Michael Parkinson

@AdamShame3 @weareXRAYCAT It seemed dumb at the time. Never did it. NHS should have protected us, not the other way around 😞.

@weareXRAYCAT Did you bang pots & pans on a Thursday*? Most did. Is banging pots & pans to the sky a sign of superiority and smartness? Or, looking back, does it not seem... dumb? (*this happened in the UK, anyway)

The 'pandemic' revealed that 85% of the public are not what they seem. Five years later, everything looks sort-of back to normal, but 15% of us feel like we're living in a kind of theme park.

@steffd62 @CPhilpOfficial @SkyNews @Keir_Starmer @LibDems @TheGreenParty @jessphillips I think the point that you are missing (or deliberately ignored) is that statistically men of Pakistani origin are 2 to 4 times more likely to be involved in grooming (rape) gangs. This is based on official figures collected by the home office (only after public pressure).

@Keir_Starmer was talking about the Anti Pakistani slurs by Far Right Wing which was being repeated by Conservative mps. Lies and information being used BY THE TORIES AND REFORM UK @LibDems @TheGreenParty and others didn't use vile ANTI MUSLIM slurs. @jessphillips Had death threats because of Misinformation and lies You are a liar ,even The @MuslimCouncil wrote to the Tories complaining about the vile things Tory mps said. The prime minister has attacked politicians and activists "spreading lies and misinformation" over grooming gangs. It comes after multi-billionaire Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of being "complicit in the rape of Britain" during his tenure as director of public prosecutions (DPP) between 2008 and 2013, for failing to tackle grooming gangs. Alongside Musk's comments, senior Conservatives and Reform UK MPs have also spent the week calling for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation. But Sir Keir accused opposition MPs of "jumping on a bandwagon" and "amplifying what the far-right is saying" to gain attention. Sir Keir said Labour was addressing child sexual abuse after Conservative inaction "for 14 long years". Online debate around grooming gangs had now "crossed a line", resulting in threats against MPs, including Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips, he said. "We have seen this playbook many times - whipping up of intimidation and of threats of violence, hoping that the media will amplify it," Sir Keir said. "Those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they're interested in themselves," he added. The government has previously said it wants to implement Prof Jay's recommendations, and on Monday evening Home Secretary Yvette Cooper set out action she would be taking on three of the report's proposals. She told MPs a recommendation for those working with children to face mandatory requirements to report abuse would be enacted via an amendment to the upcoming Crime and Policing Bill this spring. Cooper also said grooming would become an aggravating factor in the sentencing of abuse cases, and promised an "overhaul" of the information and evidence gathered on child sexual abuse and exploitation. WHY DIDNT TORIES DO ANYTHING IN 14 YEARS TO HELP VICTIMS GET JUSTICE. NOTHING @Keir_Starmer @nazirafzal PROSECUTED 23 GROOMING GANGS Describing child sexual exploitation as "utterly sickening", Sir Keir defended his record in office as DPP, saying he tackled the issue "head on". "I changed the system because I could see some of the things that were going wrong," he told reporters. While DPP, Sir Keir introduced a special prosecutor for child abuse and sexual exploitation to oversee convictions; changed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidance to encourage police to investigate suspects in complex sexual abuse cases and brought in court reforms aimed at making the process less traumatic for victims. Sir Keir said he also reopened cases, brought the first prosecution of an "Asian grooming gang" in Rochdale and called for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. "When I left office, we had the highest number of child sexual abuse cases being prosecuted on record," Sir Keir said. "The victims here suffered terrible abuse," he said, "and then they weren't listened to." @jessphillips had also "done a thousand times more" to protect victims of child sexual abuse than those attacking her can "even dreamt about", he said. WHAT DID YOU DO ???

When he smeared those pushing for justice, Keir Starmer was essentially perpetuating the same attitude that led to the cover up of the evil child rape gang scandal in the first place @SkyNews

@PabloHornby @Rotterdamdays @LeoKearse But in the real world which we live in - it is impossible because human beings act in their own interests - that how we have survived and evolved. Perhaps if you thought a bit harder you would realise this!

@Rotterdamdays @LeoKearse I don't need to check history I already know we don't have it. But it is theoretically possible in a thought experiment. Something you don't seem to like doing.

