Remembering the 97 people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough 35 years ago, thinking of their families, survivors, everybody affected;

Their long campaign for justice exposed police lies about Liverpool supporters, but still nobody held accountable.

#JFT97 theguardian.com/football/2024/…

Another Lovely Bastard Verdict 🔽👍🙏

If you've had enough of experts, here's Billy Bragg. Hard to fathom why he wasn't asked to conduct the review rather than Hilary Cass, former President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health & Great Ormond Street consultant. I mean he did write 'Sexuality' so . . .

So loved working with Mark. The cleverest person in the room isn’t usually the nicest person in the room yet there was Mark Urban managing to be both. Terrible day for viewers. Thanks for it all Mark, as viewer and later a colleague. It was an absolute pleasure.

🚨personal news🚨I’ll be leaving the BBC at the end of May. Newsnight in its current format will end then, so most posts will go. I decided not to apply for other BBC jobs. Working there for 35 yrs has been life defining: an eyewitness to history collaborating with such brilliant…

Transition season

My God, ⁦Johnny Marr⁩ - the sounds he can bring from a guitar. So wonderful. He absolutely owns the Smiths legacy and honours it beautifully.

Another lovely Bastard Verdict ⬇️👍🙏

Late to this, but these from Political Currency are excellent.

Thanks Rob!

OJ Simpson has died, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Something Nicole Brown never had the opportunity of, after her life was brutally cut short and taken away by a man who dined out of his notoriety of getting away with it.
news.sky.com/story/o-j-simp…

Well, that was appalling by Liverpool. Beat Palace on Sunday for Klopp.

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

Lawyer ‘repeatedly crossed line’ in rape trial - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

How bizarre.

Some personal news: I’m leaving The Times and The Sunday Times Times Sport⁩. Been made redundant. I’ve loved my eight years there, great people, I thank them for the platform and I leave as current Sports Journalists and The FSA Football Journalist of the Year 👍

When promoting book on long form i/vs people often said pods had taken on role but 1) mostly not scrutiny but backstory of frontline pols 2) most honest guests are generally ex-pols. So credit Michael Gove who’s not quite ex and is honest here, whatever you think of Brexit.

More of that NN reporting ⬇️👏

EXC - Fmr Chief Inspector of Prisons tells #Newsnight govt plans to build more jails “utterly bonkers”, saying even if they spend £4bn on new places, they can’t spend fast enough to keep pace with rising jail population - currently at 88,926 (full capacity Eng & Wales 88,890). 1/

Debate - which the new NN built around - is essential. I first tried to get discussion on these issues on NN in 2013. As time has shown there was much to discuss, but the prominent campaigners for trans rights (not the same as trans people) opposed debate. Wasn’t a wise strategy.