Jon Bounds - gone to BSkyB

Leaving this place, after 18 damn years. Come join me over on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/bounde… Things that have been on other accounts of mine... Birmingham: paradisecircus.com HHGTTG: btlpodcast.com Books, other stuff: jonbounds.co.uk

Just over week til Blues at Wembley. Are you nervous yet? Let your heart beat strong. Keep Right On - available on Spotify, etc push.fm/fl/kro #BCFC #Blues #KRO

🚨 NEW SIGNING* 👀 Hopefully we can rely on him to hit the target 🎯🤩 What a bloke 🙌🏼 *may not have actually signed for Bovey Tracey

BBC News, reporting from eastern Ukraine: "There’s a feeling here that Ukraine should have negotiated at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, to prevent the death and destruction they’ve seen since." Ukraine did negotiate at the beginning of the invasion. So much so that it reached the outline of a peace deal with Russia. Zelensky abandoned that deal at the behest of the US and UK, who wanted to use Ukraine to bleed Russia -- no matter how much death and destruction ensued. This reality remains censored by Western media -- across the spectrum -- with Ukrainians left to pay the price:

Here is a report on the letter sent by BBC journalists, incensed by the way the corporation has provided cover for Israel's genocide in Gaza: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Happy Day of the Dead. You can get the wonderful ***Staring Death in the Face: Searching for The Reaper Across Mexico*** For only 77p today. Danny Smith is on a mission: to find Death – and have a word. amazon.co.uk/Staring-Death-…

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Said it a long time ago - proving true -

If the UK can shoot down Iranian missiles fired at Israelis, it could shoot down Israeli missiles fired at Palestinians and Lebanese people. Please some journalist ask why we don't do the latter? Do Palestinian and Lebanese lives not matter?

@bbclaurak Oh, they caught you doing it? Good excuse tho.

While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow,  by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.

Starmer: “Every child, every person, deserves to be respected” Speech Heckler: “Does that include the children of Gaza?” Starmer: “This guy obviously got a pass for the 2019 conference” Starmer makes a very good point. Back in 2019, Labour once cared about preventing genocide.

Has Becks been back to the blues since Jeff Kenna put him in the Kop five mins in to our first game against them in the prem?

A message from Tom Wagner...

@joepike Does he have anything further to say about the unlawful practice of refusing to let to people claiming housing benefit?

Remember that time Peter Kay delivered one of the most memorable #Oasis moments ever?

Quite an incredible move in French politics today that might reveal that we're in fact witnessing nothing less than a coup by Macron. Let me explain 🧵

Killed by who?

Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Bristol - beautiful scenes from up and down the country of communities coming together in the face of hatred this evening. THIS is who we are, THIS is what we should be striving for.