Chris Tavner

Improvisor and writer. #afcbournemouth #GoPackGo #BabyMetal #Anime #DrWho

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

When we say Zionists, we mean Zionists. Ten times as many Christians are Zionists as Jews.

When we say Israelis, we mean Israelis. 20% of Israelis are not Jews.

When we say IDF soldiers, we mean IDF soldiers. Druze and some Israeli Arabs serve in the IDF.

When we say Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, we mean football hooligans and racist thugs.

[rory @aurora_f]

Jesus trying to stop Charlie from bleeding but the blood just keeps pouring through the nail holes in his hands

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

"Death to Arabs... We will take your girls, when we rape them we will shout today is death!"

With Aston Villa’s recent decision to ban fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, here’s a compilation highlighting their racist chants, slogans, misconduct, criminal damage, and links to the IDF.

[Chris Tavner @christavner]

@Criminalsimpson @GeneraLee_1 Perhaps this explains why Trump is obsessed with Greenland

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

People in Greenland

[Bitterfly @Bitterfly13]

@MichaelRosenYes I got a cat from a blacksmith friend.

Got her home and she made a bolt for the door.

[Chris Tavner @christavner]

I've not seen the Traitors before tonight. Does it always involve Charlotte Church digging? Explains the popularity...

[Kirk Tovey @KirkTovey]

Andoni is the most amazing coach and person! We are so lucky to have him on the south coast.

#afcb

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The people protesting, many of them Jewish, are protesting against Starmer and the UK’s arming of Israel, a foreign government. They are not protesting against British Jews. It is Starmer here who is conflating British Jews with Israel - and doing the antisemites’ work for them.

[Chris Tavner @christavner]

Cool!! Translation:

✨🎉Jacket Image Revealed🎉✨
Anime One-Punch Man Season 3 Opening Theme Song
🎶 "Get No Satisfied!"
Lyrics: Hironobu Kageyama / Music: Hironobu Kageyama / Arrangement: TLICK

💿Release Date: November 12, 2025 (Wed)
🎤JAM Project feat. BABYMETAL

[JAM Project @JAMProject_0717]

✨🎉ジャケット画像解禁🎉✨
アニメ『ワンパンマン』第3期オープニング主題歌
🎶「Get No Satisfied !」
作詞：影山ヒロノブ / 作曲：影山ヒロノブ / 編曲：TLICK

📀発売日：2025年11月12日(水)
🎤JAM Project feat.BABYMETAL

[NaomiFromKent @NaomiFromKent]

@malonebarry I was there along with a good many other Jews. Nobody killed us, threatened to kill us or even called us names. On the contrary people made a point of expressing sympathy over the horrific attack in Manchester. They were there to defend the Flotilla taking aid to starving Gazans.

[Chris Tavner @christavner]

@cm9798 Cool. Is it just Spain where the B team can get in to the pro leagues?

[Liberty @libertyhq]

Tech has advanced massively over the last 20 years

But it's also brought a greater risk to our privacy

Gov plans to introduce the #BritCard raise huge concerns about human rights, digital exclusion, and mass surveillance 👇

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

I am now the most banned author in the United States--87 books. May I suggest you pick up one of them and see what all the pissing & moaning is about? Self-righteous book banners don't always get to have their way. This is still America, dammit.

[💀PJMetal_ART💀 @PJMetalArt]

🦊💕A Love Letter to Babymetal💕🦊
Only 3 days left until the Babymetal concert in Hong Kong🥳
I still can‘t believe I joined the HK fan club almost 3 years ago. If it weren‘t for Babymetal, I wouldn’t have met this amazing family🥰
#BABYMETAL #babymetal_fanart
@BABYMETAL_JAPAN

[@Searchlightmagazine @Searchlight_mag]

The fascist Homeland Party are having their annual conference today and will be gathering at the Village Hotel, Tempus Drive, Walsall, about ten miles from Birmingham.

It kicks off at 11.00.

We wish them a chaotic, divisive and thoroughly unsuccessful day.

