David Riggs

@_iCorC @paddypower Betting on a friendly, get some help.

@paddypower do you wanna pay out this too??

🚨 JUSTICE PAYOUT!🚨 We are paying out on a red card in the England v Uruguay match after the referee literally forgot he had already booked Manuel Ugarte. 18+ GambleAware

@dylan01 @KosSamaras Nice em dashes, clanker

**Fact-check on your hero worship:** Mothin Ali is an accountant, YouTuber, and permaculture teacher—not a union steelworker. His wife wears a full niqab (confirmed in multiple reports). He called his 2024 council win a “victory for Gaza,” shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and faced calls for suspension after slamming a local rabbi/IDF reservist. The ward he represents (Gipton & Harehills) is ~28% Muslim, not 40%, and it exploded in riots in 2024 where he had to calm tensions he helped inflame with his rhetoric. UK Greens’ “success” under Polanski? One by-election win in a collapsing Labour seat while Reform UK surged. This isn’t “working-class solidarity in English, Urdu and Bangla”—it’s the same inner-city identity politics, just with a Bangladeshi accountant fronting it. Australian Greens don’t need lectures from this.

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn. Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis. He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026. That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room. Now contrast that with the Australian Greens. The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled. The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from. Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate. youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA?si…

@DanielCherny @dailytelegraph With what money?

In today’s @dailytelegraph: ACA is pushing the introduction of a women’s domestic red-ball competition as part of a new MOU with Cricket Australia.

If shes the hero i wonder whos the villian....👀👀👀 ➡️➡️👓📖⬅️⬅️

@JohnnyCallicutt Y’know, sometimes Nancy deserves it when Sluggo hangs out with those dolled-up side pieces of his. Get yourself a woman who respects you.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 27,1948

@BenPennings Don’t know what you’re talking about. This is CLEARLY a Two Strong Hearts mural. And I suppose the artist likes eating watermelon!

Naughty boy‼ Dude could go to jail for 2 years under the LNP's free speech restrictions in Queensland 🤬

@SnowBallBro777 @KiwisBurntToast Seriously. The Juci I know only reserves that kind of look for men hitting on her annoyingly, not asking whether a hat looks nice.

@KiwisBurntToast Why is she looking at him so meanly :(

Junior Executive Model

@JohnnyHudSF @thats_bb_suzyn I thought the people were paying the bills by paying the subscription. This isn’t WPIX here.

@thats_bb_suzyn They were paying the bills showing the sponsors. But they should have had a plan to switch to the game camera with the ads in the upper left or something.

Netflix production crew misses another first pitch hit. This is so inexcusable.

@DeathNsl @football360au Same. First “sokkah” game I ever saw live as an Aussie Rules kid.

@football360au Was there.

The last time Cameroon played in Australia, THIS happened 🤯🏟️⚽️ Throwing it all the way back to 2000. This was the incredible scene as the African powerhouse beat Spain to claim gold at the Olympic Games in Sydney in front of over 104,000 🥇 Xavi played. Carles Puyol played. Samuel Eto'o played. To this day, it is the biggest football crowd ever seen in Australia. This Friday night, they will play against the Socceroos at the same stadium. What you need to know about this Cameroon side, driven by the oddest couple in international football: tinyurl.com/4x6fjdnj

@DragonBruh1234 Me seeing Chiyo-chan’s Dad on a t-shirt

@WrestlingNewsCo Picked #145 by the Bears in 1947, 39 places above Tom Landry, 59 places above Art Donovan.

Brian Ferguson, author of the Verne Gagne biography "Verne: Inside and Outside the Ropes," revealed on the Shut Up and Wrestle podcast that Gagne was drafted by both the Cleveland Browns and the Chicago Bears in the 1947 NFL Draft despite not playing a single down of football that season because his grades were too bad to be eligible. ​ "He could not play football at the University of Minnesota in 1947 because of his grades. His grades were awful. However, right at the end of '47, he didn't play a down, and he was still drafted by the Cleveland Browns and the Chicago Bears. That's how good of an athlete he was." ​ Ferguson said Gagne's own family did not know about the NFL draft history until the book was researched. "They always knew they were from Minnesota, but they actually came over from France, and they didn't know that. They never knew he was drafted by the Cleveland Browns as well." ​ Ferguson also said Gagne trained over 144 professional wrestlers with an estimated 95% success rate, including Ric Flair, Rick Steamboat, Sgt Slaughter, the Iron Sheik, Baron Von Raschke, and all the Anderson brothers. "If you couldn't cut it, you're out, you're gone." ​ Gagne is also one of only two recognized world champions in history to retire while still holding the title. The other is Frank Gotch in 1913. ​ Ferguson said he wrote the book because Gagne's contributions have been underappreciated. "In the last several years, especially since his passing, he's kind of been lost. Vern was huge in the Midwest. He was it. And I just think his story was lost." ​ Full article at the link in bio. ​ #VerneGagne #AWA #WWE #WrestlingHistory #ClevelandBrowns

@NLSDartCaucus The problem with the modern Liberals is that they’ve lost their monopoly on double-barrelled surnames.

Proof of nominative determinism in Australian politics. Like yes I could guess each candidates party based entirely on their name

@toiletpaperaus1 Allegedly, he was out campaigning at the Light Square early voting centre when the news broke

This is One Nation’s candidate for Adelaide, Aoi Baxter. Today, was revealed that Aoi has a warrant out for his arrest in the UK for a sexual touching charge. But wait, it gets worse! This is how One Nation reacted to it… ➡️

@choppaslide “Hey Mike, I bet you 100k I CAN’T make this shot!” Keep the other 900.

If i told bron that i need the money to take care of my family, he’d easily let me score. Jordan would tell me to get my black ass tf outta his face and then guard me like his life depended on it

@ashstabbath I thought the “lucky lady” was always the booker’s wife/girlfriend

@JoeKinseyexp youtube.com/watch?v=BX-Mwf…

Happy 20th anniversary to the greatest St. Patrick’s Day video on the Internet.

@AntigoneJournal The Homer

Admirably no-nonsense use of the definite article on this rebound Loeb from John Rylands Library in Manchester:

He electrocuted the whole neighbourhood with his strike 😭

@MisinfoFact Their HTV cards have a 1 beside One Nation & no other numbers. 100% setup to score less votes than the polling indicates & cry about vote rigging.

How many minutes after polls close on Saturday before One Nation voters on Twitter claims the South Australian election was rigged and/or preferential voting needs to be scrapped? 🍿 #auspol

@Jimmy____D @OfficialS2G Fuck off with this AI shit

@OfficialS2G Bring back V10's, pit girls and tobacco liverys! The golden days

Can someone explain why F1 has gone down this battery/EV route? We already have Formula E for that. Why not just let F1 be about the best and most powerful combustion engines?