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[Jeff Stelling @JeffStelling]

Seriously that is never a handball at Fir Park. The boy headed it 20 yards. The ref takes one look after VAR calls him over. Embarrassing for Scottish football.

[MD @1882md]

@frankdupl @StephenRComedy @FPLFocal But with the 4 fts I think it’s worth a punt of at least one, esp given others with fewer fts can’t get there. Lacroix will be my choice most nailed for mins, potential for defcon in both games, and chance of a clean home v Everton. How are you planning to use the 4 fts?

[MD @1882md]

@StephenRComedy @FPLFocal Not buying at least one Palace defender with one of your frees?

[MD @1882md]

@ZubiFPL What moves are you thinking? Palmer to Saka and another Arsenal move perhaps? Plus two CP defenders?

[MD @1882md]

How on earth is that offside? #twitterclarets #burnleyfc #var

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just attacked NATO and then goes on to say that "25 years ago" he said that NATO was a "Paper tiger" and that "they would never come to our rescue".

FACT: 25 years ago was March 26, 2001. Less than 6 months after that, on September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time ever. They lost 1100 soldiers fighting for us.

Trump is a Moron.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨The Free Speech Union is mounting a legal challenge against the Government over its official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as 'anti-Muslim hatred' — and its appointment of a new 'tsar' to punish people who fall foul of it.

This amounts to a Muslim blasphemy law via the back door. The definition is vague and subjective, and will be weaponised to silence legitimate criticism and debate about Islam, Muslims, and Islamic practices and history.

The FSU’s General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, said: “This is the most serious threat to free speech the Government has come up with so far — the only area in which it’s achieving any success.

“If we don’t win this fight, tens of thousands of people a year could lose their jobs at the say-so of a Labour-appointed ‘tsar’. It’s dystopian.”

Public bodies will adopt this definition — despite it being non-statutory — with the same zeal the police have shown in investigating and recording non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs). It is predicted by one of the drafters of the definition that it could lead to around 20,000 reports of 'anti-Muslim hostility' a year. At present, the number of recorded anti-Muslim hate crimes is around 4,000.

In a free society, no religion should be shielded from legitimate criticism. This proposal places one faith above the rest.

The Free Speech Union is bringing a legal challenge on two grounds.

First, the definition relies on nebulous, legally undefined terms such as “negative and prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims”, making it incoherent and irrational — and ripe for weaponisation.

Second, adopting such a definition cuts across legislation already enacted by Parliament and therefore breaches the public law principle known as “occupying the field”. Under this established public law doctrine, new regulations, put in place by ministers, must not replace existing legislation. It is constitutionally unlawful. In this case, the body responsible for protecting Muslims from discrimination is the Equality and Human Rights Commission, not an anti-Muslim hostility 'tsar'.

Parliament voted to abolish blasphemy laws 18 years ago. We can't let this Government resurrect them via the back door.

This is one of the biggest battles the Free Speech Union has ever taken on in its six years — and we need your help. Judicial reviews are expensive, but this is a fight we felt we had to take on.

Donate to our crowdfunder below👇

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🥾 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 There's a road in England older than the pyramids.

It's a public footpath.

Anyone can walk it.

Five thousand years ago, traders carried flint tools along a chalk ridge in southern England. They followed the high ground. Dry. Safe. Above the forests and the
swamps.

Eighty seven miles. Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire. They called it the Ridgeway.

It passed a white horse carved into the chalk. Three thousand years old. Still there.

It passed burial mounds where chieftains were laid to rest. Stone chambers older than Stonehenge.

Bronze Age farmers walked it. Iron Age warriors built hillforts above it. Romans crossed it. Anglo-Saxons named the villages along it. Medieval drovers herded cattle down it to London.

Five thousand years of feet on the same chalk.

And it's still there. Not in a museum. Not behind a fence. A national trail. Free.

You can drive to Wiltshire on a Saturday morning. Step onto the same chalk your ancestors walked. And follow their footsteps along the ridge.

The oldest road in Britain. Still open. Still free. Still yours.

You are the reason we can tell these stories. https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏

Be part of us. 🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Ross Baglin @ross_baglin]

UK population is *up by at least 20% since 2004 and electricity generation *down 25%.

No two numbers so neatly encapsulate the failure of our governing class.

This is misgovernment on an epic scale. All of the political class must be removed.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

For all of you relying on AI for advice.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Our outdated ‘rich country mindset’ has put Britain on a path to national suicide.

- Giving away billions we don’t have.
- Attaching expensive conditions on employment.
- Wage floor rises beyond productivity growth.
- Gold plating new infrastructure with utterly unnecessary ‘nice to haves’.
- Prioritising newts over homes.

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

NATO countries with the highest soldier losses per capita in Afghanistan (2001–2021):
1️⃣ Denmark 🇩🇰
2️⃣ United Kingdom 🇬🇧
3️⃣ Estonia 🇪🇪
4️⃣ Canada 🇨🇦
5️⃣ United States 🇺🇸

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This is staggering. A Freedom of Information request has revealed that 80% of suspects arrested for theft offences on the British railway network in the year 2024-25 were foreign nationals. https://t.co/8DmwRpu6xi

[MD @1882md]

@MarkkuOjala_ Do you plan to keep Minteh long-term? Could you afford Minteh to Enzo?

[Robert Stephenson-Padron OBE 🇺🇦 @bobpadron]

A friend’s daughter’s bike was stolen today in west London. He had a tracker on the bike and the police came to the van where the bike was being held. The police looked at the van but said they didn’t have the authority to open it up. Van has subsequently driven off. The UK is a failed state. Have no doubt. The British people deserve so much more out of their public sector, especially since taxes are so high.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Very persuasive film. The regulatory burden for new houses also deters small companies and consolidates power of the big five builders.

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

The sudden silence of dozens of pro-independence X accounts on 12 June 2025 coincided with Israeli air and cyber strikes targeting Iranian military and communications infrastructure.
https://t.co/perBXbkBaU

[MD @1882md]

@sharrond62 @LeilaniDowding @10DowningStreet On the contrary private landlords selling-up can increase supply, helping to lower prices and improve affordability for renters to become homeowners…

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

Burnley limbs at Blackburn on Saturday… 😍

Is the East Lancashire derby underrated?