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35 missed tackles in one match! How? #ENGvAUS

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Never has this been truer. Labour needs to step up, wake up, show up, and get us back on the path to EU membership, in whatever form can be agreed. Blair was right then and is right now. Come on, sort yourselves out. Your economic growth doesn’t exist.

@BiologyNULS Hope all goes well. Weather looking good. ☀️

Year 13 biologists have arrived in Dale, Pembrokeshire @FSCDaleFort ☀️

It is hard to overstate how concerning this is. @AlderHey appears to be using physician associates - not doctors - to see children independently in surgical outpatient clinics. No medical degree. No post-grad paediatric qualifications. Just PAs, “flying solo” on your kids.

Where’s Riverdance when we need it? #ClosingCeremony

We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days. A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21

Dear @hmtreasury @darrenpjones Please can you launch an investigation and possible prosecution of the Conservative Ministers who misappropriated hundreds of millions of our taxes to film videos for their social media channels. Misappropriation of public funds is a financial crime, under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 which defines financial crime as including any 'offence involving fraud or dishonesty.' Gina Miller - a UK taxpayer Repost if you agree! @BestForBritain @BBCNewsnight @BBCr4today @Haggis_UK

@JoePS123 Because you never saw your dad play.

Such a lovely moment. 😢

So sad to hear about the passing of Ray Reardon. A titan of snooker. A marvellous man. And this story about his days in the mines is still one of the most astonishing I’ve ever heard…

Great. Can we have Klopp as manager of England now? #ENGSPA

Sorry, 2017 Labour 40% with 262 seats. (Labour 203 seats with 32% of vote in 2019) Still odd.

Yes! Well done Labour! Strange system though: Labour 2024 under Starmer gets 35% of the votes and 410 seats. Labour 2019 under Corbyn got 40% of the votes and 203 seats. #generalection2024

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Now I ask you seriously. Victoria Derbyshire to replace Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC? RT if you agree.

I can't stress this enough. I want my kids to grow up with an NHS. Rivers that aren't filled with s**t. An end to the epidemic of food banks. Libraries reopened. Trains that run on time. Politicians that don't fake integrity - only to pull poundshop Trump stunts like this.

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain “Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.” “There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king.  “Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless. “The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow. “In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children. “Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.” “These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches. “Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure.  “Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity. “Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed. newrepublic.com/article/182987…

You’ve gotta love these mid table League Two matches. #DENENG

Happy with that result. (I turned down a contract to join Northampton Saints!)