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Charlie Strachan retweeted
GOOSEBUMPS! 🤯
@HibernianFC's players are serenaded by their supporters with a spine-tingling rendition of "Sunshine on Leith" after their Edinburgh Derby triumph 🙌
#PremierSportsCup
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Just a reminder when Fuel Prices finally start going down, they won't go down.
The Oil Companies and Supermarkets will add another 5p onto their profits, because why not, the Government won't do anything about it.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Yung Lean and GENER8ION stole the show at the VMAs last night with their performance of the duo’s “STORM,” recreating the stunning music video directed by @ROMAIN_GAVRAS and choreographed by Damien Jalet that went viral earlier this year.
Lean walked onstage in character from the video and smashed a Moonman award. He then joined five rows of dancers clad in private school uniforms, who moved in mesmerizing unison while Lean stood in the center eating ice cream. As the performance ended, Lean walked up to the lens and spat the rest of his cone into the camera. Perfection.
“STORM” was nominated for four awards last night, including Video of the Year, Best Longform Video, Best Direction (Romain Gavras), and Best Choreography (Damien Jalet).
Charlie Strachan retweeted
The Atlantic Basin hasn't seen a single hurricane at this point in the season for the first time in 112 years. El Niño-driven winds have suppressed and dissipated the Atlantic hurricane season so far. Hardly any media coverage about this. But as soon as a hurricane does arrive, the usual climate alarmism will be pumped out by the media.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
The Israel Video Ed Sheeran Doesn't Want You To See
THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!
Charlie Strachan retweeted
When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.
It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed the UK is officially the world’s dampest desert. Three-quarters of the nation has been plunged into drought, despite the fact it constantly pisses down. You are therefore banned from gardening and bathing your children so that data centres don’t go without.
No one knows why countries that contain actual deserts don’t experience the same difficulties we do. For example, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have a hose pipe ban. Unfortunately, we live in a place where the weather breaks everything. Sunshine? Drought. Rain? Floods. An inch of snow? The whole country closes for some reason.
The only weather the UK can actually cope with is grey and miserable. Any deviation leads to immediate national collapse. If we didn’t have such a brilliant water system, we’d be in serious trouble. But thankfully, our system is built to protect corporate profits, no matter what. Everything is secondary to that, including your ability to drink.
Thankfully, Andy Burnham is showing leadership on the matter. He is taking the emergency step of doing absolutely nothing. When questioned about nationalisation, the Prime Minister calmly explained that his donors won’t allow it.
In a bizarre coincidence, the system that allows them to personally profit is the only one that could possibly work. Sure, we could end up with crop failures and food shortages, but I’m sure things would’ve been worse if Jeremy Corbyn had got his way.
Obviously, this is not a systemic problem, it’s a technological one. Virtually all our rainfall is lost because we can’t make pipes that don’t burst. Water companies have absolutely no incentive to stop leaks and every incentive not to, but I’m confident this has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
There is a hint of delicious irony to all this.
China currently manufactures 80% of the world’s solar panels, 75–80% of all batteries, 60–65% of wind turbine parts and 55% of global crude steel.
This staggering modern-day success story represents the largest, quietest transfer of industrial might and power in human history.
China's manufacturing grunt is more than the next 15 countries combined—larger than the US, EU and Japan together. To power this industrial onslaught, China commissions around six state-of-the-art coal plants a month (50–80 GW a year).
It operates over 1,200 coal plants totaling 1,271 GW—more than half the world’s total capacity. Its coal mining fleet is four times larger than second-place India.
As a result, China’s share of global manufacturing grew from 6% to 30% since 2000. Meanwhile, America’s plunged like a lead balloon from 25% to around 12%, and Europe’s collapsed from 25% to around 14%.
How? China uses abundant, reliable coal power, refuses to bind itself to net-zero, and has leadership that treats factories and steel mills as critical assets—unlike the West.
In geopolitical terms, this should be a lightning rod across the decaying West. But the job on the West is just about done, and the Western green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by China.
This rise to dizzy heights was only made possible by using the same demonised dense fossil fuel energy that has already sent the Western world spiralling into a brackish, foul-tasting, latter-day mediaeval backwater.
It should be the biggest, loudest, and most outrageous news story in the Western world—but it hardly rates a mention.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Every major leaderboard at the 2026 FIFA World Cup tells the same story:
A different superstar is chasing Lionel Messi.
Kylian Mbappé — 11 goal contributions.
Lamine Yamal — 22 completed dribbles.
Leandro Trossard — 17 chances created.
Michael Olise — 5 big chances created.
Kylian Mbappé — 8.43 average rating.
Kylian Mbappé — 4 Player of the Match awards.
And above all of them?
Lionel Messi.
12 goal contributions — most.
24 completed dribbles — most.
21 chances created — most.
8 big chances created — most.
8.73 average rating — highest.
5 Player of the Match awards — most.
8 goals — joint-most.
4 assists.
At 39 years old.
In another World Cup final.
Some players give you goals.
Some give you creativity.
Some give you dribbling.
If you want everything in one player, there is Lionel Messi. 🇦🇷🐐
No one comes close.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Well, it's never coming home... for another 2 years at least!
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Michelle Mone owes £188m to the Government, in the last 9 months nothing has been done to collect it.
If you owed £188, they would have fined you thousands of pounds and sent the bailiffs round.
For the rich they do nothing.
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Charlie Strachan retweeted
These two would give an aspirin a headache with the nonsense they talk on camera! 👇
@sammatterface and #LeeDixon
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Damn, Iran did not waste a second, they had this diss track ready to go, with the exact final score, after trump's cheating ways jinxed and screwed our US Men's Soccer Team.
He's turned the whole world against us.
The song is 🔥, tho.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
A Venezuelan journalist, visibly disabled, had all his questions refused by the English players…
until Jude Bellingham stopped and took the time to answer respectfully.
Charlie Strachan retweeted
mexico genuinely has one of the best stadiums at this world cup, but they’re not getting the hype they deserve. that view is absolutely insane man.🇲🇽 xitter.gq/WorldCupXtraa/status/2…
Charlie Strachan retweeted
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
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