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Jun 10
Been a while - come and give me your thoughts on all the significant issues impacting the nation. Normal rules apply, catch you all later. Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! x.com/i/spaces/1yGBeebdZmWKN
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The male version of Angela Rayner, all that's missing is "Capitals Gains Tax" and of course @afneil. If this is the Messiah for @UKLabour, their stint in purgatory may be much longer than they hope, with (electoral) salvation not on the horizon

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Jason Cundy doubles down after "apology" to Arsenal fans for celebrating PSG Champions League Win with Gabby Agbonlahor!
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The IPCC and others got it wrong on 8.5, and they knew it, many years ago. They allowed 8.5 to mislead the entire enterprise of science and politics, and to seriously misinform the public. Now Sky News is trying to limit the embarrassment. Sky news have never done an investigative piece on bullshit merchants' exploitation of 8.5, yet 8.5 is the manifestly unfounded basis of much of the UK Met Office's climate propaganda, and also the Bank of England's. Thus much of UK policy is based on 8.5 scenarios. That is to say that the IPCC is more wrong and more misleading on climate change than Donald Trump. Why is Sky News taking sides and defending institutional science's wilful politicisation of fake science? Why isn't it reporting on the mistakes, showing how these bogus alarmist stories were created and then spread throughout intergovernmental agencies and governments, and were covered by a dangerously uncritical news media, which led to bad politics and bad policy? Oh, I think I just answered my own question. Sorry, @SkyNews -- Trump called this one correctly, and your wriggling in defence of deeply conflicted research organisations isn't going to help matters. You should have just allowed them to take the L. But now you're drawing attention to it, you're making it much worse.
In a post on Truth Social the U.S. president said climate scientists cancelled their own doomsday scenario - and that their projections were 'WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!' Sky's @SeabrookClimate investigates whether there's any truth in Donald Trump's claims. trib.al/TvYDmXi
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What can I say except ~ YOU’RE WELCOOOOME 🎶 To the awesome students at St. Gregory Primary School in Sudbury, UK 🇬🇧 I LOVED your video!! You’re all my special guests to watch live action MOANA on JULY 10! 🎬 Theater = rented out 🍿🥤🍭 Popcorn candy drinks = on me 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Friends & family = bring ‘em all I apologize to your parents in advance for all the sugar 🍬🤣 Have so much FUN watching the movie, keep working hard in school and remember ~ you’re all taller than Kevin Hart. ~ Uncle Maui🪝
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May 14
I bookmarked this post for days like we will have today, when a high-level Cabinet resignation will almost certainly lead to others and the hapless Starmer will be (eventually) be forced to leave office. Must be said that Ed Miliband as caretaker PM, ahead of a contest between the likes of Streeting and Burnham was NOT a scenario I ever wanted to see outside the late evening of October 30, even if it sadly becoming a distinct possibility!! What this post, like plenty of others show is how out of touch these people are/were, allowing their political proclivities to shape their analysis, allowing their hopes & dreams to mask the reality staring us in the face back in 2024 as many of us said - Starmer got his majority on the back of widespread voter apathy, fewer votes than even Corbyn managed in 2019 & was someone loathed by much of his own party both for his politics and his paternalistic & patronising personality. It was always going to be a marriage of convenience with many MPs as he lacks direction, principles & perception. So it has proven - in his desperate bid to cling onto power, like the true Communist he is, he is now risking his own party's cohesiveness as well as that of the country. Incredibly, many people still claim he is a man of integrity when it is quite clear, he will sacrifice anyone to preserve power, suggesting everyone is a pawn to him which can be sacrificed when the need arises. If that's a man of integrity, goodness knows what lies on the opposite periphery. Good riddance to a man out of his managerial depth and onto the next @UKLabour figurehead to showcase "their talent" ahead of the electoral evisceration coming their way in 2029, much like it did for the @Conservatives in 2024 - the electorate has had enough of being treated like fools and simpletons by the prosaic Lab-Tory uniparty and now wants change, something which can commence by getting this sanctimonious, witless airhead out of number 10, along with his economically illiterate and seemingly maudlin Chancellor. If what follows is worse, then we'll be back here pretty soon with more "massive instability", until we finally get a government that does what the 🇬🇧 electorate actually wants & needs
The challenge for political broadcasting is enormous, and rather satisfying to watch. After years of personality-driven and chaotic, shallow politics coverage across much of the media, which was largely about instability, gossip and leadership crises we now have a govt with massive majority, widespread internal agreement and no likelihood of massive instability anytime soon. A great environment for a programme like #c4news full of policy nerds and people who prefer to argue about what ideas work than who should be the front person.
