Abandon Hope

@romfordgeeza @TerraOrBust @slingcamp And we ain't having it!

@TerraOrBust @slingcamp And this is the government’s problem. The EU will happily trumpet that rejoining will mean entering the € and Schengen.

UK Govt: Hey EU, We'd like to rejoin! EU: Great, so you are willing to accept all of the terms of membership as they are right now, not when you originally joined in the 1970s, right? UK Govt: Erm, yeah? UK Voters: NO WE'RE BLOODY NOT UK Govt: Hey voters, don't worry - we're just going to say we'll join the Euro and Schengen, but then actually never do it, despite what we agree in a treaty EU: EXCUSE ME? UK Govt: Erm, please ignore what we're telling UK voters, we would of course not sign a treaty in bad faith UK Voters: EXCUSE ME? UK Govt: Can you two please stop listening to the lies we are telling the other one, as we're trying to get away with something here UK Voters and EU: EXCUSE ME?

@dshensmith @drhingram Proving that we have been, effectively, silenced.

@drhingram For any young and eager police officers - in Helen's defence, this is clearly a joke, move on – don't make yourself look stupid.

For £5 an hour I will sit opposite your store exit with a sniper rifle

This excuses neither.

There are 17 countries in the Middle East (including Cyprus and Egypt, despite their ties to the EU and Africa respectively). Exactly two are considered democracies. Cyprus and Israel. In only 5 of them is homosexuality not illegal - Cyprus, Israel, Bahrain, Turkey and Jordan. 5 of these countries have the death penalty as a possible punishment for same sex acts, although only one actively uses it - Iran. Iran allows for marriage as young as 9. Saudi Arabia and Yemen have no fixed minimum. Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon and Libya allow it at 15. Israel is with a group of 5 countries with a minimum age of 18. All 17 have Christians and all 17 have Muslims. Israel has more Muslims than Bahrain and Cyprus. 9 of them have Jews living in them, but 4 of those have less than 100 Jews each. After Israel at 7.4M the next highest is Turkey at 14,000. Israel is the 6th smallest of the 17, yet has the 3rd highest total GDP and the second highest GDP per capita. Israel has won the 4th highest number of Olympic medals, and has the highest number of Nobel prize winners. Combined, the other 16 countries have won 2 more (16) Nobel prizes than Israel has (14). 14 of these countries have moderate to significant distinctions in laws between men and women. Israel has high equality with some differences in marriage and divorce. According to the 2026 World Happiness Report, Israel leads the Middle East as the 8th happiest globally. Next highest is UAE at 22nd. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen are numbers 139-142 respectively. And despite all of this, the Free-Palestine movement has managed to convince so many that Israel is an apartheid nation. That Israel is an evil nation. That Israel does norm”have the right to exist” / whatever that means. That Israel should be destroyed. Stop listening to the lies and propaganda. Look at the data. Look at the facts. Discover who’s who. Do some critical thinking. And let’s shut down the real threat, so that the world is safer for everyone.

@UKLabour No it doesn't.

From today, the two child limit is lifted. That means 450,000 children will no longer grow up in poverty.

@fangtwoball @darleenclick @SamaHoole I rest my case.

Robert is thirty-six years old. In 1247, this is not young. Robert knows this. His knees know this. His back has known this since approximately 1239. Robert lives in a village in Worcestershire with his wife Agnes, three surviving children, and two chickens he is not allowed to eat because the chickens produce eggs and the eggs matter more than the chickens. Today is a Tuesday in March. Robert will describe it as a Tuesday in March. The concept of a 'week' as a unit of leisure is not yet something Robert has access to. 5:00am - Up. Pottage on the fire. The pottage is oats, leeks, and some dried parsnip from the autumn store. There is a small piece of salted pork in it, approximately the size of Robert's thumb. It is mostly flavouring. Robert eats around it for as long as possible, then eats it, then thinks about it for the rest of the morning. 6:00am - Field. Robert works the lord's strip first, then his own. The ground is still cold. His boots have a hole. He has had the hole since October. He has packed it with rags. The rags are wet. They will remain wet until June. Robert is technically eating a plant-based diet. He is not doing this by choice. He is doing this because meat belongs to the lord, the deer belong to the king's forest, and the last man in this village who was caught with an unlicensed rabbit spent a period in the stocks that his family still doesn't fully discuss. 10:00am - Brief rest. Rye bread, hard. A small onion. Robert thinks about the pig that was slaughtered in November. He thinks about this often. The memory of fat is a specific and enduring thing when you don't have much of it. 1:00pm - Back to the field. Robert's average daily calorie intake is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 calories, the majority from grain. He is doing agricultural labour that modern exercise scientists would classify as extremely high intensity. He is, measurably, running on insufficient fuel. He is aware of this in the way that you are aware of things that cannot be changed: completely, and without drama. 4:00pm - Home. Agnes has made more pottage. It is similar to this morning's pottage. Robert eats it. Robert's teeth hurt. They have hurt for two years. There is no dentist. There is a barber-surgeon in the market town seven miles away. Robert cannot afford the barber-surgeon and cannot take the day from the fields. His teeth continue to hurt. 7:00pm - Sleep. Robert will be awake again at five. He is thirty-six. He will probably not see forty. The leading cause of death for men in his position is a combination of infection, injury, and the slow arithmetic of malnutrition across a lifetime. Somewhere, eight hundred years from now, someone will describe Robert's diet as "ancestral," "plant-forward," and "aligned with the earth." Robert would have a great deal to say about this. Robert does not have the energy.

