Balstrode in #PeterGrimes by #BenjaminBritten is a fair-minded, if imperfect person. I like to hope that's me too. If you haven't seen the opera, please do. Grimes is an ambitious fisherman driven to madness and suicide by a baying mob who are incited by malicious gossip.

Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone. Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year? Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit? Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000 migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it? Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite? It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.

100% projection from an infantile shit-stirring ketamine-fuelled wanker. Sort yourself and your own fucking country out - whichever one that is... 📽 🤡

Hey, @LeShuttle_Help. I want to cancel one leg of a return journey, but your website seems to only allow me to cancel the whole booking. Your contact number won't connect. Your "Live Chat" doesn't work. What am I supposed to do?

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

Everything Farage said was a complete lie. If you believed him over Brexit then you were conned. If you vote for Farage and Reform now then you are an idiot.

Must watch: Martin Lewis lets loose on politicians over 10yrs inaction over scam ads. Courtesy: @thismorning

Well spoken

Shameful #FuckOffFarage

Good context here on the riots in Belfast

This from Vance?

RT @BotFinderUK: This Falklands veteran was beaten up by far-right rioters in Southampton, after asking them to stop using his front garden…

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence. It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation. A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all. At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing. Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton. On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance? No, of course not. Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance? Yes, of course he was. He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention. His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm. Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate. This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again. And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man. END RANT.

Nigel, you’re expert at destroying things but hopeless at building. You’re a campaigner and a divider, but not a leader.

Priorities @BBCSport ??

One thing I’ll never get over is that the United States had a war over not wanting a king and now they’ve created one. And on top of that, they’ve made the worse person on earth that king, and given him powers that means he’s untouchable by the law. It’s beyond belief

Global Sumud Flotilla activist Dr. Margaret Conolly condemns Israeli interception of aid ship and calls for sanctions on Israel ➖ ‘What we experienced in the last three days was barbaric, cruel, ugly and violent. I never saw such ugly, ugly control by an army’ ➖ ‘They are locked, 2.3 million, into an open concentration camp’

🚨 Listen to Reform UK’s Richard Tice absolutely lose it when Bloomberg pushes him on climate science. This is the problem with populist politics built on slogans and vibes: the moment serious scrutiny arrives, the performance starts cracking. “Common sense” is easy in a pub or on GB News. It’s much harder when journalists start asking for evidence, numbers and actual policy.