Michael Kilpatrick

@ShaunPinnerUA @swilkinsonbc Never heard of him. Or his award. But then, I don't watch Russian propaganda channels.

Steve Sweeney works for a Kremlin mouthpiece. RT journalists were present during my interrogations, part of a system used to justify Russia’s war in Ukraine. While Ukrainians are tortured, RT helps legitimise child abductions and shape the Kremlin’s narrative. Am I bothered he stood by a bridge in a no-go war zone he was warned about? Not a chance.

The israelis try to assassinate award-winning British journalist Steve Sweeney & cameraman Ali Rida in south Lebanon [wounded but ok]

@gillianifraser @MaryCreagh_ @DeborahMeaden Stupid fucking comment.

@MaryCreagh_ @DeborahMeaden Was there a public consultation about the naming of this path? Was it just foisted upon us like all things Windsor? Justice for all the victims of their cover ups. 😡

Wonderful to see the completion of this iconic path, the longest continuous waymarked coastal route in the world. It will be as legendary as the Appalachian Trail, the Camino de Santiago & the GR 20. Thank you to everyone who made it happen over 17 years bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@cristo_burton @SkippergaryGary @mhmck Classic British Understatement

@SkippergaryGary @mhmck What absolute bollox…🤡🤡

Acceptance is growing in Europe for Canada🇨🇦 to join the European Union🇪🇺. Guy Verhofstadt🇧🇪: "There is no reason why EU membership should be off the table [for Canada]." Jean-Noël Barrot🇫🇷: "And maybe Canada at some point." Johann Wadephul🇩🇪: "I am open for Canada."

@BinneyLuke It's like watching a train crash in slow motion, isn't it?

Remember when the government had the gall to claim those opposing the Chagos Surrender were in league with Russia and China?

@libdemlife Cripes, the head is far rounder than the real one. Not at all good.

a curiously poor picture of Clegg, unveiled at the National Liberal Club yesterday

@29bus @MANonCompliant @BROKENBRITAIN0 I bet there will still be people who find that too difficult...

@MT_Kilpatrick @MANonCompliant @BROKENBRITAIN0 Islands were uninhabited until some British people settled there. Argentina became a country later. The Falkland Islanders don't want to be Argentinian.

🚨BREAKING: Argentina is RAPIDLY rebuilding it’s military, and they have their eyes on the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰 🇦🇷 🇬🇧 Defence chiefs have warned that the slow deployment of the HMS dragon to the Middle East has EXPOSED weaknesses in the UK military. Former servicemen, including those who served in the 1982 conflict, fear the UK’s DIMINISHING powers will not be enough if a crisis erupts in South America ⚠️

@createstreets Yuck. I'm struggling to see more than half a dozen trees in the picture.

Normalise Gentle Density

@29bus @MANonCompliant @BROKENBRITAIN0 Please explain that in even more simple terms. This is Twitter, don't forget.

@MANonCompliant @BROKENBRITAIN0 It's really just the resident population who lived there for hundreds of years and strongly wish to keep the current situation. Self-determination

@MANonCompliant @BROKENBRITAIN0 Yes. The population isn't some statistic that is "ours". They are people in their own right and who we have a duty to protect whilst their wish is to remain British. You seem to have reduced them to chattels.

@BROKENBRITAIN0 Can someone explain why the British want the Falklands anyhow? It doesn’t get you anything and you have a small population there. It’s that population that seems like the only reason to want it. Is there a larger reason I am not seeing?

@gbinpaxil @theweeflea @campbellclaret @EdwardJDavey @RoryStewartUK @Nigel_Farage What? I've never heard of the Duke of Wellington, as he doesn't appear on our banknotes. Who is he?

@theweeflea @campbellclaret @EdwardJDavey @RoryStewartUK @Nigel_Farage Whats it like to be wrong on so many levels? Where was your outrage when the Duke of Wellington got removed from the fiver?

Sorry @EdwardJDavey I have stood up for you when @RoryStewartUK has attacked your “silly stunts” as he calls them because I know how hard it can be for smaller parties to get attention. But this is BS on a @Nigel_Farage scale. Nobody alive imagines that Churchill legend will wane because we see his face less on a banknote. And the public demand (inc I imagine many many LibDems) is for our nature and wildlife to be celebrated alongside our great humans. Leave the culture wars to the bullshitters who have nothing else to offer. These are really serious times. Be serious.

