Richard Shepherd

@Jonathan_Hinder No they don’t, not in the slightest

The Brexit Derangement Syndrome is off the scale at the moment. Reform (formerly known as the BREXIT PARTY) just swept to victory across working class areas. Response? Oh, it’s obviously time to rejoin the EU… Do these people even believe in democracy?

@lsferguson Odd, no defences?

Many "innocent civilians" participated in the slaughter

@empireofthekop Scrap VAR, it's really not worth it

"I think it probably does hit the hand, but of course the VARs need that conclusivity. They need to be absolutely certain that it does, and it doesn't matter what we think, does it?" Howard Webb on why Benjamin Sesko's goal against Liverpool was allowed to stand, despite the ball seeming to strike his hand before going into the net [@premierleague]

@premierleague The one thing this programme confirms is that we need to scrap VAR and leave it to the referees - warts and all!

Chief Refereeing Officer Howard Webb explains why West Ham's goal against Arsenal was ruled out for a foul on David Raya.

@JamesMelville The man has no honour

Keir Starmer has reportedly told the cabinet that he is not resigning and not setting down any timetable for a leadership transition as no challenge has been triggered and will fight against any leadership challenge. He will “get on with governing”. He’s digging in.

@BowesChay What no recording? Idiots

Former Dulwich College schoolmate claims Nigel Farage sang antisemitic songs at Jewish classmates He is now 62 years old.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Hard to believe anything that comes out of that part of the world at the moment

If you want to know why all the deeply silly “dog rape” stories were published this week, it’s because the paid pro-Palestinian influencer squad were ordered to get ahead of this, genuine horror story.

@AllisonPearson Who's selecting them?

Six Prime Ministers in 7 years. What an indictment of a political class that has impoverished and hollowed out our nation, flooding it with millions of strangers without providing new infrastructure or help for the British. Shame on the lot of them. General election NOW! 🚨

@bgprior But 'carbon' is not a problem so why keep promoting it?

This 👇 is quite right. I thought I'd put some flesh on the heat pump subsidy story. In cuckoo industrial-policy economics, grants are supposed to "prime the pump" to drive costs "down the learning curve". If it's working, a grant programme should be time-limited and reducing in value. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) has been repeatedly extended, in time, budget and level of support, from £5,000/HP to £7,500, and recently £9,000 for oil/LPG users (with the weird logic that you have to pay the most to encourage those with the most to gain anyway 🤷🏽). There's no industrial-policy logic left. It's not getting cheaper and the only way to accelerate it temporarily is to throw even more money at it. The only justification left is the climate benefit, but what is that worth? Charitably assuming everything works well, a heat pump displacing a gas boiler in an average home saves around 2 tCO2e/yr. Also charitably, let's say the social cost of carbon is £100/tCO2e. To save £200/year, taxpayers have to fork out £7,500. And the homeowner is probably shelling out a similar amount, and saving nothing on their bills. If it's LPG, the carbon saving is very slightly higher, but taxpayers are forking out £9,000. If it's oil, the saving is materially higher (£350), but taxpayers and homeowners are still shelling out around 25 years-worth of savings each upfront. The economics is a nonsense. As the cost isn't coming down, it would take £220bn of tax and a similar amount of household expenditure to decarbonise heat this way, and at the end of it, our energy systems would be screwed, because peak electricity demand, the network capacity needed to carry it, and the dispatchable generation to support it, would have risen from 45 GW to 170 GW! The total cost must be over a trillion, for carbon savings worth generously £60m/year. This is fruit-loops economics and system planning. Knowing the BUS was unaffordable as more than a stopgap, the government developed the CHMM as a radically cheaper support for heat decarbonisation. It was worth £500 at best, and £250 for hybrids even if they saved as much carbon with lower system impacts. The carbon savings would pay for it in 2.5 years, and you could do 1,500,000 homes for the cost of 100,000 homes on the BUS. But in their usual way, they went to the other extreme, and aimed to do it so cheap that no one believed it would work (and yet still managed to generate virulent opposition to a "boiler tax"). Instead of aiming in the middle (say £1,000) where the cost was still justified but the fiscal impact was an order of magnitude lower, they stuck to an impotent level and then doubled down on the unaffordable mechanism (BUS) for virtue-signalling. This is not all Ed Miliband's fault. Much of it pre-dates Labour. Never forget how useless the Tories were. But Miliband doesn't fix it, he makes it worse. Firing Miliband must be one of the first acts of any successor to Starmer who genuinely wants to improve our economic performance. And one of the first acts of Miliband's successor should be to scrap the BUS.

@BBCMOTD The PGMOL created this problem by not pulling this up earlier in the season.

Do you agree with Danny Murphy? 🤔 He says that, although Arsenal have been physical when attacking in the box through this season, officials have to look at this incident in isolation and that there should be "no controversy about it" ❌

@FootbalIhub Arsenal have done this all year!

FOUL OR NO FOUL?!

@JohnCleese She's sick

This is the most terrible lie I know quite a few women who have undergone such experiences, and all say it affected them adversely How dare she talk such harmful nonsense !

@theofficialfwa @B_Fernandes8 @ManUtd Ridiculous decision, United bias again.

Congratulations to @B_Fernandes8 for being voted the Footballer of the Year. The @ManUtd captain garnered 45 per cent of votes, 28 ahead of runner-up Declan Rice, while Erling Haaland was third. He is the first United player to win our award since Wayne Rooney in 2010 #FOTY2026 footballwriters.co.uk/editorial/brun…

@SkySportsPL What absolute nonsense, confirms Man U bias in the media. If he's the best it doesn't say much about the rest.

BREAKING: Bruno Fernandes is named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year 🏆

@Telegraph He's not trying to salvage his reputation, he's doing what he's been told to do and f**k the people

🔴 Andrew Bailey has called for closer ties with the EU as he backed Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to reset Britain’s relationship with the bloc. His comments will be welcomed by Sir Keir, who has made seeking a closer relationship with the EU central to plans to salvage his premiership. 🔗:telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@FabrizioRomano How many more players is this guy going to throw under the bus?

🚨🚨 Arne Slot has responded to Mohamed Salah's comments about standards at Liverpool: “The standards are not only important in the gym”. 👀🏋🏼‍♂️ “It’s also on the pitch. Okay. You understand me? Without me saying anything?”.

@Tamer_Alnoaizy It seems 'the world' doesn't care, apparently

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked. An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza. A moment the world must never forget.

@SkySportsNews I think Dermot's time is up - what the hell has Virgil's reaction got to do with whether or not a handball's been committed 🙄

🗣️ "That tells a different story..." Dermot Gallagher and Jay Bothroyd discuss whether Benjamin Sesko's goal should have stood against Liverpool?

@ReadLiverpoolFC We're intending to qualify without winning anymore games 👍

📈 Despite a tough 3-2 loss, we remain in the Top four. The mission for Champions League football is still very much ON. #LFC #PremierLeague 🔴

@SkySportsNews Consistency 🤔