Tower Bridge and the Thames, early morning

Palace just managed the game way better than us. We simply couldn’t find a way through a very low block and couldn’t switch into our usual attacks as they pressed only if the ball went to Greaves or Clark, stopping the outlet. An education in Premier League-ism by an average premier league team

Get well soon Remco

Can’t believe you don’t have baubles with pictures of your dog in. Come on man, step up

Amazing work - thank you

Have to say, it’s great seeing the news you post as ever but it’s especially nice to see it genuinely liked rather than deluged by a bunch of bile, as it is in The Other Place. Onwards!

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/

It looks amazing - as always. Sadly it’s designated as a Christmas present for me so I’ll have to wait to read it but it will be all the more enjoyable for the wait.

This is such rubbish news. British racing is in a terrible state and I’m struggling to see any bright lights on the horizon. Nuts really when you think how successful British riders are at the moment.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Meet Bella

And then Owen Jones would pile in with “you’re just oppressing the left”. Sigh.

This is so insane. A similar thing happened with the 340 year-old Plume of Feathers in Greenwich back in the early noughties. Someone bought a flat a few doors down and then put in complaints about the noise - it turned out ok for the pub but it caused them no end of distress.

Two events in a concert calendar: Monday, Oct 10: The Cure, Avicii Arena, Stockholm Tuesday, Oct 11: Placebo, Cirkus, Stockholm

We accidentally ended up with a clinical trial in the music scene here.

The Politics of Farage and Reform is No Joke of a Matter – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account The normalisation of racism and dog-whistles will only get worse if the press continues to treat Farage as an entertaining figure representing the ‘real views’ of the British people – it must stop, wr...

The Politics of Nigel Farage and Reform is No Joke of a Matter – The Established Media Must Learn Its Lessons and Start Holding Them to Account

It’s the classic’s classic. Your social media presence is incomplete without it - like a missing unrecorded period of history.

NME always!

More and more it seems like a $50bln deal to help Trump win an election to enable Musk to get even richer off the back of it. He’ll make multiples of what he paid for Twitter

So that’s what it is! First day here, thought it was a bit off that everything seemed…broken. Still, a happier place than The Other Place

Autumn - Scotland