Lucky for Roberto Martinez that he's standing down after this tournament. The fact he kept Ronaldo on and left Gonçalo Ramos on the bench is an astonishing decision. Incredible that Martinez put one player's ego above that of the entire Portuguese nation.
@pavyg@Wimbledon Interesting to think how they'd have fitted in the Williams sisters doubles if they hadn't pulled out, no way they'd have been anywhere else but CC after all the hype.
In response to the amusing if bewildering accusation I’m a Labour stooge, please do pass this on to the following comrades:
— Keir Starmer and Waheed Alli, whose gifts of suits and spectacles to the PM was a story I broke
— Jeremy Corbyn, who furiously denounced a book I cowrote as “tittle tattle”
— Matthew Doyle, whose association with a convicted paedophile I exposed
— Tulip Siddiq, whose housing deals I examined and formed part of the inquiry leading to her resignation
— Keir Starmer (again), who said the thesis of a second book I wrote was “bollocks”
— Morgan McSweeney, whose group’s £750,000 of unlawfully undeclared donations I exposed
— Labour Together, which paid a US lobbying firm tens of thousands to investigate my work
— Ann Limb, who had her Labour peerage deferred after I revealed she made up part of her CV
— Joe Docherty, who was suspended as a Labour peer after I revealed his workplace sexting
— Angela Rayner, whose trip to New York alongside her boyfriend I revealed was funded by Waheed Alli
I recall many Reform figures vigorously agreeing about the public interest in those stories. Some have even referred to them in order to highlight the wrongdoing of the left since yesterday.
But also, it isn’t “my” story, it’s the Sunday Times investigation team, Insight’s story. It could not, would not have happened, without the whole paper, especially @ManuMidolo@venetiamenzies@GeorgeGreenwood whose revelations were indispensable and who have not to my knowledge (yet) been accused of being Labour activists.
Moreover the Sunday Times isn’t a Labour paper, or paper which exists to serve anyone or any party other than its readers and, to the best of our abilities, the public interest.
The cracks are beginning to show..
Nigel Farage goes for this reporter asking questions about the "money".
Jeez- thought he was gonna lamp him one at one point....
Not sure if his family have been harassed..Sky say they have never contacted his family (at the end)
An incredible 2 nights with Metallica in London, very few do it better, rocking harder than ever. I'd say tonight was marginally the better of the 2, purely as I'd never seen do Blackened before, but I have now!! 🤘
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
Sorry to hear that Jo, i for one have really enjoyed your commentary over the years, & personally i mark you down as one of the best there has been, wishing you all the best for the future