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[George @Georgeedav95]

@saschatucker @smolcitizen @NotFarLeftAtAll Why would they need to meet lending criteria if they’ve got a £2m house with no mortgage? Buy something cheaper and have a shit ton of cash in the bank.

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

This has RUINED my retirement planning and I now demand £100,000 compensation
(Am I doing this right WASPIs?)

[Nathan Salt @NathSalt1]

Does the Coutinho money just last forever then?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Nigel Farage has been trying to block Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for billionaire bankrolling his party.

Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for millions donated to party and undeclared £5m personal gift to Farage revealed by Guardian.

But Farage used private meeting at Bank to urge governor to drop plans for state-run alternative to digital currency that has made his Thailand-based benefactor one of richest people in world.

Cracking tale from @tomburgis

https://t.co/o4ljHGx8fZ

[George @Georgeedav95]

At least he can take an alright corner kick

[George @Georgeedav95]

Can someone please explain to me what on earth Declan Rice does to justify playing for England? Every time I watch him he just seems to do a lot of sideways and backwards passes and not a lot else

[Mark Todd @MarkTodd_pol]

Since privatisation not one major reservoir has been built by the English water companies

While more than 35 have been sold

In the 35 years before privatisation almost 100 reservoirs were built

[George @Georgeedav95]

@TheWhynot99 @bphillipsonMP At least learn when it's right to use the word 'yourself'. Should have used the word 'you', you absolute bellend

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.

Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.

The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.

The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.

Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.

The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.

Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

[Orm @orm0nde]

Not even subtle.

If the average journey cost £50 that would be over 3,000,000 journeys a year.

Throw every single person involved in jail.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme introduced by Tory UK govt.

Then home secretary Suella Braverman & immigration minister Robert Jenrick – who have both since defected to Reform - oversaw the introduction of the scheme.
https://t.co/zzrkYVMZ92

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Sir Alex Ferguson did message PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi to congratulate him on winning the #UCL.

However, he didn’t call Arsenal “boring” despite reports.

Ferguson’s message instead included the phrase, “You were the team that played football”.

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

🙏 Gabby: "You know what won today? Football won!"

🙌 Jason: "The footballing gods smiled down on the rest of Europe!"

Agbonlahor and Cundy believe PSG beating #AFC in the UCL final is footballing justice! ✅

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Arsenal have set the record for the lowest possession percentage for a team playing in a Champions League final (since records began in 2003-04).

The previous lowest record was also Arsenal, set in the 2006 Champions League final, which they played 72 minutes with 10 men.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We miss our final penalty.

PSG - ✅✅❌✅✅
Arsenal - ✅❌✅✅❌

[Suhail Chowdhary @SuhailChowdhary]

Handball leading to Arsenal goal…
- Decision, Goal

Arsenal handball defending in box…
- Decision, no penalty

Embarrassing.

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| Arsenal completed just (69) passes in the first half—the lowest total recorded (since 2003/04) by any team in a UEFA Champions League final.

{@Squawka}

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

After 90 minutes:

PSG (1.54) 1-1 (0.40) Arsenal

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

No shots on goal for two hours after the fifth minute, averaged about two passes a minute, one of the most shameful cowardly performances ever seen in a Champions League final. Played for penalties and got what they deserved.

[George @Georgeedav95]

Terrorist football defeated, thank the football gods