Phil Harrison
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That's a good point. Long throws and the amount of emphasis placed on corner routines is making this a difficult season for keepers in general. Look at Chelsea for example. Their keeper seems to cost them a goal most weeks.
January 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
That's a good point. Long throws and the amount of emphasis placed on corner routines is making this a difficult season for keepers in general. Look at Chelsea for example. Their keeper seems to cost them a goal most weeks.
Not really a fan of Pope, to be honest. Or that podcast.
They just feel gratuitously negative most of the time.
I am also unconvinced by Perri and if we stay up, I think we should be looking to upgrade. But for the time being, we are where we are.
They just feel gratuitously negative most of the time.
I am also unconvinced by Perri and if we stay up, I think we should be looking to upgrade. But for the time being, we are where we are.
January 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Not really a fan of Pope, to be honest. Or that podcast.
They just feel gratuitously negative most of the time.
I am also unconvinced by Perri and if we stay up, I think we should be looking to upgrade. But for the time being, we are where we are.
They just feel gratuitously negative most of the time.
I am also unconvinced by Perri and if we stay up, I think we should be looking to upgrade. But for the time being, we are where we are.
I get less confident the closer it gets.
Fulham are third in the form table and unbeaten in six. It's not a great time to play them.
Fulham are third in the form table and unbeaten in six. It's not a great time to play them.
January 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I get less confident the closer it gets.
Fulham are third in the form table and unbeaten in six. It's not a great time to play them.
Fulham are third in the form table and unbeaten in six. It's not a great time to play them.
And you wouldn't even need to give it a primetime slot now.
Stick it on at 11.30pm on BBC2 and on YouTube and on the iPlayer. Easy.
Stick it on at 11.30pm on BBC2 and on YouTube and on the iPlayer. Easy.
January 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
And you wouldn't even need to give it a primetime slot now.
Stick it on at 11.30pm on BBC2 and on YouTube and on the iPlayer. Easy.
Stick it on at 11.30pm on BBC2 and on YouTube and on the iPlayer. Easy.
It's baffling. You'd think it would be so easy and cheap to do.
A decent sized but not massive room. A good booking agent with their ear to the ground. An audience. GO!
A decent sized but not massive room. A good booking agent with their ear to the ground. An audience. GO!
January 16, 2026 at 12:05 PM
It's baffling. You'd think it would be so easy and cheap to do.
A decent sized but not massive room. A good booking agent with their ear to the ground. An audience. GO!
A decent sized but not massive room. A good booking agent with their ear to the ground. An audience. GO!
I mean, it's not grotesque or hideous or disturbing, like lots of the other things he's said and done.
It's just utterly fucking pathetic. He's a massive, massive loser.
It's just utterly fucking pathetic. He's a massive, massive loser.
January 16, 2026 at 10:58 AM
I mean, it's not grotesque or hideous or disturbing, like lots of the other things he's said and done.
It's just utterly fucking pathetic. He's a massive, massive loser.
It's just utterly fucking pathetic. He's a massive, massive loser.
I've never forgotten the piece in the Guardian about why Teslas were dangerous. It basically said that Musk applied the 'update' protocol used for apps, to car features. If something didn't work, later versions would have a workaround, as they developed it.
But there's a bit more at stake with cars.
But there's a bit more at stake with cars.
January 16, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I've never forgotten the piece in the Guardian about why Teslas were dangerous. It basically said that Musk applied the 'update' protocol used for apps, to car features. If something didn't work, later versions would have a workaround, as they developed it.
But there's a bit more at stake with cars.
But there's a bit more at stake with cars.
Imagine how much of a fucking fanny you'd have to be to accept a prize that someone else had won and be genuinely pleased with it?
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
January 16, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Imagine how much of a fucking fanny you'd have to be to accept a prize that someone else had won and be genuinely pleased with it?
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
It's actually quite hard to imagine how such a person could achieve anything in life.
Maybe stop sending us your right wing trolls and making it worse then?
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Maybe stop sending us your right wing trolls and making it worse then?
