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Tom Davies

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One of them Legacy Fans. Working in Legacy Media. Trade unionist. Chartologist. Crisis correspondent - can sum it up in a word AND a sound. He/him. Views my own, blame no one else

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Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social · 6h
Whisper it, but a little bird tells me there could be some #LOFC content at this gig...
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haunted ghoulfriend👻🍬 @sliceofwife.bsky.social · 5h
rouge ai agents are attacking my toaster bro why does your toaster have an app
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 10h
Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres reduced Russia-linked bot networks have spread widely online and were repeated by President Zelensky, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced Russian bot activity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?
Experts say there is no evidence that Russian trolls have been affected by Ukraine’s Yandex attacks.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h
Pretty hard to misconstrue "If they need to use lethal force, then they’ll be able to do so" as anything but a policy allowing the use of lethal force. People in small boats aren't firing at anybody, Farage knows this. This is all Reform nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claim
Party leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 14h
Many wanted Nasser Al-Khelaifi to challenge Infantino. Those close to him said he didn't want it Those close to Qatar politics say the Emir expressly didn't want him to Qatar backed Infantino and that has been key to his survival www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Man City and PSG’s strange alliance illustrates modern football’s biggest problem
As geopolitical manoeuvring spills into the sport, Miguel Delaney explains why football has been too slow to act on state influence
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 12h
Man City are staggeringly lucky that their first home game since The Thing is against a club unable to credibly taunt them about financial doping, despotic petrostate interference and dishonesty.
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 13h
'Giving a voice to the voiceless' journalism there www.thenational.scot/news/2663137...
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BBC documentary to chart JK Rowling's rise and 'bitter exchanges' on trans rights
The BBC has announced a new two-part documentary about JK Rowling which will explore her rise to global fame and the controversies surrounding her views on Scottish independence, feminism, free speech...
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 13h
Manchester City v PSG is a reminder of the path not taken in sanctions battles
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Manchester City v PSG is a reminder of the path not taken in sanctions battles
Gulf-owned clubs have faced Uefa scrutiny – their different approaches since have left one at the top table and one raging against the machine Nasser al-Khelaifi was among those unhappy with the timing of the release of Manchester City’s guilty verdict by the Premier League a fortnight ago, although his visit with Paris Saint-Germain to the Etihad Stadium for a Champions League game on Wednesday provides a timely reminder that it could have been far worse. The two clubs are linked by more than their ownership by Gulf states, being among the first found to have broken Uefa’s financial fair play rules in 2014, and by a magnitude that would make subsequent offenders pale in comparison. Continue reading...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13h
Businessman in the Eye: Tax exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything – from high energy prices to taxes – that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him.
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 18h
David Squires on … the endless growth of football vodcasts and banal digital banter
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David Squires on … the endless growth of football vodcasts and banal digital banter
Our cartoonist looks at the battle for eyeball and earhole supremacy in the game’s rapidly changing media landscape * Buy a cartoon | Some of David’s favourite works * And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17h
Defence minister Luke Pollard explains that Saudi Arabia are our friends. Saudi Arabia has been committing war crimes in Yemen for years (like bombing a school bus in 2018 & killing more than 40 children). Thats who we're friends with.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Give the picture editor a raise
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Okay, so Reform is now actively advocating for the armed forces to murder unarmed civilians as official policy. At what point does the media at large stop treating these people as anything but fascistic far right thugs who under any normal functioning system would be condemned as extremists.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...
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Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence
Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?
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The Leyton Orientear @leytonorientear.com · 12/10/2026
We're pleased to be able to share some of what went down at the first "proper" #LOFC FAB meeting last week, thanks to Sam Hooper...
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The FAB is go! -- Orient's Fan Advisory Board holds its first meeting • Leyton Orientear • Leyton Orient FC independent news
Leyton Orient's Fan Advisory Board (FAB) met officially for the first time on October 5th. FAB member Sam Hooper provides 'Ear subscribers with some insight and learning from the meeting.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Big win for the performatively serious "defence" (military) hawks. We're prolonging our reliance on fossil fuels to own...Russia? And we're dialling back efforts to tackle what is plainly our no1 security risk measured by severity and likelihood of impact, i.e. the climate crisis.
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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
benefit ADUG, not the people of Manchester. No surprise whatsoever that these investments are being leveraged as threats to football, Manchester, and government. 'Look at what we paid for - don't risk it or else'. Those aren't the actions of benign benefactors: they are the tactics of gangsters.
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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As for the repeated defence that ADUG's investment in Manchester the city somehow exonerates them, well - that kind of proves the point about sportswashing, how it works and for whom. The regeneration of east Manchester and other outcomes are not acts of philanthropy but calculated, cynical PR to
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No mention of xG, low blocks, high presses and double pivots in these reports
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An awful lot of Chelsea's wealth and strength is built on Abramovich's cheating too, of course. This was the path English football chose for itself
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Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.
