Ellis Croft

@Reaps11 You'd not want to put too much on Infantino presenting it to Zohran Mamdani, however amusing that would be

Have FIFA created an award for Trump??

@SoVeryBritish HP Sauce. Just no.

What’s a food opinion you hold that could get you ostracised from Britain? Mine is I’m not particularly keen on scotch eggs. In fact, I’d go as far as to say I don’t like them at all, to be honest. Sorry.

@ronrule @doodlestein Or you could just see whether they have a blue tick next to their handle

The easiest and quickest way to test someone's intelligence is to make a generalized statement about a group. Say something like "Asian men are shorter on average." If they say any variation of "not all Asian men are short" or "I know a tall Asian guy" you are dealing with someone genuinely low IQ. They have proven that they aren't intelligent enough to understand abstract ideas like a statistical average or per capita. Why else would they think bringing up an exception like it was some profound statement? They literally CAN NOT understand abstracts, no attempt at rationalizing or explaining yourself will increase their IQ.

How did we get from the 90’s to here? People got along, nobody cared about race, life was affordable, entertainment wasn’t laced with agendas, wealth was something to aspire to not scoff at, and divisive politics hadn’t permeated everything. The world was better. What happened?

@TheEconomist I'm genuinely impressed that you managed to come up with a more goading take than "dynamic pricing keeps out non fans and is therefore good" on the previous tweets. The Economist weekend social team have gallows humour down pat

For a billionaire with a casual interest in Oasis, a price that is eye-watering for those who politicians call “ordinary fans” will be negligible. But addressing such inequality through cheap tickets is foolish econ.st/4cVRA52 👇

@TheEconomist If you want to sell subscriptions undermining the credibility of the publication with a ludicrous clickbait headline that doesn't stand any scrutiny is rational as it means only dedicated Economist fans will pay to read. Is that how it works?

If Oasis tickets were sold for £20, many would be snapped up by people looking for a cheap night out, rather than genuine devotees. Dynamic pricing ought to be good for fans. Don’t click back in anger econ.st/3MBJBPY 👇

@Reaps11 calling an election was the spoiler alert on that issue

I’m convinced he doesn’t want to be PM anymore 😂😂

@RussInCheshire I don't think he can pardon state convictions as President, only federal. Could be wrong but I'm fairly sure that's the case

@Reaps11 all well and good but could he find the inverted wing back with a precision pass after dummying the opposing forward 50 yards off his line? That seems to be the name of the goalkeeping game now. Keeping the ball out the net, less so. And don't even mention the near post

Incredible to think that this guy is still without a club!!!!

@benatipsos The "number of months since taking government" measure is clearly a deep state conspiracy against Truss who is now the graphic equivalent of the needle in the haystack

And 2/2 Sunak govt is uniquely negatively viewed (worse than Major in 1990s etc...) #change #GeneralElections2024

@TomBewick @implausibleblog @UKandEU The EU wasn't a "governing entity" in line with the examples you put forward. Have you got any other examples of this concept of constitutional escape velocity?

What absolutely no one gets in the commentariat (including the rejoinders who are fuelled by them), is the concept of constitutional ‘escape velocity’. What I mean by this is can anyone name a country in the last 200 years that has fundamentally changed its constitutional position vis a vis another governing entity (as happened with the UK leaving the EU, or the Irish Free State being formed in 1922, or Indian independence in 1947) by reverting back to the previous constitutional position? In other words, there is no previous position to go back to. Only a new position of accepting the Euro, unlimited immigration, pan European taxes. Common defence and security etc. Once these trade offs are put to the British people, they run a mile. On this subject, Curtice is as deluded as the people he was talking to.

Sir John Curtice speaking to @UKandEU #RejoinEU "One of the things to realize is that the Labour party is going to get elected by an electorate which is three quarters anti Brexit" "I mean, one of the great ironies of the whole situation of where we're at is that the party that's done tried the hardest to change the Brexit profile of its support has succeeded the least" "Labour's vote is almost as anti Brexit as it was back in 2019" "So, therefore, that raises the question, particularly if there's, many of us think it's not unlikely that the next government is going to hit political trouble fairly early, fairly early on, because it's a terrible, terrible legacy that they're going to inherit" "And then they've got to think about ways of how to keep their voters on board. A lot of their voters would be hoping that the Labour government would do something about the EU, which is perhaps more than the Labour party is currently saying it wants to do on the EU"

This is excellent and assuming the line "it's all about perception" stands for CCHQ then not hard to see them adopting this as a better offering than their own (NB if you've not see the "gangs of ULEZ enforcers" marauding dark alleys official ad, watch it first)

@Otto_English @_bridgetheatre Definitely - take someone who claims to not like/get musicals and get the cheap immersive tickets and just have a blast. It's ace. Never seen so many proper broad grins on the way out of a show.

Guys and Dolls at @_bridgetheatre a production just bursting with joy. Beg, buy, steal a ticket - and failing that win one in a crap game. Have not been so entertained in years.

@DeborahMeaden Mild Max: Sunday Drive (in which our eponymous hero charges his EV using solar panels in his back yard before taking his family on a zero carbon emission spin in the lovely countryside one Sunday afternoon. They meet family friends for a vegan picnic). Box office smash

Mad Max would have been a very different movie with renewable energy.

@Reaps11 "My player is Nicolas Anelka and I support Arsen.. no, Real Mad... no wait PSG oh hang on FenerbaceLiverpool City Chelsea Wanderers Albion. Yes, that team"

I’ve never ever heard of a kid supporting a player and changing teams if they move 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

@ereuben I want to know if their sys admin mgr is Mr Password Password

Another poncy waiter with a double-barrelled name

@hackneycouncil Hi @hackneycouncil @mayorofhackney I have a 6 year old daughter with a persistent cough and would love help dealing with the rogue landlord who (wrongly and insultingly) dismissed this as being down to our "lifestyle choices" and refused to do anything to fix the problems.

"Tackle damp and mould or pay the penalty." Find out how we're cracking down on rogue landlords putting tenants lives at risk. Find out more at news.hackney.gov.uk/record-investm…

@jonburkeUK @NatWittee What's yours? Genuine question. If there are more than 4x the number of pedestrians than cyclists (probable) then you're more likely to be killed by a car while on a bike than on foot. Helmets prevent head injury, not car accidents, so the OT is a non-sequitur in any case.

@NatWittee And yet drivers *still* kill more pedestrians than cyclists, so what's your point?

Drivers kill four times as many pedestrians as cyclists every year. Do you think it's "crazy" that people don't wear helmets while walking to the shops?

@henrymance It must have come as a terrible surprise that the man they hired - available due to apparently punching a colleague because of a lack of steak - was capable of expressing violence through opinion as well as physically. Whodathunkit?

@MattWelly @IrenaBuzarewicz 😂 excellent. HNY Welly, how you doing??

@IrenaBuzarewicz @Ellis__Croft

Life

@RevRichardColes many reasons: Nazis assumed Allies also had nerve gas (not the case) so feared reprisal; circumstance (uboats sank mustard gas consignment destined for USSR, Germany didn't invade GB, etc); Hitler's assumed antipathy to chemical weapons as a victim of a WW1 gas attack; and more