Ethan Fox

⚽️ AVFC season ticket holder / 🏉 Highlanders supporter / ✌🏻 Plodding through life

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.

The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.

The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.

The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.

While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.

So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

An act of absolute class from Unai Emery and Aston Villa. 👏

🎥 @SkySportsPL

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Surreal 24 hours, still can’t quite believe it.
Our moment, up the mighty European Villa! #avfc

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

@theavfcfaithful Yes please

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

@theavfcfaithful Flying from Paris lunch time Tuesday

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

"Form is temporary, boys and girls, but class is permanent. And you know what? We have class."

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Aston Villa are a different animal at home on a European night
Proud to call them my club
#avfc

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

On #StGeorgesDay, here's our stained glass window depicting England's patron saint slaying the dragon.

The window was designed by Hugh Easton and is dedicated to the memory of Westminster citizens killed during the Second World War. It was unveiled by Princess Margaret in 1948.

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

@AVFCOfficial @gabsavfc_ @emartinez Worlds No.1 @emartinez

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

📍Villa Park
Best place for European nights
#avfc

[Witton Arms @WittonArmsAston]

What do our fellow Villans think of our new sign!? We love it! @WittonArmsAston

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Further frustration, but the boys have to earn these top 4 places and the fans can’t have the “sky 6” entitlement mindset every game is a win before the ball is kicked.
Keep backing the team, they’ve gotten us this far #avfc

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Maybe this is what Unai means by we are not top 5 contenders. Take three players out of the starting XI and we struggle against the bottom half of the league. Keep the faith but it’s tough times for Villa fans knowing where we could have been. #avfc

[Josh 🇬🇧 @avfcjosh_]

Konsa vs PSG
Duran vs Bayern
Buendia vs Arsenal

#avfc

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Sad not to be able to do Lille away again this year #AVFC

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

🗣️”Jacob Murphy through on goal”

Marco Bizot:

[Luke Marshall @marshallavfc]

The VAR may not go back to when the attacking team gained possession #avfc

[dan @DanAV___]

this was considered an attacking phase of play and yes that is our corner flag 100m away from the brentford goal

[Ethan Fox @Fox93E]

Fortress
Cathedral
Home
#avfc