Populist Labour. No shame.

Britain is now a total laughing stock - a country where we arrest the authors of light comedies and interrogate them about their tweets. It would be laughable it it wasn't so serious. - Graham Linehan on his arrest today 👇

Graham Linehan seems to me an unpleasant, hate-filled person. But the state is embarked on a spiral of arresting people for "wrong" thoughts or speech. On both left and right, idiots cheer when one of the "other side" get arrested.

What the fuck has the UK become? This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.

Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef on the set of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Sad Hill Cemetery, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos. Interesting short documentary in Spanish about its filming in Burgos. youtu.be/L7_3AhfBhd4

This professional gambler broke football. Tony Bloom made MILLIONS betting on sports. Then he applied those same tactics to Brighton FC. Taking them from bankruptcy to $860 million. His most brilliant insight? A strange approach everyone else ignored:

Nick Clegg sounding remarkably brittle here when subject to any scrutiny about his time at Meta.

Sad to hear of the passing of Joe Bugner who twice took on Muhammad Ali. I met him once as a kid - so here’s a share from a short snapshot in time. Before his much publicised fight with Joe Frazier in Earls Court in 1973, he came into my local swimming pool at the Kensington

I’m trying to imagine a situation in which I phoned the Metropolitan Police to report three tweets, & they not only phoned me back, gave me a crime number & took me seriously, but dispatched five officers to arrest the Tweeter. It’s fantastical, unimaginable. Who is behind this?

"These are totally unacceptable tweets... I think it was proportionate to arrest him" Zack Polanski, Green Party Leader, on the arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow airport on Monday. #Newsnight

I told the stylist I need to look like Nick Luck. Best she could do.

Suffolk Downs in its heyday 1935. Boston Public Library

152. Renate und Albrecht Woeste - Zukunfts-Rennen (G3) over 1400m at Baden-Baden🍾 2yo - Group Race - 55.000€ 🥇GOSTAM c by SAXON WARRIOR 🥈COMMANDER‘S INTENT c by VICTOR LUDORUM 🥉ZUENDER c by AMARON 🎩Darius Racing & M. Motschmann 📌Andreas Wöhler 🏇🏿Eduardo Pedroza

G1 Grosser Preis von Baden on Sunday looks like the race of the year: 💪🏼GOLIATH (Adlerflug) 💙REBELS ROMANCE (Dubawi) 🪖PATH OF SOLDIER (Soldier Hollow) 👑HOCHKÖNIG (Polish Vulcano) 🇦🇪DUBAI HONOUR (Pride Of Dubai) ❄️COLD HEART (Alpha) ➡️STRAIGHT (Zarak) ❤️ALLENO (Nathaniel)

Final field for the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden (Sep 7) this Sunday! #WorldPool | Deutscher Galopp

Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for #DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there*.

Old Haymarket, 1930 and 2025 An early stage of constructing the Birkenhead/Liverpool tunnel. The Excelsior pub building is still visible in both, just left of the left hand worker and under the Katarina Johnson-Thompson mural in the newer one

📸 | The Peruvian Navy's stunning B.A.P. Unión sailing ship docked in Liverpool yesterday evening 🇵🇪⛵️ Photo by Gregg Wolstenholme

I worked in Lisbon for a spell and rode that team many times. Sympathies to all who have lost loved ones today 🇵🇹