Brett Markham

He is 84 years old. He just completed the world's most difficult ultramarathon (Comrades) in the world. And he did it within cutt-off time. 11h12. Johannes Mosehla.

Chart of the Day 🫤 Labour is trying to blame rising unemployment on global shocks. But the PMIs show that the UK is suffering "an especially steep pace of job cuts". And this began around the time of Rachel Reeves' first Budget in 2024... 🤔 spglobal.com/content/dam/sp…

On the day America celebrated the IPO of its biggest space company, Britain found out its government is banning underfloor heating. The decline of our country is not inevitable, it is the choice of the rotten political class.

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

I’ve warned for months that America would soon restrict access to state of the art frontier AI models for national security reasons. THIS HAS NOW HAPPENED. Thanks to the catastrophic energy policies pursued by the Tories and Labour, Britain has virtually ZERO sovereign AI capability. Now we will be cut off from the most powerful AI models, and will soon end up being TOTALLY AT THE MERCY of China America and others who will be able bring to bear intelligence capable of defeating all our security systems in short order. WE MUST CHANGE COURSE NOW

America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels. Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails. I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.

@ChristypDoran @Brendennel Or…maybe…the league is not that competitive…

The Hurricanes are the first Super Rugby side to score 100 tries in a season. They are that lethal. Great stat.

@faried_manuel @adrian_slabbert Gilliomee is a 10 as well

@adrian_slabbert A bit thin on hookers, scrumhalves and flyhalves - maybe Siyaya to double up at 10

This is one strong squad selected for the JWC Players could come in depending on senior duty commitments. Lets go!

@lewis_goodall No one was forced to buy his products.

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

This really worries me A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/1…

All week Zack Polanski has been attacking Reform politicians for their so called “extreme” language. Here he is outright defending criminals who broke a female police officer’s back with a sledgehammer. He’s a dangerous extremist and I’m glad he is being exposed for what he is.

In October 2024, about 100 Labour party members traveled to the US to openly campaign for Kamala Harris. Now Starmer is very concerned that a statement from the Vice President is “interfering in [their] democracy”

@JacquesBezuide9 @LiebenbergHenno The Springboks with Jasper have won 6/8 vs the All Blacks since Oct 2021. The Springboks have 1/3 vs the All Blacks without Jasper. I’ll take Jasper thanks.

@LiebenbergHenno But his slowness is also a reason why teams (esp ABs) target Boks with reverse plays 1 step out from ruck every single damn game 😂. I always see it from a mile away. Wiese is slow & if you can put some1 with a sidestep on him in right part of field, try is almost certain

I'll reiterate my point from a few weeks back; Evan Roos is NOT springbok material. Tries to look busy and physical doing a whole bunch of nothing, and his handling is so poor. I'll die on this hill until he owns up and works on his game. #Stormersrugby #URC #Rugbyfinal

@Lee05450143 @Springboks Do you understand the concept of a season? Of time?

@Springboks 80% of the players shown in this video are injured !!!!

It's almost time again... 🇿🇦 #Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold

@zatzi I’m afraid the Conservatives (in name only) got us pretty close to “here”, Labour is just trying it’s best to finished us off. The Conservatives kicked the can down the road. They did not take the difficult decisions needed to right the ship.

If this 👇happens, Keir will find he has to cut benefits regardless of what his backbenchers think. Burnham will find his VAT cut for pubs is verboten. Instead we will face “austerity” cuts on a scale that makes Osborne’s attempts pale into insignificance AND painful tax rises. Just to appease the International Monetary Fund in order to reassure lenders - who, with nearly 100% debt to GDP ratio, we need. Labour’s economic illiteracy got us here. Now Labour needs to face reality and cut government spending, before it’s all decided by foreign money over whom we have no democratic control.

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review. They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆. Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

🚨(1)BREAKING: Christian community police officer wins settlement after being forced out of his role for questioning and criticising Islam during diversity training. Luke Salmons, who has been supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was suspended for six months, forced to resign and put on a police barring list after he had questioned radical Islam in a training session. He had been told that the session was a 'safe place' for discussion, but after expressing his beliefs, the consequences were devastating. After taking legal action, his case has now been settled on confidential terms, however his story raises serious concerns about free speech and religious freedom in UK policing. See more in this thread 🧵on our website and breaking in the media: christianconcern.com/ccpressrelease… telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/0…

@DrAlexFord @thepaulwilliams @BBCScrumV @simonrug Jesse Kriel

Question for rugby fans @thepaulwilliams @BBCScrumV @simonrug Which international rugby star (past or present) would win Ninja Warrior - celebrity rugby edition?

@theresa_may Because of state intervention - subsidies and regulation + heavy taxation of the oil and gas industry. We do need a mix but let’s not pretend that the green energy industry has done this on its own with out a giant trade off.

The net zero economy now supports 1.1m UK jobs and generates £105bn in economic value - proof that tackling climate change & growing the economy can go hand in hand. Carbon Budget 7 laid in Parliament today provides certainty to help unlock more investment and energy security.

@Slipcatch Andrew Mehrtens 😂🫣

On my question below re "South Africa's best Rugby Export who played International Rugby for another Country", the list, it will not be complete, so add - Kyle Steyn WP Nel Clyde Rathbone Tiaan Strauss Kotaro Matsushima CJ Stander Pieter de Villiers Paul Willemse Bernard le Roux Dan Vickerman Stuart Abbott Mike Catt Duhan van der Merwe Pierre Schoeman Cornell du Preez Oli Kebble Nathan McBeth Jean Kleyn Rob Herring Richardt Strauss Quinn Roux Brad Barritt Matt Stevens Robbie Diack David Ribbans Scott Spedding Rory Kockott Pieter "Lappies" Labuschagne Wimpie van der Walt Gerhard van der Heever