What is the percentage chance of a lower league club getting a lucrative #FACup replay against a top club in any given season? I would imagine it is quite low.

Disappointing end last night no doubt about it but some of the comments about Klopp beyond nasty. Lot of entitled people out there. Convinced these fans weren’t around Rodger’s era never mind Hodgson’s. Klopp leaves us with most major trophies in England.

How about players walking to the ground carrying their boots in a paper bag as well?

This nonsense figure was plucked from the air in 2017 by Utsa Patnaik, a Marxist academic. It doesn’t stand up to even the most basic scrutiny. What a surprise that Russ, he of the infamous sex blog, would swallow it.

Just a quick one.

I had dental surgery this week, which has left me a bit of a groggy mess.

After said surgery, I...

Who among us hasn’t skim-read a CND pamphlet and misattributed a Greenpeace quote to the Defence Select Committee because of toothache?

One of the most horrifying videos from October 7. A terrified and bloodied Naama Levy is pulled by her hair from back of a jeep as crowds of Gazans celebrate and jeer.

Do not for one moment forget how this war started.
#BringThemHomeNow

Lots of people still seem to think the battery tech is pie in the sky but really the game has completely changed in the last three years here and we are now in the ‘shockingly rapid exponential build out’ phase for grid scale batteries.

Gary Lineker says that people should read about Miko Peled. OK Gary, here are some things you should have read before posting 🧵

Economists (not historians!) need to debunk wild claims like this with boring facts like:

1) The vast majority of the world’s wealth was created after decolonisation

2) the main driver of long term productivity growth over the last millennium is the advancement of science

People just spit out this ridiculous figure, which was more or less pulled out of thin air by a Marxists, as if it’s a proven fact

Excellent letter in today’s Guardian on the Cass Review, and how the suppression of research undermines the right to safe medical treatment, from Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender

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True this

People doing civil disobedience have once again lost sight of the fact that *the whole point is you are disobeying the law* and the State that put the law there is not gonna go 'ah your heart was in the right place tho', it's going to enforce its laws.

Monday sees the start of #Liverpool Restaurant Week with 75 venues taking part in the initiative that has been organised by ⁦⁦Liverpool BID Co.⁩ - Liverpool Business News

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Great news! Two Norfolk offshore windfarms given planning permission to double in size. We just need the same enthusiasm for onshore wind.
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This addendum to a column by Owen Jones is quite something.

Marine traffic on the Mersey, today Peel Ports IronMenCrosby 🌤 #Merseyside #maritime lbndaily.co.uk/ships-on-the-m…

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This is Mobina Rostami, an Iranian volleyball player.

After Iran’s attack on Israel, she posted on social media 'As an Iranian, I am truly ashamed of the regime's attack on Israel, but you need to know that the people in Iran love Israel and hate the Islamic Republic.'

Now her…