Month: Jun 2024

• Safegate

  

  ‘We don’t have a replacement for Kalvin Phillips’. Let that sink in for a moment. Gareth Southgate has a team that should be bubbling with the Bundesliga top scorer, the season’s outstanding player in La Liga, and a fresh dollop of Premiership cream. And yet, he is bamboozled by the challenge of replacing a player…

  Max Frances

  Jun 21, 2024

  Politics, Sport

  BBC, England, European Championship, Euros, Football, General Election, Keir Starmer, Labour, Premier League, Southgate, The FA

• General Erections

  

  We’re a fortnight or so into the General Election campaign, and frankly it’s not pretty – unless pretty boring counts. Slippery Sunake has slithered from gaffe to gaffe, and the latest D-Day debacle has surely sealed his fate. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tories ditched him mid-campaign in a coup d’étwat. As for Slur…

  Max Frances

  Jun 8, 2024

  Politics

  Campaigns, Candidates Debate, Charlatans, Conservatives, D-Day, Ed Davey, Europe, General Election, Keir Starmer, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Remembrance, Sunak