There's going to be a lot of 'keep politics out of football' comments this weekend. Meanwhile players in England will be wearing poppies next month and scrutinised if they don't, after a World Cup where the US President stood with the winners on the podium. The horse has bolted.

Find your adult film star name by mixing your favourite Friends cast member and a tragic disaster. Mine is Monica Grenfell.

EXCLUSIVE: Special forces soldiers believe they are “untouchable” and not all of them are the heroes they think they are, according to a former female civil servant who worked alongside them. Monica Grenfell, who was employed at the Special Air Service (SAS) headquarters in Credenhill, near Hereford, for three years, said some of the elite troops were “feral” and it was “the nasty characters who really ruled the roost”. She has given evidence under oath to the Afghan Inquiry and has now been interviewed by @thetimes thetimes.com/article/5706a8a…

Maybe I’m too autistic for this discourse but I just don’t understand why you can’t have an iced coffee in a job interview??? Or even a funeral?? It’s a bloody drink, not a bomb. What is the issue? I’m so confused. This is why I hate unspoken societal rules THEY MAKE ZERO SENSE

NEW: Sophie Rose Jenkins, from Glasgow, quit St Andrews University and spoke out against "anti-Scottish classism". Now other students are breaking their silence, saying they've had similar experiences.

English people are generally the most smugly incurious people on the planet wrt language. they always do this bit where they act like they don’t understand the concept of other dialects and also act like they don’t say their own stupid shit like they’re going to “eat a Chinese”

What's the connection between fascism and illiteracy? A third of British adults who used to read for pleasure don't anymore. And according to the OECD, literacy itself, not just the habit of it, is declining or stagnating across most of the developed world. In a new book, The New Dark Ages, @j_amesmarriott argues that we're living through a great unwinding: a retreat from the written word and the kind of rational, analytical mind that print culture built over five centuries, back towards something closer to the pre-literate world: one dominated not by books, but by images, screens, and short-form video. In this episode of The New Society, @tanjil_rashid_ is joined by @j_amesmarriott to ask: are we really heading back into the dark?

I feel like British people on here occasionally forget that they did actually inflict a lot of bad things on Ireland and the Irish people and we're not all just larping as communists

A British solider shot a member of my family dead point blank on the street. But sure, it's just about the famine.

Also, the famine is still a 100% valid reason to hate the British. Our population still hasn't recovered to pre-famine levels. An attempted genocide isn't something that a culture just 'gets over'.

Irish rower Daniel Collins willing to compete under neutral flag amid British Championships stand-off "I identify solely as Irish, and I've only ever held an Irish passport and I don't regard British nationality as part of my national identity." rte.ie/sport/rowing/2026/091…

i do forget some of you are like unironically fully english and just do not Get the dynamic between england and the celtic nations

Das Drehbuch ist bald 100 Jahre alt. Nur die Kleidung hat gewechselt.

We won both world wars by transforming welfare. A warfare state needs a welfare state.

Very strong education data shift as we transitioned to a @UKLabour govt The Gove period is a welcome distant memory; we invest and build an education system that gives opportunity to every child and learner.