Right now, half the GMs in the league are showing their chat history (that they had to get a coaching assistant to print out) to the owner and they're both marveling smuggly at being informed that they've nailed the draft.

it’s very weird, as a creative myself, to see other creatives who are proudly telling the world how much they loathe their craft and the process of making things.

Just as satire died when Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, conspiracy theories are much less fun now the President of the United States has started several military conflicts to distract from his participation in an elite paedophile ring which also included the Queen of England's favourite son.

Screenshot of Oddschecker, showing Spurs at 8/11 to go down.

After today, there's a 58% chance of Spurs going down.

I cannot believe a Labour government minister would utter the words "the gambling industry brings joy to a lot of people and I [am aware of]...the harms that affect a minority of people". Just incredible.

Oh and her brief is 'culture' too. What an absolute joke.

Watching Madgwick is like being present for peak Messi. He is otherworldly.

If only he'd fought as hard to improve the lives of the millions of struggling Britons as he's fighting to keep his job, he might've achieved great things with that majority.

Doesn't know how to run a government, doesn’t even know when it's over.

Golf tour belonging to Newcastle United's owner, who previously had a journalist murdered and dismembered, spys on journalist reporting on the imminent collapse of the tour.

Telegraph editor: Do you think you've maybe gone a bit far there?

Tim Stanley:

So much of the right seem to exist in a post-cringe world. It must be wonderful to be able to say whatever you want and never be troubled by a voice in the back of your head whispering, "are you sure you haven't gone a bit far there?"

Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social As an aside, if the Telegraph or Mail have no already done so, we can be only weeks from a piece headlined: "Call The Greens What They Are: Communists". 1:20 PM Apr 17, 2026

Tim Stanley Don’t laugh at the Greens: they’re Stalin with a nose ring Zack Polanski’s party have jettisoned reality altogether in their quixotic quest to ‘be kind’ What does this party actually stand for? And who is fool enough to vote for it? Credit: Matthew Horwood Tim Stanley is a columnist and leader writer for The Telegraph. See more Published 19 April 2026 6:53pm BST

Pleased with that one.

People who cut flights close generally travel a lot for work and are, almost uniformally, a holy terror to work for.

They are also the people who call airports boring, but read five or fewer books a year, all smart thinking non-fiction bought at airports when they forget their laptop chargers.

Imagine having so little respect for your audience. It's like the Daily Mail on crack.

We often call people in public life stupid. And there are some genuine dimwits, like Lee Anderson. But the real damage isn't done by stupid people, it's by intellectually dishonest people.

And perhaps the most shameless piece of editorial commissioning ever.

This may be the most shameless opinion piece ever written.

I don't think you should minimise the seriousness of this. He was standing on the pavement *while smirking.*

Thanks to these brave cops, there's one fewer smirkers on the streets of America tonight.

A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.

Conjures memories of Lee Anderson, standing alone in his back garden and pretending not to listen through the window as England got to the final of Euro 2020 because he found public expressions of anti-racism intolerable.

I thought that. Quite a remarkable strawman with which to start a manifesto.

Should also add that it's worth reading the propositions in full. It will show you how ordinary - how stunted - the intellect of these people are. A few big words and a self-important prose style can't cover the lack of insight, humanity or humility. It's the work of a half-clever teenage boy.

I don't know what the exact solution is, but it seems obvious to me that it will have to be something like that.

You may be well be right, but I think it's some mark of success that the main criticism is at this level - the loss of human interpretation and its impact on the game - rather than, say, questions of accuracy or delay to the game.

Yep. The aim must be to vastly reduce human intervention and interpretation. And that needs attacking from a technological, process and rules perspective.

I'm amazed they've stuck with VAR, which seems systemically incapable of delivering the speed and results necessary to gain fan acceptance.

Yep.

Not sure. Sounds plausible.

Fair enough. Can't say I'm missing it, though.

It absolutely does.

Yes, pretty much. Like the NFL, they use a challenge system, with teams being given a set number, which is reduced for an incorrect challenge. They have also adjusted the size of the strike zone, over years of experimentation, so accurate enforcement reasonably aligns with historic expectations.