Porro booked for getting 100% ball. They looked at this for 5 minutes and presumably, didn’t see any contact, because even if it’s “accidental” it’s still reckless and endangering. Tel had to go off. Always a different set of rules for Spurs. Been sh** today, but this is nonsense
Disgraceful. Not even a yellow card. xitter.cf/William93661278/status…
1) endorsed brand’s book
2) brand on the cover of his book
3) demonstrably false representation of association
4) not a single “sorry”
5) old adage “when it takes this long to explain, it’s bullsh” always holds true
Purer than thou crowd. Until they’re not. Always.
I've met Russell Brand twice (I think):
Once when I hosted a Guardian Live event about his book in 2014.
Another time I interviewed him for The Big Issue when I was guest editing in 2015.
He also gave my publishers an endorsement for my book The Establishment, which I was mortified about at the time mostly because I thought it was so OTT it would obviously invite ridicule (which it did).
At the time I saw him as a crude means to reach disillusioned younger people with left-wing politics - the sort of people who wouldn't be reached by conventional left-wing journalists and politicians.
As a result I was willing to overlook, or just not look into, his history of problematic behaviour / statements, including sexism.
I convinced myself that he was on some sort of journey and that was a good thing. That was an obvious misjudgement.
I did think he was a bit of a chancer / had a messianic complex, but overlooked that too as a necessary evil in reaching disengaged people.
But that was clearly his main driving force and he clearly ended up concluding that right-wing politics was a better vehicle to satisfy it.
It's an important lesson in not stupidly engaging clearly problematic figures, however charismatic or however much mass appeal they have, in the service of a cause.
What I would say is that right now we should be centring the survivors of a rapist and sexual predator.
I personally don't really think those trying to point score have his survivors' interests at heart.
I would also argue that those with the big questions to answer are the right-wing figures who continue to stand by him and spread conspiratorial nonsense in his defence.
Finally, let's hope that other possible survivors of Russell Brand feel able to come forward.
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Owen wrote the eulogy in 2015
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says the Democrats "did a good job" tonight
"This fight's been going on for ages. I started [12 years] ago, and came up on top all the time."
"I don't like to consider it a defeat for me. I wasn't on the ballot...nevertheless, I feel badly for a lot of very good Republicans...for them to lose is a tough thing."
Dems did SO good, the GOP may not win the Senate until *2032*
Let alone policy, HORRIBLE news for SCOTUS.
Obviously biased living in the West etc but absent downstream consequences of losing the arms race; man I would not feel sorry if China bankrupted this guy hardcore…
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
The best bit about this every time is the Brits in the crowd who get it and the Americans who don’t 😂
The weather and cost of living are definitely worth bailing over, but if you cannot find good food in London in 2026 you have a cognitive/developmental issue.
Comfortably top 5 on the planet for depth and breadth of good food.
People can be choice though 😂
4th league win of 2026. 7 in the last 12 months. Wallah I nearly cried. Ben Davies our greatest ever Welshman. Build the fu**ing statue.
Eddie Santiago & Romanov Enthusiast 🫓🪓 retweeted
🚨📺 The way Kate Abdo introduced Micah Richards on CBS Sports... 😂💀
"For now, he is still a Premier League and FA Cup winner... until he has to mail those winners medals back to somebody at Stoke City or Manchester United." 💀
This is not good for the “only democracy in the middle east” schtick. What is good for Likud is not what is good for Israel. Or dare i say, global Jewry.
Wtf!
Just arrived in Tel Aviv for coverage ahead of the Israeli elections
Only to be told the Israeli authorities are denying me entry to the country!
Have reported widely on Israel / Palestine for the past 4 years for @Channel4News
Lol mask off
Zelenskyy: "Because of the war in the Middle East, prices are rising. They're increasing because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
Don’t want them to win because i don’t think they’ll be good for the country but madonna mia the Vox tax calculator is absolute genius political marketing in a cost of living campaign…
sueldovox.es/
Oh look, the thing we let the grassroots of a superficially benign “movement” do, turned out not to be benign at all. If only we hadn’t watched this play out non-stop since 2015 we might have been prepared for it!
Greens facing ‘existential threat’ as membership plummets after anti-Zionist motion
Polls reveal support for the party has plunged after it was accused of endorsing an antisemitic policy and leader Zack Polanski lost the key Holborn and St Pancras byelection
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