@kodkod87 @Gee101101 @GapToothGreenie @TerribleMaps Congratulations, a lot of you only get two weeks of holiday each year, and the measure of GDP in dollars has less bearing than you think on your quality of life.

@Gee101101 @GapToothGreenie @TerribleMaps Congratulations you have the GDP per capita of Mississippi, our poorest state.

The United States if it had been colonised by Britain

I would like to know if @EastMidRailway have cleaned the old trains running between Ely and Peterborough since I used one 2yrs ago. It made my covid-induced hypersensitivity flare up. I could /feel/ the stuff in the air. And see it. I'm doing the same trip this afternoon...

@DomMgy1 @BBCNewsnight Bollocks. Have we forgotten or erased Nelson, Wellington, Raleigh, Cpt Cook and all, because they don't stare at you out of your wallet every day? (Wellington £5 note ended in 1991)

@BBCNewsnight The point isn't about Churchill. The point is about the woke Bank of England removing historical figures, because along with the rest of the establishment, they wish to erase or forget about our history.

"I would prefer to have retained Churchill... it's so important that we remember that he and his generation fought fascism..." Catherine Atkinson, Labour MP, on the news that historical figures will be replaced by wildlife on bank notes. #Newsnight

@SirSimonClarke Eh? Are you talking about a deployable Royal Navy, or a nuclear deterrent? Our nuclear deterrent is irrelevant to how able we are to send ships to defend Cyprus, Oman, etc etc.

The Lib Dems have zero credibility on defence. It’s because of them that Vanguard crews face 200 day patrols - five years lost 2010-15 to their refusal to allow us to renew the deterrent. With Russia resurgent, how does their opposition to continuous-at-sea deterrence look now?

@MSW654321 @teddy_wix @DarrenPlymouth He would have tried openly to cancel Concorde if his own constituency hadn't been so reliant on it. He thought his time as Postmaster General should involve a pointless objection to the Queen's on stamps. He banged on about his Commonwealth of Britain bill, again pointless.

Maybe the greatest politician the UK ever had. "What fools we are." Please listen.

@DanNeidle @rcolvile @dontdelay Please avoid sounding like Tory politicians in the 1980s when, with the emergence of the Lib/SDP alliance and so on, said that Proportional Representation would be "too complicated". Now look at the mess we're in. If you get my drift. We don't need this sort of thinking, please.

@rcolvile @dontdelay Is it cynical of me to think that any party proposing this would be slammed for the complexity of the formula? (When of course the actual effect is less complexity. Calculation difficulty is irrelevant in the modern world)

A thousand times this for the UK. Esp incorporating benefit withdrawal.

@DanNeidle Ooh, you wicked tease.

I know the result - I have an embargoed copy but court rules mean I can't talk about it until it's officially released.

A tax barrister is suing me personally for £8m for libel, for linking him to a dodgy tax avoidance scheme. The judgment is due out tomorrow 12pm. I'll post about it as soon as it's out.

@jonburkeUK @MAVERIC68078049 @grok Pinned tweet. Enough said.

@MAVERIC68078049 @grok Explain the whole life cycle emissions of a two-megawatt wind turbine using language that a climate change denying, engagement farming blue tick grifter’s followers find easy to understand.

A two-megawatt windmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It hold 700 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like car these need to be replaced every 9 months. People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, it could spin until it falls apart over and over again and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

@MAGAB2035 @Bricktop_NAFO We're not taking part in your "party". We're defending our interests.

@Bricktop_NAFO More than 75 to 80 %of what’s on that flight deck comes from the United States. You’re late to the party. This will be over approximately 3 to 4 weeks from now.

🇬🇧The HMS Prince Of Wales🇬🇧 The British Ministry of Defence is preparing the Strike carrier for deplayment in the middle east. The £6.1bn supercarrier is one of the most powerful warships ever built in the UK. It has a flight deck three football pitches long. The Warship carries 24 F-35B stealth jets, plus helicopters and drones, with 1,600 personnel.

@PolitiCatGeorge @FanSince09 @gtconway3d Erm, if the king were saluting as a soldier or an airman, rather than as a sailor, he wouldn't salute like that.

@FanSince09 @gtconway3d I asked Grok to imagine what a true leader saluting fallen soldiers should look like & one of these things don’t look like the other.

Imagine Obama wearing a cap to pay respects to fallen shoulders. Fox News would brought back slurs from the 1800s that were thought lost to history