Something good is happening at this World Cup.
The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.
For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.
And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.
There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.
None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.
Good to be reminded.
Thomas Tuchel’s tactical flexibility just completely broke Croatia.
A disjointed first half structure solved by an absolute masterstroke at halftime.
England look like a completely different beast under Tuchel.
THREAD. 🧵
The @premierleague’s continued hammering of EFC for PSR breaches already declared to have yielded no sporting advantage is so wildly out of kilter with its gentle slap on the wrist for Chelsea (and as yet nothing at all for City) as to be laughable. Corruption in plain sight.
Regarding the Henry Nowak case…
I’ve attended stabbings as a police officer. The weapons used have been a screwdriver (twice), a chisel, a penknife, and a kitchen knife (twice).
If a person indicates they’ve been injured, you check, and in my experience it’s not difficult to ascertain whether indeed there’s an injury, including possible puncture wounds. If there’s an injury that could possibly threaten life, you apply first aid and get an ambulance moving immediately. This is so regardless of whether the injured person is also a suspected offender.
I can’t help but wonder whether we’re seeing yet another case of police selection, training and leadership letting down the public and officers alike, with tragic consequences.
@UpTheToffees_ Disgraceful. Defence was tight as a ducks arse at one point and ended up conceding 2 or 3 a game. Recruitment has been criminal even with the issues we've had
WARNING: do not make smoked shotgun shells unless you’re prepared to eat way too many of them. These things should honestly be illegal at a backyard cookout. Absolute 10/10.
Why the fuck do we get that cunt Andy Hinchcliffe commentating on our games every time?! Only thing he ever won was with Everton yet he just slates the fuck out of us? #everton
What was long suspected is now proven.
Attorney General Hermer has been part of a group of ideologically-motivated, government-embedded, Human Rights lawyers that have acted in a vexatious and biased way to persecute British soldiers, not because they broke the law, but to serve some twisted anti-military, anti-British agenda.
They, their greed (the made a lot of money doing it), and their crippling ideology, have deliberately misapplied the 1988 UK Human Rights Act to British military operations in ways that not only create a never-ending conveyor belt of Veteran persecutions but also fundamentally undermine Britain’s ability to wage war and thereby defend itself.
For the love of Country, he must step down.
No, it stands for English civilisation winning.
You stand for putting treacherous lawyers who collaborate with criminals in charge of lawfare against the SAS.
A future regime will jail your mate Hermer and RICO through your network
RETWEET IF AGREE
It's amazing that the entire British media and political establishment will spend weeks obsessing over how exactly a paedophile's best friend was appointed by our government, while completely ignoring the fact that the government is destroying our economy through Net Zero, bankrupting the country through welfarism and punitive taxation and disarming the country by failing to fund the military despite repeated warnings from senior military figures.
This obsession with trivia is partly human nature, of course. But it's also a dereliction of duty and a reflection of just how unserious our entire political class has become.
I met my husband at a rave in 1992. We still have a playlist we love listening to at the weekend. Today we were chatting about how Gen X was probably the luckiest generation.
The 70s felt like the Wild West - hilarious telly, fashion and music, zero political correctness, and total freedom. I learned to ride my bike during that hot summer of ‘76.
The 80s were our teenage years, the best music, films and an incredible club scene.
The 90’s were absolute peak. The rave culture was something else entirely — you really did have to be there to understand how extraordinary it was. Britpop was incredible, bars and clubs were thriving everywhere, and it just felt like one long, brilliant party.
Not like now.
#RestoreBritain
Our @AHunterGuardian nails it here. Football fans, Evertonians in particular, are not naive enough to think the Premier League will be fair and well-governed but the shamelessness of the double standards on display this week is still breathtaking
@PRSforMusic my son applied for membership 31st Jan and has paid the fee. His band mates applied same day and were sorted in less than a week. I have submitted a query in February and still no answer? I can provide case numbers