Tracey

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

The UK was declared measles free in 2017.

Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.

Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

The Daily Telegraph currently owned by a private equity vehicle RedBird IMI - based in the UAE and led by Italian American Gerry Cardinale and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Patriotic news. For patriotic people. Who don't want to pay taxes.

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

Some of us were in and they know that they will be checked

A reminder that Simon Hooper has been selected and paid tonight.

I am fine with him, he won us the league last season get a grip and I’m on my way home from the game.

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Significant fall in government borrowing in December, figures show More money than expected was collected through tax and higher National Insurance Contributions, although public sector spending also increased.

Nice of the BBC to mention this in the Business section of their website.

But I can't help thinking if it had been a significant increase on borrowing it would have led the News page with big black doomy headlines ...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Patriots" advocating that a deranged foreigner overthrow our elected government

every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them

Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform. Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

Zahawi in 2014 Replying to @mizog366 ,@mizog366 @MarkReckless @UKIP @Nigel_Farage no chance. Been a Conservative all my life and will die a Conservative.

Further embarrassment.

Nadhim Zahawi. Patriot.

Who patriotically founded YouGov and patriotically didn't pay £5,000,000 in patriotic tax he patriotically owed the UK.

And all that patriotism while he was briefly made patriotic Chancellor of the Exchequer, responsible for ensuring patriotic UK tax is paid. Patriotically.

PrOtECT ArE KiDs

Life can come at you pretty fast.

Putting cream on jam isn’t a problem. 😂

I’m in bits still from watching.

How do you spread jam on cream?

Jam first, then cream.🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Remembering Diogo: Our Number 20 YouTube video by Liverpool FC

LFCTV tribute programme for Diogo

Brian Cox, "I think Nigel Farage is an idiot"

"I think he's a venal idiot who talks a lot of crap"

Under new Texas law restricting comprehensive pregnancy care, maternal deaths rose 61%

"Zia Yusuf: "These people are already fleeing."
Vicki Young: "But lots of them haven't fled."
Zia Yusuf: "Well, a lot of them are."

It drives me nuts. The Telegraph, Mail, Sun etc and the politicians they sponsor like Johnson, Farage, Cameron & Truss got everything they wanted for fourteen of the last fifteen years & only now, with Labour in power for *less than one*, do they acknowledge the damage they have done. It’s sick.

It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being *rewarded* for their ignorant delinquency.

Those who think the Good Friday Agreement requires ECHR participation are "NPCs who are talking nonsense", says Prof Goodwin - a non-lawyer who knows SFA about the GFA or the ECHR

Here's an actual legal analysis of the point, from @davidallengreen.bsky.social - davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

The Poet Florian Wirtz, then.

Liverpool signing great players makes my job a lot easier.