Listening to interviews with Ballymena residents, several things are clear, and should alarm anyone hoping for a peaceful summer in the UK: 1. Locals tried to resolve their concerns around child safety by engaging with the democratic process and were ignored or dismissed as “racist” (this pattern is still evident); 2. The huge turnout for the protests meant authorities were powerless to stop locals targeting the homes of suspected troublemakers; 3. Rioting on subsequent nights sucked in “recreational” rioters who just want to cause havoc, escalating the situation; 4. The locals know that they’ll likely be identified and face stiff prison sentences, but consider that a risk worth taking to keep their children safe; 5. The media and establishment are still obfuscating (reports of attacks on “Bulgarians” and “Romanians” - this is “Welsh choirboy” level). This is a microcosm of Britain. The establishment has resolutely refused to listen to people’s concerns, hoping that it can just keep shouting “racist” as it imports huge amounts of men from alien, medieval, misogynist cultures and dumps them on people who haven’t asked for them. Now Ballymena has shown that a united community can very effectively remove people. Everyone in Britain can see this. Everyone on the left who hoped they could use forced multiculturalism to break down the nation state and painlessly transition Britain to a communist utopia is about to learn the lessons of Lebanon, Syria and the Balkans. We’re on a knife edge. As a matter of national emergency, vulnerable migrant populations should be moved to the houses of left-wing people, and shipping container housing put in streets that vote Labour/Green/LibDem. All pro-immigration people should have their front doors removed and their addresses handed to the men getting off the boats at Dover. The lefties will enjoy being enriched, and tensions will be defused in the communities who already consider themselves sufficiently rich. Everyone will enjoy the consequences of their own political opinions. Because otherwise - pray there won’t be, but if there’s another Welsh choirboy this summer - civil war could be a lot closer than we thought.

@procurementfile @toadmeister That Welsh choirboy should have had extra time added to his sentence for inciting the riots.

@toadmeister The ‘real world effect’ was triggered by the heinous crime that had been committed.

Rob Rinder says of the tweet that got Lucy Connolly banged up for 31 months: "She may have done it impulsively, but the problem was that what she said triggered a real world effect." Where's the evidence of that? A happened after B ≠ B caused A. telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/06/12/…

@mallenbaker @johnredwood Climate alarmism is predicted on inaccurate modelling and experiments which are probably not representative of the real world and ignore feedback cycles which exist everywhere in nature. I am yet to be convinced that man made climate change is the existential threat it is claimed

Because it's well established in the science that what you hold to be intuitively a small quantity can still have the impact on the climate. Because the natural carbon cycle is also well known, but is irrelevant to the continued rise over recent decades. Because your arguments are scientifically illiterate, and whatever policy decisions we do, or do not, decide are sensible they should at least be based on the real world, and not fantasy physics.

The BBC likes “ facts”. In its many lectures on climate why doesn‘t it repeat the fact that CO 2 is just 0.04% of our air? Why not point out CO 2 declines in warm weather as plants use it, and rises in cold? Manmade CO 2 is estimated at a maximum of 0.014% of air.

@wheatfrom @PaulEmbery The Americans have made it their god! Latin for god is "Dei". How ironic.

@PaulEmbery “DEI” in USA EDI in UK DIE in Reality.

Official guidance from NHS England. All shortlisting and interview panels must include a BME candidate. And if the BME candidate isn't appointed, the panel must write to the chairman of the organisation explaining itself. DEI is out of control.

@TheCardReturns @EYakoby Flying the English flag (St. George's Cross) is already controversial and will get people making insinuations that you have allegiances towards the so called far-right (e.g. disbanded EDL). That's okay as the English apparently aren't a race.

@EYakoby By the same token, if he had said online: 'I don't want to see Union Jack or the British flag flying anymore in Britain,' he'd be at the breakfast table by now reading his Mirror and Guardian newspapers 🤔

A British man said online that he didn’t want to see Palestinian flags in the UK. At 4am, police showed up at his door and arrested him. In the UK today, you can flood the streets praising terrorists—but get arrested for opposing them.

@headinajaro @Con_Tomlinson It wouldn't be his head I'd be chopping off!

@Con_Tomlinson I guarentee the victim will carry her scars for longer than 8 years. If I went to a foreign land and raped a local woman - I'd be begging to keep my head. 8 years would seem like an absolute reprieve.