@ZackPolanski correct. Good.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.

@GrainFinger @Proper_Memes Racist! (Evidently?)

@Proper_Memes I spoke with someone at HMRC this week. They were working from home and they couldn’t speak English properly!! It was embarrassing, I had to keep asking them to repeat themselves.

Quite remarkable by the HMRC. In October 2025 I noticed there was gap in my NI contributions for 22/23, which I pay myself as I run my own business. I called the HMRC, waited for ages and eventually got to someone (clearly working from home; bad line, background noise) who said that my payment is seen but it needs to allocated towards my account. I had done the payments exactly the same way years before and after 22/23, yet that year was not allocated towards my account? She said she'll 'push it' to my account now. I asked how long it will take and when can I see it on my records. She she said a few months. I was flabbergasted: months. I checked my records again this week. The gap was still there. I called HMRC again. This time I got through pretty quickly and talked someone who seemed very professional and efficient. He put me on hold for a bit and then got back to me. "I'm going to be honest with you. I can see that your contribution is on the queue and it needs to be allocated to your account by a case worker. The current queue is 52 weeks, so since you initiated the check in October, task would be completed by October 2026." Unbelievable. I follow the rules, I file my taxes on time, do everything by the book, yet the system doesn't work on the HMRC end and it'll take a year to remedy a simple error, yet if I miss my deadline, I'll get fined immediately. The tax processes need to streamlined, the tax code needs to massively simplified and HMRC needs to work for the people, not against them. @RupertLowe10

@Donna__McLean Two PEOPLE, who were MIGRANTS, ILLEGALLY attempting to enter a country. In some places, they'd have been shot.

Two people died. People.

@_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog Because his views are in line with those at "our" BBC. TRAITORS!

@implausibleblog Sir Michael Morpurgo has always opposed Brexit. He's an author, a poet and a playwright. He's not an economist or an expert on politics, geo-politics or strategy. So why is Newsnight asking for his opinion on Trump and Brexit? And why should we care what he thinks?

Cathy Newman, "Trump smashed up the old world order, the UK and EU are wondering what to do about it" "Keir Starmer offered closer ties with the EU, why not go the whole hog and rejoin the EU, with the majority of the country in favour?" Sir Michael Morpurgo, "It was the greatest mistake this country has made since the war, I have no doubt about that at all" "I mean to turn our back on our neighbours in that way, not just in terms of trade but in terms of culture and everything" "It was a ridiculous decision" "Somehow we have to understand when we make a mistake, we admit it and make a change"

@darleenclick @SamaHoole The Irish as victims....again. In reality it's about how the rich and powerful are only rich and powerful because of the poor and weak. Nothing to do with being "Irish"

Potatoes: Irish ate them during the famine because literally nothing else would grow. Then a million people died when the potatoes failed. Point of order. Not the whole story. Irish potato diet was because of the ease of growing them while - as tenant farmers - they had to grow crops that their absentee landlords imported to England. Catholic Irish weren't allowed to own land. The potatoes as a monocrop failed due to a specific blight, but they were forbidden from eating anything from the crops that belonged to the landlord. Food was still being exported from Ireland even during the famine.

@SamaHoole @mattwridley The Peasants Revolt.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Cooking the sausages? Or should it be hostages?

What's missing from this banging full English breakfast?

@0hour1 Nein!!

Everyone in the UK would be speaking German if not for the United States.

@nocontextfritzl @JoshRomOnAir No. No, we are not!

@JoshRomOnAir I think we are all in agreement on this one

Let's do a strategic media deep dive here on Scott Mills. - The Mirror published the exclusive story at 11:30am on the dot. - This exact publishing timing signals it was likely scheduled and had been with the legal department. - The headline and parts of the copy emphasise that the contract has been terminated with immediate effect. - The Mirror had the exclusive statement from BBC boss Lorna Clarke to staff, shared before the original article was published. - The BBC statement used words including sudden, unexpected and shock. - Later Ms Clarke stated she could not "say anything further now," indicating continuing or further developments. - He was sacked for reasons 'related to his personal conduct' which is not the same as inappropriate workplace conduct. Let's make no mistake about it, the signs are extremely ominous.

@JoshRomOnAir @GrahamT42640895 He’s come out as a straight white man…..not tolerated at the beeb 🤣

@dshensmith oh my

@Jezaddy @DCBMEP @brexitblog_info The "Diversity Bonus"?

@DCBMEP @brexitblog_info 6) as per Radio4 Today this morning, ask why the city isn’t installing crash barriers everywhere in Derby !

So on the Derby attack we see a familiar media handling pattern: 1.) Deny terrorism - play for time; don’t report much (where are BBC interviews of Derby attack victims? All played down) 2.) Wait til media interest calmed down 3.) Quietly slip out decoy facts: like the attacker was from India (question: is the alleged attempted murderer an Indian Muslim?) 4.) Hope media interest dies off 5.) Condemn any legitimate concern as ‘right wing’ agitation. We’re not fooled.

What is Scott Mills going to do with all those Kit Kats? #kitkat #Scottmills

@williamnhutton We are being screwed

Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…