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@oaksandlions Don't know what's more impressive, the book, or your patience reposting the same link to every idiot screaming "no gloves?!?!" in the comments

This is the oldest surviving book ever made in England. Created in north-east England around AD 700, the St Cuthbert Gospel is a tiny pocket-sized copy of the Gospel of John. Its survival is remarkable. When St Cuthbert was reburied in AD 698, the book was placed inside his coffin. It remained there for more than 400 years, protected from the outside world until the tomb was opened in 1104. Remarkably, its original red leather binding has survived almost perfectly, making it not only England's oldest surviving intact book, but also the oldest intact European book. The manuscript later became known as the Stonyhurst Gospel and was eventually acquired by the British Library in 2012. More than 1,300 years after its creation, it remains a direct link to the craftsmanship, faith and learning of Anglo-Saxon England. Follow @oaksandlions for your daily dose of England's hidden gems.

@JulianKalmeijer @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari Ok...so he can stay. Or the interested teams can swap us a player plus cash. "I want it but I can't afford it" isn't a good argument for not paying full price for something

@andyfay @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari Problem is you're naming the few teams that are rich, but thesr are never going for Romero... Barca and Inter are interested, they're gonna have that amount of money to offer for him

🚨🚨 INFO from @Glongari: #thfc's asking price for Cuti Romero is €50M.

@JulianKalmeijer @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari Hernández €80m to Bayern Munich de Ligt €75m to Juventus de Ligt €70m to Bayern Munich Hakimi €71m to PSG The idea that world cup winning Romero should go for less than 50m just cos it's European teams interested is mental

@andyfay @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari All of these were bought by Prem clubs, who have significantly worth more than anyone else

@amadenjoyer21 @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari So should we just let him go for half price? He wants to go, we're planning for him to leave, but any team that wants him should pay his reasonable market value. If they don't want to pay up he can take a pay cut and waive his signing bonuses to help it along...

@andyfay @Daily_Hotspur @Glongari difference tho them clubs didn’t need or want to sell its openly out there that romero is gonna leave and both parties want to sell

@ZackPolanski All non-nationals should be excluded from all benefits. The country is about to go bankrupt because of ridiculous people like you

Labour plans to withhold benefits to people who have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. Performative cruelty and total cowardice. That’s why the Greens will replace Labour.

@jonburkeUK @SamaHoole So why put them on arable land? That is the issue. Licence solar farms for any brownfield site without planning requirements and leave farmland alone?

@SamaHoole The solar farms supplying you with enough electricity to jump on the anti-environmental bandwagon for money from Elon Musk’s rancid remuneration programme occupy <0.1% of U.K land.

This month the Energy Secretary approved his third large solar farm in a fortnight, one of them on prime farmland across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire that his own inspectors told him to refuse. They walked the site. They said no. He signed it anyway. So here's the grand plan. Take some of the best food-growing soil in England, ground that has fed people for a thousand years, and bury it under glass panels shipped in from China to catch the famous Lincolnshire sunshine. In a country where the sun knocks off mid-afternoon for half the winter and turns up for roughly eleven per cent of the year, we are concreting over arable land to harvest photons that mostly aren't there. A British solar field spends most of its life doing an impression of a very expensive greenhouse with the plants missing. The panels tilt hopefully at a grey sky. The soil beneath them, some of the finest in the country, sits in the dark for forty years quietly learning to be a car park. And it doesn't come back. Not in your lifetime. They are making a permanent decision about a temporary energy fashion, on ground you cannot un-glass, against the written advice of the men they pay to give it, in the same fortnight the same government swears food security keeps it awake at night. Sunniest idea they've had all year.

@griffitha @DanielJHannan (c) do both and pay for it with equivalent £bns saved from slashing welfare spending...

You are Prime Minister. Do you: (a) Invest in unbelievably good research in areas like quantum, photonics and AI in the Harwell Campus with world class facilities like the Diamond Light Source. (b) Spend £2.5 billion subsidising fundamentally unprofitable steel making?

@IsaacDelestre @OBR_UK 30% universal flat tax. Sorted.

Striking chart from today's @OBR_UK Fiscal Risks report. Might quibble with the exact numbers but overall picture of a tax system that creates some pretty baffling incentives is clearly right.

@cenkuygur 1) football teams don't have "rosters" 2) your 'best player' is an England reject who plays in a joke league 3) sportsmanship means playing by the rules of the game, not getting your megalomaniac dictator to overrun them 4) Belgium fucking smashed you despite it all

Here's what I'm not interested in - Belgium crying they have to play us with a full roster. They really want to play us without one of our best players. Wow, what great sportsmanship. I get it if others are pissed, but Belgium thinking it's unfair to play our whole team is weak.

