Ismail Mulla

Comment Editor @yorkshirepost. Views are my own. Tweets may contain traces of cricket.

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Nyoni McCallister Wirtz midfield until their legs fall off. Gravenberch or Szoboslai should not be seen anywhere near midfield.

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Yorkshire have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

[Test Match Special @bbctms]

James Anderson's legendary career could be over 🫡

Lancashire have opted against offering England's all-time leading wicket-taker a new contract ✍️❌

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Not Liverpool on the wrong end of more poor refereeing decisions. Why even bother with this sham league anymore?

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

The Snake Pass is not good enough to serve two small villages nevermind major cities like Sheffield and Manchester - @yorkshirepost comment today

https://t.co/E4esQOG25s

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

How does Bradley Barcola fix our defensive deficiencies?

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

England are one more nightclub incident away from calling Moeen Ali out of retirement aren’t they?

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Either play Gravenberch further up the field or don’t play him at all. He’s not a 6. And without a proper 6 you get killed on the counter. #LFC

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

Andy Burnham writes for @yorkshirepost on his devolution plans: "For too long, Westminster has told Yorkshire that it knows best.

"That didn’t work 40 years ago, and it won’t work now. I’m taking an approach I know works: I’m trusting Yorkshire instead." https://t.co/KSO3bu7qit

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

Mayors will be able to spend a portion of income tax on regional projects such as bus franchising and mass transit from 2028, Andy Burnham will announce today, in what is the "biggest transfer of financial powers" away from Whitehall in decades. https://t.co/LFPcYMs8Oa

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Have noticed a lot of people calling Keir Starmer a "decent man" this week. He's not!

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

Wes Streeting announces he will back Andy Burnham's bid to become PM - looking more like a coronation instead of a contest.

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

How Jo Cox stood out as a politician and why her message is more important than ever. My column in today’s @yorkshirepost https://t.co/lccxm4cHbT

[Rob Harris @RobHarris]

The Met Police denies announcing the 1.5m Arsenal parade crowd figure that’s being attributed to them in posts shared widely online.

While it might not appear major, it’s another reminder about how unverified info spreads in appealing-to-share social posts, not from media

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Is it done yet Declan?

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Hey Arsenal fans, you’ve got the lyrics to your version of allez allez allez now, “We’ve never won in Europe, we always eff it up, Paris down to Turkey, we’re unoriginal donkeys”

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

A more pliant option that won’t challenge those in the boardroom. Alonso would have wanted more authority. That’s why the timing of the decision was delayed.
Cue the fluff about data says this and that about Iraola.

[James Pearce @JamesPearceLFC]

Andoni Iraola is the clear favourite to be Liverpool's new head coach.

https://t.co/7620irPg5N

[Qari Asim MBE @QariAsim]

Whilst on #Hajj, still writing a newspaper column on an issue that matters to us - #AntiMuslimHostility #Islamophobia- and is affecting so many #BritishMuslims.

https://t.co/AKr0BzsaJS

[Ismail Mulla @IsmailMulla]

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because they have been.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

A key part of our success and always a fan favourite ❤️

[Eleanor Rofe @eleanorrofe]

I left school when I was 17 (got 'asked to leave', is the more accurate term I guess). This was 1997.

My unqualified, entry-level salary was more than the average salary now.

My Dad - hopping mad - had sent me to three months of secretarial college and I came out into an £18k job in the local Glaxo factory as an admin assistant.

To give a sense of how long ago this was - my boss would hand-write messages onto sheets of paper and I would touch-type them into this new-fangled 'email' thing she couldn't fathom.

Nearly 30 years later, the equivalent - in purchasing power at least - would be £36k.

A year later, I parlayed that up to a £21k job in the R&D side - still as a PA, 18 years old.

I saved up and went to Taiwan to teach English for a bit. When I got back, I went to London and got a job earning £24k designing presentations and documents in a marketing agency.

I was 20yo.

The equivalent in 2026 would be £46k.

With zero qualifications beyond the ability to touch-type and a certificate saying I could use Word, Excel and PowerPoint, I was on 1.35x the average salary now.

I made a lot of mistakes as a kid. Most of my mates did.

But the economy I lived in allowed the messiness of life to roll out. We could learn, take risks and still be able to live and breathe.

We are failing future generations.

And we have a generation that's already been failed.

Our politicians are addicted to cheap slogans. They want power, not service. The failure of their reality-denying ideologies continues to spiral outwards.

Yes, immigration plays a role. Yes, housing, technology and deindustrialisation play a role. But the state has morphed into a deeply incompetent, self-indulgent boondoggle machine, that spends more time bribing voters than it does serving - or investing in - the country.