Bill Fairhall

@XRUK_Live pls move mic nearer for audible speech.

LIVE Glencore UK HQ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Captain_JRM @JustStop_Oil If

@JustStop_Oil Is it still a peaceful protest if you intentionally stop ambulances?

🚨 BREAKING: ARRESTS AT PARLIAMENT SQUARE AS MET CRACK DOWN ON PEACEFUL PROTEST 🦺 Yesterday, a blanket Section 12 notice was placed on the entirety of London’s roads, banning Just Stop Oil supporters from peaceful processions on any road in London. No paperwork has been provided. This is the reality of #ToryBritain in 2023.

@carlafrancome A couple of metres of salt water and sewage.

What is the main thing that would improve this scene? Wrong answers only …

@InfoAgeStrategy One reason perhaps ... but not THE reason. jmss.org/article/view/7…

Here's why I believe Ukraine was, and remains, such a threat to Vladimir #Putin: In 1989, Putin was a KGB officer in Dresden when the Berlin Wall fell and communism collapsed. How did that collapse happen? East Germans who were (illegally) watching West German TV saw that their neighbors to the West had a life, and lifestyle, far superior to the one in East Germany. More freedom. More income. More opportunities. Better quality of life. So, East Germans voted with their feet and fled. Putin soon experienced the collapse of East German firsthand. Today, Putin's worst nightmare is a #Ukraine that holds free and fair elections, and has a free media, human rights, freedom of speech and religion. Ukraine, Russia's neighbor, already has a higher standard of living than Russia. Ukraine has not yet reached its potential, but unlike #Russia, they've already made some significant strides in that direction. (Compare the respective trajectories of North and South Korea since 1970 if you want to see a historical precedent.) A successful #Ukraine is simply a ticking time bomb for an autocratic revanchist Tsar in the Kremlin, plain and simple. So yes, you could say that Ukraine was an existential threat to Putin's kleptocratic regime. But not for the absurd reasons the #Kremlin has claimed.

@mrjamesob BBC R4 Today was doing it's best to find others this morning.

Weird sense today that the Brexit gig is up. Probably premature. And God knows how things progress from here. But when Hannan & Rees-Mogg are the only people left flying the tattered flag you'd have to be absolutely crackers to salute it.

@jonnyplanetgong never existed at all.

daevid would have been 103...happy b/day

@Vordio You planning on standing still and spreading out .. or finding an ambulant host?

@Vordio My favourite .. youtu.be/XslNMymKM4g

Compare and contrast. Remember when @SouthernWater changed the icons on their sewage dumping map, to make them look more palatable, smaller, to confuse and befuddle the viewer. Today's example. SW's version & mine. Both showing where SW have dumped sewage in the last 72 hours

@thenitinsawhney "alienated from a cause" ..... bigger picture needed.

To those saying throwing soup at a Van Gogh was ok because it did no actual damage to the painting… First, consider how much it alienated many people from a cause we should ALL care about… Then, ask yourself what precedent it sets in attacking great art if it IS effective.

@thelaceylondon "It's faux leather!" I blurted desperately.

In six words or fewer, write a short story about this photo... #amwriting #sixwordstory

@anon_opin Everyone treated by the NHS or others should also receive a breakdown of their treatment costs showing the profits of private providers and service suppliers. To see exactly what could be saved if an efficient redistributive tax system were publicly funding all their healthcare

Everyone who is treated on the NHS should receive an invoice breakdown of their treatment costs so they can appreciate exactly what that would cost them elsewhere in the world.

@TheTrawlPodcast mine mine mine

What should the new Tory party slogan be?

@Vordio The only commercial kiln I've seen used wood to dry wood which has it's own madness.

@TomLondon6 A racket of ...

What is the collective noun for the Tory leadership candidates?

@Vordio Here's a tune to remind of colds before Covid (and the internet) ... youtu.be/mKizfO5fAbk

@ThatEricAlper youtu.be/sJt6jn0xT8A

@TamsinShasha Good call ... can't get link to work.

@natalieben Rescue of channel refugees.

Trying to think what practical use these monstrosities could be put to? Fisheries protection maybe? telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…

@Feargal_Sharkey Caroline Lucas - Honourable Friends

What 3 books would you recommend to someone who wants to get a flavour of how behind the scenes power and politics really works in Whitehall? Asking for a friend. :)