Steve Bellamy 💙

@WG_RumblePants Had the pleasure of seeing him in full flow,a privilege

A very young, fresh-faced Freddie Trueman, probably at about 19 years old during his second season playing for Yorkshire in 1950. He would end his career having taken an an incredible 1745 for Yorkshire in 21 seasons, taking 100 wickets in a season 12 times. His Test figures still sparkle: 307 wickets in 67 Tests at the impressive average of 21.57.

@Pott_Shrigley_ The year I started happy days

Cole Brothers at night, 1969 #Sheffield

Once his mentor and ally, Peter Mandelson now finds himself at odds with Keir Starmer, but as Mandelson’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal rages on, what does it mean for Keir and the government… or are they all now Islands in the Epstein? {satire}

Severus Snape - ALWAYS (LIVE at Hogwarts) 🔥🔥🔥 This is a MASTERPIECE. The music, the imagery, the lyrics, the setting, the accuracy to the story, it's PERFECT. Chef's kiss. Peak AI. 📸: WickedAI (YT)

Trophies will be accepted tomorrow at the White House from 9–5.

President Trump has slapped tariffs on Britain and European allies not for aggression or cheating, but for refusing his demand to buy Greenland. The American market is the weapon. Obey, or pay. We should strip away the soothing words. "National security." "Global peace." "China and Russia." It is all stage smoke. The United States already has what it needs in Greenland without owning it. It stations forces there and can build whatever it wants under existing defence arrangements. If this were truly about missiles, radar, submarines, or deterrence, it would be handled through NATO meetings and bilateral treaties. Quietly. Properly. Like grown-ups. But Donald Trump does not want access. He wants possession. Ownership is not defence. Ownership is dominance. It is a flag planted to prove who is master. And when allies say no, he does not argue. He punishes. That is the tell. A man motivated by security seeks capability. A man motivated by power seeks submission. The China line collapses on contact with reality. It is absurd to claim Greenland must be bought to "protect" it from China, when Greenland sits inside a NATO umbrella and already hosts US military assets. It would be like China saying it must take Taiwan to protect it from America. Washington would call that what it is: an imperial claim wearing a security mask. Tariffs are not here to "protect Americans." They are here to break resistance. They are designed to squeeze Denmark through its friends, fracture allied unity, and make smaller states choose between their sovereignty and their livelihoods. It is coercion by spreadsheet, plain and simple. The point is not the money. The point is the lesson: disagree with me and I will make your people pay. And this is where the rot spreads. Once you accept that an ally can be economically punished for refusing to hand over territory, you have accepted a new world. In that world, treaties are optional. Small nations are bargaining chips. Borders are negotiable if the strong feel like negotiating them. NATO becomes a logo, not a shield. Britain is caught in a trap of its own making. We have spent years pretending the alliance runs on sentiment. It does not. It runs on interests, habits, and trust. Starmer now faces a White House that treats trust as weakness and habit as a chain to be yanked. He will be pressured to "help get a deal done," as if Britain's role is to smooth the path for American acquisition. That is not diplomacy. It is vassalage. Kemi Badenoch is right to condemn the tariffs. Not because they are "a terrible idea" in the narrow sense of higher costs, though they are. But because they attack a principle Britain cannot afford to lose: that sovereignty is not up for sale under duress. If Greenland's future is to be decided, it is to be decided by Greenlanders, not by tariffs timed for maximum pain. Nigel Farage is also right to say the tariffs will hurt us. But the deeper harm is not in the export figures. It is in the precedent. If the United States can punish Britain over Greenland, it can punish Britain over anything. This is the hard truth: Trump is not defending the West. He is reshaping it. He is turning an alliance into a pecking order. He is replacing consent with pressure, partnership with tribute, and shared security with personal leverage. And he is doing it because he can. The best response is clarity, not panic. Britain should say, plainly, that it will not be bullied into endorsing territorial acquisition. It should work with allies to resist the principle, even if that means swallowing short-term cost. Because once you bend the knee on something like this, you do not get your spine back by asking nicely. Ultimately, this is not about Greenland. Greenland is the test case. This is about whether the West will remain a family of free nations, or become a market empire where the strong dictate terms and the rest pay for the privilege of being "protected."

@stusfootyflash Could have done with this yesterday

On this day in 1992, Michael ‘Zico’ Lake scored this screamer for Sheffield Utd at The Dell. Absolutely unstoppable. 🚀

Hmm … Britain’s Women and Equalities Secretary, seems to be refusing to protect women, in order to include men who want to be women. How odd.

