Alistair Cubbon
@alistaircubbon.bsky.social
I run a lot, I read a lot, I shout at the football.
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The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has
- built Europe's boom economy
- hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221
- cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13%
- regularised, not demonised, migrants
- stood up for human rights
- refused to humiliate itself before Trump
No wonder Musk hates it.
- built Europe's boom economy
- hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221
- cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13%
- regularised, not demonised, migrants
- stood up for human rights
- refused to humiliate itself before Trump
No wonder Musk hates it.
February 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The Sánchez 🇪🇸 government has
- built Europe's boom economy
- hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221
- cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13%
- regularised, not demonised, migrants
- stood up for human rights
- refused to humiliate itself before Trump
No wonder Musk hates it.
- built Europe's boom economy
- hiked minimum wage from €736 to €1221
- cut insecure work from c.30% to c.13%
- regularised, not demonised, migrants
- stood up for human rights
- refused to humiliate itself before Trump
No wonder Musk hates it.
Super idea
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced today his government will ban children under the age of 16 from accessing social media.
Spain moves to ban under 16’s from social media
Madrid’s proposal follows efforts in France, Denmark and Portugal to protect kids online.
www.politico.eu
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Super idea
Letting Newcastle play exactly how they want to didn’t work in the league cup final and it won’t work tonight.
Get it together Liverpool.
#LFC
Get it together Liverpool.
#LFC
January 31, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Letting Newcastle play exactly how they want to didn’t work in the league cup final and it won’t work tonight.
Get it together Liverpool.
#LFC
Get it together Liverpool.
#LFC
Seems like the perfect time to sell your vice-captain, a player who gives his all every time he plays and who helps set the high standards the club requires.
And who you know could do a job at centre back, given all the other problems we’ve got in this team.
#LFC
And who you know could do a job at centre back, given all the other problems we’ve got in this team.
#LFC
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Seems like the perfect time to sell your vice-captain, a player who gives his all every time he plays and who helps set the high standards the club requires.
And who you know could do a job at centre back, given all the other problems we’ve got in this team.
#LFC
And who you know could do a job at centre back, given all the other problems we’ve got in this team.
#LFC
There is so much to complain about in that game that I don’t even know where to start.
We might as well have just handed them the three points at the beginning and saved everyone the trouble.
#LFC
We might as well have just handed them the three points at the beginning and saved everyone the trouble.
#LFC
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
There is so much to complain about in that game that I don’t even know where to start.
We might as well have just handed them the three points at the beginning and saved everyone the trouble.
#LFC
We might as well have just handed them the three points at the beginning and saved everyone the trouble.
#LFC
If you are still on X you are either a nonce or you are enabling nonces, which is proper nonce behaviour anyway.
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM
If you are still on X you are either a nonce or you are enabling nonces, which is proper nonce behaviour anyway.
Can’t believe what I’m watching…
January 12, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Can’t believe what I’m watching…
How do you break a curse?
I’m asking for a football team.
I’m asking for a football team.
January 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
How do you break a curse?
I’m asking for a football team.
I’m asking for a football team.
I can’t
Holy shit 😳
January 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I can’t
January 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
If ever a team needed to beat someone 4-0 or 5-0 it’s Liverpool.
We are so far away from that though.
More likely to lose with that score currently.
#LFC
We are so far away from that though.
More likely to lose with that score currently.
#LFC
January 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
If ever a team needed to beat someone 4-0 or 5-0 it’s Liverpool.
We are so far away from that though.
More likely to lose with that score currently.
#LFC
We are so far away from that though.
More likely to lose with that score currently.
#LFC
Nice goal Harry.
There is no way we are getting this game back by the way.
There is no way we are getting this game back by the way.
January 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Nice goal Harry.
There is no way we are getting this game back by the way.
There is no way we are getting this game back by the way.
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now, it might seem odd that political commentators who advocated for the uk to leave the eu because of their belief in “the nation state” to be supportive of america’s annexation of venezuela, but what you have to remember is that those people didn’t actually think that, they were lying for money
January 3, 2026 at 8:18 PM
now, it might seem odd that political commentators who advocated for the uk to leave the eu because of their belief in “the nation state” to be supportive of america’s annexation of venezuela, but what you have to remember is that those people didn’t actually think that, they were lying for money
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On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations.
Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations.
Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
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FIFA's Peace Prize winner Donald Trump is bombing Venezuela less than a month after picking up the award from Gianni Infantino. Trump is also on his socials boasting about capturing Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
FIFA's Peace Prize winner Donald Trump is bombing Venezuela less than a month after picking up the award from Gianni Infantino. Trump is also on his socials boasting about capturing Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro.