RickT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Football coach, voluntarily. Legal admin, professionally. Welsh in privilege. Liberal left union man in a terminally Tory place in the UK.

[Shehab Khan @ShehabKhan]

We've all lost confidence in Billionaire Man Utd owner, Jim Ratcliffe, who left the UK to move to tax-free Monaco.

As long as the country isn't run how he run Man Utd, I reckon we'll be alright.

[Mike Fenton Stevens💙 @fentonstevens]

This is the country where he became a billionaire , isn’t it? He lives in Monaco. What does he know of this country? What does any billionaire know of normal lives. Tosser!
https://t.co/sTy0eY8oXm

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Feargal Sharkey: Burnham’s water plan won’t fix the sewage crisis."

The problem with the water industry is ownership, fix that you fix the issue. Anything else, is irrelevant.

https://t.co/KkaVoITw6A

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at Britain’s leading blindness charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping small boat migrants. They mixed it up with the RNLI. Reminiscent of the time in 2000 when a mob daubed ‘paedo’ on the office of a paediatrician in Wales.

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

Ed Sheeran’s bank account has a right to defend itself

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Maybe coaches, who watch a 15 year old child train & interact every day and have access to all performance & physical metrics, deserve the benefit of the doubt in their judgment if don’t think he’s quite at first team level yet or maybe even looking out for his welfare

[mooms : family man @Danny_McMoomins]

Hyrox is just Brew Dog PE

[macksy @macksypowwa]

head chog

[Samuel Luckhurst @samuelluckhurst]

Can't be a coincidence JJ Gabriel and his father have gone dark on their socials after two 19-year-olds made their Champions League debuts against opposition that resembled a League Cup gimme. As brilliant a talent as he is, #mufc shouldn't be held to ransom by a 15-year-old.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

A massive ‘well done’ to the 50-ish patriots who protested outside the Marriott Hotel in Portsmouth last night after spotting a number of brown people present at the venue. Just one small problem however - it was the Pakistan Under-19 Men’s Cricket Squad who are currently on tour and taking on our own Under-19 team in Arundel today.

SUPPORT THE RNLI - https://t.co/IiXhCitYSv

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Good fucking gawd! Photojournalist Evelyn Hockstein took this on September 2. It looks like something that crawled out of a horror movie and asked for a microphone.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Reform UK has banned three critical journalists from its party conference

It includes The Guardian's city editor Anna Isaac, who unearthed the £5m gift that Nigel Farage didn't declare

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

Some professional news from me.

I am really excited to announce a new company I am launching with my friend Catrin Pascoe - The Cymru News Network.

Wales is a wonderful nation of communities. We have our own parliament and language but also wrestle with significant challenges.

The issue is we simply don’t have a media ecosystem that reflects the reality of what our country is.

Now don’t get me wrong, Wales has some incredible journalists, as well as some brilliant news organisations.
The problem is, we don’t have enough of them.

This lack of paid opportunities in turn has serious consequences for aspiring young journalists in Wales.

Talented reporters see Wales as a stepping stone rather than the destination in their careers.

Wales therefore loses talent as there is no defined pathway for developing it.

This is where The Cymru News Network comes in. Its long term aim is to create an overarching news service for Wales.

We know that Wales is often overlooked, misrepresented and under-reported in wider UK media. Ultimately, we feel that if somebody is going to tell Wales’ story, that “somebody” should be the people of Wales.

So why am I putting this out there now? Well because we are looking to secure long-term corporate partners.
We already have several fantastic organisations on board, but the more support we have, the better we can make our coverage and the quicker we can roll out.
This is the chance for your organisation to get in on the ground floor of something really exciting.

Whether that be marketing, advertising, highlighting important issues or something else, if you would like to find out more about how we could work together, please get in touch.

You can read the full details in the comments.

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

19 homes destroyed in Stourbridge, an area equivalent to 6,000 football pitches burnt in South Wales, and a wildfire in the Cairngorms that burned for 33 days.

This is what 20 years of cuts to firefighters, stations and fire engines looks like.

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

The record number of wildfires this summer has meant crews were being called out of London to respond to fires in Wales.

FBU London regional secretary Jon Lamb said “we do not have enough firefighters, appliances, PPE or equipment to make Londoners as safe as possible."

[Will Hayward @WillHayCardiff]

For decades climate scientists have said that continuing to burn fossil fuels would lead to both more wildfires and that they would be increasingly severe.

Yet politicians - many of whom are still in public office on large taxpayer salaries - dismissed, scorned and ignored these warnings.

Every bit of new coverage of these fires should be framed as the direct result climate change and political failings. Those who profited by underplaying the danger should be challenged for their complicity in every interview.

Especially those charlatans who, even now, still claim to be on the side of farmers and the poorest in our society - despite enabling a crisis that will hit those groups hardest.

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

What strikes me about this letter is that the writer isn’t demanding Nigel Farage agree with her politics. She isn’t even attacking him for being Reform.

She simply wants access to the person elected to represent her.

That’s the part of politics we sometimes lose sight of. Being an MP isn’t primarily a media job. You represent everyone in your constituency, including the people who voted against you.

Four unanswered emails just to ask about a constituency clinic is a poor look.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Voting is taking place in the Clacton by-election. The vote was triggered by the resignation of MP Nigel Farage. There are 34 candidates on the ballot paper, so the local council needs larger tables than usual for the count. The contest is estimated to have cost taxpayers around £250,000. The main Westminster parties are boycotting the election which they have dismissed as a stunt.

[James @jamesinsurrey]

The same glasses she wore whenever her husband came home from Selfridges.

[Simon Stone @sistoney67]

Ethan Williams permanent move to Peterborough done. ‘Sizeable’ fee acc to Peterborough. Got the number 10 shirt.