Man who never stands his round lectures landlord on how best to run their pub.

BBC World Service to get extra £11m a year in deal ending funding uncertainty Corporation welcomes three-year settlement as it continues to push for government to take on all of service’s costs

Good to see this but the scandal to my mind is that the government let this uncertainty and anxiety about World Service funding drag on right up to the wire. Stupid austerity posturing over what's effectively a pittance. Be serious! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Monday

Brilliant journalism - unlike the subject of the piece 👏

What. The. Fuck.

Jordan Pickford is criminally underrated The Everton and England No 1 has been at peak performance for almost half a decade and makes my top 10 list of all-time Premier League goalkeepers

Jordan Pickford’s consistent excellence is still a little overlooked, I reckon. This year he will likely become the longest-serving undisputed England No. 1 in history. He’s been at peak performance for almost half a decade.

Column.

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Design classic

Why local journalism matters, in a nutshell

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

Nobody seems to enjoy going to football anymore - I think I know why We are witnessing a rising epidemic of the angry, desperate fan

Football supporters are angrier at matches than I can ever remember. Why does it feel like lots of people don’t like the game they love?

Column.

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Post an image you can hear

40 years after the release of seminal Housemartins album London 0 Hull 4, Chelsea exact their revenge.

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm definitely up for this.

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

New WSC digital archive screenshot with recent issues

We're turning 40 in 2026 and to mark the occasion we’ve relaunched our digital edition:

• Every issue since 1986
• Mobile friendly
• Save and read offline
• Article audio
• Fully searchable
• Free access for print subscribers

Find out more: www.wsc.co.uk/digital-edit...

Football’s culture of mass agitation and polemic has now ... The growing army of ‘fanalysts’ is supposed to free the voice of the masses – but is it just another step in commercialising that liberation?

A firm set up by Michael McIntyre and Gary Neville is supplying fans to give their opinions on Sky Sports shows.
A column on Fanalysis and how supporter views have become a business.
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The definition of pulling the ladder up behind you.

TELLY GOLD: On Bryan Robson’s birthday, a reminder of his tremendous cameo on “Jossy's Giants”.

Incredibly, he was beaten by Michael Gambon at the 1987 BAFTAs.

Those judges wouldn’t know talent if it slapped them in the face.

@stevemenary.bsky.social is a must-follow for anyone interested in how MCO works, whom it involves and how it is re-shaping the football world.

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”

-Zohran Mamdani

I'm in awe here, this is a level of Getting The Badge In that few of us will ever attain.

Saturday's the day we play the game.

Had some kids laughing at me in a cafe earlier because the Ronaldo T shirt I was wearing “didn‘t even have Ronaldo on it. “

Life is just gonna keep being like this now innit? As Slim Charles once said, “see, the thing about the old days, they the OLD days”

Frankly boeuf.

Nothing more to say

Glückwunsch! Congratulations to the lads from Barrow AFC fanzine "Give 'em beans" on their fanzine of the year award.

Definitely maybe deserved, if only for this cover, and great to see print fanzines still going strong throughout the English pyramid.

Faces of Non-League Football: The White Horse Men and Their Green Army | Photographs by 15-year-old Jorge Evans, ghot at Westbury United’s Meadow Lane - Platinum Hyundai Park - they honour the White Horse Men and the loyal Green Army who stand as the club’s 12th man every week.