Eritrean illegal migrant has been sentenced to eight years and three months in prison, and five years on licence, for raping a woman in Norwich in 2024. He crossed the English Channel in 2022. The taxpayer paid his hotel bill for two years. Why isn't he being deported immediately? Under the 2007 Borders Act, any foreign nationals who receive a custodial sentence of 12 months or longer are automatically eligible for deportation. It is as much an injustice to force the taxpayer to pay for his meals in prison as it was for his hotel accommodation. Deport. Deport. Deport.

@wideawake_media Time to bring back mental asylums.

"[J.K. Rowling] believes... that if you're born a man, you can't ever be a woman." Labour MP Carolyn Harris: "Biologically, she's correct, but... when you introduce this level of hate into a debate, rationality goes out of the window." Which do you find more irrational? The statement of biological facts, or the belief that males can become females? 🤔

@davedotdev @Artemisfornow Already happening. Push to make countryside more inclusive is already well underway. Lake District beauty spots in summer are regularly swamped with our new cultural arrivals having Barbeques creating risk of wildfires. They are not the alone in this to be fair.

ECONOMY - Not one political party is prepared to tell you the truth. We have no money and the economy will not grow. Britain now produces very little, it is a services based economy. Most services will be replaced by Ai within the next 10 years. This means far less tax can be collected as far fewer people are employed. Those unemployed cannot be supported by the state because The state has no money. The knock on effect will be far reaching, including on hospitality, construction and retail. Plunging Britain into the abyss. There will be no work for British many millions of citizens and an overload of non productive migrants in the low skill sector, also with no work because there is no market. Subsidies paid for by tax payers will collapse, meaning any green energy companies will cease to exist. No new tech can possibly afford to invest in the U.K. because its energy prices are far too expensive. Not one party will tell you where growth is coming from. Because it isn’t. Over regulation and workers rights will prevent any flexibility on minimum wage or working hours. Meaning prices cannot come down. Social care for the elderly will collapse, there will be no tax money to pay for it. There will be no pensions, bin collections of pothole fixing because THERE WILL BE NO MONEY. Climate change is NOT the existential threat … the existential threat is right here and right now. And not one party is addressing it.

@Hstlinghosptlis @stkirsch I don't know anyone who died from Covid-19, and only a few who were serious ill - none of them were hospitalised. What's your point?

With all these vaccine deaths, why have I never seen or heard of one. But these guys in this… oh echo chamber…. Have. It’s because Bobby tells sally who heard about a death then sally tells chuck. Chuck tells Bobby his own story who the. Tells Bryce about 2 vaccine issues who passes both those to Herbert and Donald who mix up some facts and then tell them to Bobby again. So Bobby knows of at least 5 cases of injury but it really was just the one questionable case at best

Pfizer likely increased your all-cause mortality by at least 14%; Moderna was even worse at 20%. kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizer-likel…

@SirDeadPuppy @ChrisMartzWX @Shrike_DeCil And yet climate change harpies scream about their doom laden predictions and claim to know with certainty that they will come true, even though they never do (computer models which always fail). Yet when someone asks for facts to support your claims you scream and insult them.

The only way to answer this question is to have a ice core in front of you and like start counting back.....I'm sure with time and work one chould get a rough idea of what the temp on that area was at what ever the fuck year you said .. Ask a super detailed question then scream bullshit when some random fuck on the Internet doesn't have the answer....hell there probably a handful of people in the world who chould even get access to what's needed to answer that B.S question But just cause it's obscure and hard to find doesn't mean it's fake Go fucking get a PhD and count that shit your self since you know better

I’ll ask again. What was the global average surface air temperature during the year 5,246 B.C.? Give me an answer to the nearest tenth of a degree Celsius. 🌡️ If the planet is “hotter” now than it has been at any time in the last 100,000 years, then you should be able to provide me with the information I requested. It is a very simple question. Your inability to give me a direct answer tells me that you have no clue what you are talking about and that your depth of knowledge on this particular issue is as deep as a mud puddle.

@greener_liz @OperationAlbion @RealDeniseWelch I'm not sure we ever had true Austerity. Lots of money still being thrown at the inefficient NHS. Lots of money given as foreign aid to questionable recipients.

@OperationAlbion @RealDeniseWelch Constantly we are told that austerity is a necessity because we need economic growth. Rubbish it is a political choice, a choice which does not favour those less well off. Simple solution give those with the least, they will spend on things they need thus growing the economy.

This is not a comment on whether or not we should continue to fund the war in Ukraine. Please tell me though if we are constantly told we can't keep pensioners warm, we can't lift the 2 child benefit cap, we can't get 4m children out of poverty because of a £24b black hole where do these billions come from for war?

