Simon Holder

@SimonClarkeMP @Telegraph Listen to yourself. “If we can’t deprive migrants of their human rights, then we demand to be able to strip them from everyone and cobble something together ourselves.” Yeah sure Simon, you seem so nice, thoughtful and trustworthy. Truly dire suggestion by the very worst Tories.

@BrugesGroup Knobs

Yesterday’s EU-flag waving at the Last Night of the Proms was a useful reminder of what our future might have looked like had we voted remain. Thank goodness we’re out!

@gigticket ??? Real?

A much better and more intriguing film than is suggested by the strangely translated title. May prompt longings for a trip to Italy.

@KHarveyProctor Knob

BBC must investigate how so many EU flags were waved & on display at The Last Night of the Proms. Disgraceful & misguided BBC messing up a British tradition; a political gesture which would make Sir Henry Wood turn in his grave. Utterly vulgar & wrong. Rule Britannia, not Rule EU!

If you are sick of Brexit which costs every household £5,000 a year in increased bills, decreased public services and Sh*t filled water to boot. RT and Like and show them that everyone is sick of Brexit BS. #RejoinEU #BrexitHasFailed

Life comes at you fast at The Spectator. C/ @LeedsEurope

BREAKING: UK to rejoin EU's Horizon science programme after a two-year absence news.sky.com/story/uk-to-re…

One of Greece’s most iconic mountain resorts, Makrynitsa, devastated by storm Daniel a few hours ago. Houses literally tumbling down the hill. Dead and missing reported #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency twitter.com/amhelakos/stat…

cc: @RonDeSantis

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White

The most amazing thing about the British Media is that it isn't based in Britain, doesn't pay tax in Britain, isn't owned by British people, and doesn't in fact do anything for Britain.

Ken Murphy is Tesco’s UK CEO and the highest paid supermarket boss. He gets £4,740,000 a year, but is registered to pay tax in the Republic of Ireland. Not a penny of his outrageous salary is collected in tax, despite almost all Tesco’s earnings coming from the UK. It’s theft.

@gigticket Ride Nowhere

Name an album with a predominantly blue album cover. My pick: The Band of Holy Joy

@Anniesomeone1 Hurrah!

I absolutely believeDC should be knighted , he guided the country to Brexit , gave us our sovereignty back and united the country behind the project. BJ then becoming PM was a massive bonus to drive Brexit to the success it is today , and uk the envy of Europe. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@gigticket @RitzBelper It was lovely to watch.

Asteroid City was a real treat for the eyes on the big screen. Not sure I could entirely explain what it's about though. So much going on I missed Jarvis!

Stop the hunt of dolphins and small whales - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Z8yjbp9V via @UKChange

@J_MeD_ @DrEliDavid You have a 'suspicion'? Wow.

@DrEliDavid Climate change is real. Climate alarmism isn’t. I have a suspicion that the Earth’s axis has changed a bit so some areas are hotter as a consequence while others are colder.

Antarctica plunges to the lowest temperature since 2017 🥶 Global warming is real 🤡

@MrBass47941871 @SarahLudford Or maybe just this...

@HolderSimon @SarahLudford I tried it and it has no scientific merit whatsoever. Water vapour is by far the bigger percentage. Show me a scientific logical mechanism for 0.04% of CO2 causing warming and “because it’s a greenhouse gas” is not an answer.

In a Lords debate on climate change impacts, Lord Deben says: “I look forward to a debate with my noble friend Lord Frost, when I will debating the science and he will be debating the prejudices”

@MrBass47941871 @SarahLudford I'd give you the 1000's of papers on the subject but try and read this.... sciencealert.com/co2-is-only-a-…

@MrBass47941871 @SarahLudford Try this to start.. nhm.ac.uk/discover/quick…

@SarahLudford Perhaps you can explain how 0.04% of CO2 in the atmosphere causes global warming? And don’t just show me a graph showing that it also went up when it got warmer, explain WHY it CAUSES it. If you can’t do that, then to have no right to lecture anyone on this.