Ben Bowman

Turn it off and on again. Gray captain

Amen

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Lol I did the Proud Lilywhites score prediction and asked my kid if he wanted a go. 0-1 to Palace he said, no hesitation. At least we're teaching our kids the real knowledge

My kid says 0-1 to Crystal Palace first scorer Sarr

1-1, Kolo Muani, up the spurs

12-year-old Erik Lamela on Trans World Sport YouTube video by Trans World Sport

ya boi coco www.youtube.com/watch?v=ric0...

Yeah Spurs are going down but maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Dareh Gregorian's coverage regarding the incredibly brave trans woman who tried to stop Epstein in 2006:
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Game on, man! Game on!

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

One senior Labour strategist said they were "aghast" at Starmer's media clips. “People turn out against us in droves and they are extremist? I do not think anyone believes that the Greens are extremists.” Another said: “He isn’t even close to getting it, unfortunately.” #GoGreen

US Hottest Winter Temperature Just Happened In Texas Thursday | Weather.com It's a preliminary finding, but stunning, no less. Heat typical of the heart of summer scorched South Texas in late February. Here's what happened.

Here's the preliminary findings from NWS-Brownsville on what may be America's hottest winter temperature on record.

Heartening in a way because Goodwin's petulant tantrums this morning are the kind of things you might say to consolidate a fringe extremist base when what Reform clearly wanted from this by-election was to complete its transition to being a mainstream party for normal people.

Like Trump and other populist reactionaries, Reform is turning electoral defeat into an opportunity to recruit and incubate a small but hardened core of wilfully gullible supporters united around the conspiratorial myth of their own persecution. They say their loss is *why* you should support them.

Yeah this exactly. UKIP needed academic cover to give a veneer of legitimacy and credibility, and I think this is an underestimated turning point for Reform whether to go, like Goodwin, full Trump. Maybe depends on how Russian intelligence reckons the next election goes in this country (seriously)

You’d have to have a heart of stone not to feel for Matt Goodwin, a populist who forgot about the popularity bit, and who now will return south without as much as a REF impact case study to show for his efforts.

If the Labour party's worst nightmare is Greens win, Reform second rather than the other way round, that's exactly why they're in third place and people don't like them

Sadly going through responses to 26,000 reviewer 2s

Reform were closer to coming third than winning the seat. The BBC and the rest of the media and billionaire backed dodgy polling companies will be gutted, as this shows that despite their efforts, the Reform bubble may have burst before it got fully inflated.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Somewhere on the early train to Tunbridge Wells, Matt Goodwin is trying to stuff a bucket hat and a half-and-half scarf into one of those tiny flip top bins

Yes lads!!

Crap academic refusing to accept data that disprove his hypothesis is it? Should have stuck with diddling the figures on student satisfaction

BREAKING: Hannah Spencer claims REMARKABLE victory for Greens in Gorton and Denton YouTube video by Manchester Evening News

What a speech though - "We are sick of our hard work making other people rich" youtu.be/m-SV-XiBd0I?...

Great campaign, great candidate and a message of hope. More of this please

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