its financial rules rather than automatically having to face a disciplinary commission. The plan will be put to a vote at its annual meeting next month. #liveblog-body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.sky.com/story/mark-kle…

@JonahDispatch What would be the best way to determine whether Kristof’s account is accurate? An urgent and independent enquiry? Will you join me in calling for this in order to put the matter to bed, one way or another?

These protestors believe — quite justifiably — that Kristof’s column was full of deliberately incendiary falsehoods and that the New York Times shouldn’t have run it. Indeed, despite Rhodes’ use of the word “reporting” the dog rape canard was not reported by the NYT at all. Rhodes knows all this. He knows that’s why they’re protesting. He just has to say this obviously bad faith crap to further impugn Israel and Israel supporters. In fact, it seems like Rhodes doesn’t care whether Kristof’s account is accurate, because it served his purposes just fine.

@cezthesocialist @PhilipProudfoot Surely if they were truly irrelevant they wouldn’t need to stand down…?

The Greens are irrelevant, which is why we need them to stand down or our most popular politician will lose in his own city.

@elikowaz It’s not pushback. Increasingly, it’s a tsunami of coordinated disinformation, whitewashing and deception. I’d say referring to it as a ‘machine’ is quite diplomatic…

Calling Jewish pushback “the hasbara machine” is how you avoid engaging with it.

@wyattreed13 It’s only to kill brown children but not OK to talk about it in front of white children… @ABlinken

@RoiLopezRivas @SamiRamadani1 This is the result of 80 years of impunity…

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Soldados israelíes fueron grabados violando a un palestino. La víctima quedó con intestino roto, ano destrozado, pulmones perforados y costillas fracturadas. En vez de condenarlo, israelíes salieron a marchar exigiendo “el derecho a violar”, ministros los defendieron y uno de los violadores se convirtió en celebridad de TV. Al final, soltaron a todos. Pura depravación sionista. Esto es el verdadero rostro del régimen genocida.

@RichLowry You’ve clearly never heard of Íngrid Olderock, or her dog Volodia…

Because dogs don’t rape people

@ChristopherHale @CarriePrejean1 It seems many of your American friends are blissfully unaware that Palestine is home to some of world’s oldest Christian communities…

This photo of Pope Leo XIV from last year with Palestinian Catholics is angering a lot of the MAGA world.

@Parodyjeffx @ejmalrai Apartheid…

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟. A Palestinian farmer working his field in the occupied West Bank refused to leave for an armed Israeli settler. So the settler took him hostage, blindfolded and humiliated him while IDF soldiers stood guard protecting the abuser.

Mehdi Hasan asked an Israeli lawyer if he was shocked by the NYT's piece on Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian detainees. His answer? 'Of course not.' Not because it's false. Because it's old news. Al Jazeera reported it in 2024. He testified about it in 2025. B'Tselem issued reports. Even Israel's own public defender wrote about the torture. Rape by dogs. Women shackled to metal tables for two days. Men raped three times-after being hospitalized. Children threatened with sexual abuse. Palestinians have been saying this for years. So what's new? Nothing. Except the New York Times finally published it.

@elliotsteinmetz You’ve clearly never heard of Íngrid Olderöck, or her dog Velodia:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Ol…

We live in a world where people would rather believe a dog can be trained to rape a human being (a scientific impossibility), than believe direct, eyewitness testimony and scientific evidence that Jewish women were raped on October 7th. Explain that. I can’t.

@leftrestoration Burnham quit Westminster 10 years ago, so how exactly is he putting his career on the line…?

Andy Burnham has put his career and reputation on the line to demonstrate an ability to beat Reform in a tight marginal. This is exactly the kind of courage Labour needs if it is to win the next election.