Martin Hellier has a nasty side. I hope he can keep this in check and not turn the club into a bully boy culture. After 40 years of being a dedicated fan, I am thinking of leaving sadly.

Martin Hellier has a nasty side. I hope that he can keep this in check and not make our great club into a bully boy culture. For the first time in 40 years I am thinking of quitting sadly.

Good interview by Martin Hellier this morning. Glad that he has apologised for the abuse on Twitter and that he will be stopping using the platform. COYG

Back on the ward at YDH with a replacement right knee! Surgeon reports the op went well.

I have now been blocked from YTFC’s official twitter feed!! Gobsmackingly unbelievable!!! What on earth is he afraid of??

No more from me on why SSDC purchased YTFC to help survival post Covid until a new owner could purchase back. A club owner can sell to whom they like when the like and it’s not up to a Council to get involved. 1/2

Some think the SSDC rescue wrong not likely to change their minds. Hopefully the land will soon be back as always intended. My part as the ‘owner’ of the unanimous decision resulted in foul abuse and a ban from the club. No longer involved, no regrets, integrity intact. COYG 2/2

This is still awful. 2.7 million recipients of working age disability benefits. 25% more than in 2019. 5 in 6 are out of work. Numbers rising by c. 250k per year. Spending (in today's prices): - £14bn in 2019-20, - £19bn this year - £25bn in 2027-28 (projected)

Lords voted 154-68 to let Tory govt change the Public Order Act through the back door, Unprecedented. Our freedoms to protest gone; police have carte blanche, no accountability. Labour peers told to abstain on Jenny Jones' motion. I voted for it. We have a police state.

NEW report for Nuffield Foundation funded Economy 2030 Inquiry - Beyond Boosterism: Realigning the policy ecosystem to unleash private investment for sustainable growth, by Anna Valero @KrishanSays Gregory Thwaites Mimosa Distefano & Paul Brandily. Read it here ⬇️economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/reports/beyond…

Too much of the policy debate around rising mortgage costs has centred on things that will never happen, or are already happening. Instead, read this piece by Torsten Bell on what the government might actually do to tackle the mortgage crunch resolutionfoundation.org/comment/what-t…

Are you the same guy who dropped his house building targets? Because I’m the guy who started building more council homes than the rest of England combined, exceeded your affordable homes targets & built more homes of any kind than since the 1930s. This is desperate nonsense.

Photographed this off Politics Live. Yes tax is at a record high but was quite stable pre Covid.

The UK government's criminalisation of rough sleeping, now passing through Parliament in the Criminal Justice Bill, is overseen by a Prime Minister who owns four luxury homes for his own use. One of them, in Kensington, is reserved for accommodating family guests.🧵

Tom Knowles has joined Forest Green Rovers on a free transfer at the end of the month. Should be at YTFC!

Can’t the compliant surplus PPE (BBC News) be donated to third countries?

In the European values survey, some 5% of Brits ticked “Muslims,” as people they don’t want as neighbours while 2% ticked “People of a different race,” and 6% ticked “Immigrants.” Compare those figures with Germany (16% 5% and 7% respectively) and Italy (20%, 12%, and 18%), and

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

Following Elon Musk’s stupid and preposterous remark about Jess Phillips , I am leaving X and joining Bluesky. John C

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment Claude Malhuret