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@SW_Help why was the platform for the 21.42 Waterloo to Basingstoke only announced 3 minutes before departure when the train was sat on the platform for about half an hour?

No one bets $1.5 billion unless they are sure and have insider information. This isn’t the first time either. There should be an outcry in the USA about this. Also unnoticed by many, SEC Enforcement Division Director Margaret Ryan resigned last Monday after just over six months on the job, after clashing with her bosses over investigating Trump family trades.

@SW_Help I'm sure I speak for everyone crammed onto this dangerously overcrowded train when I say it's a privilege to pay so much money for you to not deliver the only thing you exist to deliver day after day.

@SW_Help Cool. So two days in a row. The levels of incompetence are genuinely mindblowing.

@SW_Help why is the 17.09 form Waterloo to Portsmouth delayed? Both my trains were cancelled yesterday. Are we on for a repeat today?

@SW_Help @SW_Help should the 17.09 be a 12 carriage service. Looks like it's running as a 10 carriage service which will really exacerbate the overcrowding given the cancellation of the previous service

@SW_Help Cancelled it! Brilliant, so you've officially cancelled my trains in both directions today. What a service!

@SW_Help why is the 16.42 from Waterloo to Basingstoke delayed? Not for the first time, SWR has managed to ensure that both the train to and from work are either delayed or cancelled. Will the 16.42 actually run?

@SW_Help So what time will it get to Woking? Also, why was the crew member delayed? Is this a knock on from another delay elsewhere or just someone getting to work late?

@TickFlickBoo Hi, I am afraid this service has been delayed by train crew being delayed; this service will run fast to Woking, apologies ^MC

@SW_Help is the 07.55 from Portsmouth to Waterloo missing some stops?

@pegga1967 @sharkbaitza @EnglandRugby Agreed. Bewildering game management. They just needed to soak up the time by running through the phases. The end was clearly in sight.

@sharkbaitza @EnglandRugby I disagree. Why put the ball in the air once you have taken the lead with 2 minutes to go? After that you are on the back foot.

It ends in defeat in France 🌹 #FRAvENG | #GuinnessM6N

@ROCKInTheUSSA A man who has dodged service and mocked members of the military stands there wearing a baseball cap as commander in chief. How honourable.

@TickFlickBoo He's the top officer - the literal Commander in Chief - of the ENTIRE military! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Did you take stupid pills this morning?

BREAKING: Undignified jackass wears baseball cap to dignified transfer of fallen U.S. service members, who perished as a result of HIS illegal war. There is no bottom.

@ROCKInTheUSSA @GeneLudlum @mmpadellan He's not a service member though, he dodged it

@GeneLudlum @mmpadellan Also -

@RoguePOTUSStaff Leaving the hat on for this moment, classy as ever...

As this photo (just published by the White House) shows, the focus of today's events was on the man wearing a trucker cap. Not on the American heroes who died under his negligent leadership.

@harey2805 @EnglandRugby @Federugby @O2UK So much this. Would actually be a statement if this happened before the end of the tournament. This team has been a national embarrassment

@EnglandRugby @Federugby @O2UK Congrats to Italy. For England - it takes some talent to coach this group of players into the utters shambles they are. Bereft of ideas, can't execute the basics, constantly giving away penalties and so many yellow cards. Borthwick has to go. And before next weekend

Congratulations, @Federugby @o2uk | #WearTheRose

@EnglandRugby You need to sack Borthwick immediately. You have humiliated us on the international stage

Defeat in Rome. #GuinnessM6N | #ITAvENG

Underway in Rome 🌹 England take on Italy at the Stadio Olimpico 🏟️ #GuinnessM6N | #ITAvENG

@steve_hanke Sadly these facts will prove to be irrelevant in political terms. He’ll just invent a version that he prefers, say whatever he likes (peppered with insults and vitriol) and his base will unconditionally believe him

BREAKING: US employers cut 92,000 jobs in February.  NO SURPRISE. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, manufacturing employment was down 108,000 jobs in 2025. Contrary to Trump's spin, the US only produced 181,000 jobs overall in 2025, down from 2.2 million in 2024.

@BennMark9370 @helenlewis @John_Stepek Exactly this. At worst, the decision is made in advance that a child 'can't deal' or 'can't cope' with something, so they're not even expected to try. I saw a lot of this in the vitriol about Alton Towers' recent attempts to modify their ride access policy.

Uta Frith, one of the world's leading experts on autism, now believes that we might be thinking about it wrong:

@SteveEaton39415 @sheffiela01 @helenlewis This obsession with pathologisation is really critical to the issue. I also struggle with the foundational premise that there is a normative baseline of energy expended in social interactions that people with ASD aver from. It's clearly far more dynamic than that.

It's tricky - I want to be empathetic and compassionate, but equally, there are a shocking number of normal behaviours that are being pathologized. If we're all neurodivergent, then neurodivergent doesn't exist, because the word means a deviation from 'normal'. But if neurodivergent is normal then it cancels itself out.

@helenlewis @John_Stepek Agreed. As the article points out, there may be additional complexities to developing resilience but it seems to me most current strategies don't make any effort in this direction at all and surely in the medium and long term that can't be helpful.

@John_Stepek Yes. I am also interested in the discussion of accommodations (eg ear defenders) because I can see an argument -- along the lines of early peanut exposure -- that too much accommodation might be counterproductive.