Martin Calladine
@uglygame.bsky.social
Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
What was it, then? Motivational racism?
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
What was it, then? Motivational racism?
A reminder that:
1. The Browns deserve zero sympathy for their plight when they bring a $250m+ sexual predator back into the fold.
2. It's been far too long since Deshaun Watson suffered an Achilles tear.
1. The Browns deserve zero sympathy for their plight when they bring a $250m+ sexual predator back into the fold.
2. It's been far too long since Deshaun Watson suffered an Achilles tear.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A reminder that:
1. The Browns deserve zero sympathy for their plight when they bring a $250m+ sexual predator back into the fold.
2. It's been far too long since Deshaun Watson suffered an Achilles tear.
1. The Browns deserve zero sympathy for their plight when they bring a $250m+ sexual predator back into the fold.
2. It's been far too long since Deshaun Watson suffered an Achilles tear.
He not been the same since he started collaborating with Matt Le Tissier on his lyrics.
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
He not been the same since he started collaborating with Matt Le Tissier on his lyrics.
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
It's great that Birmingham owners want to build a modern stadium to match the size of their ambitions for the club. City should be huge.
But it's a shame it looks like an upturned coffee table or a beetle that's stuck on its back.
But it's a shame it looks like an upturned coffee table or a beetle that's stuck on its back.
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's great that Birmingham owners want to build a modern stadium to match the size of their ambitions for the club. City should be huge.
But it's a shame it looks like an upturned coffee table or a beetle that's stuck on its back.
But it's a shame it looks like an upturned coffee table or a beetle that's stuck on its back.
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
And it's not even representative of the general level of involvement that owning a token brings. The small number of Spurs votes to date have been mind-numbingly unimportant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
And it's not even representative of the general level of involvement that owning a token brings. The small number of Spurs votes to date have been mind-numbingly unimportant.
It was one thing clubs dabbling in crypto five years ago, when these things had not yet shown what a total con they are. But Spurs have had a fan token for nearly two years.
How on earth can they justify continuing to encourage fans to buy things that are now worth fractions of their launch price?
How on earth can they justify continuing to encourage fans to buy things that are now worth fractions of their launch price?
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It was one thing clubs dabbling in crypto five years ago, when these things had not yet shown what a total con they are. But Spurs have had a fan token for nearly two years.
How on earth can they justify continuing to encourage fans to buy things that are now worth fractions of their launch price?
How on earth can they justify continuing to encourage fans to buy things that are now worth fractions of their launch price?
To be fair to Spurs, they are not wrong when they describe their fan tokens as "high-risk."
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
To be fair to Spurs, they are not wrong when they describe their fan tokens as "high-risk."
A few months on from the rescue and takeover at Morecambe and, sad to say, things aren't going too well.
They started the season late and so had a number of game in hand. Yesterday's defeat means, for the first time, that winning their last game in hand wouldn't get them out of the relegation zone.
They started the season late and so had a number of game in hand. Yesterday's defeat means, for the first time, that winning their last game in hand wouldn't get them out of the relegation zone.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A few months on from the rescue and takeover at Morecambe and, sad to say, things aren't going too well.
They started the season late and so had a number of game in hand. Yesterday's defeat means, for the first time, that winning their last game in hand wouldn't get them out of the relegation zone.
They started the season late and so had a number of game in hand. Yesterday's defeat means, for the first time, that winning their last game in hand wouldn't get them out of the relegation zone.
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for Labour that voters refuse to recognise the difference between the government's progressive, well-intentioned racism and the destructive, toxic racism of Reform and the far-right.
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for Labour that voters refuse to recognise the difference between the government's progressive, well-intentioned racism and the destructive, toxic racism of Reform and the far-right.
Wonderfully ironic column where a one-time Labour candidate, and self-proclaimed guide to smarter thinking, claims that the BBC's output is a product of institutionalisation, without recognising his own degraded and ever more rightwing output since he joined The Times.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Wonderfully ironic column where a one-time Labour candidate, and self-proclaimed guide to smarter thinking, claims that the BBC's output is a product of institutionalisation, without recognising his own degraded and ever more rightwing output since he joined The Times.
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
Nick casts his final vote.
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nick casts his final vote.
Nick closes in on the win.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Nick closes in on the win.
Would-be Mayor of London unveils three-point plan:
1. Public should leave UK
2. Remaining people to travel in "armed big groups"
3. A tax strike to "restore safety"
Tragic events like this reveal the naked opportunism of so much of the far-right, but also sometimes their utter idiocy and inadequacy
1. Public should leave UK
2. Remaining people to travel in "armed big groups"
3. A tax strike to "restore safety"
Tragic events like this reveal the naked opportunism of so much of the far-right, but also sometimes their utter idiocy and inadequacy
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Would-be Mayor of London unveils three-point plan:
1. Public should leave UK
2. Remaining people to travel in "armed big groups"
3. A tax strike to "restore safety"
Tragic events like this reveal the naked opportunism of so much of the far-right, but also sometimes their utter idiocy and inadequacy
1. Public should leave UK
2. Remaining people to travel in "armed big groups"
3. A tax strike to "restore safety"
Tragic events like this reveal the naked opportunism of so much of the far-right, but also sometimes their utter idiocy and inadequacy
Man dismissed for being a paedophile to receive enhanced redundancy package from employer.
November 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Man dismissed for being a paedophile to receive enhanced redundancy package from employer.
Nothing says the magic of Boxing Day football like getting home on the 27th December.
November 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nothing says the magic of Boxing Day football like getting home on the 27th December.
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We now go live to Professor Rentoul.
It's not over for the Royal Family until they give a full account of when senior royals became aware Andrew was a sexual predator and what resources - financial and PR - were provided over the years to assist his efforts to avoid accountability.
![At the beginning of November, an insider at ABC News leaked a hot mic interview with Amy Robach, Good Morning America's co-host and Breaking News anchor at ABC, recorded three months earlier. The segment, passed to the investigative website Project Veritas, showed Robach venting her frustration to an off-camera producer about an interview she and a colleague Jim Hill had conducted with Virginia Giuffre in 2015, which was then squashed by the network.
I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts [now Virginia Giuffre] [alleged Epstein victim]. We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, Who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. [Virginia] told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years, we convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. The Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:er4qp6hqar7bhyo455dsrv7j/bafkreig4t5tmy24e7ia3m5wwn64c55kraqdc5q6obdu26empcajar64g4u@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's not over for the Royal Family until they give a full account of when senior royals became aware Andrew was a sexual predator and what resources - financial and PR - were provided over the years to assist his efforts to avoid accountability.
In the new Private Eye.
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In the new Private Eye.