Ruari McCallion

😂 I was chatting to my pal & he said, "I bought a sheepdog." I asked, "Old English?" He said, "Ic gebohte scéaphund."

Very impressive but who decided it would be a good idea to design a football that looks like a giant pod of washing machine detergent?

Everyone should be free to speak their mind and while I undertstand people's fury at this offensive tirade on #PoliticsLive, sometimes it's a free-speech public service for the rest of us to judge others' characters by their own words. When this self-defined queer 'environmentalist activist' decides to stick the boot in to murdered Ann Widdcombe because of her views, we all get to see the ugly underbelly of #BeKind progressivism

Every manufacturing process adds value. The interesting question is: "Which ones no longer need to exist?" Better engineering isn't always about doing more. Sometimes it's about needing less.

Same tactic as was used after the murder of David Amess. No indication that "online hate" was anything to do with it but it was used to push a censorship agenda anyway.

@EssexPR I don't think the work of an MP stops just because Parliament isn't sitting, Adam.

Call me old fashioned, but I don’t believe Parliament should have a 6 week break. These people are elected to represent us. We pay them. The country’s problems don’t stop over summer. I find this pretty diabolical.

The Treasury seems to be under the impression that people will just sit and accept whatever action is taken against them. That isn't the case. If you're being subjected to a beating, you will try and get away from it. They seemed to assume that they could raise employers' NI contributions and lower the starting point and nothing would happen: they'd just rake in more money. The result was less employment growth and rising unemployment. They seemed to assume that imposing VAT on school fees would have no impact, that parents would just shrug and pay it. The actual result has been dozens of school closures, an influx of 10s of 1000s of chi8ldren into an already overloaded state school system and an overall reduction in teacher numbers. People will act in their own interests. It's not holding the country to ransom: it's an entirely predictable response to a perceived threat to their interests.

Holding the country to ransom.

@thesundaysport @TrudyToogood There's always Blue Sky.

The way this site is going, we won't have anyone left on here who chains rent boys to radiators

One of the UK’s largest solar farm projects has been approved across the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border. Nearly 4,000 acres of prime farmland vandalised by solar panels.

@newagedclown @mark_hoath @Femi_sorry Jude Bellingham? Yes, he does, because he works there.

@mark_hoath @Femi_sorry He lives in Spain

Dear @Femi_sorry . There’s a big difference between you and Jude Bellingham. 1. He contributes you do nothing 2. He is proud of his country. You’re a soppy little waste of space who slags off patriotic people. 3. He doesn’t dress like a 5 year old. Hope that helps

@CeaseFireToday @redrumlisa @LauraPidcock I suspect the word "genocide" doesn't mean what you think it means.

@redrumlisa @LauraPidcock Laundering your personal support for Israel's genocide of Palestinians by alleging Palestine isn't suported by the 'deindustrialiaed' 'working class' as if that gives your horrendous views legitimacy. An ongoing genocide must be opposed regardless of anybodies purported views.

There was unbelievable suffering in mining communities because of the harshness of mining life and of course the miners strikes. But anyone who knows anything about the ‘big meeting’ knows that the day is a mix of every emotion. There is grief, pain, sadness at what was endured, but there is also joy & celebration at the strength of communities (and people having a nice day out), and importantly there is a long standing commitment to internationalism.

@DPJHodges Timing's a bit off, Dan.

The police ask Reform not to speculate. So Reform attack them. The family ask. So they start to attack them. Close friends ask. They in turn get attacked. Journalists report this. Then they get attacked too. This is how desperate Reform now are to deflect from Farage and sleaze.

The beating happened and he was very brave in the situation but that was a long time ago and, looking at his overall career, it was a mere punctuation mark. Just a semi-colon in a long sentence. A bit more typical example of his lifelong approach was his lengthy eulogy of Ian Dunn that completely omitted to mention that he was a founding member of PIE.

@siiduc He is a defender of freedom of speech and was badly beaten up by Mugabe’s thugs for his efforts.

I am glad Peter has apologised and hope people will forgive him. He is a brave man who made a mistake as we all sometimes do.

I tend to agree.

"Hamas has spent years stealing aid, intimidating NGO staff, and terrorizing civilians across Gaza. The scale of wasted billions and needless deaths caused by the group’s brutality during and after the war is staggering. Anyone who tried to expose this was smeared as “promoting genocide” or being a “Zionist collaborator,” even when the evidence was undeniable." It's not the IDF, Israeli gov or a Jewish group saying this: it's the UN itself.

Whilst the rest of us collapse into bed after a nail biting quarter final, the farmers round here are still harvesting the wheat at 1.45am. Without farmers there’s no wheat. Without wheat there’s no beer. Without beer there’s no pubs. Without pubs communities fracture and collapse. Thank you farmers. (Also no bread, which personally I’d miss a lot more!)

@DPJHodges @andywigmore @CatharineHoey Probably from a "highly placed source". Maybe even the same one. 🙄

@andywigmore @CatharineHoey And you know this how?

"The Mail on Sunday reported that a “highly placed source” had told the paper Widdecombe’s family “don’t want her death hijacked for political purposes”, and were “very uneasy” about Farage attending the scene of the investigation".

I'm having a job done in my flat and was quoted £250 by the decorator. I sent him the money yesterday but he's had to come back today to finish. He's done a brilliant job and I'm very happy. At the end he called me to tell me it wasn't as difficult a job as he thought it would be, so it was only worth £200 - and he has refunded me £50! I'm speechless. Has that ever happened before to anyone?! He is brilliant and deserves lots of work. If anyone in north London needs a decorator, let me know and I'll give you his details.

As usual, @TrevorPTweets delivers an excellent opening monologue, focused on the appalling murder of #AnnWiddecombe. The opening segment is pretty good, too. Except for @RhonddaBryant. 😜 youtube.com/live/rzlWek3Xd…