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OPENING SHOTS (opens the original)
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HOW MUCH CAN WE READ INTO THE OPENING ROUND OF MATCHES IN THE 2026/2027 GALLAGHER PREM? PERHAPS MORE THAN YOU’D THINK. THIS IS A LEAGUE WHERE HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING IS A NON-NEGOTIABLE.Clay pigeon shooting’s an odd sport. Why try to pot the damn things when they’re fizzing through the air? Much easier, as Eddie Izzard once pointed out, to let them land, wander over at your leisure and unload both barrels while they’re lying on the ground. Simples. Likewise, PREM season previews. Why loosen o
NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING (opens the original)
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A CATASTROPHIC WEEK FOR REFORM UK BUT ANOTHER DIRECT HIT FOR INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM AS FARAGE IS HOLED BENEATH THE WATERLINE BY CHANNEL FOUR NEWS. HE AIN’T SUNK JUST YET BUT, ONCE AGAIN, HE’S SHIPPING A FLOOD OF WATER WITH A DIRTY GREAT HOLE IN HIS BUCKET.It was ‘entrapment’, pure and simple; a ‘sting’; a ‘hoax’; a ‘deep state conspiracy’; an ‘establishment plot’; mischief-making by ‘foreign-funded, climate change activists.’ (And, as we all know, foreign-funded folk are never to be trusted.) Be
ONE MAN AND HIS DOG (opens the original)
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KAROLINE LEAVITT ... FINALLY, THE PLANE TRUTH? (opens the original)
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TO THE SURPRISE OF MANY, THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, KAROLINE LEAVITT, HAS SUDDENLY DECIDED TO, AHEM, LEAVE IT. AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS’ LYING ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT, HAS ONE TRUMP UNTRUTH FINALLY PROVED TO BE ONE TOO MANY?Conflicting explanations as Karoline Leavitt steps away from the White House. Is she leaving to spend more time with her family or with the truth? Either - or both - is possible. Or is it simpler? Namely, that being abandoned by her boss as a live decoy for Iranian rock
DOCTOR ABDUL, I PRESUME? (opens the original)
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ABDUL EL-SAYED HAS BURST ONTO THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE WITH HIS STUPENDOUS WIN IN THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE PRIMARY IN MICHIGAN. IS HE THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY? FINGERS CROSSED.The clip’s about 30’ long and it’s an object lesson in pure class; one man who oozes it and another who offers none whatsoever. If you missed it, we’re talking about Sky News’ Washington Correspondent, James Matthews, stalking the Democrats’ newly-endorsed Senate candidate, Adbul El-Sayed, through a Michigan car-park a
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