Phil Jones

Started @fuseboxbtn. Helping interesting stuff happen in Brighton, the Burga Valley and beyond. Sous les paves la plage...

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

Great to have @seagullsspain featured in @OfficialBHAFC programme last week. If you’re a #Brighton supporter in southern Catalonia (Tarragona-Ebro-Tortosa), hit me up 😎

[chloe @Dykeocletian]

Man, Spain drew with Cape Verde and a geriatric Belgium gave them a run for their money. Don't be so pessimistic.

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@cezthesocialist It’s a tiny rock in the middle of nowhere with a few 1000 people on it half of which are only there to defend the other half. Who cares who owns it? It’s just a tool for leaders in the UK and Argentina to deflect from their own abject uselessness.

[BAFTA North America @BAFTAUS]

The winner of the 2026 BAFTA Student Awards Special Jury Prize is “Rage,” directed by Fran Moreno Blanco and Santi Pujol Amat from Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya in Spain.

This award is presented by the Dana & Albert R Broccoli Charitable Foundation.

[Tom VVardle @tomvvardle]

'The footballers who fought Franco'

To mark the 90th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War I've written about the Sporting Battalion, made up of amateur and international footballers, who defended Madrid from Franco's advances.

https://t.co/J9mX3gFLih

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@omgsidewalks You mean Spain…?

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[🤡Bouncy🤡 @bouncyclown]

For sale: clown nose, never honked

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@chriswardmp @Keir_Starmer @MikeTappTweets It’s not the effect of politics on politicians that’s brutal, Starmer will be fine. Maybe though have a little thought for his victims? Because what is brutal is the effect of his policies on pensioners, the disabled, minorities, migrants and Palestinians.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Capitalism is burning the planet to a crisp then charging you to read about how not to die during the night from heatstroke

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@peterkyle Starmer inherited a country where nothing worked & everything cost too much, and government racism & cruelty were commonplace. He’s left it in the same state.

You’re right, his only achievement was making Labour a safe space for people who are happy to be complicit in genocide

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

if i'd reported my constituent to the police for having the temerity to email me i'd probably keep quiet on the topic of authoritarianism...

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@RogersHistory It was a loveless landslide, he got less votes than Corbyn. He inherited a country where nothing worked & everything cost too much, & government racism & cruelty were commonplace. He leaves it in the same state.

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@paulmasonnews Your obsequiousness sir, is all that defines you

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Political sociologists will need to study how Keir Starmer—a man who echoed Rivers of Blood, supplied military intelligence to a genocide, assaulted civil liberties, demonised migrants, bankrupted universities, and let Palantir into the NHS—is still seen as "a decent man."

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@fellowcreative Paul Graham is certainly one of those “careless people” responsible for taking tech to the empathy free zone it now largely inhabits. These days we are better off taking our cues from Cory Doctorow and Sarah Wynn-Williams.

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@YourAvgBHAFan It would be more Brighton if Sweden had lost 5-1 to Tunisia and then beaten the Netherlands 5-1

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

Despite the giddy excitement of the mainstream political commiteriat, this is another loveless win for Labour. Bit tiring having to vote for these limpid folks to keep the right out, only for them to continue with policies that gave rise to the right in the first place.

[Datocracy @TheDatocracy]

Question: Do you think Andy Burnham would make a better Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?

📈 Better than Starmer: 23%
✅ Both equally good: 8%
❌ Neither would be good: 32%
📉 Worse than Starmer: 8%
⚪️ Don’t know: 29%

Source: @YouGov

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@AsaWinstanley @ms_kitka His corrupt ways have finally made him blind

[Phil Jones @philjoneswired]

@Jessica_me2 @Donna__McLean Are the witnesses under oath (ie is there any jeopardy to lying)?