Tim, pay attention, because I’m about to etch this in to your conscience with a blade sharp enough to cut through every layer of your performative empathy. You and your cohort of eager, affirmation-obsessed activists have the audacity to insist that we hand over the most profound, irreversible decisions about identity and body to children who still believe in Santa Claus and can’t tie their own goddamn shoes without help. These are kids, Tim. Small humans whose brains are still under construction, whose sense of self shifts with the wind and the latest cartoon character they idolize. They can’t decide if they want broccoli or pizza rolls for lunch without a meltdown, but you’re prepared to let them...or worse, encourage them...to declare that their entire biological reality is a mistake? That’s not kindness. That’s not progress. That’s adults projecting their ideological obsessions onto the most impressionable minds imaginable, then calling it “compassion.” A child’s fleeting discomfort with their body, their clothes, their roles...the normal turbulence of growing up...does not equal a settled, lifelong truth that demands medical intervention. Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries...these aren’t gentle affirmations; they’re profound, life-altering pathways with permanent consequences. Sterility, bone density loss, sexual dysfunction, lifelong dependence on synthetic hormones. You’re willing to gamble a child’s future health and fertility on a feeling that, for the vast majority, resolves naturally with time and maturity. This isn’t about hating anyone. This isn’t about denying dignity to adults who choose this path for themselves. It’s about protecting children from a cultural contagion that rushes them toward decisions they cannot possibly comprehend. It’s about refusing to let confused kids become lifelong medical patients because adults wanted to feel enlightened and on the “right side of history.” When the tide turns...and it will...and those same young people wake up to bodies they can never fully reclaim, to fertility they can never regain, they’ll look back and ask who let this happen. And the answer will be people like you, Tim. People who mistook urgency for mercy, ideology for evidence, and social media applause for moral courage. So step back. Let kids be kids. Let them grow, explore, question, and arrive at adulthood with their bodies and options intact. Anything less is exploitation dressed up as empathy. Leave the children the fuck alone.

A list of dictators who abolished Jury Trials

There are moments when a government stops pretending it serves the public and starts acting as if the public is an inconvenience. Today was one of those moments. David Lammy has not "reformed" the justice system. He has amputated half of it. Jury trials have not been modernised, updated or streamlined. They have been gutted. What was once the people's check on the power of the state has been reduced to a token relic, preserved for the handful of cases the government cannot swallow whole. Everything else will now be processed, quietly and efficiently, by officials behind closed doors. The press will call this a compromise. It is nothing of the kind. It is a triumph. Lammy came for the whole system; he has banked half of it. He dressed it up in the usual soft language – backlogs, delays, victims, fairness – but the facts are stark. One in 66 defendants will now stand before a jury. The rest will be judged by magistrates or by lone judges in "swift courts," with sentencing powers increased, appeal rights constrained, and the public removed from the room. That isn't justice. It is throughput. A conveyor belt built to ease administrative pain, not to protect citizens from the state. Lammy now claims Magna Carta as his ally, as if the document that first restrained English power somehow gives him permission to expand it. Magna Carta stands for one thing above all: the people must stand between the state and punishment. Lammy's scheme removes them. Magna Carta curbed arbitrary authority. Lammy consolidates it. Magna Carta was a shield against state excess. Lammy has turned it into a prop and waved it around as justification for stripping away the very principle it established. There is something indecent in that. And he knows it. If the backlogs were the emergency he claims, the remedy would be straightforward: fund the courts, staff the system, build capacity. But that would strengthen the justice system, not the government. Lammy has chosen the other path: weaken the system, strip away safeguards, and declare the damage necessary. And note the most revealing admission of all – that the backlog will get worse before it improves. Strip rights now in the hope that things might improve later, though he cannot guarantee they will. This is crisis as leverage. Failures turned into mandates. Decay turned into opportunity. This is not the end of jury trials; it is the breach before the end. Once a government has discovered it can remove a centuries-old right without public consent, without a manifesto commitment, and without fear of revolt, it will not stop. It will return, inch by inch, until the last vestige of public involvement in justice is gone. And when that happens, the state will no longer need to persuade anyone of anything. It will accuse, and it will convict, and the citizen will stand alone before a system that no longer answers to him. Lammy has proved one thing: that an ancient right can be stripped away not by coup, but by administrative decree, sold as progress, and imposed with the calm voice of a manager. He has halved the institution he once praised. He has weakened the only mechanism that forces the state to justify itself to its people. And he has shown that a government can dismantle liberty not with riot police, but with legislation drafted in committee rooms. This is a government drunk on its own authority. It is not clinging to tradition; it is dismantling it, brick by brick, and daring the country to object. Britain is not yet a state where the only verdict heard is the state's. But after today, it is much closer. And if this generation does not resist what is being done in its name, the next will inherit a justice system where the public are not participants, but spectators – watching a distant machine decide their fate. "Magna Carta was a shield against state excess. Lammy has turned it into a prop and waved it around as justification for stripping away the very principle it established."

This has to be considered the greatest header in the history of football.

@screwloose1980 Veras bacon butty was the best

After a night out, what was your late night go to for some food to soak the booze up was it Greasy Vera's or Chubbys?

@BerisfordRon Something

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@BerisfordRon Shouldn't that be into watt?

Happy Mondays my lovelies!😎

@BerisfordRon Any one will do

I have always strongly believed this which possibly explains why so far I have now had eighty seven different jobs!😂😂😂

@Pott_Shrigley_ First job menswear 1969

Sheffield 1963

@BerisfordRon That's a big crowd were you under pressure?

David Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1983! I am just above David with my friend Ant in the black shirt!😎

@BerisfordRon They make me break wind but I do like marrowfart peas

I like peas so much that I am going to be starting my very own ‘podcast’

@BerisfordRon Starring Patrick Mower

TV show idea: Two teams of ‘celebrity’ gardeners compete to see who can tidy their allotment quickest! ‘The Winner Rakes It All’