The Wales Snr Mens Team stink, the Snr Women's team stink, the Mens U20s stink, and the WRU really think the solution is to cut two Snr Men's pro teams rather than sorting themselves out?

I don't understand why people can't get that things like an obituary have value because you *did* them.

Feels like we're outsourcing our whole lives at this point, so I guess we can outsource our love too.

Yay.

I guess all those "Non-Conformists' must just had radical looking hair or something

Does feel a bit odd that Winnett was cast out of the team & into the dungeon underneath the Arms Park because he lacked solidity under the high ball, but everyone seems perfectly content with Murray at FB who is seemingly allergic to catching the ball under pressure

Also come on "Henry V", the guy whose signature achievement was "killed lots of French people and then died before finishing the job". That guy?

Not even in the top 5 most impactful English Kings called Henry.

I've spent 10 minutes staring as this headline trying to fathom a scenario where it's a direct choice between Henry V and "Mr Men"

Being schmoozed s an unusual feeling as a Millennial. Because our entire political system and most of our practical lives is based on "well you're gonna have to put up with this shit"

Objectively hilarious that people are very much in favour of other people doing National Service.

There now follows a short thread of Captain Holt quotes on screenshots of Kratos. Why? Because I wanted to, that's why.

In a country where more and more children are going hungry, more and more people have to sleep on our streets and you're spending your money on that?

Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts.

A short 🧵👇

Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse.

They should invent chess merch that’s good

I think a lot about canvassing a older woman in 2017 who ranted loudly about immigration and how she'd been Labour and would never vote for us again because of it. We checked our records and so far as we could tell she'd never voted Labour.

Keir's strategy seems entirely based on winning her vote.

The first two points contradict each other, and the last is meaningless. Great.

The "island of strangers" line from Starmer is deeply cynical, placed in a paragraph that allows deniability of the worst characterisations of it, but there if their imaginary Reform-Labour switcher wants to hear it (which they won't, because they're imaginary)

Presuming that there are two kinds of voters, a) those that agree with the below and b) those that don't. Voter B) now won't vote for you and Voter A) still won't vote for because they trust Farage over you to "deal with it".

Congratulations, you've played yourself.

It has been 3 years since Royal Assent was given to the repeal of the Vagrancy Act (1824). But people forced to sleep rough still face fines or even prison because parliament has failed to complete repeal. Thank you to Baroness Alicia Kennedy
for raising this vital issue.

this continues to be the most useful metaphor I’ve seen

Excellent point here about the incompatibility of wanting to, apparently, fundamentally change the UK and also not have any individual policy that could be portrayed as scary or radical

What is the point of winning elections if you can't then use your power to help starving children because you're too afraid of the next election?

Politicians: We should run Government like a business

Business:

Good night, Bluesky

The best change they could make is turn it back to the way it was 10 years ago when it was actually useful

Oh youre a fan of St Patrick? Name your favourite hagiography

"Ideas the left find offensive" is a funny way of saying "Nazi shit"

Every time I pop over to Twitter I get bombarded with Nazi shit.

If there was a part of town where every time I went I got bombarded with Nazi shit, I would stop going. It's the same.

One of the slipperiest tricks of modern political "commentary" is that conservative talking points are sprayed across the press on a daily basis but presented as some kind of secret, forbidden lore.

The decision to be electorally "savvy" and not reverse last years NICs cut is going to become the original sin of this Government.

It's impossible to deliver the improvements promised, stick to same fiscal rules + leave £20bn pa on the table.