@uaf @AntiRacismDay

[Chris Tavner @christavner]

An interesting aspect of the political divide is that issues can unite people across it—even with those you usually disagree with. Like Alan Duncan on Palestine, David Davis has an excellent record of supporting free speech and human rights.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Government's plan for mandatory digital ID must be stopped in its tracks.

In the PM's own book, he discusses Article 8 of the ECHR: The right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence.

See here. 👇

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The Reform UK party's former leader in Wales - Nathan Gill - has pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements he made in the European Parliament, as well as newspaper opinion pieces.

[PurelyFootball ℗ @PurelyFootball]

🗣️ Ray Parlour's hilarious story on how Arsenal's team-mates wound up Martin Keown by getting Arsène Wenger to sign Igors Stepanovs:

In the summer of 2000, a player turned up on trial at our pre-season tour. He was a tall center-half. Now, Martin Keown was always worried about people coming in to steal his position. If we had a center-half on trial, Martin would say he was useless.

This big guy from Latvia, Igors Stepanovs, turned up. He was a unit, but seriously, he was not up to standard. A few of us were on the bench watching as he played in this trial game.

Stepanovs is out there and with every single pass he made, the boys started applauding, just because we knew Martin would be getting a bit steamed up by it.

Dennis Bergkamp was sitting behind Arsène and kept doling out these compliments about this defender. "Great header! Unbelievable tackle!" Igors kicked this one ball 20 yards away from where it was meant to go but it still went to one of our players so we all stood up clapping. Martin's muttering: "He's not that good." He started to point out where he missed a tackle or a header.

That night we went for dinner and laughed about it as we were only trying to wind Martin up. We all knew Igors was nowhere near the standards set by Tony Adams, Martin, and Bouldy.

But Martin is such an easy target because he bites. Once someone bites it's too tempting. Dennis seldom missed a trick because Martin would kick him every day in training.

He always came out with a blinder to explain it to Dennis: "I'm just getting you ready for what you are going to face in the match." Martin was a great player, a great character, a great winner.

I think we all cared so deeply. When we got back to the training ground at London Colney a week later we had a surprise though. Igors was sitting there. I said: "What are you doing here?" "They signed me. Four-year contract."

Arsène didn't know we were just trying to tease Martin. He just kept listening to us heaping praise on this player. And if Dennis Bergkamp stands up and says: "What a player," Arsène would be entitled to take a bit of notice.

I suppose it looked like a bargain at around £1m. No disrespect to anyone from the lower leagues but Igors was a yard behind us on the pitch, it was like taking my brother to training. The next thing we know we've got the biggest injury crisis we've ever had at centre-half.

And the only fit centre-half we've got is Igors and who are we playing at the weekend? Man United at Old Trafford. Going into the game our back four looked a bit dicey really. Oleg Luzhny, Gilles Grimandi, Igors, and Ashley Cole, who had to go off at half-time.

Dwight Yorke ran us ragged. Seriously, it was humiliating. They scored the first goal and we managed to equalize. We thought: "OK, we'll take that." And then all of a sudden the goals started pouring in and we were 5-1 down by half-time.

There is a massive walk to the tunnel at Old Trafford and you could see Arsène was fuming. He hardly ever swore or shouted but he did that day. I remember doing the long walk to the tunnel alongside Dwight Yorke and he asked: "Where the hell did you get that center-half from?" "Look, it's a long story..." We sat down in the dressing room and it could've been 9-1 as David Seaman actually had a blinder in goal. Arsène started letting off and he's not a swearer, it just doesn't suit him, and I'm really desperate to laugh.

I'm making no eye contact and I could see Pat Rice in my peripheral vision sending me a look that said: "Don't laugh. Whatever you do. Do. Not. Laugh."

Arsène was going mad. And that was the only time, in the eight years I played under him, he went crazy at half-time. He was always focused on being calm, recovering, and keeping concentrated on what we needed to do. We lost 6-1 and poor Igors barely played again.