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Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 4d

Toughest moment of the season

Fantasy premier league “pick your team name” box. Empty.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 6d

Well there you go

Google trends graph showing searches for “colander” spiking about an hour ago

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 6d

Oh

Google trends graph showing searches for “eyes hurt” spiking in the UK about an hour ago

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 6d

A spectacular eclipse

Twilight saga: eclipse

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 7d

Pres Trump weighs in, in support of Gianni Infantino. FIFA would be making a “terrible mistake” to replace him, he says. World Cup will “never be profitable again” without him

Trump post: FIFA would be making a terrible mistake if, for any reason, they even considered replacing President Gianni Infantino. He is fantastic, having just presided over the most successful World Cup, by four times, ever presented. If he is gone, it will never be as successful or profitable again! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 11d

AI prompts under the "Andy Burnham Shirt Shopping" vid on YouTube are amazing. Without this technology we have no way of finding this out.

"Which football team does Andy support?"

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 17d

The season is underway with probably the worst penalty shootout we’ll see all season in the Carabao Cup preliminary round. Rochdale won 2-1, Tranmere missed *four in a row*

Tranmere miss four in a row and lose 2-1

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 19d

Similarly, why is “Great Britain” slightly south of the Forest of Bowland, Lancs

Google maps screen grab showing “Great Britain” just sound of the Forest of Bowland

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· 21d

Daily Telegraph is on the fence then

Daily Telegraph Sport: Football must be saved from this megalomaniac

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 15

Moment we were obviously cooked, Pickford asking for the hydration break

Jordan Pickford doing the “drinks, lads?” gesture in A WORLD CUP SEMI FINAL

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 12

World Cup fever has officially hit Apple Music

2: Wonderwall - Oasis

4: Three Lions - Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds

54: Vindaloo - Fat Les

61: World in Motion - New Order

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 9

If anyone needs a Logan Sargent Williams F1 hat TK Maxx has you covered. £12.99. Don’t rush all at once.

White and blue hat with LS and 2 on it

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 4

Hydration break

Ken Clarke fortifying himself at the dispatch box

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 2

Lyle Lanley from those there Simpsons

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jul 1

I've found the location of Number 10 North

Map of Downing Street, Manchester

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 27

Weather in east Rutherford, NJ, 22C and rain

A man on a TV saying “Jesus, I see what you’ve done for your people, and I want that for me”

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 27

Is there anywhere better to spend a summer Saturday

Trent bridge looking glorious

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 21

The president of the United States says Keir Starmer will resign

Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom.
He failed badly on two very important subjects- IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY (OPEN NORTH SEA OIL!). I wish him well! President
DJT

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 19

Nice of Frasier to let the BBC use his apartment

Gabby Logan, Wayne Rooney, Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott sat around a futuristic coffee table with Seattle behind them

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 17

Jordan, pictured in happier times

Eddie Jordan getting sprayed with champagne

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 16

The World Cup showing America what our game is all about I see

Simpsons screenshot: It’s all here. Fast kicking, low scoring. And ties? You bet!

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 12

This bit is by some distance the silliest thing about this World Cup

The VAR room standing to attention for some reason

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 11

Healey resignation letter in full:

