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Douglas Murray what a whinging baby. The Spectator, the home of whinging babies.

Great piece on why Germany's far right did well in Saxony

The end result of too much deregulation in an industry which kills people when it goes wrong. Good to see the PM ban companies involved from govt contracts. Good start at least but so much more to do for the victims

Corporate greed, it’s a killer

Good piece on the bizarrely complex nature of trying to move a Premier League football team into the elite while dodging a hail of bureaucratic bullets nytimes.com/athletic/57392…

The government calling a drug a ‘zombie drug’..like trying to be The Sun? gov.uk/government/new…

Never knew Massive Attack did a cover of Bela Lugosi's Dead, but here it is youtu.be/GGCk-_cz00U?si… via YouTube

Kyrgyzstan has really got into Armani

There’s always one (left with dinosaur hands and wearing a nappy after inhaling 500 laughing gas balloons every week for 7 years) metro.co.uk/2024/09/04/man…

Let's hope this isn't just noise and PR. No need to 'look for evidence' about why kids are stabbing each other, there's tons of it (and it's nothing to do with 'drug turf wars'). They just need to actually do something. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Ian Wright describing Jack Grealish playing well as “Villa Jack” and he’s right. Pep has dumbed him down, hopefully he’ll leave that club soon.

Weirdest, most shocking story of the year so far. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player, who manages Saudi Pro League club Al-Ettifaq. Gerrard spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool.

1. Drug ‘vaccines’ 🙉 2. This photo 🙈 theconversation.com/a-new-fentanyl…

🇮🇹 Any good Italian restaurants in Manchester?

Thunderbolt

BBC needs to be purged of the right wing creeps that infected it under Tory rule

Gary Shaw was the reason I became a Villan in 1980. Very sad that he died hours before our first game back in Champs League tomorrow. theguardian.com/football/2024/…

Soon Aston Villa will be playing their first game back in the Champions League for over 40 years. Not long ago we were on the brink of bankruptcy, playing in the second tier. We survived, then got 4th in the Premier league last season to qualify. Proud to be a Villan