Coming out of the corner

Nominations have closed for the pointless, bullshit election Nigel Farage has forced on the people of Clacton, and this is the list of candidates.

You know without reading the entire list that 85, 90% of them don't care about the people they are purporting to be standing for, and that 85, 90% of them know they aren't going to be elected. They just want their 15 minutes of fame and just want to be on that platform come the 13th of August because every TV camera in the UK, every newspaper in the UK will be there to see them and make them famous, for however short a time.

85, 90% of them are utterly contemptible. They aren't doing this because they think they can win, or because they want to be MPs, or because they think they can beat him. They are doing it out of ego and some self-centred delusion.

Count Binface, even Laurence Fox, have a right to be there because they have a desire to win. To get elected and to make an actual point.

Farage is the fuckwhit who started all this and deserves nothing but contempt because he is just trying to escape scrutiny for everything he has done. He is claiming it is him versus the establishment but......... well just look at the list of people he is standing against. If these are the establishment then this country is in far more trouble than I thought.

So between him and the other thirty people, there is a lot of contempt and disgust to go around.

Netflix and Disney+ subscribers could be told to pay licence fee

Streaming service customers could be told to pay a licence fee to help protect the BBC under a proposal suggested by the culture secretary. 

(from Sky TV)

One idea under the plan would see the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV subscribers paying an "additional charge" as part of their subscription, Lisa Nandy told MPs.

"We could add a charge to people's streaming subscriptions, which would be paid by the consumer. We could have a staggered approach, which has been suggested to us, where someone might pay a small additional amount if they had a streaming service, rather than the full licence fee, or we could expand the scope to everyone who has one," she said. 

Tell me again why people who don't watch any terrestrial TV should be FORCED to support a service they do not use?

Johnson and his band of corrupt fucks screwed us.

US national anthem to be sung before World Cup final

FIFA has announced that Jennifer Hudson will perform the US national anthem ahead of the World Cup final on Sunday.

In a break from tradition, The Star-Spangled Banner will be played as well as the national anthems of the two finalists, neither of which will be the USA after they were knocked out during the last-16 against Belgium.

This has only ever happened before when a team hosting the tournament was also playing in it, most recently France in 1998 (who also won the tournament that year).

The national anthems of Canada and Mexico, the two other co-hosts of the 2026 World Cup, are not due to be played.

I mean really? Could he make it more obvious just how far up Donald Trump's arse he is?

You'd think after bending the rules on an epic scale - so epic that the entire world condemned him for it - he would be trying to reign it in, but apparently he's just given up trying to disguise the fact he is Trump's toyboy and is now just doing whatever the fuckwhit wants.

Twelve people have been arrested over an alleged right-wing terror threat to an Islamic event at a country estate in Suffolk, police said.

Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London said the UK Ijtima event at Shrubland Hall at Barham was ended early on Sunday as a precaution after the possible threat.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the response of the police in tackling a "credible threat" to the festival had "undoubtedly saved lives".

We will of course be hearing a demand for "OUTRAGE" from Nigel Farage over this.

Because any terrorist attack is a source of shame for this country, and we know how Nigel Farage feels about terrorist attacks, and his demand for action and outrage.

Are we going to see more papers of Click Bait Kate "presenting" the trophy to the men's champion?

And are we going to see a picture of the men's champion in the said pictures?

My bet is that it's more likely, yes, because I don't know if you've noticed, but men tend to get more appreciation, more respect and more notice from the press.

When "Mistaken Identity" was originally introduced, it was supposed to be used for when a booking (a yellow card or a red card) was given to one member of a tea instead of another.

So if Number 10 commits a foul, and - for whatever reason - Number 5 was given the card, VAR could call up the referee and say "You dipshit, you gave the card to the wrong player"

This was kind of important, because it can have a huge impact on a match, and also it was kind of important because if you watch various videos on youtube you'll see most cases of mistaken identity happen to black players (I'm not going to suggest most referees are racist and have trouble telling black players apart, but....... anyway).

But it seems in The 2026 World Cup it's use has been extended - it can now be used to reverse - or over turn - a decision. We saw this last night in Argentina vs Switzerland, and we saw it in a previous game (America vs Paraguay). VAR can decide to overrule the referee's decision and say "We want the penalty to go the other way"

This isn't - by any definition - mistaken identity. This isn't a case of thinking you booked the wrong player. This is ACTUALLY, LITERALLY, changing the decision of the referee.

Now whether this is right or wrong, and whether it should be allowed or not, I think the least they can do is give it a different name. Because calling it "mistaken identity" is just a gross misnomer and doesn't describe what it does at all.

It's not "mistaken identity" - it's overturning the penalty.

Which, if you are unaware, is a common thing in American Football. It happens quite a lot.

So Linda Noskova, at the age of 21, wins Wimbledon - and in the process she wins her first grand-slam title.

This is quite an impressive feat as feats go.

So what does The Times do?

They show us a picture not of this very impressive young woman - a woman who has done something very few other women have done, and something most of us will never be able to do in our lives.

No. They show us a picture of a woman whose biggest achievement is presenting a dish to the woman who won her first Wimbledon Title and her first Grand-Slam title at the age of 21.

I cannot apologise enough for my previous post.

At the time I wrote it I was not aware of the circumstances of her death, and while I am not going to suggest that anything I wrote was untrue, there are things you write, and things you don't.

The North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland barely got about 30 degrees. It was only the Midlands and the South East that got above 30, and only the South east that hit anywhere near 35.

So the phrase "UK bakes in 35C highs" is incredibly misleading and incredibly South of England centric.