Mark Jackson

I really struggle to understand that, with a fraud conviction, i can't be a trainee insurance broker yet I can not only serve as an MP but I can be a member of the cabinet....

Argentina have let themselves down badly at the end there.... terrible behaviour towards the officials....

Is everybody just ignoring the fact that he has dropped the ball??

So @andyburnham you posted this to sound tough. But you’ve just hired as your Director of Political Strategy a trustee of a charity actively campaigning to REINSTATE the British citizenship of this monster who raped 30 girls in Rochdale. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING?

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧 Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed. Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧 So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖 Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17. They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too. Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing. In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave. In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables. In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves. In 1807, Britain banned the trade. Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time. The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom. From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓ In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans. In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿 Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today. That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧 So why haven't you heard any of this? Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure. The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account. We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away. This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name. We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it. If you can afford to support what we do: proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Can anybody give a logical cricketing reason why stokes opened the batting??

Here's the highlights of the England game so far...... ....

@ZackPolanski My god that is some take.... the dangerous attack was on the female police officer... seriously you want to be in charge of the police force in this country and this is how you react... your stupidity knows no bounds...

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

How the hell that final bath try is given i don't understand.... he hits the deck short, loses control of the ball and is then allowed by the referee to move the ball forward while he is off his feet and not in control of the ball....baffling...

The home town officiating was unbelievable today.... every call from one particular touch judge only went one way...

The officiating in this first half is a joke....

I want the world to hear what we heard.

Maybe leinster lose all the finals because they play at neutral venues... #leivubb

Sorry but this isn't a game of rugby.... its basketball with contact... what is the point of a TMO when passes can go 5m forward and he says that's fine... the ref gives tries without seeing the ball grounded... the officiating is NC3 level at times

Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families trib.al/olj7tnv

@PlanetRugby Just to clarify it was Joe Heyes you're saying acted the thug in this confrontation?

@Stevros3 @PlanetRugby I saw this at the time.... no idea why the TMO and referee missed it....

Leicester v Northampton: Five takeaways as Pollock’s 'comical' cameo caps 'miserable day' for the visitors #Echobox=1778362197" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">planetrugby.com/news/leicester…

Looked suspiciously like some fingers in the eyes of Joe heyes in amongst that fracas.....

It's no wonder this government has so many u turns.... it seems nobody in power can remember what they are doing or what they are talking about from day to day....

Morgan mcsweeneys memory is like a sieve..... if only he wrote stuff down or kept a phone note.... seems he forgot to do any of that either.... oh well...