High street campaigner and comedian @hawleyjacob has backed Andy Burnham's proposed crackdown on dodgy shops and said: "He should throw the book at them." dailystar.co.uk/news/death-h…

Vape shops. Betting shops. Dodgy businesses. If you look at your high street these days and think ‘who asked for this?’, you’re not alone. I’m doing something about it. We’re giving local people and councils more control over what opens, and tougher powers to crack down on businesses that aren’t good for our communities. For too long, Westminster has stood by while our high streets declined. That ends now.

THE FOOTBALL CLICHES PODCAST 🔊 Premier League alphabet anxiety 🔊 Who we should "fear for" in 2026/27 🔊 Workshopping a chant for Phil Collins’ son 🔊 Gardeners' World cauldrons 🔊 The Repatriation of Richard Keys 🔊 AND MORE @D_C_W @j_akefarrell pod.fo/e/507c96

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @D_C_W and @j_akefarrell on Wednesday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic self-flagellation, footballers' names in things or anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!

Right, we loved recording it, and the subscribers loved listening to it, so Dreamland #27 – Paradise with Yesterday's Newspaper: The Joy of Watching Football on Holiday – is now free to listen to! pod.fo/e/4d18f7

Tom Cruise invited AMC employees to The Odyssey and kept uttering the phrase “that was so f*cking sick” for the film’s entire third act

Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES with @CDEccleshare & @j_akefarrell on Monday morning. Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic hallucinations, footballers' names in things & anything else – from the Azteca or beyond – for the World Cup Adjudication Panel Cheers!