Oliver Camp 🌽

I made a presentation this week on malnutrition, climate change, and the challenges facing food systems. Heavy going... but I promise I tried to cover a few solutions and opportunities, too! Here's a🧵with my slides - familiar stuff to many, but I hope useful to some.

@Nigel_Farage Can you explain the lie to someone like me who hasn't followed the story?

The Americans have woken up to the fact that they were lied to. They were told that the UK had no choice but to surrender the Chagos Islands. This was simply not true, and now they are angry with us.

@HiveHelper @JimSpoons1 Hive team, are you seeing the fake Hive Helpers UK account impersonating you to get customer details? It might be worth addressing this.

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@HiveHelper cannot log in do you have any issues?

@SpursOfficial @SpursStadium @ChampionsLeague I think it's the first time in my life I can remember my heart sinking when I find out we're playing. It's *such* a miserable experience at the moment - for the manager, players, fans, and no doubt others affiliated with the club. Hardly anything to enjoy.

MATCHDAY 🌟 🆚 Borussia Dortmund 🏟️ @SpursStadium 🏆 @ChampionsLeague ⏰ 8pm GMT

This is ridiculous, @HiveHomeUK. We've moved into a new house and need to set up our Hive account to be able to control our heating. The step by step guide doesn't work, so we've tried to contact you. But we can't get through the call options without an account. Help, please.

I so want Frank so succeed at Spurs but it's hard to accept the same issues being repeated every week. Spence on the left doesn't work. Bentancur is having an atrocious season. Richarlison is far from good enough. No width on the left. Another grim display in store. #bbcfootball

If we're to have any chance here, it's very important that our bowlers understand how few runs our batsmen are able to score. #BBCCricket

Where is our midfield? Gray, Bentancur and Bergvall are so anonymous for such talented players. Simons obviously an embarrassment. It feels like Spence and Kudus are our entire team beyond the centre backs passing to each other. #bbcfootball

Today proves why the aggressive style is better. We don't have the skill to stay in and slowly accumulate. Instead we score slowly and just wait to get out. Going at 3 an over and a wicket falling every 8 overs anyway, you can do the maths. And it's not pretty. #bbccricket

Spurs are utterly hopeless, especially Bentancur, but that's still an absurdly poor decision. Burn was the one committing the foul. #bbcfootball

Things could improve over time with Frank, especially as key players come back from injury. But for now Spurs are just abject in every way. Chaotic at the back, clueless on the ball, spineless throughout. Utterly miserable time to be a fan. #BBCFootball

I'm astonished it's only 0-1. This is one of the most inept Spurs performances I've ever witnessed. Hopeless in every single part of the game. #bbcfootball

Strange game for Spurs. We're losing and there are lots of problems (Richarlison). But we're also starting to pass forwards, there's a bit more movement, we're a bit more direct. Simons is picking up the ball in space. We're still bad, but in a different way. #bbcfootball

Somewhat odd penalty to award given that it was probably not a foul and it was probably not in the area. #bbcfootball

@Keir_Starmer It is a bit weird that you seem to care so much about this, given how badly it is being received.

I recently spoke with someone buying a house with her partner. She told me that she had to pay just to verify who she was. With digital ID that could be done in seconds and wipe out the costs. Digital ID will save you time and money.

I haven't seen much of Liverpool this season. They look awful. #BBCFootball

@UKLabour Juvenile stuff. Any chance we could focus on doing sensible, meaningful policymaking rather than playground jibes?

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: we've been leaked a copy of the Tory conference agenda 🚨

@JeremyClarkson Is the premise here that we don't want to use taxes to pay politicians' salaries? Should they not be paid, or should politics be profit-generating so they can earn from the proceeds? Obviously we don't want politicians to take advantage through dishonesty, but otherwise...

We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.

Does anyone want to see goals disallowed for a foul that soft? We need a review / challenge system like cricket. That is surely re-refereeing the game unnecessarily. #bbcfootball

@RobertJenrick GCSE-quality writing. I would be embarrassed to post this for that reason alone, let alone the absurdity of the whole exercise.

As the sun rose over Dunkirk, I called the French police. Ten hours of tracking had established that a group of migrants were hiding in a cemetery just yards from the beach, waiting to cross the Channel. Surely this was the moment for the authorities to sweep the beach or search the streets to find the migrants and their smugglers? You know, to “smash the gang” I had found. “I will pass it on,” came the first response. I pressed - this was urgent. “The police will probably not come,” the 112 handler said, dismissively. No further details sought. No interest shown. I’d come to northern France to see for myself what is really happening as Channel crossings surge and communities back home bear the intolerable consequences of broken borders. Just me and a cameraman - no French minders, no protection. What I saw in the camps, streets, and beaches was sickening. The reality is worse than I have ever seen. The whole racket is a disgrace, and the French are aiding and abetting it. Take the camp near Loon-Plage: half a mile from tidy villages sits a lawless, dangerous space. Someone was shot dead there last month; stabbings are common. It is strewn with litter, ramshackle tents, and menace. Almost all the migrants are young men. They sit on the ground, scrolling their smartphones, waiting. No police. No officials. Those willing to speak were clear: they are coming to the UK for jobs, housing, benefits, and free healthcare. None said they were fleeing persecution - they are already in France. None had a trade or profession to offer. They will be a huge strain on already struggling UK public services. Some were polite; others threatened violence. One man pressed his face close, telling me to leave. Another began hurling glass bottles - one smashing beside me, another flying past my head. Do you want men like this in your community? I don’t. For saying this, I’ve been called a “xenophobe” on the BBC. But I doubt those levelling that smear have been to this camp, seen those men, and imagined them outside their children’s school gates. This is a national security emergency. And the French? We’ve given them £800m and get dismal theatre in return. They could stop this tomorrow. Instead, they stick two fingers up at Britain - and literally bus illegal migrants towards the beaches. That afternoon, I saw 40–50 migrants with lifejackets, marshalled by smugglers, walking along the railway. They headed to a public bus stop by a supermarket and boarded. Imagine that outside your local shop - lifejackets in hand, plain as day. Authorities know exactly what’s happening, yet facilitate it. We followed the bus into Dunkirk. The migrants walked towards the beach, one even in a wheelchair with a lifejacket on her lap. By nightfall, they were camped beside the cemetery. We checked on them through the undergrowth. A few hundred yards away, Dunkirk beach was empty of police or patrols, despite all the “special equipment” UK taxpayers fund. At dawn, they were gone. Their rubbish littered the ground. Binmen arrived to clean the mess up - but not the migrants. I rushed to the beach, convinced a launch was imminent, and called the police again. Still, nobody came. Sitting there, I felt anger at the French farce and shame at our own weakness. State visits, “landmark deals,” and hundreds of millions wasted. The French stop fewer boats than last year. Two thousand migrants have crossed in the last week alone. It’s all in plain sight. We are told this is “too complex” to fix. It isn’t. Change the law. Leave failed treaties. Deport illegal migrants. We are an island nation for goodness sake - we can end this. And end it we must.

Akash Deep throwing his hat into the ring for Worst Sports Personality of the Year there. I don't think he'll get a great reception when he comes out to bat. #bbccricket