Helen 🇬🇧

@RadioGenoa The man ‘brushing’ his teeth next to a man washing his feet in the same water, coming soon to a food retail outlet near you…

In Bangladesh they wash in this water that looks like a sewer. Ursula von der Leyen has just signed an agreement to bring workers from Bangladesh to Europe. Ursula must be kicked out.

@aakashgupta We went last year, my god it’s breathtaking.

If you pitched this as a screenplay every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose. A 73-year-old architect walks to confession in 1926 and gets hit by a tram on the Gran Via in Barcelona. He's mistaken for a vagrant because of his worn clothes and left at a pauper's hospital. He dies three days later. His name is Antoni Gaudí. The cathedral he leaves behind is less than a quarter complete. The plans to finish it sit in his workshop as plaster models and detailed drawings. Ten years after his death, in July 1936, FAI anarchists break into that workshop. They smash the plaster models. They burn the archive of drawings and calculations. They pry open Gaudí's tomb. For the next 50 years, architects piece together a destroyed playbook from photographs and broken plaster fragments. The geometry was the real problem. Gaudí designed the church using upside-down hanging-chain models because the math for hyperboloid intersections did not yet exist on paper. He had solved it physically. Computers finally caught up to him in the 1980s. By 2010 the project was 50% complete. By 2015 stone elements that took months to hand-carve were being modelled digitally and machine-cut in days. Now the kicker. The building is funded entirely by people paying admission to see scaffolding. €134.5 million of income in 2025, all private, none of it from the Spanish state or the Vatican. About 4.7 million tourists a year buying €26 tickets to watch a cathedral get built. The unfinished state was the product. On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years to the day after Gaudí died, the cross goes up on the Tower of Jesus Christ. 144 years from groundbreaking. 172.5 meters tall. The tallest church building in the world, beating Ulm Minster, which took 513 years. When asked why his project was taking so long, Gaudí said one thing: "My client is not in a hurry." Turns out neither was he.

@MikeTappTweets Lord Ali, ring any bells?

Nigel Farage should not survive the undeclared £5Million donation. It’s a step up from a new pair of glasses, don’t you think? Is Farage owned?

An FYI: "Do not prosecute rape gangs. These girls made a lifestyle choice..." - Gordon Brown, 2008. Keir Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008. #Labour

@ntahabercom So ‘in sickness and in health’ only counts when it’s the wife doing the caring then?

Bir adam, ikinci çocuklarına hamile olan eşinin 30 haftalıkken yakalandığı “Süper Helper Sendromu”, nedeniyle acil sezaryene alındıktan sonra beyin kanaması geçirdiğini söyleyerek, “En zor anlarımda hep yanımdaydı… Şimdi bana ‘kliniğe bırak’ diyorlar, nasıl bırakayım? Şu anda konuşamıyor, hareket edemiyor…” sözleriyle yaşadığı çaresizliği anlatıyor.

@RupertLowe10 Cheers Rupert 🥂🥂

Here’s to the sound people of Great Yarmouth and our wonderful new councillors. This is their victory.

@AmadiSinachii Calling people racist then using racist language really elevates your argument 🙄

This is what the UK has turned into, we honestly don’t hate these racist white gammons enough

A Muslim jihadist cut off the hands of a Christian girl because she refused to marry him and become a sex slave. She managed to escape before he tried to behead her. This past year, more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza. The media remains silent.

Chelsea Perkins murdered the man who raped her. She pled guilty and took full responsibility. She was given 22.5 years in prison. Jesse Mack Butler raped and strangled two children. One sustained such severe neck injuries she almost died. He got community service.

Women: I want to go for a run. Society: You can’t go alone. You’ll get raped. Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage. Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you’ll get raped. Women: I want to live alone. Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too. Women: What about going to the park? Society: Dangerous. Women: Okay, I’ll just go out for a drink then. Society: Don’t take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times. Women: I was raped. Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.

@francesbarber13 The party happily followed him. Fuck them all.

Not surprised at all by Labour wipeout. When Starmer accused normal working class people of being far right thugs after their understandable distress about Southport , he signed his own demise. He took the party with him.

@TheNorfolkLion I was christened but raised by atheist parents. I’ve never believed but I love visiting beautiful churches and definitely feel a ‘presence’ within them.

As some of you who have known me for a while here know, I’m an atheist. However, I’ve also said that I wish I could believe. I was christened as a child and used to believe. As I’ve got older, I’ve become adamant that there’s no such thing as God. But over the last few years, I’ve been softening and trying to believe again. I’ve asked for so-called enlightenment, but nothing has happened. I read the Bible when I was a child but not since, so I’ve decided to start reading it again. It’s now my nightly ritual before bed. Please send prayers 🙏🏻 let’s hope some enlightenment or something meaningful happens. If God or Jesus don’t come to me after that, I’ll have to carry on being an atheist/realist.

@PatrickChristys @AllisonPearson We really are through the looking glass.

This is insane. Teachers wearing keffiyehs and draped in Palestine flags are out on strike. The pupils tell them to get back to work

@amanbhogal You are though, and you know it as well as we do.

My name is Amandeep Singh Bhogal I am not a “colour” I am not a slur "jeet" I am not an acronym BAME I am not a "tick box minority" I am the majority - privileged to be British-Indian. Blessed to call 🇬🇧 home. Enough with the woke Right and Leftist identity politics bigotry.

@Keir_Starmer I don’t want change! I want to be left alone to live a peaceful life amongst my own people. A simple life without worrying about being assaulted or blown up, or being taxed to the bare bones for people to have 10 inbred disabled kids.I absolutely reject change! Go away!

We must respond to the message that voters have sent us and break with the status quo once and for all. We must confront the big challenges the public face with real answers. That is how we will deliver the change that people are desperate for and build a stronger and fairer country. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@Jenny_1884 Yes.

If there was a referendum today would you still vote for Brexit?

@btbsoco No. Entire towns and cities are no longer British, we are drowning in migrants.

Legal migrants are welcome... Those among them that integrate well... Ignore the hysteria - we are not racists, and law abiding legal immigrants who've integrated... You have allies amongst us...

@goodreads The Names by Florence Knapp, so far really good 👍🏻

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

@PolitlcsUK @JuliaHB1 Her?

🚨 BREAKING: Welsh Labour First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat in the Senedd It’s the first time in British history that a sitting head of Government has lost re-election to the house they led

@TheGriftReport Wanted to send money to Ukraine? All he had to do was ask Starmer nicely 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ukrainian man claims he firebombed Keir Starmer’s former home and car because he needed money for his sick father in Ukraine 22-year-old Roman Lavrynovych is on trial at the Old Bailey for a series of arson attacks in north London in May 2025. He allegedly set fire to a Toyota RAV4 previously owned by Starmer, torched a house where the PM used to live (now rented by his sister-in-law), and targeted another linked property. Lavrynovych told jurors he was contacted on Telegram by someone called “EL Money” who paid him in cryptocurrency for the jobs. He said he needed the cash to send home for his father’s medical treatment and claimed he had no idea the targets belonged to the Prime Minister. Police found his DNA on a petrol can, trainers with turpentine substitute and other items at the scenes. He was arrested hours after the final blaze. He and two co-accused, another Ukrainian and a Romanian, all deny conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life. The trial continues. Thoughts?