#PaulMcCartney turns 80 tomorrow. Out of all the great tunes he has written, this is the one that now rings out most often. I told its story for The Guardian theguardian.com/music/2018/a…

Talk of Ben #Stokes getting a ban for his nightclub fracas or being sacked as captain. But his deputy is #HarryBrook, who's had a nightclub fracas of his own - and wasn't banned or sacked for it. So it makes no sense to replace one with the other. Just give Stokes a fine!

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

Carrick doesn't just make the team better: he makes the club more United

Good to find that the Pope is on the side of the angels

Chelsea were the better team, but United had the luck and, crucially, the experience. My comment piece for @united_writing, the newsletter I started with Rob Smyth, which is still free

Where's Jonny Evans when you need him?

Back in the old routine... dissecting a #ManUnited defeat!

This game has been a very good advert for Harry Maguire. #MUFC #ManUnited #UnitedWriting #Maguire

If Putin really said this, he was speaking for all of us

Every week, in a free newsletter, I try to make sense of #ManUnited. It's a lot more rewarding now that #MichaelCarrick is at the wheel

My take on #MUFC's first defeat under Michael Carrick: it shouldn't cost them much

Out today: a debut album from a pair of teenagers, dripping with adrenaline but also well crafted. My review for The Mail on Sunday @TMolotovs

A gobsmacked man writes

England have used six spinners today. Hope it turns out better than when they did the same thing in a Test espncricinfo.com/series/west…

The difficult second single: @TimdeLisle on what #DarrenFletcher got wrong, and right, against Brighton unitedwriting.substack.com/p… #MUFC #ManUnited #Dalot #Mainoo #Casemiro

Amorim special: the six reasons why he had to go, by @TimdeLisle unitedwriting.substack.com/p… #ManUnited #MUFC #Amorim

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered." The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole". The fact is that Russian interference is staring us in plain sight. Russian TV hugely boosted Farage's public standing by giving him dozens of appearances, and without Farage, Brexit would not have happened. Brexit was the result of a successful Russian influence operation. Please repost if you want Starmer to set up an inquiry into Russian interference in the Brexit referendum.

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"Does anybody know the Portuguese for 'better late than never'?" @TimdeLisle, who's been advocating for a back four for the past year, finds Ruben #Amorim agreeing (but only for an hour) #MUFC #ManUnited #Dorgu #backfive #backsix open.substack.com/pub/united…

When punditry resembles sledging, it becomes bad punditry, because it loses its cool. When it parrots a sledge, it's even worse. Stokes had told his team to show some fight and that's what Archer was doing.