Bill Orwell

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[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@doris_from That's a dead ringer.

[Cal @Cal_III]

You’d assume the streets of Glasgow and Dundee are spotless then, aye? Stop the performative shit.

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️ Roy Keane on West Ham’s disallowed goal for a foul on Arsenal’s Goalkeeper David Raya

"I tell ya what, that VAR decision is a complete and utter disgrace – an absolute joke!

All season long Arsenal have been crowding the goalkeeper on set-pieces, pushing, shoving, blocking – it’s been their main tactic from day one. We saw it clear as day against us at Old Trafford when Saliba backed straight into Bayindir, stopped him from making a proper save, and they nicked a goal through Calafiori. Nothing given. Not a murmur. But now, in a massive title-deciding match against West Ham, when it doesn’t suit them... suddenly it’s a foul on Raya? Are you kidding me?

What the hell are we even watching in this league anymore? It’s shameless, it’s embarrassing. At this rate just hand the title and the trophy over to Arsenal now, because it’s glaringly obvious what they’re trying to pull. Total, utter disgrace."

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 1965 the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, took place at St Pauls. All of the Armed Forces were involved but it was the privilege of the
@RoyalNavy
to pull his coffin on a gun carriage. Churchill held post of 1st Lord of the Admiralty twice

[cricket.com.au @cricketcomau]

HE'S FINALLY DONE IT!

Joe Root has his first #Ashes century in Australia.

Live blog: https://t.co/2htO3lMX8d

[BluesAlive @KeepTheBluesAli]

Booker T. & The MG's ~
Time Is Tight
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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Britain crosses these lines brazenly now. No debate. No shame. A government decree, a police order, and suddenly the people who feed the country – the most rooted, law-abiding citizens we have – are the ones being marched away in handcuffs. Not for rioting. Not for violence. For turning up to protest a tax raid that threatens the survival of family farms. This is what decay looks like when it turns into something darker: the state deciding who may speak and who must be silenced.

The images from Westminster should chill anyone with a sense of Britain's old freedoms. Dozens of tractors draped in Union flags. Farmers who spend their lives in mud, dawn light and hard graft, standing in the capital because Rachel Reeves has reached for the most brutal tool in the Treasury drawer – inheritance tax – and pointed it straight at the land itself. One death in the family and the farm breaks into pieces, sold off to pay the bill. That is the reality behind the Budget's polite language. These men aren't in London for show. They are there because their futures have been put on the block.

And what did the state do? The Met, which can't find the strength to stand up to eco-fanatics or pro-Hamas mobs, suddenly discovered iron in its spine the moment it faced peaceful rural protest. Section 14 orders. Sudden bans. Farmers singled out and cuffed like criminals. Officers who were helping them park an hour earlier switched roles and started clearing them out. This is not policing. This is obedience enforcement – selective, political, and aimed squarely at the demographic this government thinks it can steamroller without consequence.

The excuse was "disruption." As if tractors circling Trafalgar Square for a morning threaten the life of the nation, while city-blocking marches and flag-waving fanatics do not. It's the same double standard we've seen for years: indulgence for the activist Left; force for the ordinary citizen who dares to object. A country that treats its farmers as a nuisance is already half-lost. A country that arrests them for standing in public is well on the way to something worse.

This isn't happening by accident. It's the logical end of a government drunk on its own authority. They raid family farms for cash; then they send the police to muzzle the people affected. They ban tractors for "serious disruption" while gutting the mechanisms that once protected the public from the state. Speech tightened. Protest restricted. Juries stripped from trials. Now this. One brick at a time, the wall between the government and unchecked power is being pulled down.

Farmers don't protest unless they have been pushed to breaking point. A ruling class that still understood the country it governs would know that. This one doesn't care. It sees them as an obstacle, not a backbone. And that is why the images from Westminster matter: they reveal a state no longer restrained by shame or tradition. A state that believes it can handcuff the hands that feed it and get away with it.

The truth is simple: a government that fears peaceful farmers fears the country itself. And a government that turns the police on them is not preserving order; it is testing how far it can go. Britain isn't at the end of this road yet. But the direction of travel is plain to anyone with eyes open.

"Farmers singled out and cuffed like criminals. Officers who were helping them park an hour earlier switched roles and started clearing them out."

[Billy Bonds Stand @BillyBondsStand]

West Ham won the World Cup 59 years ago today ⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Lord's Cricket Ground @HomeOfCricket]

Test cricket at the Home of Cricket. 🙌

[Sky Sports Cricket @SkyCricket]

ENGLAND HAVE WON THE THIRD TEST BY JUST 22 RUNS! 🤯

The ball rolls onto Mohammed Siraj's stumps off the bowling of Shoaib Bashir!

[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@RobertJohnsonL

[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@HBOYP @EastThurrockCFC 😎

[Midnite @midnite]

Sunday league game was called off because someone took a 💩 in the referees shoes 🤣

[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@raphousetv7 Red.

[Sky Sports Cricket @SkyCricket]

Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton believe that it's time for Jos Buttler to leave the role as England captain after they were knocked out of the ICC Champions Trophy.

[Martin Mad Dog Allen @MartinAllen1965]

Must be MAD! No Fear for 59 year old loving living

[Martin Mad Dog Allen @MartinAllen1965]

Can West Ham get a result today ?
After watching last weeks first half
It’s going to be tough
However
West Ham have won away at Arse nal before (lol)
Yer they have
So it can be done again !
If West Ham win today
I’m going in the River Thames tomorrow morning for a dip

[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@TonyCottee9 @c2c_Rail @greateranglia Where was your loyalty to the fans, when you pissed off to Everton!!

[Bill Orwell @BillOrwell]

@AdamSants_ Unless you were there 🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏏

[Cricket Reformation @CricketRef]

This is brutal. The worrying thing for England is that they have very few players who are at the peak of their powers. In the main, it's a mixture of players past their best, players yet to reach their peak and players who aren't international class. A recall for Root is a must.