Mark Smith

We’ll take at our charity… @upmo.bsky.social

Oh. Spurs. Glorious.

Exactly. 3 points. One less game. Move on.
I’m old enough to remember previous run-ins. It’s rarely pretty. Just get the job done and enjoy it afterwards.

Yep. It’s all about getting over the line.

There We Are: 5-Min seafood classics with Marco Pierre White | 400k Subscriber Special | BBC Maestro YouTube video by BBC Maestro

Marco Pierre White on BBC Maestro is absolute perfection…

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Yes, but have you read the TekWar books? That’s the true measure.

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No coincidence I’m sure…

Happy days.

And people conveniently ignore the fact we get corners because we're pressing & probing low blocks: boring or consequence of attacking mindset?

I still have no idea what Carabao is or does.

Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it

Interesting article on the power of concentration (& how to improve it)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

If I was the suspicious sort I’d say those audience scores might not be entirely trustworthy!

President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed

Christ the film & its reviews are so bad they’ve released more #Epstein files to distract from it!
#Melania

Parents in England fear losing support for disabled children due to Send reforms Survey by disability charity finds 45% of parents of children with complex needs ‘worried support will be taken away’ * ‘We’ve fought so hard’: family’s worry as England’s Send overhaul looms Parents of disabled children fear that the government’s reforms to special needs education in England could mean they lose vital support, according to a new survey that highlights the high stakes facing ministers. The poll of 1,000 parents of children with multiple complex needs including deaf-blind, autism and physical impairment, carried out for the disability charity Sense, found that half of the parents surveyed “feel nervous” about the upcoming reforms, and 45% said they were “worried my child’s support will be taken away” in any changes. Continue reading...

Parents in England fear losing support for disabled children due to Send reforms

State of the Nation 2025 reveals extreme differences in social mobility across the UK. Former mining and industrial areas face deep-rooted economic disadvantages – and some are falling further behind.

Read the full report: https://bit.ly/49mQmBG

Shameless. Vile. Evil.

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Andor | Maarva Andor’s Monologue | Disney+ YouTube video by Star Wars

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Feels apt.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Executed. Pinned to the ground & executed. They’ll try to spin self defence. They’ll lie and obstruct. But they must be held to justice.
This does not end well Neil - which is the Miller intention. Their gestapo - off the leash, designed to provoke. Chilling. Terrifying.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

— Frank Herbert, Dune

UK Armed Forces Undersecretary Alistair Carns on Trump’s statement that they stayed behind the front lines in Afghanistan: “I served 5 tours alongside Americans. We shed blood, sweat and tears together. There’s only one thing worse than working with allies - and that is working without them.”

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has called on Donald Trump to apologise for his "insulting and frankly appalling" comments about British troops in Afghanistan 👏

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's comments that NATO troops stayed off the front line in Afghanistan were "insulting and frankly appalling", British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday.

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🇬🇧 WATCH: “How dare he say this? A man who dodged the draft. Absolute disgrace.”

UK soldiers who served alongside us and mothers of the fallen react to Trump disparaging their sacrifice to denigrate NATO. (H/T @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social )

Putin is pleased.

We need a VAR review of the FIFA peace prize.

Gyokeres hatrick incoming.