Michael Doyle

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I think they blackballed me because of this.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@reformparty_uk Getting worried?

Desperate stuff even by your standards. 😂

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Everton Women @EvertonWomen]

The most goals EVER scored by one team in a @worldsevens_ match! 💙

#W7F

[Mark Thomas @dixiedeansboots]

The interviews both last week and yesterday sum David Moyes up. He’s done well to steady the ship, but let’s be honest the ship was only sinking because Dyche had thrown in the towel. We finish the season behind Brentford, Bournemouth, Sunderland and Fulham only 5 points above Forest. In terms of ability, no one will convince me that some of our players are indeed footballers. But most of the players are good enough to compete and take us above those teams. In terms of a culture, things need change. The business is (now) thriving, the stadium is world class. This season I’ve been to more games than I have for a long time. Every home game and most away, missing just a handful. I won’t have it that we’re not ready yet and that we should stay in our lane. With that attitude and never believing in investing in younger players, we never will be. And that’s Moyes all over. It was like this first time around - set up not to lose, use your stalwarts - the same now. The club is in a much healthier place now than it was back then. We don’t need safe and we don’t need stability; we need progress, we need creativity and we need innovation. We’ve seen none of that. It’ll be another 30 years before silverware if we stick with this philosophy. Little old Everton perpetually underperforming, staying in lane and suffering imposter syndrome when the ‘big teams’ turn up to play us….. here’s the thing, there’s not a single team I’ve seen us play this season who we couldn’t have beaten. Not one. The business model is sound but the football mentality is rotten - and that needs to change.
Roma securing champions league while Everton are ‘knowing our place’ and letting the big boys walk all over us, because that’s the philosophy that’s now acceptable.
NSNO…. I don’t think so.
Time for a real change.
Have a nice summer all, enjoy the World Cup 👍💙

[dαvιd_jв_1965 @David_JB_1965]

@FindingTrinity There’s a copy of it on YouTube

https://t.co/ljwYTllgyn

[Everton @Everton]

Thank you, Seamus. 💙

[The Premiership Years @PremiershipYrs]

#OnThisDay in 1995.

Everton overcame favourites Manchester United to win the FA Cup Final at Wembley.

Here are some excellent photos from that occasion that you might not have seen before.

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

Just six months after taking over an Everton side rooted to the bottom of the Premiership, Joe Royle guided them to FA Cup glory.

On 20/05/1995, his men defeated favourites Manchester United 1-0, ensuring Alex Ferguson would end the season empty-handed.

Paul Rideout scored the winner, but Everton owed everything to the heroic defensive display of veterans Dave Watson and Neville Southall.

[Jen @jen_efc]

Only taken me a year to get the film developed from the last match at Goodison and just received them. 🙌🏼🎉

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

image source:eia

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

The 1984 FA Cup Final was contested between Everton and Watford at Wembley Stadium. Everton won 2-0, with goals from Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray, marking their fourth FA Cup triumph and first League and FA Cup double.

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

The BBC was busy pitting Freddie Starr against Michael Barrymore as part of its all-day coverage as Everton faced Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final on 19/05/1984.

Goals from Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray gave Everton a 2-0 win, and by full-time even Elton John might have conceded it was one of those days when the ‘Blues’ didn’t miss a note etc etc

Under the Wembley sunshine, Howard Kendall’s men lifted the first trophy of what would become one of the most successful periods in Everton’s history.

[Everton @Everton]

17 years of Seamus in 17 seconds. 💙

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Wayne Clarke puts his penalty past Mike Hooper to score for Everton against Liverpool

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

Everton squad photo 1985

[Everton Español 🇪🇸🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴 @EvertonESP]

#TalDíaComoHoy en 1985, ¡ganamos al Rapid Viena por 3-1 en Róterdam para ganar la final de la Recopa de Europa! 🏆

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

The best side in England in 1985 was clearly Everton.

On 15th May, they attempted to add a European title to their domestic dominance.

They faced SK Rapid Wien in Rotterdam and, although the Austrians held out for nearly an hour, the Toffees eventually went through the gears to triumph 3-1.