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Youngy @mancversusfood.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly feels like im in the Twilight Zone at the minute. Checked on the BBC News earlier, not one mention of this, its mad

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 8h

Can’t really argue with that being handball 😒

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 9h

Nonsense penalty put an end to that. Bad enough they tried to hunt for a reason to disallow the first goal. Game completely turned on its head

Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 9h

What a start Cymru

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 14h

There’s a task that shouldn’t be left to @bylinetimes.bsky.social alone: The fourth estate has a job to do in defence of freedom and democracy. Are they too keen to report on the chaos of a Reform government (until that time when mass deportations and arrest of “dissidents” begins?) Too late then.

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Megan Feringa @meganferinga.bsky.social · 15h

Jess Park is very good at football. Apparently the only way to stop her is by kicking a football into her face, That’s after coming off the bench + scoring two goals. Given the freedom to invert, to carry the ball, to roam, Park is thriving. Man Utd are better for it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

Jess Park’s sparkling cameo proves she is already integral to Manchester United

The brace against Everton from the bench was emblematic of Park’s transformation into one of the league’s most valuable attacking threats

www.nytimes.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 1d

Great win for United women, looked like an off day for a while but convincing and comfortable in the end. I liked Grace Clinton a lot but once she wanted out, getting Jess Park in exchange really does look like a fantastic bit of business - such a fun player to watch

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 2d

How this story hasn't made headlines everywhere is unfortunately *not* beyond me. Just a pal of Farage's, ex-UKIP MEP, proud "patriot" betraying his country to Russia.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 4d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 4d

Alvaro Carreras should be the poster boy for where we’ve been going wrong on this front. It wasn’t the academy who blocked his pathway by signing Malacia, sold him for peanuts and then watched Real Madrid play £40m+ for him a year later

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 4d

Idea that the academy is failing because we’re not selling youth products for decent money just massively ignores what a dysfunctional mess the club has been overall

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 4d

The vibes are not vibing for me

www.nytimes.com/athletic/670... Manchester United’s academy ‘has really slipped’, Sir Jim Ratcliffe says

Manchester United’s academy ‘has really slipped’, Sir Jim Ratcliffe says

United have a great history of producing young talent and they have had an academy product in every first-team matchday squad since 1937.

www.nytimes.com

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 6d

Jordan angling for a gig on GB News with his other half. If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times - no-one in their right mind should give a solitary shit what a failed club chairman and deeply unpleasant narcissist has to say about football (or indeed anything)

Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 6d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

youtube.com/watch?v=FrXr...

"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

youtube.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 6d

This is Reform's only Senedd Member Laura Anne Jones.

She is very angry about the Wales' Nation of Sanctuary that mainly supports Ukrainian refugees.

However she didn't always feel this way. Here are two speeches she has given where she says opposite things.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

Pushed repeatedly on why she doesn't know how many civil servants would lose their jobs under her plans, Kemi Badenoch finally goes with: "If a job shouldn't exist then it isn't really a job".

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 6d

"So you're laying waste to people's jobs, but you don't know how many?"

Kemi Badenoch plans to get rid of 'quite a lot' of civil servants.

She doesn't have the exact figure, but she assures Nick that she's 'looked at it'.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7d

this photo is pretty brutal

www.ft.com/content/5a73...

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 7d

The future focus so far seems to have very much been on buying in 17/18yo uncut gems from elsewhere/abroad - think the jury is still very out on commitment to the actual academy. Do worry INEOS might not see the value in properly investing there

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Nick @manunitedyouth.bsky.social · 7d

Losing Nick Cox, Adam Lawrence and now Fedorenko in quick succession does make me worry a little. All moving on to great opportunities but can’t help wondering if the INEOS staff cuts and their impact on the academy have been a factor in them being open to leaving

Andy Mitten @andymitten.bsky.social · 7d

EXCL: Manchester United head of academy recruitment Luke Fedorenko to leave club.
MUFC wanted to keep him as
he’s very good, but he’s accepted a new offer. More detail here for @theathleticfc.bsky.social

t.co/gDACozEamP

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 7d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 7d

In fact this *understates* the point here.

Tory policy is not (just) to remove benefits but to remove ILR and deport, exactly like the Farage plan the PM correctly described as racist.

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 7d

“Another part of the plan would limit benefits to people with UK citizenship, removing it even from those who have been in the country for years or even decades and have indefinite leave to remain”

If this is not xenophobia then I don’t know what is.
Sickening.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories say people denied benefits in UK can return to home countries

Mel Stride outlines plans to slash £47bn a year from public spending, including £23bn welfare cut

www.theguardian.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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