David Simpson

Conservative Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Kevin Hollinrake defends water companies making massive profits and taking huge bonuses, at the same time as they pour billions of litres of sewage into our water supplies, saying that it's "how the system works"

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

This. Exactly this.

You beat me to it !!! 😁

We do plenty of that, too !!! 😁

Yep, UK does aerospace very well. In fact, the recent US Blue Ghost mission would not have made it to the moon without its main engine, which was designed, developed, built and tested in the UK. The future should be this kind of collaboration with US firms like Firefly.

I’ve finally read the transcript of Steve Witkoff’s long interview with Tucker Carlson about Gaza and Ukraine, which he’s supposedly negotiating on. It’s embarrassing — very little awareness of the complexities, and shockingly ignorant of detail. Carlson knows even less and can’t challenge him.

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but..

Join Andrea Jenkyns on her march against solar panels today!

Just a note team.

Steer clear of the ones with a plaque reading:

“This solar panel represents the 16,120 solar panels that provide solar electricity directly to Wakefield Manufacturing Site. Opened by Andrea Jenkyns MP 8 September 2017”

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC: "We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works. "We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are. That's what the prime minister's doing."

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The assertion of human rights is normally unpopular with those in power. That’s why we have them.

An heir to a south african emerald mine calling an American war veteran, astronaut, and elected senator a "traitor" for supporting Ukraine

Champions Trophy Final LIVE: India vs New Zealand – cricket score, radio, highlights & updates India face New Zealand in the Champions Final in Dubai - follow live cricket scores, text updates, in-play video clips and radio commentary

I mean, it's almost like the whole tournament is set up to make sure India win... 🧐

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SpaceX rocket debris falls from sky in test flight failure SpaceX rocket debris falls from sky in test flight failure

Apparently, it veered off to the extreme right...
#space #rocket

BBC News - SpaceX rocket debris falls from sky in test flight failure - BBC News
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Brilliant achievement by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social to land #BlueGhost on the moon. And the main engine, which performed perfectly to help make this happen, was designed, developed, and built here in the UK. 😁 #space #lunarlander #moon #NASA

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

Think today was one of those occasions when the Player of the Match should go to the whole team.

Same for Edo after his error against Leeds in the previous home game. Everyone in yellow did what they had to do today, a great team performance.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

He nails it.

Great news overnight from @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social as #BlueGhost completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion burn - performed by our wondeful LEROS 4 engine. #space #ghostwriter #moon

Premier Sports Network: the company that plagiarised a writer’s work and then refused to pay for it What happens if a company steals from you? What if, say, a business called Premier Sports Network put an article on their website where over 95% of the more than 3,000 words were plagiarised, quite…

Imagine a company (we'll call them Premier Sports Network) published a 3,300w article on their website that was over 95% plagiarised word-for-word from your work. What would you do?

Well, I sent them an invoice. This is what happened next...
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Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate *CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Especially as we very nearly lost it (twice) in stoppage time.

Happy birthday to this beauty...released on 7th February 1994. One of my favourite albums of all time, it really is a masterpiece. #marillion #brave

I know exactly what you mean. I find myself avoiding any Watford FC related social media after defeats because it is so toxic - and as you say, their politics is often not surprising either.

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

As we are now 24 hours from the end of the window, and have signed one GK and one CB on loan, both from Udinese....you are not missing out on much. 😄