Edward Kaye

Nothing is more motivational that the launch of Windows 95. Just look at them go. #SaturdayMotivation

Le crunch, in the end, is always le crunch #FRAvENG

The distinction between White and Slightly Off White is confusing #FRAvENG

Irish now supporting England - good luck!! Welcome to the shambles!! #FRAvENG

ITV is fucking shit #ENGvIRE

If Italy could just master the small details and the finishing touches they’d be a tier 1 team #IREvITA

@RupertLowe10 You should at least be able to transfer your tax free allowance to your spouse for the duration of parental leave.

I’ve been married for 39 years, and we have four children - building a family was the best decision we ever took. It is an utter shame that so many British men and women feel unable to take the same decision because of the appalling state of the country. Unaffordable, unsafe, unwelcoming - many couples believe they just can’t afford another child, or to have one at all. My generation is the one that has left this mess, and what a mess it is. What can we actually to do solve it? Most importantly, tax breaks for parents. Let people keep more of what they earn. Reward work over dependency. We need a serious policy platform to encourage British families to have more children - not foreigners who come and sponge off our state. But pro-family policies that provide for British men and women. All of this should apply ONLY to British citizens. I love the idea of front-loading child benefit - pay more of the money in the earlier years, when the help is really required. Give new parents a real financial boost when the child is young and need to buy prams, cots, nappies and the rest. Tax. Reward families with proper relief. Raise thresholds, widen VAT exemptions for essential child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs. Hungary-style tax incentives? Lifelong tax reductions for mothers? Its works well in Hungary. Childcare. Reducing tax obviously helps, but we need more. Make it fully tax deductible. All of it. If you work, you get proper financial support. Ease regulation so ratios aren’t so strict? More children per adult allowed. That would cut costs. Encourage youngsters into childcare with proper bursaries, apprenticeships and so on. Stamp duty reduction for British families - make it easier for young families to move into a home to meet their needs. Priority on the social housing lists. Ban access to council houses for foreign nationals. That would free up enormous space for British families. Why should people on benefits get free childcare? If a healthy person is sitting on benefits for years, refusing to work, then no. You don’t get free childcare. You’ve obviously got the time. Impose strict limits so that space is given to find a job, but after that? No. You can look after the child. Foreign nationals should also not be able to access this funding. Reform spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families in Britain with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office. This would be alongside the ‘red list’ to root out fraud. That is positive immigration, and should be welcomed. IVF. Widen access for British citizens. An investment well worth making - speak to any family who has been through it successfully. Money well spent in the NHS. For once. Give a small number of holiday days per year allowed in term time so that families can get away for a holiday. Teacher training days IN TERM TIME. These random Mondays off so teachers can go over notes? Let’s do that in the massive amount of school holidays, please - there are certainly enough to choose from. That is something that should be explored too. Why not split schools holidays, so they don’t all overlap? This isn’t rocket science, is it? Simple, cost-effective strategies that would benefit families. By restricting all of these policies to British citizens, it would easily pay for itself. Britain’s birth rate isn’t collapsing by accident. It’s collapsing because we’ve built a country where starting a family is a financial punishment. Fix childcare, cut taxes for parents, reward marriage, properly support mums and dads, and the tide will turn.

For those going to see Bill Bailey's Thoughtifier in Edinburgh tomorrow: STAY UNTIL HOUSE LIGHTS ARE ACTUALLY UP!!

1) it's not a tax break 2) it's a tax on parents not schools 3) it won't raise money for state schools- it will end up costing money 4) it won't recruit 6500 teachers 5) it is being applied mid-year - astonishingly vindictive and disruptive for thousands of pupils 6) it is only being applied to independent schools and not other private fee-paying institutions like nurseries or universities - because this is juvenile class war politics 7) it disproportionately hits smaller, cheaper provincial independent schools, and especially faith-based schools 8) they know all this and still continue with these lines - make of that what you will

@JLR_News @Jaguar This is shit.

Today, @Jaguar unveils its new brand identity, recapturing its ethos to Copy Nothing. This has been a complete reset, to re-enter the world of aspirational luxury, with Jaguar’s spirit of originality and JLR’s #Reimagine vision at its heart. jaguar.com/copy-nothing #JLR #Jaguar

Red Bull Stalen Ros. Event in the Netherlands where people on tandem bikes attempt to cross the water on a narrow technical bridge

@peterjukes The two things are not remotely similar.

I think of Musk’s horrific version of Twitter a bit like Paris under Nazi occupation. Are you going to give up the city and community you were part of? Some of course suck up and collaborate. Others understandably flee. But some stay, and wait and work for liberation

@Haggis_UK Labour already announced that our prisons are pretty much completely full....

Nazir Afzal(former Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England): "If you were involved in a riot... if you incited or conspired... if you simply transported people to the riot... you'll go to prison for years.." #BBCBreakfast

@liambyrnemp Which tier is this please?

Just so we’re clear 👇

@paulmasonnews BAN THEM. BAN THEM ALL

HMG needs to enact the full Online Safety Act now, no more consultations. They should call the two (!) execs of UK Twitter in to explain why their CEO is personally boosting hate speech, incitement and disinformation - and pull the plug on the service unless this stops. 1/

@David__Osland Actual shit for brains

Immigrants aren't 'driving wages down'. That's employers.

@KiMcGuinness Few knew your job existed until your appearance on TV earlier. Why does the north east even need a mayor again?

I’m appalled by scenes from Sunderland. Make no mistake, if your response to tragedy is to use it to commit violence, to abuse others, attack the Police and damage property you stand for nothing except thuggery. It’s not protest. It’s crime and disorder. You don’t speak for Sunderland. You don’t speak for this region. Those grieving in Southport will take no comfort from this.

@JustinWelby It's not a religion of non-violence, and never has been - it's a religion of non-aggression. Obviously.

Using Christian symbolism or the name of God to justify violence is offensive to everything that Christ stands for. There is never any justification for this and I urge any Christian doing it to repent.

This is about two-thirds too long #OpeningCeremony

@JoachimHebel No dispute from our island - we certainly got a lucky draw. It doesn't much matter though - Spain will inevitably win anyway.

Egal, wie langweilig England über das Turnier hinweg war… Sie sind weitergekommen als wir Deutschen. Zur Wahrheit gehört aber auch: auf unserer Seite des Turnierbaumes hätten sie keine Chance gehabt. #engsui

More smoke that a Meatloaf gig #PORSLO