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Simon Dudley's remarks are a shocking insult to the people who lost their lives at Grenfell and to their families. The Grenfell Inquiry found the tragic deaths of 72 people, entirely avoidable. To have a senior Reform figure undermine that is unacceptable.

Kick It Out statement: It’s massively disappointing that some Leeds United fans booed when Manchester City’s players broke their fast during the first half of the match at Elland Road this evening. This was compounded by the fact that an explanation was displayed on a big screen inside the stadium. Pausing the game to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan has been an agreed protocol for several years now. It’s an important and visible part of making the game welcoming for Muslim players and communities. But as tonight’s reaction shows, football still has a long way to go in terms of education and acceptance.

@Femi_FPolitics He didn’t shout it “at” anyone. It’s an involuntary vocalisation, it’s not speech, it’s a tic. He isn’t in control of that so he couldn’t have directed to anyone. I’m sure it was awful in real time for those on stage, and it’s awful that they chose to broadcast it.

John Davidson wasn't in control of his actions when he shouted the N-Word at Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the #BAFTAs. The BBC was in FULL CONTROL of theirs when they aired racist abuse but censored anti-racism! Put the blame where it belongs!!! youtu.be/0qw5bmowCxI

made me do the same thing again. fucking what the fuck fuck

@thespursweb As the wife of a United fan I think I celebrated that 3rd goal more than he did. Gotta take the wins where you can 😩

Well, that made yet another miserable weekend of football slightly better 😂

@waitrose oh naughty naughty Waitrose! £13 for a fillet steak and it’s two smaller off-cuts stuck together. For shame, profit margins must be tight!?

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

Nigel Farage reflects on 2025 🎄🇬🇧 #NigelFarage

It’s true, London is so dangerous right now On Charing Cross Road Tonight innocent members of the public were being invited to do the Macarena

@kirkkorner Your reporting on this is really important. How the cases you give details of are ever deemed in the public interest is beyond me. Punishing people already suffering is unnecessary and only adds to their hardship.

Woman gets TV Licence criminal conviction after her house burned down When politicians don't fix the #SingleJusticeProcedure these are the people they are failing standard.co.uk/news/crime/tv-…

@PaulRam60679993 @kirkkorner Sounds to me like they fell into financial hardship (god forbid!?) set up a payment plan - then suffered a devastating house fire and following that were given improper advise from TV licensing which resulted in a prosecution.

@kirkkorner Seems like she defaulted, set up a payment plan and then defaulted on that. How many chances should she get?

@RaptorPersUK This is so terrible - who would take something like this from the wild!? I’d love to get hold of whoever is responsible

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction. New blog ⬇️⬇️ raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/fou…

Here’s an interview I did on BBC News about the disappearance of the White-tailed Eagles. We recovered the satellite tags from two of the birds which had clearly been cut off. More info here too roydennis.org/2025/12/17/thr…

Old Donnie Despot is never beating those allegations!

@LeeAndersonMP_ Where do you think the payout will come from you fucking traitorous moron!? Should they not defend themselves?

BBC COMES OUT FIGHTING 🤜🤜🤜 With your money 💶💶 Ridiculous headline but a reminder that if you pay your TV licence fee then you are footing the bill for this? Was it you spliced the Trump speech to make him look bad? Thought not.

@LBC This trope about people getting hammered and embarrassing themselves at the Xmas party is so snobbish and out of date. If you don’t like it, don’t go. But acting like the rest of us don’t enjoy it or can’t control ourselves is nonsense.

'The office Christmas party is dead – and good riddance' ✍️ Amy Meekings for LBC Opinion lbc.co.uk/article/office…

@WalshFreedom No - Hitler did. Hitler also needed his ego stroked like this.

Never, ever, ever, ever in the entire history of humanity has one human being’s ego needed to be stroked so much. It’s so fucking pathetic. And shame, shame, shame on all the ego strokers.

This is the most embarrassing thing to happen in the history of football.

This thread is must read. The conclusion is simultaneously eye- popping and utterly predictable. The ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine delivered by the White House seems to have been translated from Russian into English. In other words it’s the Kremlin plan that Trump seems to be passing off as American, and is telling Ukraine it must accept