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@SamCKx @DeborahMeaden Indeed, Sam. This was the same evening we heard about Josh Somon's resignation. Uncanny how everyone had the same thought process, eh?

For those who don't know how this works, Reform are supported by the owner of X. All their accounts are centrally run and 1000s of bots are programmed to like their posts as soon as they go out. This is a form of election fraud no one is talking about yet. Rob's account is run from the US. Good local Makerfield boy. It's all such a grift.

The Makerfield constituency deserves a local champion. I can’t wait to get started. 🇬🇧

@NeilClark66 Miracle worker, Neil. Celtic’s hierarchy did all they could to hand the title over to another team, the club a mess under W.Nancy. But a remarkable comeback under Martin, and the faith of the Celtic fans. A great season by Hearts too.

For all the disappointment many neutrals will feel over Hearts not winning the SPL- one thing must not be overlooked. The record of Martin O’Neill . Whether as a player (Nottm Forest/Norwich/N. Ireland) or manager (Wycombe, Leicester, Villa, ROI, Celtic) the man’s record of success is extraordinary. No other manager could delivered Celtic the title this year.

Scientific evidence to prove how far a ball can travel with a hand ball.

@ITV7Racing Rebel’s Romance #ITV7InItToWinIt

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@Jonathan_K_Cook @skwawkbox Very depressing, very negative. I think solutions & strategy are needed instead of telling leaders how seemingly impossible is their task and all they have is passivity. Remember, Corbyn made mistakes, was too 'nice' when ruthlessness was required in ousting the Labour right.

There is a reason that the Greens’ current moment under Zack Polanski feels so familiar – like a rerun of the hounding of Corbyn through 2017 and 2018. Because that is exactly what it is. Now, as then, an insurgent leftwing party, led by a popular figure, is disrupting the cosy ping-pong politics of the two main, establishment-serving parties. Now, as then, the left insurgency appears to be growing into something bigger than simply a political party. It is tapping into a wider mood that will not be satisfied with tinkering. It demands wholesale change. Now, as then, the insurgency is emphasising how the billionaire class has captured and corrupted the political system, and how it maintains “mainstream” narrative control through its ownership of the establishment media. Now, as then, the insurgency is challenging the lifeblood of Britain’s ruling class: its permanent “rip-off” austerity politics at home, and permanent warmongering politics abroad. Now, as then, the establishment is playing dirty: it studiously avoids addressing the political issues raised by the insurgents, because it knows it would lose such debates. Instead, it focuses on staining the moral character of the insurgent leader. And finally, now as then, it has learned that the best way to smear the insurgents, and drain energy and political momentum from the movement, is by tarring them as antisemites. If the Greens were forced to run the gauntlet during last week's local election campaign, just wait for the firing squad they will face when the national elections arrive in a few years’ time. The British establishment is once again cornering the insurgent, anti-racist left with a double-bind ultimatum. It must hollow out its moral core by jettisoning its opposition to apartheid, genocide, wars of aggression, the military-industrial complex, and the war machine’s interminable assaults on the environment – or be condemned as Jew haters. As became clear through these latest elections, the Greens are going to face relentless hounding until they agree to ditch Polanski. They will be required to find a “moderate” leader ready to cosy up to Big Business – and make their party as politically superfluous as Labour has become under Starmer. This is an extract from my latest article If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy. There is a link to the rest of the article in the reply post ⬇️

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Running a competition for 2 tickets for my match Saturday morning and Sunday morning plus hotel stay in Sheffield Saturday night Question….. what is my lowest score round an 18 hole golf course???? Winner picked tonight at 10pm Good luck everyone In the event of more than one correct answer winner will be drawn at random One guess per person please

@NeilClark66 What are you on tomorrow, Neil? Winner will be a Mullins horse I think. An e/w on Stellar Story as well though

The #GrandNational is a very different race nowadays. We won’t see the likes of the 1967, 1994 or 2001 races again. There is much less drama, less excitement and it’s dominated by the elite yards. Yet for all that we will still be watching tomorrow - either at Aintree or on tv- in eager anticipation as to what will unfold. The National is part of our heritage & culture and the UK sporting calendar - & indeed the UK itself- wouldn’t really be the same without it.

@TWEnclosure Wales wins the GN for the first time since 1998(?). Wesh horse trainer and jockey #HaitiCouleurs

There always seems to be a story regarding the Grand National winner... Rachael Blackmore = first female jockey to win it 🥇 Sam Waley-Cohen = last ever ride 🥇 Patrick Mullins = riding winner for his Dad Willie 🥇 What on Saturday...

Your fridge runs 24 hours a day. Solar panels only work while the sun’s out. That mismatch is the entire reason this plant exists, and the fix is just hot salt. The Dunhuang plant in China’s Gobi Desert uses 12,000 mirrors aimed at a single tower about as tall as an 80-story building. All that focused sunlight heats a mix of salts (the same stuff in fertilizer) to 565°C, hot enough to glow red. That liquid salt gets pumped into giant insulated tanks. The tanks are so well insulated they only lose about 1°C per day. When the city needs electricity at 2am, the hot salt boils water into steam, the steam spins a turbine, and you get power. Same basic process as a coal plant. Just no coal. Here’s what makes this different from regular solar: the storage lasts 11 hours. Sun goes down, plant keeps running all night. The big batteries that cities plug into their power grids right now? Those typically hold about 4 hours of electricity. Building batteries that last 11 hours is possible, but the cost balloons fast. A German energy storage study found that storing energy in hot salt costs roughly 33x less than storing it in the lithium-ion batteries we use today. China has built 27 of these plants so far, enough to power roughly a million homes. They doubled that number in 2025 alone. Another 3,000 megawatts (enough for about 2 million more homes) are under construction right now, with 4,000 more in the planning stage. Beijing wants 15,000 megawatts by 2030. The US tried this same technology once. Ivanpah, out in the Mojave Desert. Cost $2.2 billion. But they skipped the storage part entirely, so it could only make power while the sun was shining. It needed natural gas every morning just to start up. It’s now slated to shut down in 2026, thirteen years early, because regular solar panels got so cheap they made the whole project obsolete. China took the same idea, added the one part America left out, and is now building dozens of them. One more thing worth knowing. The salt is made from basic industrial chemicals. No lithium mining. No cobalt. No rare earth metals. And it lasts 30 years of daily use before the tanks need work.

