Ian Wright

@HistoryMemescom Battle of the plains of Abraham.

What do you think is the single most important event in the history of North America?

@lkr God the lack of light blocking is probably my biggest annoyance, especially with young kids.

We're traveling for about 8 months, usually staying in a new Airbnb every week. Two things that are shockingly common: Some or all of the bedrooms have no light blocking. The bright sunlight just comes in once the sun rises. Two, nowhere to put a towel. Like not a single hook, rack etc in the entire bathroom.

@HistoryMemescom Far shorter.

Would WWII have been shorter or longer if America had entered the war in 1939 rather than 1941?

Never knew how big the dead sea was /s

@lkr 3 kids in private school in London is a strong forcing function.

London has entered the chat. London has the expensive thing going for it, you simply have to think larger if you're going to live off your business in London. And while it's true that British culture doesn't exactly embrace entrepreneurship, London has its own thriving subculture that does. Bragging is very looked down upon, so it doesn't have that cheesy fake hustle culture of the US. And that just gives the whole thing this vibe that's more playful. People are way more open and willing to share what's going wrong. Does it have the SF ambition? No. But it has a fun drive and energy, and it's easy to surround yourself with people building great businesses without all the BS.

@ryan_murton @AngelaRayner Not sure I'd use Spain and Canada as two examples of well functioning economies....

@AngelaRayner If you think raising the minimum wage again, is going to create jobs and fix the issues for young people, you’re as incompetent as we first thought. We absolutely cannot let you be PM. You are a huge danger to the country.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@lkr Wtf did I just watch?

I think I sort of get what's going on, and then I find this heres the channel @prayerlock" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@prayerlock a format I'm too old to get I guess, tons of them have 19k views. I'm doing something wrong

@ajrgd @danbarker Was going to say the same

@danbarker scaled to absolute max councillors i guess but yeah

Strange choice for the bar chart on the BBC homepage - if you look at it without reading the numbers it makes it seem like everyone's more or less level.

@JamesHenryChard All hail the People's Republic of Centrist Dads.

I'm aware of the irony that an electoral system that Lib Dems oppose has given us 100% of Richmond upon Thames councillors on barely over half the vote. We'll continue to work for all residents regardless of political views, and to be mindful that those views are diverse.

@ryan_murton Least bad of bad options. I was a LibDem member until a year ago, but left because they aren't great. But they are least bad option locally.

@RandomlyLondon Surely you can’t be happy with Davey mind? Absolutely useless twonk - Lib Dem MPs starting to think they need to ditch him.

Local Elections across England tomorrow! Big elections in Wales and Scotland as well. If you’re voting then who are you voting for? Reform? Greens? Labour? Tories? Lib Dems?

@ryan_murton @RupertLowe10 Better than Labour or Greens

@RandomlyLondon @RupertLowe10 Merton here is a toss up between Labour and Lib Dem. How inspirational lol

A big day tomorrow.

@ryan_murton @RupertLowe10 Yes all of this reminds me of Canada in the late 90s and early 2000s

@RandomlyLondon @RupertLowe10 One destroyed the country for 14 years and the other is full of ex Tories as well haha

@ryan_murton @RupertLowe10 Well could be worse, you could live in a borough where the choice is between the left or far left.

@RandomlyLondon @RupertLowe10 I’m centre right so there’s only 2 to choose from 🥲

@ryan_murton @RupertLowe10 Curious who you're voting for?

@RupertLowe10 Why so? You’ve hardly got any candidates to field and you’re just going to embarrass yourselves.

@BrilliantMaps Lol there is a link in the original tweet.

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C all the way

@AlexNowrasteh Cool this is my map you can see all the data here: brilliantmaps.com/world-share-im…

You don't actually want to live in a country with few immigrants.

Uncomfortable Truth: The Romans Were Really Poor Explanation: brilliantmaps.com/roman-empire-g…

@lkr matsumoto

what are your favorite beautiful, random towns in Japan? still big enough for some restaurants I really liked Nikko and Onomichi for example can be anywhere in Japan!