Rhymes with denial. Pop critic @MoSArtsCulture, sportswriter @guardian, editor @United_Writing, lecturer @GoldsmithsUoL, trustee Charles de Lisle Essay Prize
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#PaulMcCartney turns 80 tomorrow. Out of all the great tunes he has written, this is the one that now rings out most often. I told its story for The Guardian
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Yes, United were passive in the first half on Saturday, says @TimdeLisle. But Michael Carrick and Senne Lammens deserve better than the boos
#MUFC #ManUnited #Carrick #Lammens #Mbeumo #Baleba
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I've interviewed maybe 9-1,000 footballers. So many say their debut is the highlight of their career. Even CL winners.
JJ could've made his tonight, likely off the bench.
Such poor advice to tell him not to train with the first team and rule himself out. Such a shame.
My take on the Manchester derby
Yes, the VAR was abysmal, but, as at Newcastle in March, #ManUnited were too slow to change their mindset against ten men. In our free newsletter, @TimdeLisle examines an exasperating derby
#MUFC #Carrick #Cunha #Dorgu #Dalot #Maguire
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A new season begins ... with a nightmare. @TimdeLisle on the defeat at Hull: "Half the team were respectable, but the other half had come as the seven dwarfs"
#MUFC #ManUnited #Carrick #Tielemans #Rashford #Shaw
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The debut album from @familystereo, aka Blake Watt, is out today and it's lovely
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Now that #EddieHowe has quit, Michael #Carrick of #ManUnited is one of the ten longest-serving managers at a Premier League club. He's been in charge for six and a half months.
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A new BMJ Analysis finds a UK-US trade deal could cost the NHS a potential £45bn in drug spending and nearly 300 000 excess deaths in 10 years.
The deal sacrifices UK health and wealth, contrary to the rhetoric of government ministers, says @KamranAbbasi
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Talk of Ben #Stokes getting a ban for his nightclub fracas or being sacked as captain. But his deputy is #HarryBrook, who's had a nightclub fracas of his own - and wasn't banned or sacked for it. So it makes no sense to replace one with the other. Just give Stokes a fine!
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If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!
Carrick doesn't just make the team better: he makes the club more United
Why Michael #Carrick is the right manager for #ManUnited, by @TimdeLisle: he had one job this season, but he's done two.
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Good to find that the Pope is on the side of the angels
Truth Tellers The Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit was honoured to receive a message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV @pontifex supporting the Summit’s mission.
#sirharrysummit
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Chelsea were the better team, but United had the luck and, crucially, the experience. My comment piece for @united_writing, the newsletter I started with Rob Smyth, which is still free
Bossing the big six: @TimdeLisle on Michael Carrick's ability to rise to the occasion
#MUFC #ManUnited #Carrick #Cunha #Bruno #Heaven #Mbeumo #Mainoo
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Where's Jonny Evans when you need him?
Leny Yoro believed to have suffered an injury and has not travelled with #mufc squad to London. United set to be without four of their five centre backs at Chelsea.
Back in the old routine... dissecting a #ManUnited defeat!
Why last night was embarrassing, not disastrous.: @TimdeLisle on a game of two halves and three strokes of bad luck, with a tip of the hat to @AliceTalksFooty's forensic skills
#ManUnited #Maguire #Mbeumo #Sesko #Bruno #Fernandes #Ugarte #Carrick
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If Putin really said this, he was speaking for all of us
Every week, in a free newsletter, I try to make sense of #ManUnited. It's a lot more rewarding now that #MichaelCarrick is at the wheel
At Bournemouth, United's best player wasn't Bruno Fernandes, for once. It was Matheus Cunha, who has added another string to his bow. @TimdeLisle on #Cunha's development under #Carrick and where this weekend leaves #MUFC
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My take on #MUFC's first defeat under Michael Carrick: it shouldn't cost them much
One defeat is no reason to panic: in our regular comment piece on #ManUnited, @TimdeLisle looks on the bright side of a frustrating night in Newcastle
#MUFC #Cunha #Mbeumo #Carrick
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Out today: a debut album from a pair of teenagers, dripping with adrenaline but also well crafted. My review for The Mail on Sunday @TMolotovs
A gobsmacked man writes
'In the form table (last six league games for every team), #ManUnited are now top, with three wins, three draws and three managers.' @TimdeLisle on a staggering victory
#MUFC #Carrick #Mbeumo #Dorgu #Mainoo
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