Richard Howard

Gastroenterologist and IBDologist. Serial re-tweeter and sports fan

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

This is the full story behind the viral video of Alejandro Tosti's caddie walking off the course.
Disagreements over money, arguments on the course, and how an umbrella was the final straw.
The caddies side, Tosti's side, and a phone call from the Tour that nearly killed the story.
https://t.co/sswKmaNudb

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

[The Inbetweeners Fans @InbetweenrsFans]

Every British PM as told by The Inbetweeners

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Nigel Farage, April 29: “This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life”.

Nigel Farage, May 14: “Frankly, it was given to me as a reward for campaigning against Brexit for 27 years.”

Which is it?

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

Rory turns 37 today.

Here are some Rory-Tiger-Phil numbers on their 37th birthdays. PGA Tour + major championships only. All numbers from @DataGolf.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

I am not going to bother with making this a newsletter segment or its own blog post, but I wanted to write a few words about Rory's 3-wood into No. 8 today. If you want to "be happy for me, or sad it happened, but you ain't reading all that" no offense taken. But here it is:

This was the kind of shot Rory used to make a mess of early in the Masters. He was stuck in neutral after 7 holes, not hitting driver well, and lacking any juice in his round. His ball was in the first cut, on the right side of the hole, and he felt like it was a 5 wood distance. There is a time when he would have nuked that club and maybe hit left, or long, or lost the plot completely. But he decided to dial it back, choke down on a 3 wood, and try to chase it back to the pin. He knew it would come out low and with more spin of the first cut, and it did exactly that, a bullet that hit well short of the green and chased forward to 15 feet. He's not a thrower anymore, he's a pitcher, painting the corners at times. It was the first of five birdies, and the kind of thing I enjoy the most about watching him in this stage of his career — when he has to be a thinker and manufacture the right shot and trust that it's the right decision. The little club twirl as the ball left the face was a sign he is dialed in already and going to give this a hell of a run at defending.

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

The Irish Fridge.

6 assists - most in the Six Nations
2 NFL-style assists
1 soul taken (Marcus Smith)

Player of the tournament.

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Back in 2024 we exposed hedge fund manager Paul Marshall, who was hoping to become one of Britain’s most powerful media owners.

He had been liking and amplifying extreme anti-migrant and anti-Muslim content on X, hidden behind a private account.

https://t.co/AvjL9SpxeA

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The fascists don’t understand those they hate.

British Muslims just voted for a working white woman dog-breeder led by a gay Jewish man who defends trans rights.

Meanwhile, the fascists are accusing Muslims of wanting to ban dogs and force burqas on women.

Twitter is not real

[Jeff Neville @TheLooseH]

A performance for the ages.

JGP, Crowley, Beirne, and Baloucoune all excellent.

McCluskey, however, was playing a different game.

England beat France and who knows, it could be a Championship for Ireland.

An incredible 80 minutes.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Jullia is now defending Jim Ratcliffe and his tax affairs. But she had this energy for Lewis Hamilton when he moved to Monaco.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

Disqualified by IOC. Overqualified by dignity.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions:

First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites.

Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense.

Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate.

Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work.

Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

If a future administration finds that such payments to the Trump family were acts of corruption, these people could be sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act, and the assets in the U.S. could potentially be frozen.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Joe Root has now scored no less than sixty centuries in international cricket.

This is impressive, but he has none in Iceland.

We remain the final frontier for so many greats.

Can he do it on a lava bedded wicket in Reykjavík?

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The British government learnt of the data leak in August 2023.

24k Afghans secretly granted asylum, costing British taxpayers up to £7 billion.

The government covered it up.

Who was in government?

Home Secretary: Suella Braverman

Immigration Minister: Robert Jenrick