Mark Heller

@GoodwinMJ As an academic, you should be embarrassed peddling such nonsense.

Britain’s choice is becoming clear: If you want to keep open borders, vote Labour If you want to control the borders, vote Reform If you want to keep masses of legal immigration that’s undercutting British workers, vote Labour If you want to dramatically lower this immigration and prioritise British workers, vote Reform If you think illegal migrants who break our laws should be put in your communities, vote Labour If you think they should be immediately detained and deported, vote Reform If you think the British people should keep paying £15 billion to put illegal migrants in hotels and housing, vote Labour If you think they should instead be processed offshore, vote Reform If you think the British people’s own money should be used to outbid the British people in their own housing market then, vote Labour If you think social housing should instead be kept for British families and young people, vote Reform If you think the British people should keep paying £12 billion a year on welfare benefits for people who are not British, vote Labour If you think welfare benefits should only go to Brits, then vote Reform If you think our immigration system should be decided by ECHR judges in Strasbourg, vote Labour If you think our immigration system should be shaped by courts and laws here in Britain, vote Reform If you think the ‘Boriswave’ that nobody voted for, and will cost you hundreds of billions, should be made permanent, vote Labour If you think it should be scrapped and this money redirected into our NHS and police, vote Reform If you think we should have a back door to free movement with the EU via a youth scheme, vote Labour If you think this country has had enough immigration and should focus on helping young Brits, vote Reform And if you think that basically all forms of migration to Britain should be made permanent, vote Labour Or if, instead, you think we should only allow a much smaller number of the best workers who contribute to stay in Britain, then vote Reform This is your choice

@BlobelPonge @PeterStefanovi2 But absolute freedom for all is impossible since one person's absolute freedom restricts another's.

@PeterStefanovi2 Freedom is not conditional, otherwise it is no more.

"Free speech is a British value... but if you incite racist violence and hatred that is not expressing concern, that's criminal." Sir Keir Starmer says there is a "moral line" in how to discuss migration

@bluekitten74 @SoVeryBritish This! 👍🏻

@SoVeryBritish When staying at a hotel with unlimited breakfast, the proper sequence is cereal, followed by a full English including toast, then yogurt, fruit and pastries to finish. Then I don't need to buy any food until the evening.

Overheard at the hotel buffet: David’s wife: “David, do you want a yoghurt?” David, from the cooked breakfast area: “No thank you, darling… I haven’t come on holiday to eat yoghurt.”

@benjyminty @chunkyboyjames @FeedTheSpud Used one last week and it gave me the same seat reservation for both parts of the split journey 👍🏻

@chunkyboyjames @FeedTheSpud Split tickets are not great if you want to sit in the same reserved seat the whole way.

FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY GREAT BRITISH POUNDS TO GO TO LEEDS 😭 May as well pay a couple pence extra and go First Class…

@bward_82 @BlasingJay @SteveGarver3 @LucasSa56947288 And he won't be able to provide a shred of credible evidence

@BlasingJay @SteveGarver3 @LucasSa56947288 So bizarre that they are nameless

Quick question, Who here has had all their recommended vaccines with either no or minor side effects? Raise your hand? ✋🏾

@fopminui @johnrobertsFox 🙏🏻

I covered the White House for more than a decade, and never witnessed a meeting like this.

@hellothisisivan @afneil @OldRoberts953 Also, I'm no marketing expert, but shouldn't a slogan like this express something positive, not a negative?

@afneil @OldRoberts953 So hilarious that they’ve gone with the slogan “Copy nothing” for a campaign that couldn’t possibly be more derivative of a hundred other corporate rainbow bollocks ads

I guess this explains Jaguar’s bizarre new commercial/rebrand. I suspect it won’t be long before he’s given the heave.

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!   As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.   Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.   I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.   And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.    OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.   We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.   I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.   I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.   And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.   Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.   Rafa that!   Best always, your fan, 
 Roger

@peterrhague @RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics By spicy, you mean racist.

@RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics No, it’s reasonable to question the sentences for spicy Facebook comments. The sentence for someone plotting to sabotage critical national infrastructure and expressing the intent to continue doing so until stopped is very reasonable.

This - from Private Eye - illustrates why it was reasonable to question the sentence lengths given to the Stop Oil protestors @RestIsPolitics

@DudaSub @teatiateia @Brettbenraphael @MrAndyNgo Very interested in how you define/determine 'native to the UK'?

@danielkempe @zoeharcombe No exhaust emissions, but emissions from tyres and brakes remain

@zoeharcombe Fact of the matter is the car he drives is producing zero emissions.

An electric car just passed us on the M4 with a sticker saying “zero emissions.” Oh bless him! How does he think his car was made & where does he think his electricity comes from?! 🙈

The most depressing thing I've read in a long time: Between 2010 and 2019, almost 800 libraries closed...the UK now has more food banks than public libraries.

@Flattliner What a tasteless and thoughtless comment

If Michael Mosley is dead at 67, after a career spent proselytising about healthy lifestyles, then it must surely be proof that the fickle finger of fate is forever free to fuck you up...

@CamillaTominey Sheer fantasy...

With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a could a Tory revival now be on the cards. This week’s column👇🏻 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/3…

@ZeeCaptainRon @jordanbpeterson @UN A relatively low proportion does not mean there is no impact - for example it takes around 200 PPM of hydrogen cyanide to kill someone

Talking to folks about Co2, I ask them if they know how much of our atmosphere is Co2. They never know, they typically won't even try to guess, probably because they know they will be way off. When I tell them it in the neighborhood of 400 parts per million, they usually don't understand what that even means. So I tell them if you had a swimming pool filled with 10,000 gallons of water, that 4 of those gallons would be Co2. Then they try to tell me I'm lying. The massive indoctrination program is working.

How can you tell that what I said was the straight truth? Because the censorial midwits at YouTube slapped a @UN climate change warning on the podcast. Top-down apocalypse mongering, for the purpose of the total control most deeply wished for by the oh-so compassionate progressives and "greens." The scam has been unmasked, oh would be overlords. Your antihuman authoritarian plot is destined to fail. The extensive CO2 induced global greening is a profound net good. Prove otherwise. Good luck. youtu.be/afYRZUhE1-o?si…

Absolutely, the hard work of your ancestors in mills, factories, mines, and the military has been crucial to Britain’s development. Their contributions are a vital part of the country’s history and should be honoured and remembered. At the same time, it’s also important to recognise that Britain’s history has been shaped by a diverse array of people. Diversity in Britain isn't just about recent times; it spans centuries. From Roman times through to the contributions of soldiers from across the Commonwealth in both World Wars, and the Windrush generation who came to Britain in the post-war period to help rebuild the country, many different groups have played integral roles. Each wave of newcomers has brought with them skills, cultures, and innovations that have enriched British society economically, culturally, and socially. Acknowledging the contributions of all these groups doesn't diminish the hard work of your ancestors. Instead, it provides a fuller picture of history and recognises the collective efforts of many different people who together have helped build the modern nation.

@Dplanet @geedeeaitch Brilliantly put, thank you

Did it Fuck. My Ancestors did working in Mills Factories & down the pit & serving in the Army all over the world…

@bea_johanssen @Simon_Nixon Very true, thought the end date was more recent, should have checked more carefully!

@MarkoMark13 @Simon_Nixon Not really, given that the UK was still a member of the EU in 2018 and you've been careful to avoid Q4/2018 onwards.

Ridiculous argument. The Tories have delivered one gigantic supply side reform. It was called Brexit and it has been an unmitigated disaster, which is a large part of the reason why taxes and spending have had to go up. Pure gaslighting to suggest otherwise.

@bea_johanssen @Simon_Nixon This is perhaps a more relevant set of data with regard to Brexit

@Simon_Nixon And yet taxes and spending have also risen within the EU. Taxes have had to go up to meet the cost of closing down the economy for two years.

@kirkberzerk @Simon_Nixon An alternative perspective...

@Simon_Nixon Oh look Facts