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@euansaunders @keatonhorrocks1 Doing it with John Smiths is a middle distance event

@keatonhorrocks1 @ArchieCharlton

matt weston greatest man on the earth. 3 john smiths 28.82 seconds. beat that. #bwfc #worldrecord

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This is just a little pro tip from me but if you RT a bunch of this shit your For You feed stops being racist

@glcarlstrom Why have you not corrected this now?

Wild story: someone took out an enormous short position against Israeli stocks five days before the October 7th attack, orders of magnitude bigger than normal trading activity and big enough to have made billions of shekels when the market crashed. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

@dieworkwear When the Duke of Wellington returned to Parliament after the 1832 Great Reform Act (enfranchising the middle classes), he is supposed to have looked down at the MPs and said “Never in my life have I seen so many bad hats”

One of the interesting things about the Fetterman dress scandal is that the suit itself was once the gym shorts and hoodie of its day. This part got cut from my Politico op-ed (for good reason; it was getting long and tangential). But when Keir Hardie—a Scottish union leader and co-founder of what would later become the Labour Party—was first elected to Parliament in 1892, he wore a tweed suit, a red necktie, and a deerstalking cap to his first day of work. Today, we think of the suit as a formal garment, the very glass of respectability. But as I've mentioned here before, this was not always so. In the late 19th century, men in high positions—such as those in banking and law—wore the more formal frock coat. Working-class clerks and administrators wore the fustian lounge suit. When Hardie was elected, the proper Parliamentary uniform was a black frock coat, a starched wing collar, and a black silk top hat. Hardie, who was elected to represent the people of West Ham South—a working-class seat in Essex, now Greater London—rejected this uniform because he felt it was the symbol of capital. Instead, he opted to dress like his constituents. Polite society was scandalized. The press was so offended that he wore a deerstalking cap—a flat cap style associated with members of the working class, rather than the silk top hat worn by MPs—one paper wrote: "A cloth cap in Parliament!" I'm not convinced Fetterman is dressing to signal anything (if he was, he would be more vocal about it). As I mentioned in my op-ed, I think he should not only wear a suit in the Senate chamber but even when walking through Congressional halls. Not doing so creates a distraction from more meaningful matters. But being "respectful" of our political system is much more than dressing up. It's about how you serve honorably. You can signal this through your clothes, but someone not wearing those clothes does not necessarily mean they are not fulfilling the more important duties. We should focus more attention on actions, not clothes. But it's an interesting historical point that the suit was, at one point, causing a very similar controversy.

@DollarVigilante Why is this allowed to be advertised on twitter?

Imagine your $200 electricity bill is now $2000. That's what's happening in Europe right now! #europeanenergycrisis #energycrisis #fallout #fossilfuels

@ssrpmcmurphy @davidrvetter Have you ever tried predicting something large and systemic?

@davidrvetter ever wondered why the weather still cannot be predicted accurately from day to day? or why there is no real correlation between Co2 levels and changes to the climate? A bit more thought & a bit less certainty. Calling people who disagree with you ‘deniers’ is also absurd

Today, climate deniers are hooting about something called the World Climate Declaration, an anti-science screed that claims to have 1,200 "scientists" declaring that there is no climate emergency. A couple of notes on that. 1/

🚨📖BOOK GIVEAWAY!📖🚨 My @EdinburghUP book 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' is finally out in paperback!! To celebrate, I'm giving a copy away - all you need to do to enter is RT this tweet, and I'll draw a winner in a week's time!

@RunOnTheMind @Antifascistty @GBNEWS Life of Brian was banned

@Antifascistty @GBNEWS Certainly not. That is a case in point. Some Christians complained but it wasn’t banned, was it! But then I guess they didn’t intimidate cinema goers and staff. 😏

Muslim producer of film banned for 'blasphemy' says 'it's perfectly normal to portray the Prophet Muhammad' gbnews.uk/news/muslim-pr…

@Ayo_TOG @KwajoHousing I think that £1 per household is probably closer to the mark

@KwajoHousing I saw a tweet that said with the total budget, you could have given each household in Britain £38,000. I don’t think anything else needs to be said.

Guys what’s your opinion on the amount of money being spent on the Queens Jubilee? Do you think it’s justified or out touch at a time where so many are struggling? (The important point focusing on the AMOUNT being spent for it)

@_hypx @G7PCM @GBNEWS I feel like the elemental physics aspect isn’t, although I would love to hear evidence otherwise as I’m far from an expert. Another issue for me is the issue of where hydrogen gets into cars, as my understanding is it needs pipes, for which a network is not forthcoming?

'They're expensive. They run out of battery. You can't charge them. They're sad.' Lois Perry from CAR 2626 says electric cars are 'a con' 🖥 GB News on YouTube: bit.ly/3vAYaw0

@Speakin36400203 @probsnotspam @Osinttechnical Just so incorrect - most of his supporters are not Muslim, nor is the Muslim community anything close to: being well-known to be anti-Semitic

@probsnotspam @Osinttechnical Well in this case one of the targets was Sadiq Khan the mayor of London who claims to be muslim. Most of his supporters are muslims who reside in London whose community is well known to be anti-semetic or aren't exactly friendly towards non-muslims in the city.

I have read most of the manifesto, this was pretty clearly an act of terror, one that was planned for months.

@weirdofeeIings @fellbytheway @demarionunn Obviously the above story is v problematic and bad, but (apologies if you have more info than me here) linking someone with a ‘Jewish’ last name to a prominent and wealthy Jewish family is v problematic itself

@sprolliehouse @Samfr Just asking; which ones other than sport?

@Samfr Speaking for myself, I aim to a) maintain the current definition of "woman" as used in the Equality Act, and b) maintain the current single sex exemptions. Maintaining a clear definition of woman is key to so many aspects of our rights, safeguards and representation, eg sport.

Genuine question to which I don't know the answer and am not trying to make a hidden point with... are gender critical campaigners actively looking to change the Equality Act or some other legislation or are they trying to prevent future changes to the law?

@RachelConnoll14 Really really great article

I wrote about the need for perspective, the alpaca and some other things

@ped1st @leicesterliz @JonAshworth I agree in principle, however there’s a pretty significant split between the private providers who make significant profits (who don’t really cater for the state-funded markets anyway) and the significant majority forming the rest of the market

What do we need to “fix the crisis in social care”? (I think our goal should be far more ambitious - to transform social care to enable all older and disabled people to live the life they chose - but for now let’s focus on the PMs promise) THREAD 1/

@EssexTpt @GBNEWS Obviously something you know more than me about, but wouldn’t we get a bit of a ‘discount’ on training them as we already have done a bit? Also, at this point, if they’ve been evacuated, aren’t they basically already our own?

@GBNEWS I think we need to train and recruit our own, only my opinion but I am not a fan of an Afg Regt in 🇬🇧 Army. I’ve completed 15 months in Helmand but can’t see this being the way forward. Only my opinion ❤️ don’t go mad if you disagree 👍🏻

Afghan commandos could form new regiment in British army. gbnews.uk/news/afghan-co…

@hodgehuh @JJHTweets No fan of Raab, but I don’t think his family were rich or had major connections. It seems to me that he found himself at a top solicitors firm as a result of working hard and doing well at uni

Who on earth spends £40,000 on a 7 day holiday when their salary is £81,000? Oh thats right. Dominic Raab. I find it hard to believe that he paid for that hotel at that price.... so WHO did pay?