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🗣️ “It’s three massive calls in the last few games. There will be serious questions asked about it. Rightfully so.” Kris Boyd, John Robertson and Paul Hartley discuss Celtic’s LATE penalty decision in-depth ⤵️
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May 13
What an abysmal decision by the referee. No chance was that a penalty, how is he supposed to jump with his arms down on his side? #Hearts have been robbed as it is highly unlikely they'll be able to resist Celtic at Celtic Park on Saturday. That said, for every neutral and real football fan, let's hope they do #jokedecision
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Tremendous piece of work, sifting through the nonsense to reveal a misanthrope & yet another climate alarmist/clairvoyant. Indoctrinated by "Grey Owl" Belaney in his youth, Attenborough has become the face of anti-science and climate crisis claptrap in the contemporary age. Kudos to @clim8resistance (whoever he is!) for this lucid and enlightening analysis ✊🏻
As David Attenborough turns 100, Ben Pile looks back on the "national treasure's" worst moments of climate alarmism, such as when he blamed Ethiopia's famine on the country having "too many people". dailysceptic.org/2026/05/12/…
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Starmer won't even be leading by the end of autumn, perhaps even the beginning. The only person that truly thinks differently is the man in his mirror, whatever his lackeys may say
EXCL: Keir Starmer will not lead his party into the next general election, Labour-supporting unions have predicted, in an intervention that threatens to further destabilise PM after damaging few days. The 11 Labour-affiliated unions – including Unite, Unison and GMB – are expected to issue joint statement today saying “at some stage” party will have to put plan in place to elect new leader. In leaked copy, they said it was clear Labour “cannot continue on its current path”, and despite some progress it was not doing enough to deliver change people voted for at last election. All details 👇 theguardian.com/politics/202…
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I'd want my money back 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄
May 12
Wizz Air staged a “mystery flight”: passengers didn’t know where they were going The airline sold tickets for a special flight from London for just £50, but didn’t reveal the destination until departure. Passengers only found out where the plane was heading once they were already on board.
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May 11
As I thought, Starmer holding on with his fingernails/ego as all around him collapses. His colleagues will put him out of his misery within hours #Starmergone One of the WORST and most trite PMs we've ever had, with no direction or principles, no oratory skills, as many of us said, back in July 2024. Add in the delusion, sanctimony & hypocrisy, almost making the abysmal Tories look decent & the end can't come quick enough. Has to be said, he was NEVER a @UniofOxford guy, he was a Leeds graduate who spent a year at the hothouse as a graduate. As for his role in establishing Doughty Street Chambers and subsequent tenure at the DPP 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔 Good riddance to a very limited and deluded PM, the latest addition to a pantheon which comfortably includes May, Major, Callaghan et al. In terms of being unpopular, he is right up there with John Stuart but without even having an affair with a Princess (or Prince 😎) 🤷🏻‍♂️
May 7
Random thoughts on the local elections today - These should be fun to watch, London will no doubt mask the electoral evisceration that @UKLabour will face across the rest of the country - it remains to be seen if we are in Wilson '68 or Blair '06 territory (both times the party lost the subsequent general elections). The problem for Starmer will be that as results trickle in overnight, culminating in record losses in leave voting areas like Sunderland and a SNP resurgence in Scotland, tomorrow afternoon will bring the fall of Wales, an historic achievement for the robotic leader which had been a heartland for the party pretty much since local elections became a major thing back in the 1970s. The fact that Labour will be a distant 3rd, behind Plaid and Reform, will doubtless lead to a Cabinet reshuffle or attempts to deflect but make no mistake about it - Starmer will be crucified, will not rise and the battle will began in earnest, between various nonentities, to replace him. His supporters may be deluded to suggest otherwise but the loss of the Senedd will be the thing that defines him, well along with the hypocrisy and sanctimonious nonsense since he was elected in the summer of '24. The real question will be whether the Green Party is ready to become a major force on the left, as Reform will be on the right leading to an overhaul of the old two party system as we continue towards 2029. A preview of things to come will commence in the next 36 hours, let's see what the Labour internal battles bring........