A bizarre, brief, astonishing period when you could stick BBC2 on at 7pm and find yourself watching Butthole Surfers or Napalm Death or Nitzer Ebb while you ate your tea.
What a show.
What a show.
Any excuse to bollock on about this again... Snub TV is available, nearly entirely, on YouTube here, complete with VHS glitches and BBC2 idents...
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youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Snub TV (UK) - YouTube
Snub TV was an alternative culture television program that ran from 1987 to 1989. The original program, while made in the UK, was developed by American produ...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
A bizarre, brief, astonishing period when you could stick BBC2 on at 7pm and find yourself watching Butthole Surfers or Napalm Death or Nitzer Ebb while you ate your tea.
What a show.
What a show.
Stephen's outfits are quite a lot aren't they?
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Stephen's outfits are quite a lot aren't they?
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
I am similarly confused about Rachel. In that i don't particularly like her but i do quite fancy her.
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I am similarly confused about Rachel. In that i don't particularly like her but i do quite fancy her.
They wouldn't take her.
January 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
They wouldn't take her.
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Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
I say this with desperate, perhaps unfounded optimism.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
Flash of anger from Farage as a journalist asks what the deal between them was. Farage speaks over Jenrick, who looks sheepish and terribly alone.
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I say this with desperate, perhaps unfounded optimism.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
But all this has the potential to go quite badly wrong for them. Jenrick, Zahawi etc are big egos. It's a marriage of convenience, not love. Farage is malicious and overbearing. LOTS of sparks are going to fly because these are all awful people.
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Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight
'So I'm going to shut up for a bit...'
BREAKING - Jenrick tweets: "It's time for the truth."
Defection imminent.
Defection imminent.
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
'So I'm going to shut up for a bit...'
I drop wikipedia a tenner once a year.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I drop wikipedia a tenner once a year.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
It really is the last bastion of the old internet. The pre-evil internet.
David Lynch - died at 78.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
David Lynch died a year ago.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
I miss his artistry but I really miss him making me laugh.
January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
David Lynch - died at 78.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
Donald Trump - still going strong at 79.
There isn't a god.
In a sane political landscape, that affair would have ended Jenrick's political career there and then.
It's a shame that in these anti-political times, Jenrick doing extremely lucrative planning favours for mega-rich donors is not something anyone bothers to mention about him
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In a sane political landscape, that affair would have ended Jenrick's political career there and then.
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This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
Starmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers.
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders".
It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
!["And this is what Keir Starmer’s press secretary has said about Robert Jenrick at the lobby briefing this morning.
[Highlighted] Robert Jenrick was the immigration minister in a government that presided over an open borders experiment [Highlighted], a health minister who left people stuck on waiting lists, and a Treasury minister during the worst decline in living standards on record.”
While Reform continues to welcome failed Tory retreads, this Labor government is putting the country back on track."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cixgmtrg7nzy4gkmyfeosaox/bafkreibe3jczrmbmzfnhj2adl4qe432lbpmcbn6m6qrentwih7vxj4fu7y@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.
I'm sorry but the whole 'open borders experiment' stuff is bullshit - and an insult to both everyone's intelligence and to basic Labour values as I understand them. Starmer's cowardice; his unwillingness to take a side, shines through.
January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I'm sorry but the whole 'open borders experiment' stuff is bullshit - and an insult to both everyone's intelligence and to basic Labour values as I understand them. Starmer's cowardice; his unwillingness to take a side, shines through.
George Saunders wrote this in 2020.
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Love Letter”
Fiction by George Saunders: “What would you have done? I know what you will say: you would have fought. But how? How would you have fought?”
www.newyorker.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
George Saunders wrote this in 2020.
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It's incredible and incredibly prescient.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Either that or his dad was a fucking lunatic. I mean, I watched a lot of football in the 80s and the terraces back then were no place for a seven-year-old!
January 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Either that or his dad was a fucking lunatic. I mean, I watched a lot of football in the 80s and the terraces back then were no place for a seven-year-old!
Other than Farage himself, I can think of very few people in politics whose complete humiliation would delight me more.
January 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Other than Farage himself, I can think of very few people in politics whose complete humiliation would delight me more.