Joanna Baggs

A remarkable record for Dave Challinor continues 🤩 In 15 full seasons as a manager, the gaffer has never finished below a play-off place 🤯 #StockportCounty

This year has been amazing ❤️ I want to thank everyone at the club for all of your hard work and support. To all of the fans, you have all been incredible. The support you have shown me every single game has pushed me to keep performing at the highest level. I will miss you!

This is incredible for the Sheffield Wednesday fans. Announcing this in the stadium, the reaction is just 👌

@TalkWurzel Away HAS to be purple next year... Feed up with boring white and black away kits... Be bold, be brash, be Barney! Give us our purple kit back! 🟣🟢

What we saying, chat? #bristolcity

Behold. It's a beautiful sight. WE ARE SO BACK! 😍 #pne #qpr #bristolcity

Starmer and Hermer Built the Machine Together. Now They Run the Country. In 2007, two barristers worked without pay on a case that would change the legal landscape for every British soldier who had served in Iraq. Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer appeared as interveners in Al-Skeini v Secretary of State for Defence, representing eleven human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Liberty. Their argument was that the European Convention on Human Rights should apply to British forces operating overseas. They lost in the Court of Appeal. They appealed to the House of Lords. They lost again. But the legal principle they had argued for eventually prevailed at the European Court of Human Rights, and what followed was the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, sixty million pounds of public money, seven years of investigations, and not a single prosecution. The soldiers it pursued were, in almost every case, found to have acted properly. Starmer believed in it enough to do it for free. Johnny Mercer, who spent years dismantling the consequences, put it plainly. Starmer had insisted on doing it for free. That is not the behaviour of a barrister following the cab rank rule. That is ideological conviction. Hermer's conviction, it subsequently emerged, was not without financial reward once the machinery was running. Documents obtained by the Daily Telegraph show that having helped establish the legal architecture pro bono in 2007, Hermer then used that same architecture to pursue Iraqi claims against British soldiers at £450 an hour, fifty percent higher than the only other KC involved in the group action. He set his success fee at the maximum level permitted, one hundred percent of his normal rate. The MoD's own lawyers challenged his fees as excessive and said he was too junior to command that rate. He is thought to have earned around six figures from the broader group action. The claims he was pursuing were eventually ruled to be deliberate lies. The soldiers were fully exonerated. Sergeant Richie Catterall had been cleared of wrongdoing by the British Army in 2003 for a fatal shooting in Basra. The Army found he had acted in self-defence. The legal precedent Starmer and Hermer established triggered two further investigations spanning thirteen years. A 2016 inquiry again concluded he had acted in self-defence and found a false document had been created to shift blame onto the military. Catterall was finally exonerated. He told the Telegraph he was gutted that Starmer had helped bring the case against him and that the Prime Minister owed him an apology. Starmer is now Prime Minister. Hermer is now Attorney General, appointed by Starmer personally, elevated to the House of Lords specifically for the role, chosen over Emily Thornberry who had held the shadow brief. The former head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, has said Hermer's role in the Al-Sweady claims was tantamount to treason. A former commanding officer of 22 SAS said Hermer must step down. The Bar Standards Board has been asked to investigate. Nigel Farage has reported Hermer to the House of Lords standards commissioner. The Troubles Bill that is now subjecting Northern Ireland veterans to the same lawfare is not an accident of policy. The process that drove Fred, a special forces veteran, to attempt suicide after his medical records were handed to terrorists' families was not an oversight. The machine that cost sixty million pounds and produced no prosecutions was not a mistake. Starmer and Hermer built it together, one working for free out of conviction, the other later working for maximum fees out of the same conviction, and now both occupy the positions from which they can ensure the machine keeps running.

Understand this is now done and Ellis has agreed a deal to become Bristol City’s new sporting director. #BristolCity

Good performance & result... Great to see Sam Bell scoring, so pleased to see Dickie back.. but Burgzorg what a waste of space, missed a sitter in the opening minute then down hill from there. Might have run around a lot but usually doesn't seem to know how to play up front!

@BristolCity @fever_uk Why the hell are we starting a loanee (and a shit one) when we should be building for next season? Unless we've agreed to buy him! 🫣🤣

TEAM NEWS. 🗞️ ✅ Horvat, Bell, Burgzorg start ❌ Randell misses out with a knock 🙌 Ranel Young named as substitute 🤝 | @fever_uk

We’ve heard this all before, but is this time different? My take from Charlie Boss’ latest interview (including quotes). This really is Steve Lansdowns last chance. open.substack.com/pub/theroguero…

Norwich spent £34 million pounds this season to be one place above a team that spent 3 windows chasing an actual clown on loan from Boro

This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested. So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money. Disgraceful.

Labour wins vote to seize powers over private pension pots Labour’s economically illiterate MPs have voted to put millions of people’s retirements at risk. The attacks on hard work and savings by this horrendous socialist Government are unprecedented. telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…

If there is anyone in football who can help, maybe #BristolCity past or present, Carol is a South Stand supervisor who has had a stroke and this fundraiser is for her - her family is trying to raise £5k, they have £1.5k so far. Any contribution I am sure would mean a lot 🔴⚪️

🚨Thomas Frank speaks on Tottenham’s potential relegation from the Premier League: 🗣️ Frank: “I can finally hold my hands up high and say I wasn’t the problem at Spurs. They pushed me out over nonsense—because I drank from an Arsenal cup? They made a big mistake and that decision has clearly backfired and now it’s showing.” “Recruitment has been all wrong. Bringing in Xavi Simons instead of going all-in and rival Arsenal for Eberechi Eze who was my main target was a decision that has cost them identity, creativity, and points.” “There was a clear plan when I was there… now it’s completely lost. At this rate, they’re heading straight for relegation. Maybe the Championship is where they belong afterall. But that is not my headache to worry about anymore (laughs)…”

Quite phonemenal & unexepected news out of Altona Rare Earths #REE today that puts an even more enhanced perspective on the companys valuation v their peers today - uk.advfn.com/stock-market/l… Wouldn't be surprised to see an assault on 5p today

@RikkiClarke81 Stay at mine when you’re at Ashton gate next season??

@liam_fowler The Port Vale keeper Gauci.. On loan from villa... Looked good in their cup run. Big and dominant like Vitek

When Vitek leaves… that Charles lad at sheff wed has to be one we’ve been looking at… surely?

@BristolCityFM Tidy but no more than that... He slows everything down... 🥱

Huh?