@rogermosey Ah haven't seen that thanks for pointing it out. I still think they'll have a "last minute change of heart" though.
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Steven Cook
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Keir Starmer is right that the Champions League final should be available free to air in the UK. But this is a consequence of previous governments and his own not making the final a listed event. It’s clearly much bigger than some of the other events which are protected.
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@msgbat @reluctantnicko This decision will act as a standard for future such offences
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@reluctantnicko They should still set out an idea of possible sanctions. It’d go some way to preventing this sort of shambles.
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@MoSalah Please organize a demonstration #SlotMustGo I will support you with my data bundles and time. Let’s see how many Liverpool fans support this?
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I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
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@SunApology And who used to be their chairman. Club rife with wrong-uns
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You'll never guess who's a former season ticket holder at Southampton and pro-chancellor at the University of Southampton.
Jon Sopel@jonsopel
Is the outrage over Spygate understandable? An act of crass stupidity, I’ll grant you. But this is less Philby and Burgess and more Laurel and Hardy. Some hapless intern is sent to film from 400M on his smart phone the Middlesbrough team kicking footballs. What searing insights would the Southampton side have got? ‘Ok boss they’re kicking the ball with both their left and right feet. Sometimes they’re heading it.’ It’s all so silly. Southampton look like a right bunch of Charlies. But in the pantheon of great sporting scandals, this is pimple sized
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I seen this on one of the ANTIFA pages. If anyone is going down to the @TRobinsonNewEra Unite The Kingdom festival on Saturday. Just be careful and stick to the main crowds in case any anti British racists try and pick you off in the side streets.
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In a stunning development, researchers have identified a second bacterial protein capable of synthesizing DNA without any nucleic acid template, marking the second time in just one month that a core tenet of biology has been overturned.
For more than 60 years, the Central Dogma of molecular biology has stated that genetic information flows in one direction: from DNA to RNA to protein. While exceptions like reverse transcription (RNA to DNA) have long been known, the idea that proteins could serve as templates to create DNA from scratch was considered impossible.
That assumption has now been shattered twice in rapid succession.
First came the discovery of DRT3, a bacterial anti-phage defense system. One of its components, Drt3b, uses its own protein structure as a physical mold to produce specific repetitive DNA sequences without relying on DNA or RNA as a guide.
Just weeks later, scientists detailed the workings of DRT7, a completely different protein that also achieves de novo DNA synthesis through an independent mechanism. Both systems demonstrate that proteins can directly dictate DNA sequences, effectively reversing the expected flow of genetic information.
These findings reveal that life’s molecular machinery is far more flexible and innovative than textbooks suggested. The discoveries come from bacterial defense systems evolved to combat viruses, highlighting how studying microbial warfare continues to rewrite our understanding of fundamental biology.
While these breakthroughs are currently limited to specific bacterial contexts, they challenge long-held assumptions about genetic inheritance and open exciting new possibilities in synthetic biology, gene editing, and our broader view of how life operates at the molecular level.
[Figiel, M. et al. (2026). "Antiviral reverse transcriptase–primase synthesizes protein-templated DNA." bioRxiv preprint. DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.18.719102]
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Inter-christian sectarianism has sadly slipped down the ladder of bigotry in recent years in favour of more recent trendy categories of blind hatred. Today, let's hope our friends in Glasgow can help put it back on the top table of intolerance where it belongs.
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@WBA @GoldbergRadio Remember him coming to Deepdale for an FA cup replay in 1980 I think. My first night match. He was immense. A true legend
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On this day in 1977, a certain Cyrille Regis became a Baggie. 🫡
The rest, as they say, is history. 🫶
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The memories! 🤩 Who was the dream player on your favourite football computer game? ❤️⚽️
BBC Sport has ranked some of the best 🎮 bbc.in/4cRbn9i
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@GoldbergRadio Glad you enjoyed your day at Deepdale. I hope you noticed the glorious cherry blossom on your drive/coach ride in.
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Sad to say, I've had to block DM's on X - obviously a portal for hackers.
As if Elon cares...
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Guardian column today - spoke to grandmasters/others in chess about the new Netflix doc on Carlsen v Niemann and @KitChellel's gripping new book Lucky Devils
Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats
theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr…
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This can’t be right…
A train journey from Penn Station in New York to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey normally costs $12.90 or just under a tenner.
During the World Cup this summer that same ticket will cost $150 (£110.75)!
Some might say it’s just about supply and demand but they have closed all the car parks at the stadium and there are no concessions - that’s $600 for a family of 4!
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Has he actually read the Koran ? The bit about killing
'infidels'
Doesn't sound very Canadian
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000
Flashback: t.co/1WMk1iBcUX Canada’s prime minister declares Islam as Canada’s new cultural identity which all Canadians "must come together" and follow the Muslim community as they worship Islam by marking ‘Eid al-Adha’. As you can see in the video, during his speech he urged Canadians to adopt Islam and embrace its values as their new shared culture with the Muslim population in Canada and Muslims around the world who are welcome to come to Canada and enrich it with more foreign religions values because: Muslim values (jihad and martyrdom) are Canadian values. What is your reaction to Canada’s new Islamic culture?
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Japan are a very interesting football nation. Been watching videos for a few years of different training methods they have been using. I suspect they believe there ready to compete with the best of Europe. Test for England!
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