Just arrived in Ipswich
@IpswichTown playing Liverpool tomorrow @ViaplayFotball
Portman Road is my “lucky stadium”
Scored my first goal in English football there for @Official_STFC
in the FA-cup
Got a goal there in the Premier League
And with @SheffieldUnited we secured our PlayOff final after a dramatic game.
You remember @donhutch4
From 3 September the EU is blocking most Brazilian beef, chicken and other animal products.
The issue isn’t a contamination scare - it’s that Brazil hasn’t given the guarantees the EU now requires on how antimicrobials are used.
Growth-promoting antibiotics and certain drugs reserved for human medicine are banned for EU producers; imports must meet the same bar for the animal’s whole life. Brazil hasn’t satisfied that test.
Great Britain is running its own assessment and has not copied the ban, so Brazilian meat can still enter England, Scotland and Wales. Farming unions want tighter controls, pointing to the risk that product shut out of the EU could be diverted here.
That’s a good moment to think about what you actually put on the plate.
UK farmers have already cut antibiotic use sharply - total sales for food animals are down well over 50% since 2014, and the highest-priority drugs used in human medicine have fallen even further.
Growth promoters have been illegal here for two decades. Local meat, eggs and dairy also come with shorter supply chains, clearer origin, and far less processing than a lot of the imported product that ends up in ready meals and food service.
Choosing locally sourced whole foods - a joint from a known farm, seasonal vegetables, proper eggs - doesn’t just support those standards. It means fresher food with fewer additives and a production system you can actually trace.
That’s a straightforward health choice, no matter whatever happens next with import rules.
#mufc 5 #itfc 2
Highly competitive start. Error ruthlessly punished. VAR controversy. Elite opposition put foot to the floor.
Welcome back to the Premier League.
Electricity sector profit margins:
UK 23% - 38%
Spain 11% - 13%
Germany 9 - 11%
France 6 - 9%
But, apparently, the reason UK electricity is most expensive is Net Zero.
The Premier League is back, and so are Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Wayne Rooney, Alan Shearer and countless other analysts who have dominated football TV coverage in the last decade.
It feels like England’s top flight is unpredictable in everything bar its punditry.
But is that necessarily a bad thing?
✍️ @TimSpiers
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Canadians aren’t afraid of a diaper-wearing sack of lard with yam tits who applies circus-grade face paint every morning, shits in his diaper, and has the vocabulary of a semi-literate toddler.
Yet the GOP still wets itself at the mere thought of defying this fucking idiot.
Please! Is there nobody who can make this virtue-signalling bollocks stop?
Why does he think we give a monkey’s what he thinks?
He has zero qualifications/knowledge to opine on such matters.
He’s ‘sorry’ the world is not a better place than it is. With that sort of penetrating philosophical insight an Oxbridge professorship must surely beckon, toute suite.
He’s just reading a vacuous script his wife wrote for him.
If we had a whip round couldn’t we pay for them to stay in Montecito? I’d contribute.
WE DON’T WANT TO BE YOUR STATE, ASSHOLE! Canada wants the benefits of NOT being American. You can fucking keep your mass shootings, explosive diarrhea, measles & E. Coli.
You can’t take control over us. We’re not some 13-year-old girl on Epstein Island.
Sit the fuck down.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has received £20m in donations from cryptocurrency investors since the general election, The Independent can reveal.
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