@lovelock_tim @mgosselin63 @ChrisDJackson Believe me that many UK voters would love to have Trump draining our swamp and cutting all the foreign aid being spaffed away on things we don't agree with. Starmer is totally useless and even worse he is dangerous.

@mgosselin63 @ChrisDJackson Starmer is not trump. trump would toss away the USA if he can stay out of prison, putin's bitch doesn't care about anything else

🚨 BREAKING: Thirteen prime ministers and two presidents are attending today’s emergency Ukraine summit in London: 🇬🇧 Starmer 🇺🇦 Zelensky 🇫🇷 Macron 🇩🇪 Scholz 🇮🇹 Meloni 🇵🇱 Tusk 🇨🇦 Trudeau 🇪🇸 Sánchez 🇩🇰 Frederiksen 🇳🇴 Støre 🇫🇮 Stubb 🇸🇪 Kristersson 🇳🇱 Schoof 🇨🇿 Fiala 🇷🇴 Bolojan 🇹🇷 Fidan 🇪🇺 VdL 🇪🇺 Costa NATO’s Rutte Once again, the United States is missing and is all alone.

@ladyseger @hdqts @RFKJr_Official @EdwardSigl71424 When the ideas being parodied fit the observable outcomes you begin to question whether you are actually having the wool pulled over your eyes.

This tweet risks being reported and restricted, but I see a necessity to say it out loud: Our real enemy isn't Russia or Ukraine. It's not even China. It's the ones who induced and tried to perpetuate wars - so they can launder billions of our money into their own pockets. It's the ones who funded revolts and instability all over the world via USAID It's the ones who have committed unspeakable crimes on children on an island and held themselves above the law. It's the ones who manipulate people with endless propaganda - using our tax dollars. It's the ones who have sown so much division among our own people. It's the ones who shot my dad, my uncle, and @realDonaldTrump in the head. It's the ones who have poisoned our own people for years just so they can profit more. They're the same group of people. And we will not stop until we splinter them, the deep state, into a thousand pieces and reclaim our country.

@Keir_Starmer I hope you attached some mineral rights to guarantee the loan. Of course if they lose you're going to find it hard to collect. You would almost think that the UK economy was healthy and vibrant the way you keep giving our money away.

Action, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦

@IndieChris71 @NathanpmYoung @WokeWaste I lived near Oxford for 40 years not sure why this is relevant. The proposals will move traffic issues to the outskirts and affect traffic that is passing Oxford. You don't need to restrict private freedom you need to make public transport more attractive (pull not push)

@Michael01960876 @NathanpmYoung @WokeWaste I live near Oxford. It's an ancient city that wasn't designed for modern traffic and has suffered from chronic congestion for decades. The Council are proposing some modest restrictions on private cars in an attempt to keep the traffic moving.

15 minute cities ⬇️

@mwt2008 @dr_besty @AllisonPearson I have seen this research quoted before, and whilst there may be a benefit to Children who would not get fed breakfast by their parents, every child will be affected by the influx of ex-private school children with increased class sizes. I was educated in a State Comprehensive.

@dr_besty @AllisonPearson It’s not or Alison’s benefit as she is too far gone but for the people who read her posts.

Is it old-fashioned to think giving your kids breakfast is part of the job of a parent?

@IndieChris71 @NathanpmYoung @WokeWaste But that's only half the story. They want to restrict private freedom for the greater good. See Oxford City Council's proposals relating to 15 minute cities.

@NathanpmYoung @WokeWaste Exactly. '15 minute cities' aren't some evil WEF conspiracy, they're just a loose urban planning concept whereby the amenities you need for day-to-day living are within a 15 minute walk or bike ride. Why would anyone object to that?

@MikeTho04795078 @AlanJLSmith @RupertLowe10 And had unfunded pensions which have to be paid out of taxation. I know it varies depending on particular scheme and many are contributory now but even so this will be a major burden on taxpayers for years to come.

@AlanJLSmith Other than @RupertLowe10 I don’t think any MPs realise Private Sector Tax pays for EVERYTHING. All Public Sector Workers tax is just a DEDUCTION from what the State must pay them. NO NEW MONEY.

We’ve just run our February payroll. The employee tax and NICs are now greater than the net pay to staff. And that’s before the NICs increases kick in! 🤦🏻‍♂️