Pam Nash

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British. England cricket team, Man Utd fan for 64yrs. Sports, politics, news and quirks.

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Washington Examiner Mike Lindell proposes six-month amnesty for illegal immigrants if elected Minnesota governor
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Bret: To adapt Thomas Brackett Reed's great line about his fellow politicians, every time Trump opens his mouth he subtracts from the sum of human knowledge. Frank: By that reasoning and arithmetic, we're in negative integers at this point. Never in the past 50 years have we seen anything from an American president like Trump's determination to undermine voters' faith in democracy itself, which is fine with him if it's the only way to hold on to power and get what he wants. It's a degree of ruthlessness and a magnitude of narcissism that add up to a kind of political sociopathy. I've written this before and stand by it: He'll burn the whole thing down if that's best for him. He'll gladly rule over ashes, just as long as he's the one ruling.
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A Boeing 747, mid air, with a dozen oars protruding from each side, the Norwegian team travelling home from the World Cup.
The balloon family are in bed. During the night there's a thunderstorm and the baby balloon is scared so he goes to his parents' room and tries to squeeze in their bed. It's tiny so he lets some air out of his dad but still can't get in. Then he lets some air out of his mum – still he can't get in. Desperate, he lets a lot of air out of himself and then fits in. In the morning his dad is furious. He says "Son you've let me down, you've let your mum down, but most of all you've let yourself down."
List of all time World Cup assists makers: • Lionel Messi (Argentina) - 9 • Diego Maradona (Argentina) - 9 • Pierre Littbarski (Germany) - 7 • Gregorz Lato (Poland) - 7 • Ivan Perisic (Croatia) - 6 • David Beckham (England) - 6 • Pele (Brazil) - 6 • Thomas Haßler (Germany) - 6 • Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany) - 6 • Thomas Muller (Germany) - 6 • Uwe Seeler (Germany) - 6 • Francesco Totti (Italy) - 6
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A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: An investigation was launched in February 2025 after a referral was made to the Metropolitan Police by the Electoral Commission relating to donations made to a political party ahead of the 2024 UK General Election. Detectives from the Met's Special Enquiry Team are investigating alleged offences under Section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Early investigative advice has been sought from the Crown Prosecution Service and two people have so far been interviewed under caution. No arrests have been made. An offence under this section is not one that the Electoral Commission can investigate and, as such, it is a matter for the police.
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Screenshot of post and reply: BrandyGary @brandygary.bsky.social Hello pam 17:31・7Jul2026 1 • 36 + Follow back _. . . Write your reply Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social • 9s Why are you only following women and saying "Hi (name)" to women? It's creepy.
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On the Today programme this morning Harriet Harman, the Labour peer and a former chair of the Commons standards committee, said that it was a mistake for Farage to respond to the allegations in the way he did. She said that while the parliamentary commissioner (who investigates allegations about MPs breaking Commons rules) and the standards committee (which decides what punishment should apply if the rules have been broken) were willing to be lenient where MPs make an honest mistake, attacking the system could be seen as an aggravating factor that could lead to a higher punishment. She said: “By Nigel Farage saying this is an establishment hit job - what he should be saying is "These rules are important, they keep our parliament clean, I'm going to at all times comply with them, I have complied with them. I'll cooperate with the investigation, and I'm confident I'll be found not to have broken the rules.' But he's not doing that. He's attacking and trying to delegitimise the system. And if it comes to a finding by the commissioner that he has been in breach of the rules, the way he's conducted himself whilst he's been under investigation will be taken as an aggravating fact when it comes to the penalty.” There is no precedent for an MP wrongly failing to declare a donation worth as much as £5m and, if the commissioner does find against Farage, it is possible that the committee could decide to suspend him from parliament for more than 10 days - which would allow the voters in Clacton to trigger a recall byelection.
Pennsylvania Conservative @PennsylvaniaPol Except it is completely wrong. Austerity was never the problem. Politics is downstream of culture, which is downstream of religion. The CoE and the Kirk went woke and started losing members, depriving Britain of its shared heritage. That resulted in the emergence of any number of newfound religions, including the climate doomsayers and cultural and economic Marxism. Which in turn led to disastrous public policy, such as shutting down North Sea oil and gas, two-tier policing, and the highest tax burden in a century. Baroness Thatcher was able to reverse direction on economics and defense for at least one generation, helping to defeat the Soviets and win the Cold War. But after her passing, all the other festering sores of the Left reasserted themselves.
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Christopher Weakley Los Angeles • 12 hours ago Turns out it's easier to fix the World Cup than the reflecting pool. Replies 11 Recommended 3.8k
Joe Biden @JoeBiden • 1h Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights —life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that's where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded. Now it's our turn. There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American. 250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now. Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.
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BBC headline from 22 May 2026, above a picture of Trump: ‘ How Trump's IRS settlement could block tax audits of him, his family and their businesses’.
Post by the German Embassy, London. ‘ We condemn the massive Russian airstrikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine last night in the strongest terms. Once again, Putin's Russia has subjected the Ukrainian capital and large areas of the country to heavy drone and missile attacks. People were killed or injured while they slept, homes destroyed and civilian infrastructure including a medical facility severely damaged. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. The devastating images of last night's destruction show once more that Russia is continuing to wage its illegal war of aggression against Ukraine with undiminished brutality. Putin is showing absolutely no willingness to negotiate. He persists in mounting missile and drone attacks against the population, while Russia is suffering great losses on the frontline in the context of its aggression against Ukraine. That is why Germany, together with its partners, is increasing the pressure on Russia. We are continuing our support for Ukraine in its fight to defend itself. This support will also be high up on the agenda of the NATO summit in Ankara next week.