@BarstoolChief @SpursyDave There's an old idiom around straws and camels you may want to look up

People are screaming corruption about balogun being allowed to play when it’s probably the least corrupt thing they’ve done in 30 years. Qatar was bribing everyone and built the stadiums with slaves and we are crying about a red card? Fuck outta here

@eurofootcom @SportyTV Could have done with them on the pitch

🇧🇷✨ Ronaldinho, Cafu, Rivaldo and Roberto Carlos at the match! ✅ (@SportyTV)

@TheB1M Ugly as sin

London's One Undershaft skyscraper has been renamed One London. The supertall building is currently under construction and set to top out at the city’s aviation ceiling of 309.6-metres — the same height as the Shard, which is currently the UK’s tallest building. Designed by Eric Parry Architects, the 74-storey skyscraper is set to add some 117,000-square-metres of office space into the City of London, alongside a podium and new public garden that projects from the structure. 📷 DBOX / Eric Parry Architects

@CameronYardeJnr @pokeefe1 Exactly! Always baffled me, even if he genuinely couldn't give a shit about the football & only cared about the business, spending that little bit more to get the player we actually needed was the difference between champions league football and mid table, so worth millions!

@andyfay @pokeefe1 Hear, hear! That's why Levy will not get the credit he deserves because he let the football side fall away so badly. He never appreciated that a successful football team generates so much money. A few trophies would have kept fans onside too.

Spurs spending. 17th twice, survived by skin of their teeth. Cost implications of relegation 10 fold that of paying extra to get targets. Relegation would have been catastrophic. They have no choice. Levy's vision (although not aligned with success) ironically helping them now.

@CameronYardeJnr @pokeefe1 Mad thing is he didn't even have to be adventurous, just realistic. The amount of quality players we missed out on cos he fucked around over a million quid here or there is unreal. Could have built a generational team under Poch but ended up glorious failure and death spiral

@pokeefe1 The flip side is that had Levy been more adventurous and bought good players and built on THAT Poch team, relegation might not have been a possibility. But Spurs kept their financial house in order and followed the rules. Reaping the benefits now.

@Ellis_ Spurs spending less on Fernandes in 2026 than Man Utd spent on Pogba in 2016 is breaking the transfer market... Fucking clown

Well done Tottenham you have officially completely broken the transfer market.

@MagnificoMags @bobyiddo Fuck are you talking about? Absolutely nothing restricts any club doing exactly what Spurs did i.e. run a shoestring budget for years, build the best stadium in the world, then start spending the revenue it generated...

@bobyiddo Everton can do and make what they like off their stadium. Nobody's questioning your revenue, the problem is the rules that favour the same six clubs who built their revenues up before the drawbridge was pulled up and restricted any further competition from ambitious clubs.

Hope all you Everton fans are taking notice your lovely brand new stadium is not allowed to make money because it’ll upset Aston Villa and Newcastle fans

@owenthfc__ Well a few things... 1) sell bentancur 2) it's not 1 game a week if we treat the cups seriously 3) injuries happen at an alarming rate in our club 4) different games require different players/formation So 5 for 2 (or 3) when all fit with 2 of those 5 being young & developing?

Love Lucas but that *if* we sign Fernandes & Tonali that would be a very bloated midfield on one game a week. - Sandro Tonali - Mateus Fernandes - Rodrigo Bentancur - Lucas Bergvall - Archie Gray - Conor Gallagher 6 players for 2 positions. Could get away with it in Europe but on one game a week that will soon get awkward. Even with another inevitable injury crisis it doesn't guarantee gametime for everyone. I know Gallagher will be a #10 until the likes of Maddison, Kulusevski & Simons are all 100% next year but even then, 5 is a lot. Don't think Bergvall or Gray will get the minutes they'll need to develop next season, unless Gray is utilised as a utility player again playing fullback on occasion.

@BucketsOf_Rain Chuck them all in the road. Someone will sort it out quick enough after that

This is the pedestrian island in the middle of a pelican crossing. On either side are three lanes of traffic. This is space is meant to be for pedestrians.

@DPJHodges What a fucking unserious performative cunt

Latest on Burnham’s plans: * As PM he will spend a minimum of a day a week in “No.10 North” * He will not use No.10 as his main residence. His primary home will remain in the North West * Senior advisors have already begun work on establishing the Northern Downing Street