Alex

I hope he didn’t pack the job in thinking he was going to be well remunerated as a North Tyneside councillor.

Lolling at this, mate

Decent likeness tbf.

Looking forward to the scouting report from Fish’s Forest supporting mate

Did Callum enjoy it?

There’s something iffy about Katerina Christodoulou moving the other way for £25m like.

The inverse Midas touch, if you will

I think you’ll find Gemmill recently saying this window wasn’t going well has been the actual catalyst for the turnaround

Point of order. Kendal is outside of the Lake District National Park

I would say Burton still have the upper hand given the relative size of the clubs

The mention of MBS’s human rights track record suddenly becoming an issue is, equally, a monumental dose of irony and a complete lack of self awareness

I can’t speak for anyone else but I was motivated by boredom

28c in London today. Max in Newcastle is expected to be 19c.

I think meteorological autumn begins on 1st September in the northern hemisphere 👍🏻

He was mocked for it because he was a massive fanny rat who loved it then used it as an excuse tbh

Massive wages we can’t offer in Pedro’s case

Heard some ITK info last night. Two maybe three big deals are expected to be completed early next week. The club are just waiting on Andrew beginning the site maintenance

That big M&Ms shop as well

I know. I just think they’d renege on that promise once they didn’t need PR. A bloke who cosied up to Trump isn’t interested in PR from the point of view of it being more democratic

Well he spent ages trying to become an MP. Only to not actually do the job once it happened. Much like when he was an MEP. So the point about whether he wants to govern / actually put the time in is a good one

He was pushing it when the two party system combined with FPTP meant PR was an expedient solution to (for example) 7% of the vote getting his party about 7% of the MPs in parliament. If that’s no longer the case he’s not going to pursue it any more, ie if c. 30% gets him a majority

You’d think she’d have learned her lesson after the first train

Was driving past the Scrogg recently, which is now a social club and not a pub I think. My laddie was playing v Walker Central. I’ve been in the Scrogg years ago when my grandad who lived near there was still alive. It was canny rough then but now the fortifications added give it the appearance of a police station near the Falls Road

Wallsend Buffs?

I heard an interview with Adam Curtis about his film ‘Hypernormalisation’ and what it means. He goes into a bit about the likes of Facebook and how the tech evangelists from Silicon Valley who created the algorithms will argue they are efficient. Because they create communities of like minded people who only see views and opinions they like. Apart from the untruths around things like Brexit being perpetuated though, which is an obvious negative to me, Curtis also points out this is deeply conservative as it stifles new ways of thinking. He argues the left has fallen into this trap and that the echo chambers it creates means all mainstream political movements have become essentially conservative. And that was about 10 years ago and things have moved on since then. But not for the better. How we or politicians manoeuvre out of this now is difficult to imagine without some sort of revolutionary change in the way people think. Another point is that people instinctively know things are getting worse and living standards are falling for most but feel completely powerless. They feel similar about political leaders. And that mindset is conservative too. Because you resist the big changes needed through fear of losing everything. So become complicit in that decline by accepting it. And on that happy note….