Excerpt from the NYT story: ‘ According to a Trump administration official, seven people have been arrested, seven have received federal citations and 19 police reports have been filed related to vandalism at the Reflecting Pool. An official with the United States attorney’s office in Washington said on Tuesday that no records of arrests or citations had yet been produced by the administration or law enforcement officials to support the president’s claims.’
Reposted by Michael Avery Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social • 3m Get John Terry off my screen ⑦2 • 45 2 Reposted by Lloyd Shepherd Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social • 3m Why do they keep showing us John Terry? 131 - Reposted by Lloyd Shepherd Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social • 3m John Terry literally the last person on earth I want to see thanks. • 21 .. .. 》… ¿ Reposted by FROVO presentdad ® @lacroixboi.dadguy.help •3h pitch forks and tuning forks sound like they should be related ฿ 29 • 92 ... 2 Reposted by Martin Bell John86 @john86l.bsky.social • 2m Every time they show John Terry on the screen they should give whoever we are playing a goal as compensation. O2
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Screenshot of a Bluesky post and my reply. ‘ Are people still active on here? I haven't been. Is it a better source of news and comment than it was a few months back? 22:55 • 28 Jun 2026 & Everybody can reply 1 like 3 1 ••• Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social • 43s Bluesky is great. It's been made so by people who made, and are making, the effort. Not those who turn up wanting everyone else to have made the effort.
From BBC match livetext: John Bennett BBC World Service in Philadelphia In the other game in the group it’s going to be interesting to watch how Ghana react to refereeing decisions today. I spoke to Antoine Semenyo at yesterday’s press conference and he made it clear that they’re still frustrated that they weren’t given a late penalty in the England game on Tuesday. So much so that Semenyo suggested to us that going forward they now “need to gang around the referee and complain.” He added, “as a team we need to be more aggressive around the officials and the coaches on sidelines (need to be) pestering the fourth official."
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Apologies of the week First, Rafael van der Vaart (right) got himself into steaming hot water when he was on punditry duty with Dutch broadcaster NOS TV during the Netherlands' game against Japan. Commenting on Micky van de Ven not picking up Koki Ogawa's run ahead of Japan's late equaliser, he said of the Japanese side: "They all look alike, of course, maybe he thought that." No, no, we're not making this up. *If my comment has caused pain or upset, I would like to offer my heartfelt apologies," he said after. "That was never my intention."
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Screenshot of a section of the story: But exclusive analysis of the MEP voting records shows that Mr Farage only turned up to 40.7 per cent of all possible roll-call votes between July 2014 and May 2016. This places him 745th out of 746 MEPs from across the different EU countries on the register. The 746th is Brian Crowley, a MEP in Ireland who has never voted, according to the register. A fall from a building left Mr Crowley paralysed from the waist down when he was 16 years old. A spokesperson told the Irish Times in December 2014 that he had been in hospital for several months
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Quote post by Barry Glendenning, boasting about inviting a pile-on, reply from me. Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social • 21m 100% correct, Pam Nash. But it is imperative you only invite pile-ons on to people who are posting under made-up names. Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social • 25m Top tip: When someone responds to you by quoting your post, thereby inviting a pile on, they're so hungry for attention that they're to be more pitied than scorned. 2 1 Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social • 5m Nice admission there that your intention was to invite a pile-on. Your family and employer must be very proud.
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There is a famous joke about a child who wakes up on Christmas morning and is surprised to find a heap of horse manure under the tree instead of a collection of presents. Yet, the child is not discouraged because he has an extraordinarily optimistic outlook on life. His parents discover him enthusiastically shoveling the manure as he exclaims, "With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!"
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Screenshot of 2 notifications on my iPhone: BBC Sport Manchester City confirm manager Pep Guardiola will leave at end of season 18m ago BBC Sport Michael Carrick confirmed as Manchester United manager on two-year deal 23m ago
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Screenshot of BBC Livetext page: ‘Casemiro still a top class player' published at 14:13 BST 14:13 BST Man Utd 3-2 Nott'm Forest James McFadden Former Scotland forward on BBC Radio 5 Live I think it's a huge shame because Casemiro has clearly got loads left to offer. I think he was unfairly criticised he had to do the jobs of two or three midfielders at times. He was very exposed. He's flourished with Mainoo beside him. He was a top class player. He still is. He could still be a huge player for Man United and I don't know if there's any possibility of him staying on. He's still got so much to offer for me.
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Post of a screenshot of a story in the Guardian about Angela Rayner, regarding her considering running for Labour leader, with a picture of her. The poster wrote ‘Is Britain ready for a GILF to be Prime Minister?’ I replied ‘Stop being so effing sexist’
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Oh, and his claims about the BBC (also not aired!) are equally ridiculous and factually absurd. He is suing them, but nothing in the lawsuit is, as he claims, about Al. In the interview he says the following: Al, they had me saying a horrible statement and I said, I never said that. It turned out they gave me Al and little Al treatment where they have my lips speaking words of hate. Tremendous hate that I never said they don't know what to do. But that's not what the lawsuit says, and literally no one has accused the BBC of using Al. They simply showed two separate quotes, and the claim in the lawsuit was that doing so gave a false presumption that the two statements were said one after another when they were actually separated by many minutes. In other words, it's also a lawsuit about not liking the way a speech was edited. Not about Al. At all. And 60 Minutes edited out him lying about it.
As a former EU trade commissioner, Mandelson seemed well placed to help forge a US trade deal. Starmer was given a shortlist of three candidates, according to several people familiar with the matter. Alongside Mandelson was George Osborne, a Tory former chancellor whose public spending cuts made him a hate figure for Labour members. The third, bizarrely, was Bear Grylls, an adventure-loving TV star: he had worked with Mark Burnett, the producer behind Trump's show The Apprentice who is now Washington's "special envoy to the UK".