Alan Oliver

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[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@ArchieStanding Looks like the owners/sporting directors intervened, hence the different tone in the second one. As you say, it’s a good indicator of where we are now: lacking conviction and confidence and an understanding of the game in this country.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@SimonCalder This is good advice. It looks like paying a little extra for the one year e-visa and starting your application early is the way to go.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@NeilSpyBarnett @ChelseaFC Agree, but feel Reece should have started if at all possible. That was a playoff for European football and you’d never have guessed from the way we set up and approached it

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@SJohnsonSport There are several I’d choose, but the stand out one is Delap. It’s embarrassing to watch him in the Chelsea no 9 shirt. Nowhere near good enough.

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@LeeAndersonMP_ You don’t need to argue with me, Lee.

You need to listen to Gemma, the person who runs The Hamlet, and then decide whether as a Party you are prepared to do the decent thing.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@thequentinletts @adamboultonTABB However, one is a little biased in such matters it would seem.

[Variety @Variety]

Bruce Springsteen opened his tour last night with fiery, anti-Donald Trump speech:

“You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth. This is happening now. While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by billions of dollars trading on the people’s office in corruption unmatched in American history. This is happening now. This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world. To many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy. This is happening now."

https://t.co/DXO0cuaiQQ

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

This video is stunning and the framing here is no accident.

Look at the setting. No government office, no podium. Just a room full of a family with children in the background.

Politically, this is deliberate. It roots the message in the social contract, the idea that the state’s first job is protecting its people, especially the next generation.

So when he talks about refusing to send British kids to die in someone else’s war, the camera is making the same argument. The children behind him stop being background noise and become the whole point.

It’s political cinematography. Geopolitics gets stripped of its abstraction and replaced with ordinary life. War becomes personal. Human. The cost is literally sitting behind him.
The message isn’t just spoken. It’s staged.

Which raises the real question: was this genuine conviction, or a calculated piece of visual storytelling engineered to make the argument feel emotionally irrefutable?

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@WadeBetsRL Average ain’t the word. A shockingly bad game this.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@JamesRowlands Well done to Palace. Well deserved and lovely to see those scenes at the final whistle.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The best short piece I've read on Trump's new Predator America- Brilliant and crucially important @FT editorial

America has turned on its friends - https://t.co/pVsC3aoObN via @FT

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Yes, Alright.
But apart from all this…👇
You’ve got to admit Brexit has been a bloody great success.
🇬🇧✔️

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@siphillipssport Absolute morons

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@PaulG258 Thanks. Me too. Just looking for reasons to be cheerful.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@PaulG258 It is. It’s cleaner. I’ve just followed you!

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@PaulG258 Could be getting near to a domino effect now. Hope so as I need to jump soon.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Strange that Jeremy Clarkson is so annoyed about something that doesn't affect 87% of farmers, but which closes a loophole that allowed very rich people to buy farmland simply to avoid inheritance tax.

[Alan Oliver @Alanol1]

@byearsley @hilaryosborne I don’t remember him commenting on previous UK budgets, including the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget disaster, but perhaps he did and I missed that.

[george @StokeyyG2]

Some PSG ultras turned up to a 5 a side pitch in London to support some random lads having a kick about 🤣🤣🤣