Mathew Halliday

Victoria Derbyshire spend 8 minutes taking apart Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift "As you'd expect we asked Reform UK for an interview tonight. One Reform UK press officer asked: with who and to discuss what" "We said we'd like to talk about the local elections, the detention centres in Green areas, and £5m gift from Christopher Harborne" "We didn't receive another reply"

@Everton hi, just saw one of your “fans” had reacted to a news article about two women dying in a channel crossing with a laughing emoji. I’m sure that you do not condone this behaviour so I have taken screenshots and have the links to his Facebook page if you’d care to ban him

@WWEGP He should disappear for a while then change shows. NXT, AAA, hell even TNA.

Have really enjoyed Danhausen on WWE TV this last couple of months, but this also feels like a gimmick that WWE are going to lean into too much and run it into the ground if they’re not careful. After Backlash, scale back his appearances for a while

@PeterMcCormack “Or fill those hours myself” god forbid a business owner have to get their hands dirty.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

@DindofferJ @_CM_67_ So can I, and I also have the joy of good public transport.

@_CM_67_ We like cars. It gives us individual autonomy and freedom that Europeans can’t even imagine. I can literally get in my car on a whim and drive 1,000 miles in any direction. No train schedules. No pre-planning. No one holding me back.

Americans not understanding that in this scenario you wouldn’t need a car park the size of Andorra

@jruddy99 You’re assuming she’s not 32 which would be the youngest legal age to be a grandma.

If Granny was in England then she, like all other pensioners in England, would get her prescriptions for free.

@Connor_RiceyGFC Duck and cover

What do they actually teach at American schools??????

@RobertPicardo As a middle aged man this show is clearly not aimed at me (I’m still really enjoying it) but that’s ok. That’s what a long standing show like trek should do, move with the times while delivering the positive, forward thinking messages it has always aspired to do. Long live Trek

Trolls even troll Star Trek legend Jonathan Frakes memories (because, let's face it, who would know what's inside Jonathan Frakes mind better than Star Trek trolls?). But I, and others, prefer listening to the source rather than the noise. Especially since the "noise" makes $$$ on @X by TROLLING . So-- I'm filtering out the noise ( attn: Mr Del Arroz-- can't take the X-bait anymore now. Wisdom has prevailed !) EMH out.

@tedcruz He’s not a communist. But he probably does hate America, because America is a shit hole with a fetish for fascism. He, unlike you, is the type of person who can make America great, and it won’t be by bombing a girls’ school half way across the world.

You are a communist who hates America.

@realrikkidoolan You are aware that Christianity started in the Middle East, then solidified as “recognised” religion in Italy and other Mediterranean countries? Christ wasn’t from Kent.

Britain is a Christian country. No English Premier League match should be stopping for players to break a fast of a foreign religion. The fans rightly booed.

@Sweetgem18 @olesoul57_2 It also showed up when he shouted homophobic slurs. Unfortunately the BBC decided to edit them but not the racist slurs. He had no control over what he said, the editors chose to allow this outrage by editing some and leaving others.

@olesoul57_2 The comments simply amaze me from the lighter hue. Y’all pick and choose what’s funny, sensitive etc but was mute in the comments under any Tourette post I’ve seen. It’s silly his Tourette’s ONLY showed when 2 black presenters was on stage. The rest of the night he was mute

Deon Cole: "If there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh."

@JohnCleese No they don’t. Biology textbooks actually explore the massive variety within sex, gender, and sexuality.

I support the Biology textbooks, who also support her

@Neccccy The town I live in does. I mean, it’s real, not AI slop, but it does.

Would you like the UK like this again?

@NotAIf_ @iloveairbagged Funnily enough I know. I was making a joke as to why people think “black people in games” is a game being “political”

@Mat_Halliday @iloveairbagged There’s black people in Scotland Matthew

@AirThreep @iloveairbagged I’m joking.

@Mat_Halliday @iloveairbagged That's a hell of stretch.

@realrikkidoolan Luckily most of you cannot read (or at least lack comprehension) so you won’t be able to notice that your president ticks almost every box of things not to do.

Ten Commandments unveiled in front of the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas USA. God is so back!!

@bbalkus @Daractenus Maybe that says something about America and not everywhere else.

@Daractenus And many US presidents and VPs have been killed or almost killed. The threat risk is completely different.

Some Scandinavian PMs bike to work or take the subway, the Romanian and Moldovan presidents just go by regular commercial flights. More or less the same goes for most European heads of state. JD Vance had 14 planes fly in this motorcade and his security detail to Italy:

@jcg52 @Daractenus But all those cars just makes a bigger more visible target.

@Daractenus In fairness, however unpopular Scandinavian pols or Moldavian and Romanian presidents may be, JD Vance is loathed by an unimaginably greater swath of humanity than any of them ever will be, both on his own and as a representative of the US. He needs the security.

@Mon_k_ey @Daractenus “The Scandinavian”, the, singular? What an idiot.

@Daractenus Is it really necessary to explain why? If the Scandinavian prime minister or the Romanian and Moldovan presidents come to Italy, even all together, no one will have any idea who they are.