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One small part of the Birmingham Green Party team of wonderful people who have successfully ended incompetent Labour’s disastrous control of our city. Greens secured the biggest vote share across Birmingham. We did it! The real work starts now. 💚
Another astonishing & infuriating example of BBC ‘balance’ just now, as #JeremyVine discusses water shortages with environmental expert @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & a know-nothing ‘celebrity’. Balance is not between experts & the uninformed. I’ve cracked and offered my services to #BBCRadio2.
I’d like to complain in the strongest possible terms about Michael Sheen’s guest hosting tonight of #TheFolkShow on #BBCRadio2; one hour simply wasn’t long enough! #Radio2 #MichaelSheen #FolkShow #IsThereNothingThisManCannotDo?
*Seven votes. There are SEVEN Reform MPs, not eight, for exactly the reason you have outlined in your initial question. (Source: UK Parliament website.)
Second #OzzyDay performance for me. This is Bostin’ Brass, a brilliant group of musicians, last seen by me at Ozzy’s funeral parade on #BroadStreet, nearly a year ago. This is the last of their 5 performances across #Birmingham city centre today. #OzzyOsbourne #BostinBrass #CBSO #Brum
Greetings from Birmingham’s first #OzzyDay. The #CBSO is performing #OzzyOsbourne and #BlackSabbath classics, here in the #BullRing. As luck would have it (for me and the ghost of #Ozzy), the orchestra is right outside the #AstonVilla shop. He would’ve appreciated that. #Birmingham #Brum
Trying to decide today if I have; (a) been targeted and bitten by ankle-loving insects or (b) been abducted by aliens and returned to Earth overnight
“Who the hell are you? I was expecting that fellow in the running shorts and t-shirt.” #BurnhamBegins #StarmerResignation #AndyAndChuck
⚽️🇫🇷🏴 My little Bukayo is more than happy with big Bukayo’s performance! 🏴 #FRAENG #BukayoSaka #FunkoPop! #England #WorldCup #WorldCup2026
I’m getting tired of the prudishness of whoever compiles/censors the #NYT #SpellingBee. 😄 #NewYorkTimes #puzzles @nytimes.com
“Is that one free?” “I’d give it five minutes, if I were you.” #TrumpHasTrumped #TrumpsTrumps #Graham #LindseyGraham #Trump #DonaldTrump
The death of #BonnieTyler at 75 sadly makes her the first UK #Eurovision act of the C21st to die. Engelbert is 90. It also turns out that this run of 4 UK #1 singles from 1983 was cursed with poor life expectancy. I hope #DuranDuran are looking after themselves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
Q1 of 1967 is confirmed by his entry on the national birth register, so that matches Companies House.
🎾 It’s a shame that #AugerAliassime and #Djokovic have to play a fifth set, because the symmetrical/palindromic scoreline from the first four is a thing of mathematical beauty. 🎾 #Wimbledon #tennis #maths #numbers #patterns #NumberFun @rickedwards1.bsky.social @colinmurray1.bsky.social
“People of Britain. No, no, no. Hear me out. Some people are being really mean to me. As mean as I was at school. Police have advised me that it is too dangerous for me to go to Westminster, or Clapham… Clacton. So I will be taking shelter in a tax haven, paid for by a dodgy crypto mate.” #Farage
⚽️ 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 We are all Belgian now. (Certainly for the next two hours.) Let’s get the USA team, Trump and at least one sickening incidence of corruption out of this #WorldCup. #WorldCup2026 #USABEL #UnitedStates #Belgium #Belgique #BBCSport
🎾 Such a funny, charming post-match, on-court interview from swoonsome #FlavioCobolli 🇮🇹 - who shares my birthday, I now discover! He’s just upended the seedings & beaten #AlexDeMiñaur 🇦🇺. Flavio needs a house for the next week, so if you have a vacant property in South London… #Wimbledon 🎾 #BBCSport
I can confirm that, at quarter to midnight, it’s still nearly 27C in my back garden (#Birmingham B12). That’s 80F in old money. It’s basically a very warm Summer day temperature, but at night!
Apparently, it DID take place! Sort of. Under a different name. I think it’s fair to say that even the most rabid Brexiteers scaled down their expectations pretty quickly. 😄
Ten years today since the advisory referendum on Brexit. You’d think Farage, Johnson, Rees-Mogg et al would’ve organised some major celebration today, wouldn’t you? Like a Festival Of Brexit? (Whatever happened to that?) 🙄 #ToryBrexit #Brexit #BrexitReferendum
⚽️🇩🇪🇨🇮 To paraphrase the great philosopher, Lord Gary Of Lineker, “…and in the end, the Germans win.” #GERCIV #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Germany #CoteDIvoire #IvoryCoast #GaryLineker
⚽️ In the 24 games of phase 1, 15 games were won (& lost!) & 9 were draws. There was a noticeable imbalance between the teams designated as ‘home’ who won 12 games and ‘away’, who won only 3. The winners are shown in light green on my table here… #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #WorldCupStats #WorldCupTrivia
⚽️🏴🇭🇷 It’s wonderful how #England have opened this #WorldCup adventure by recreating the most significant score in our men’s footballing history. It’s a sign! It’s a sign! And relax… 😄 #ENGCRO #Croatia #Hrvatska #WorldCup1966 #WorldCup2026 #30YearsOfHurtThen30More #60YearsOfHurt #ITVSport #ThreeLions
🎾Congratulations to #CorentinMoutet 🇫🇷 who has almost definitely just become the first person to say ‘f*ck’ seven times on live BBC TV. Sometimes, swearing is funny. Sometimes it can be targeted and effective. This was just childish. The man’s a f*cking tw*t. #QueensClub #Queens #tennis #BBCSport
#RoyHattersley has died. He was MP for #Birmingham #Sparkbrook, where I live now, for 9 parliaments, 1964-1997. He stood down May 1997, just before I moved to Sparkbrook in July 1997, so he narrowly avoided being my MP. He’ll always be remembered for #SpittingImage and this appearance on #HIGNFY.
⚽️🇳🇱🇯🇵 Here we go with match 10 of 104. It’s the match they’re all calling The Battle Of The Teams Who, Unusually, Play In Shirt Colours That Aren’t On Their Flags. It’s #TheNetherlands 🇳🇱 (in orange) versus #Japan 🇯🇵 (in blue). #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Nederland #Nihon #Nippon
⚽️ And now we love him and his big bum* even more! 😄 Super Villan. Super Scot. 🏴 Super John McGinn! *Don’t blame me. I wasn’t the one who instigated the talk of McGinn’s ‘big bum’ and ‘chunky thighs’ in the pre-match BBC TV chat. 😄 #HAISCO 🇭🇹🏴 #WorldCup #Scotland #Haiti #JohnMcGinn #AVFC #AstonVilla
⚽️ There’s not a drop of Scottish blood in my body, just a deep love of Edinburgh, the Fringe, my Scottish friends & Super John McGinn. I am so fired up for this match, and quite emotional after that Letter To Scotland from Andy Robertson. #Scotland, you can win this and top the group! 🏴 #WorldCup