urban.spaceman

My gran has spent decades learning her ancestry and has found records going back to the 1500s; then she sent off her DNA and was shocked to learn her ancestry was 60% Scandinavian. BLOODY VIKINGS!

A house cat sadly lying deceased on Belgrave Road opposite the college this afternoon. Broke my heart a little bit.

Didn't Tim Flowers once receive a MOTM despite conceding 6 goals to Arsenal?

The fact that 44% still approve of him is terrifying. Like when we were deep in the pandemic and people kept breaking lockdowns and spreading the virus thereby prolonging the lockdowns, we're being held hostage by millions of ****ing idiots.

Seagrave is key. There's no coincidence in that opening in late 2020 and the sheer wealth of very, very players being good enough to break into youth teams years above of their age group. If we can keep bringing through players of the youth and quality of Monga, Evans, Page, Alves, Braybrooke we will be able to both fill our our squad with very high quality players and make some serious cash to help with PSR. Chilwell, Barnes, KDH and McAteer all sold for about £130m.

Enjoy

IT'S TYRANNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Probably just relieved he's retired to be fair

They're anti vax https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/06/doctor-aseem-malhotra-reform-conference-speech-royal-family-cancer-covid-vaccine

The one and only benefit of Brexit and you don't even like it.

Eddington was incredible.

Sod the tax rises this could be a money spinner!

Why a new party and why now? Our constitution has been steadily eroded by supranational institutions, creeping international law, and unaccountable domestic quangos. Our elected representatives act against the people. Borders have been dismantled. Mass migration is eroding our culture and destroying our economy. Free speech is being systematically shut down to silence the majority. Our children are indoctrinated in schools. Justice no longer means justice. Dangerous criminals walk free while law-abiding citizens are punished for what they say. Nothing works. The NHS is broken. Our armed forces are a shadow of what they once were. The police are compromised. The courts are politicised. Our schools and universities have become hotbeds of radical ideology and are no longer seats of learning. The economy has stagnated. National debt and taxation are at post-war highs. More are on state benefits than ever before. Dependency has replaced aspiration. Wealth redistribution has replaced wealth creation. We are descending into decay, not building a future. Our very existence as a free and sovereign people hangs in the balance. The political establishment has failed. The old and new parties morph into one. They all sing from the same hymn sheet, offering nothing but decline. Literally everything he's whinging about was caused by the policies and decisions of the party he was a member of, voted for and donated to.

In fairness Reform are doing an incredible job of gaslighting their voters into voting to remove their own human rights. See the post above yours for why.

(though it should be noted that a lot of the general public are thick as mince and the Tory rags have been an utter national disgrace for decades now)

Now that, we can agree on.

Most people are unfortunately unaware of a) the reprehensible state the country was left in by the Tories, b) how extremely serious the situation is, nor how vulnerable we are; or c) how long it will take to turn things around. As in, Harry Maguire levels of turning circles. This is not a quick fix.

Hopefully tax rises on the richest, especially the ones who whinge the most.

I didn't say that, and I'm not sure the government said every protester was. But if the far right are protesting something it'd probably be a good idea to not protest alongside them if you don't want to be considered far right.

The economy performed better than expected in June, and the ONS also revised up figures for April - instead of shrinking by 0.3%, it now said the economy contracted by 0.1%. Experts suggested that hot, dry weather helped lift activity in the construction industry, which expanded by 1.2% in the three months to June. In the services sector, computer programming including consultancy, software installation and disaster recovery helped push up growth. Vehicle rentals and health services such as doctors' surgeries, hospitals and nursing homes also boosted the economy. Retailing dragged on growth over the period but picked up towards the end. Compared with other members of the G7 - the world's richest nations - the UK economy grew the fastest in the first three months of the year, but not the second. However, taken together, the UK may have had the fastest growth in the first half of 2025. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ml42ww740o To be clear, the bit in bold is what I was saying 'yes' to. We DO have the fastest growing economy in the G7. The economy also shrunk in the last quarter; which might give you a clue about the state current global economy. Also: But Ruth Gregory, deputy chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said it was doubtful the country "will maintain this pace of growth" between July and September. "The weak global economy will remain a drag on UK growth for a while yet," she said. "The full drag on business investment from April's tax rises has yet to be felt. And the ongoing speculation about further tax rises in the Autumn Budget will probably keep consumers in a cautious mood." Worth noting that most of Labour's policies haven't even come into law yet. It's somewhat early to be calling Labour a disaster.

Ditto:

They called the far right thugs, far right thugs. And the punishments they were given were due to the seriousness of their crimes.