La izquierda resiste en París, Marsella y Lyon, las tres mayores ciudades de Francia. Otra vez la misma lección: A la ultraderecha no se la frena imitándola o comprando sus discursos. Se la frena plantándole cara.

@alanjohnsy Don't think we learned much from that race. All about the ground next month now

Half an hour left to back Gerri Colombo at 33s for the National before his price halves (warning: he may also soon be 66s 😂😂)

@TWEnclosure Sean will finally break his Cheltenham duck! ⬜️🟨🟥🟪⬛⬜️ #HaitiCouleurs

WHO WINS THE GOLD CUP AT CHELTENHAM TOMORROW? 🤔

@SmartAccaTips @TWEnclosure Morning mate, could you explain the middle column please "Trend: Hit Rates"? Amateur punter here 🙏

THINKING ABOUT BACKING AGAINST A FAVOURITE TODAY AT CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL? 👀 I’ve run my trends model to see who “could” beat them. Hit the ❤️ if you will be taking any of them on today! *I am indeed on the muggy treble just in case 😅

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@RacingPost BHA shooting themselves in the foot! This would have been a massive story, lots of media interest for the racing game especially as ITV4 covering Southwell on Friday. They'll just have to make do with the Blind Date angle now to keep us watching 😆

👀 BHA rules in the ballot elimination process give priority to "horses that have run in or completed no more than two Flat races and have been placed in the first four at least once in those races", with eight of the 32 entries in that group. Constitution Hill was among 15 qualifiers in the second preference band, which goes to "horses that have not run in a Flat race". If more than 14 horses are declared on Wednesday, they will be eliminated in the order established by the draw.

@AtTheRaces @LynchySSR @TonyEnnis11 BHA shooting themselves in the foot! This would have been a massive story, lots of media interest for the racing game especially as ITV4 covering Southwell on Friday. They'll just have to make do with the Blind Date angle now to keep us watching 😆

"Everyone just assumed it was a Constitution Hill benefit, in effect!" @LynchySSR and @TonyEnnis11 react to the news that the Seven Barrows star may miss out on a trip to Southwell on Friday...

@mintisculture Excellent analysis, and I agree that it's okay to let people take their own time to grieve their loss. HD is a great stadium & I have faith that the infrastructure and transport issues will be resolved. The issue putting me off is the Premier League: VAR, kick off times, costs

Does describing Goodison so negatively, in order to help ourselves move on, only serve to create division? It’s surprising how quickly some fans seem ready to dismiss a place so deeply woven into our history, simply to feel more connected to what’s new. Surely Goodison Park represents a central part of who we are. There’s real weight in what it stood for. That isn’t about resisting change; it’s about recognising history. When people say they miss the feeling Goodison gave them, they’re not talking about relegation fights, bad atmospheres, or poor signings. They’re talking about tradition. About walking into a ground that had held the same centre circle since 1892. About a place that generations of Evertonians returned to, year after year. A connection to our roots. About something that felt authentic and deeply rooted in the identity of the club. The new stadium may well represent progress. It may bring opportunity, stability, and success. But can progress and reflection exist at the same time? Can we embrace what’s ahead without diminishing what came before? If some fans feel homesick, perhaps that deserves understanding rather than dismissal. After all, Goodison wasn’t just a ground - it was a living thread through the lives of Evertonians. Acknowledging that doesn’t prevent us from moving forward; it simply respects where we’ve come from. Goodison was a reminder of who we were. Hill Dickinson shows how much the club and football have changed, for better or worse. Maybe the real conversation isn’t about choosing between past and future, but about how we carry one into the other without creating a divide in the process. UTFT Evertonian on Regent Rd Nikon F Aug 2025

@TWEnclosure Romeo, Romeo wherefor art thou Coolio 👌

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@DespoticInroad 'The' Dingle as we call in Liverpool has always had a strong tradition for the Orange Lodge. Not all there, but certainly a signicant minority. They had 3,000 people marching from the L8 Mill St Memorial Hall in July '24. Liverpool, like Glasgow, has always had a sectarian edge.

Very East Belfast-coded mural garden, in between terraced houses in L8 — a postcode most famous nationally for the “Toxteth Riots/Uprising” (depending on your political persuasion). Liverpool isn’t a homogenous ultra-Left “Red City”: it’s fervently anti-Tory still (although this is only a post-Thatcher phenomenon), and there’s a generalised, inchoate, plebeian anti-Establishment culture. But its divisions mirror those nationally, with the solid Labour strongholds in the South End being pulled towards the Greens, and the more solid Labour strongholds in the North End pulled towards Reform. Will be fascinating to see how this little L8 pocket of traditional working-class Protestant/Orange Lodge strength (Dingle) votes next time round.