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Random thoughts on the local elections today - These should be fun to watch, London will no doubt mask the electoral evisceration that @UKLabour will face across the rest of the country - it remains to be seen if we are in Wilson '68 or Blair '06 territory (both times the party lost the subsequent general elections). The problem for Starmer will be that as results trickle in overnight, culminating in record losses in leave voting areas like Sunderland and a SNP resurgence in Scotland, tomorrow afternoon will bring the fall of Wales, an historic achievement for the robotic leader which had been a heartland for the party pretty much since local elections became a major thing back in the 1970s. The fact that Labour will be a distant 3rd, behind Plaid and Reform, will doubtless lead to a Cabinet reshuffle or attempts to deflect but make no mistake about it - Starmer will be crucified, will not rise and the battle will began in earnest, between various nonentities, to replace him. His supporters may be deluded to suggest otherwise but the loss of the Senedd will be the thing that defines him, well along with the hypocrisy and sanctimonious nonsense since he was elected in the summer of '24. The real question will be whether the Green Party is ready to become a major force on the left, as Reform will be on the right leading to an overhaul of the old two party system as we continue towards 2029. A preview of things to come will commence in the next 36 hours, let's see what the Labour internal battles bring........
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Apr 21
I don't know if Raquel is that tall or Roxanne is that small but it finally seems Alexa Bliss has genuine competition for the smallest/most petite woman on the roster #WWERaw
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Apr 20
How the heck was/is using the stairs not a DQ for Roman?? #mainevent #Wrestlemania
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If (when?) Roman wins, what is the direction of travel here? Even if they manage to line him up vs Gunther as seems imminent 🤨🤔🤔 @TheHonoraryZeus @Y2J0hn #Wrestlemania
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Even if he was, there is still a huge problem for Starmer - he said Johnson should be responsible for EVERYTHING that happens at number 10 🤷🏻‍♂️ #hypocrisy
Downing Street said Robbins and his team appointed Mandelson without informing ministers. They now claim he was “prohibited” from sharing details of the vetting assessment with Starmer, No10 or even the Foreign Sec. But if he was just following the rules, why was he sacked?
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Whatever you say about Peston, at least the man speaks proper English and knows how to use an apostrophe correctly 👌🏻 Many others on here seem to have some sort of Spanish or American spiritual possession when they encounter a name ending in 's' 🤷🏻‍♂️
I’ve spoken to one of Robbins’s predecessors as permanent undersecretary at the foreign office, who says he “doesn’t recognise” Ciaran Martin’s account of the vetting process and Robbins’s role in it. He says it is highly unusual for the Foreign Office to reject advice from UK Security Vetting not to appoint someone to a sensitive job and that Robbins could have informed a senior minister - the PM or the foreign secretary, or indeed their senior advisers - of the fact that UK SV advised against the appointment, even if the convention was not to share the reasons or the accompanying analysis. It will be fascinating to hear from Robbins on this
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