FAKE NEWS!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian data centre (that stopped all the far right online bot traffic) has proved just how “inevitable” all this ugly unwelcome tech is. Truly inevitable things (rain, time etc) aren’t that easy to switch off at the plug.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Three years of work tracing the questionable finances of the Russian oligarch and former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich continues. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
well done lads, it's 2026 & you've managed to allow the fucking Sun to position itself as slightly less hostile to people who support LGBT+ rights than The Big Supposedly Gay Dancing Show
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Once you add in the hundreds of millions of illicitly acquired Premier League TV money, prize money and UCL TV money unlocked by that cheating, you have not just to vacate all previous titles but also to try and reckon with a current squad that only exists thanks to that cheating.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As a demonstration of the impossibly of unpicking - with fines or points deductions - the effect of Man City's cheating, every single player who kicked a ball for City today joined the club after 2018, by when the club had already engaged in £900m+ of financial doping over nine years.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can’t really understand yourself from your own choices. I suspect most of us don’t even know what those choices would be. We measure ourselves by our varied reactions to fixed culture. And we can discuss that between ourselves, to understand one another. Anything else is thick as mince.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Green Party has written to the Telegraph demanding an apology and retraction for publishing these two cartoons, which they say use "well known racist and antisemitic tropes in depicting Mothin Ali and Zack Polanski"
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I do reckon one of Man City's punishments should be that the people who made the "Manchester thanks you, Sheikh Mansour" banner to be forced to tour Sudanese refugee camps to tell the people there why they love him so
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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Read this banner in the voice of Clay Davis
Banner at Anfield ahead of Liverpool v Man City saying "cheats", but with 114 £ signs instead of the "E"
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
yeah specifically it's the Persian one
Gulf between these teams - Liverpool 0 Man City 3
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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gonna be comedy gold when Spurs get gubbed twice by Citeh but still earn six points off them come season’s end.
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Radio commentary says "Manchester City have been ruthless, despite the circumstances." No, they've been ruthless *because* of the circumstances - the circumstances that have enabled them to buy up who they want for 18 years.
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Mike Landers @ukplissken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It's weird watching this. You want the game to be important, but you know that it isn't, and this current City side is also built by cheating. #LIVMCI
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
City have got good strength in depth.
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In fact City storming ahead at the top of the Premier League while the world knows it's all built on cheating is even funnier, a more stark and telling indicator of the disgrace and farce the Greatest League In The World (TM) is in
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
City winning here doesn't stop them being cheats, provides no redemption, and shouldn't alleviate any of their "pain"
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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fernandez there asking for the yellow card within a split second of the foul. A perfect match between a horrible shithead and an awful club he plays for.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 11/10/2026
anyone who fell for the very obvious lie that “campus free speech” was an issue should be stripped of any “public intellectual” title. maybe we call them “public wallet inspectees” instead
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I did it in 2023 - it's great, though I did wheeze back to the pub thinking, "This is a young man's/woman's game"
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Dignity-averse City fan with an "In Khaldoon we trust" banner. That's gonna age well
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I love it when privately-educated people just blithely announce to you that "I didn't grow up wealthy, my parents just made sacrifices" like, ok m8, what sacrifices were my parents supposed to make? How much can you really get for a pre-owned burgundy Renault 19?
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Sam Cunningham @samcunningham.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robbie Savage: panto villain, prankster, eccentric... good manager? Piece for @sport.theguardian.com from his first lesgue game as Peterborough manager against his old club Leicester. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Robbie Savage the panto villain puts scepticism aside to leave Leicester reeling
Peterborough’s new boss has long been a divisive figure but a stunning win at struggling former club offered a glimpse of his fearless philosophy
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Tom Davies @tomdaviese17.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Electric Athletic is a headline writer's dream. I guess they didn't quite spark in this game. Could do with a livewire winger or two
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?
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Jew-baiting Greens haven't peaked: they're just getting startedIt's strange having a fully fledged, fully funded racist party in our political line-up. It does not comfort me that in Holborn & St Pancras the Greens "only" got nearly 9,000 votes. If the British National Party, another party defined by a racist lie, had won that many votes in any constituency, there would be pandemonium. There would be riots. There wouldn't be amused, jocular analyses in all the main papers. Its leader wouldn't be ushered on to the Today programme as a senior statesman for a light dressing-down by Nick Robinson.
He wouldn't be allowed to repeat propaganda as Polanski did (he sounded as if he was reading lines from a piece of paper). He wouldn't be greeted with a comical, indulgent shrug.
And if I were a Jew in Holborn, or anywhere, watching this, what would I now be thinking? I would be thinking: I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me. Is anyone doing anything to protect me from them?
Just look at the recent hate crime statistics. Jews are now almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the targets of a religious hate crime. So no one is stopping it. No one is even touching it. This is an unacceptable place for politics to have reached.
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Another great 🧵 from Annie - we have talked about starting a radical Jewish history podcast together - hopefully we’ll get round to it one day!
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