11" June 2026
This is a letter I never expected to write, and I do so now with great regret and reluctance.
I am proud of what we have done in less than two years as a Labour Government. We've stepped up to lead internationally for Ukraine with the Coalition of the Willing and Ukraine Defence Contact Group, established Britain as a leading voice for Europe in NATO, raised defence investment to 2.5% of GDP three years earlier than anyone expected, launched the deepest defence reforms in 50 years, won the biggest UK defence export deals for decades, published a first-of-its-kind Strategic Defence Review, gave our Armed Forces the biggest pay rise in nearly 20 years, boosted military morale, fixed over 1,200 of the worst forces family homes, reset relations with European allies and signed major defence agreements with Germany, Norway and France.
You have led this as PM, earning wide respect at home and abroad. Like me, I know you are exceptionally proud of our Forces and all of those who work in UK Defence.
We came into government, recognising Britain faced a new era of threat which demanded a new era for defence. The SDR we jointly commissioned set the 10-year vision to transform our Armed Forces, strengthen alliances, invest in the technology that is changing warfare and back British industry to make defence an engine for growth.
This new era for defence required further investment through the Defence Investment Plan. The excellent and extensive cross-government work that completed in January - overseen by you, me and the Chancellor
- confirmed the scale of the challenge and the rising demands on defence.
Since then, you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.
Since then, the demands on defence have increased still further, as have the UK commitments you have rightly made to allies. Conflict in the Middle East, with the UK now leading the multinational S…

As we have regularly discussed, I am certain that a headmark date for 3% of GDP on defence in 2030 is what Britain must set. This commitment would have strong cross-party support. Other European allies are stepping up in this way.
I know how hard you have worked to get to this point. And in funding the DIP, I fully recognise the strain this places on colleagues in other Departments, both now as you have required spending switched into defence and in the future. I am very grateful to those colleagues who have supported this, and I appreciate how difficult their choices will have been.
As I've outlined to you, there are credible ways of meeting the mid-term funding challenges, working multi-nationally and as other European nations are doing, to allow us to protect our ability to deliver the missions of our Labour Government.
However, your DIP financial settlement - which I was first given in full on Monday afternoon this week - falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time. The extra support is backloaded when the pressure of operations and imperative to speed up readiness to fight is in the first two years and it rises to just 2.68% of GDP in 2030, when we will reach 2.6% next year with the investment we are already making.
You spelled out the threats last week: "it is our intelligence assessment, and the assessment of other countries in NATO, that there could be an attack by Russia on NATO as soon as 2030."
You know what defence needs. You made the argument for this powerfully in your speech at the Munich Security Conference back in February. Without a DIP that meets the moment in this way, I am being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe.
After explaining to you that / would not be able to accept a DIP settlement that does not give our Forces the resources they need, I am now left with no other option than…

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 8

The 2017 election was nine years ago today!

Tim Farron and Mr Fishfinger

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 3

Looking at old Question Time guest lists and it's good to be able to confirm that, say, Margaret Beckett once met Michael Winner

Jilly Cooper, Liam Fox, Max Hastings, Alun Michael, Ray Michie

Margaret Beckett, Kenneth Clarke, David Steel, Michael Winner, Kirsten Lippincott

Justine Greening, Diane Abbott, Roger Helmer, Mick Hucknall, Simon Wolfson

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 2

Regret to inform someone at Hansard in 2002 did a typo

Mr. Brady

What is the Prime Minister doing about the case of Mr. Bums?

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 2

Enjoyable line from Graham Brady to Tony Blair at a PMQs in 2002

Mr. Graham Brady
(Altrincham and Sale, West)
During the Prime Minister's current visit to the United Kingdom,

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· Jun 1

Unexpected Bruce Springsteen appearance in the Mandelson files release

[07/06/2025, 13:37:27] Pat McFadden: Hamilton a great relief. Very important win.
Punctures narrative that we are dead in Scotland. Lots of last minute SR panic and
pleading. Third Party and I in Liverpool to see Bruce Springsteen this evening.
Going to try to focus on that tonight.

[07/06/2025, 13:38:39] Peter Mandelson: Right priority

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· May 28

This should be the format of all debates

Each debate lasted about three hours, with each candidate speaking for sixty minutes, followed by a ninety-minute response and a final thirty-minute rejoinder by the first candidate. 2]Douglas and Lincoln alternated who spok first at the debates; as the incumbent, Douglas spoke first in four. They were held outdoors, weather permitting, from about 2 to 5 p.m.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87· May 28

Cheered to discover Instagram knows nothing about me at all

Instagram ad for renouncing my United States citizenship