Andrew Eccles

@MikeTilburn This, but it's a close run thing. Waiting for Columbus probably played more often though...

A great album from one of my favourite American bands. Lowell George was a genius who was taken too early. Fellow Little Feat fans, what is your favourite album.

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free. AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. Someone else started charging admission.

@Teztightpants80 @animationnnatio @SussexBoil @zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer The figure is crudely extrapolated to the whole of the UK from one specific area where there was a particularly high incidence of rape. I'm not downplaying anything. I'm calling out the figure because it's absurd. It's the figure - not my response - that's 'unbelievable'.

@animationnnatio @andreweccles88 @SussexBoil @zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer Unbelievable response

Where is the COBRA meeting, @Keir_Starmer? Or does that not apply when Muslims are attacked?

@QueenEmyB1 @SussexBoil @zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer The figure is extrapolated (look it up...) to the whole of the UK from one specific area where there was a particularly high incidence of rape. I'm not downplaying anything. I'm calling out the figure because it's absurd.

@andreweccles88 @SussexBoil @zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer The only ppl trying to downplay the r@pe of children are ppl who abuse children, thank you for outing yourself.

@SussexBoil @zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer FFS. This number is an absurdity that could be debunked by a twelve year old. Apologies if you are only ten...

@zarahsultana @Keir_Starmer Has there been a Cobra meeting about the torture and rape of upwards of 250,000 young children?

The Israeli military censored more than 5,000 reports from Israeli journalists in 2025 because the revelations would be too damaging to its image. The western media doesn't need a censor. It chooses not to publish the really critical stuff about Israel.

I was born as a Jew in Jerusalem, educated in the best school the Zionist movement established and lived in occupied Palestine for 42 years. I am a very informed anti-Zionist and know about "the reality of life in Israel" a million times more than this ignorant American

@asiageoff The Buggles - their biggest hit was actually in 1979...

I’ll have a good guess!

That Ben Gvir post that everyone is sharing aghast? It is a perfectly normal and common Israeli view, held by millions. It is the Israeli mainstream, and not extreme in the least. I grew up hearing that endlessly

Have to say, the perspective from a person having left the UK to work in Denmark is really sobering. The 'experience' here in Denmark is much better and less financially extractive and yet the uni has little to do with it because we still see our role as just providing learning.

"After Netanyahu's most vocal cheerleader called him a 'scumbag' over the Iran deal, JD Vance correctly observed that Israel's right wing would 'want this to go on until every Iranian is dead.' It's time for the U.S. to reckon with Israel's recklessness" haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…

@SaulStaniforth Wes Streeting's boy no doubt doing Wes Streeting's bidding...

Mike Tapp: ".. if that agenda is too far from the manifesto its really difficult not to call a general election" Like scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance, slashing welfare, digital IDs, banning Palestine Action, stuff like that you mean?

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism. And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel. haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters. Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences. Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning. Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers. You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional. Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

Netanyahu: "I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism“ No person on the planet has done more to fuel the rise in antisemitism than this psychopath.

@RepNancyMace It is because they fact check for credibility, a radical approach really!

@RepNancyMace Because the figure is based on a stupendously flawed extrapolation from a very specific sample. Do yourself - and your credibility - a favour; understand how misinformed this is and delete the post.

Why are we not seeing the media cover the rape of 250,000 young girls by Muslim gangs in the UK?

@mattvanswol The figure is wholly inaccurate (it's a UK-wide generalisation culled from a very specific geographical sample). It's been called-out, debunked and - were it not so serious - laughed about since. Shame on you - and the integrity of your profession - for repeating it.

EVERY FUCKING PERSON WHO HAS BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES FOR MONTHS... ...IS DEAD FUCKING SILENT ABOUT A QUARTER-OF-A-MILLION WHITE GIRLS BEING GANG RAPED BY MUSLIMS!!! I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT ANY OF YOU FUCKING PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY EVER AGAIN!!!!!!

@RupertLowe10 Hopefully because the data used is the kind of ridiculous UK generalisation from a specific geographical area so flawed that even a twelve year old could spot it. It's pitiful (and I'm not fan of the BBC...)

Complete silence from the BBC on our rape gang inquiry report. A truly despicable organisation.

@MelanieLatest The world and even the Israelis know why You’ve lost your superpower and no amount of paid off politicians will change it. The fact you’re all going crazy and insulting them is only making it worse. You don’t control America any more