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@10000MM1 @FERMOR_23 Un gol de dudosa procedencia - verdad? Come on England!

@FERMOR_23 Podes apoyar a quien quieras chapulin verde. Pero sabes q queres que gane Inglaterra porque nos envidias. Y muy de virgo querer instalar que nos han ayudado o que somos tramposos. Inglaterra su único mundial lo ganó con un gol de dudosa procedencia. Ganen un título amargos!!!

En Argentina no entienden por qué México apoya a Inglaterra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lucharon con honor y sin ayuda arbitral, con un jugador menos. Fueron respetuosos antes y después de ganar, igual sus aficionados Por eso, a pesar de eliminarnos, queremos que les ganen a esos tramposos de Argentina

@JohnSimpsonNews In many ways it is a contest between two great South American football powers. Them because they live on the land they stole; us, because we have self-determined settled colonies in the South Atlantic that for as long as the inhabitants wish will remain British.

Argentina v England is important way beyond football. If Argentina wins tomorrow night, it’ll put real fire behind the demand for the Falklands. If England wins, that should put the lid on it — for now.

@MichaelLCrick Isn't that a bit of a slow punishment with a meandering and uncertain route. What about the birch?

How many historic defence ministers, PMs, MoD civil servants & military chiefs were involved in the cover-up over nuclear test veterans? Probably hundreds. Maybe thousands. The British state in institutionally corrupt. They should all have 20% docked off their pensions.

@mehdirhasan It's not just "Trump screwed them" [the USMNT]: it supports the pervasive narrative that America (as manifested by and through this POTUS) does not play by the rules and thinks that they are exceptional. Everyone else loathes that POV, Europeans in particular.

Yep, Trump screwed them. I am thinking of all those dumb MAGa accounts who were on this site praising Trump for getting Balogun reinstated and acting like it was such a win for the USA. It wasn’t.

@chameleon7six2 @KHarveyProctor In England and Wales, the age of consent for heterosexuals has been 16 since 1885. For homosexuals it was 21 at the time of decriminalisation (1967), reduced to 18 in 1994, and then reduced to 16 (full equality) in 2001. Scotland and NI equalised later, but all now 16.

@KHarveyProctor Since when is a 17 year old a consenting adult?

Mr Yusuf, For the avoidance of doubt, I pleaded guilty in 1987 to an offence of gross indecency under laws that discriminated against homosexual men. The age of consent was then 21 for gay men & 16 for heterosexuals. Those discriminatory offences no longer exist. Also, the individual who was 17 was ‘wired for sound’ by Robert Maxwell’s paper. He said on the tape he was over 21. Unfortunately, there was a lacuna in the law in 1987 which provided heterosexuals with a defence. If heterosexuals believed those they had sexual relations with were of consensual age, & the jury believed this, then they could find the accused not guilty. No such defence pertained to homosexuals. If the younger person was under 21, the offence was committed. I did not realise this lacuna in the law existed until my lawyer, Sir David Napley, informed me. I then told him immediately I would plead guilty. Parliament has since recognised that these laws were unjust. Under the so-called “Alan Turing law”, people convicted of consensual homosexual offences under repealed legislation can have those convictions disregarded & pardoned as part of righting historic wrongs. Also, what I did was neither gross nor indecent. It was done in private and between consenting adults. I have never hidden any of this. What you are doing is attempting to weaponise a historic conviction under discriminatory laws to discredit me because you disagree with my views, & blind loyalty. That is your choice. My point remains unchanged: politicians should respect the police’s request not to speculate during a live murder investigation. Personal abuse is no answer to a principled argument. You are free to criticise me, & to answer a principled argument with personal abuse & character assassination - however unbecoming - but personal vilification is no substitute for civil debate. Ann Widdecombe believed in decency, free speech & the rule of law - which is why she stood by me and offered me practical, private & public support throughout my ordeals. I rather think she would have expected better.

@sjksanders Before her undergraduate degree at Sheffield, I believe she was (privately) educated at Dundee High School.

Just in case anyone wondered how the SNP are filling the seats of MPs who jumped to Holyrood. Local? No mention of Scotland for over a decade on her public CV Local branch or issues campaigner? No, understandably since study and work all in England. Baffling really.

@Madz_Grant @AndrewHWestern Couldn't the same argument be made against zero VAT classification for private healthcare, residential rent, financial services and insurance premiums - all of which are curently VAT exempt but the purchase of which is not obviously a "charitable act".

@AndrewHWestern Your parents sent you to a grammar school, one assumes, to get a leg-up. Presumably you think they’re bad people for doing this too?

Except it’s done to buy your own child a head start, or why would people do it? If a parent didn’t believe that they wouldn’t spend their money on it - but the connections made and the generally smaller class sizes often offer a lifelong leg up. That’s not a charitable act it’s buying an advantage. If a parent chooses to do it that’s their business, but it shouldn’t have a VAT exemption.

@itsDechris @xKGx__ He is a Londoner. His brother turned out for England U18.

@xKGx__ Omo! Olise nah real baller, how wish he plays for Nigeria...

Olise forgot he is not playing with Kane

@QuibbleUK @reporterboy @incidentaltrade I suspect many people who would generally applaud your endeavours would also support the discouragement of single use plastics. Remember when ring-pulls were detatched from the can? Nobody laments their passing. Maybe concentrate on the uncontroversial banes of our lives?

@reporterboy @incidentaltrade Thank you! Shall look into it...!

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice. We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff. Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year. And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon. Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket? An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small. We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail. Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: quibble.org.uk

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

@EmoPhilips Damn - I thought you were coming to the Reeeal Birmingham. Come back to the UK Emo, we miss you. (And include Oxford on your tour because I’m also lazy.)

@RebirthOfEmpire @ritashires @SpecialReport What if he’s one of those Brits who is slightly off-white. Not black or Indian, but sort of “cafe au lait”. Are they okay? Can they get an expectation as well? Perhaps you have a colour chart which could help set the policy?

🚨BREAKING TONIGHT: A massive change in U.S. immigration policy. The Trump administration has announced that any noncitizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the United States indefinitely.

@Maestro_Ben @Lady_FanAccount Don't be silly. Laurence Mason's cover is very good, however.

@Lady_FanAccount Except it’s not an original youtu.be/2Qs1J612nZs?si…

Golden Brown, from the album La Folie (1981), has a very unusual origin. During the songwriting sessions at The Manor Studio, Hugh Cornwell and Jean-Jacques Burnel were tired of writing almost everything themselves, so they decided to go to the pub and let keyboardist Dave Greenfield (he liked progressive rock) and drummer Jet Black (influenced by jazz) create something from scratch.

@PicturesFoIder Unfortunately Keith Urban's Kiwi accent comes through on some words, rendering his attempted "London hardman" mockney annoyingly unconvincing to sensitive British ears.

This scene alone proves Season 1 of ‘The Boys’ was absolute cinema.

@wself What remains is either backward-looking symbolic compensation or forward-looking technical compensation, neither of which can do the work the institutions used to do. This will likely endure at least until the questions of legitimacy posed by the Brexit plebiscite are answered.

@wself I suppose this strengthens your theses: both nostalgia and proceduralism are diagnostic of the same condition, namely that the mediating institutions that once produced legitimacy (without anyone having to think about it) are gone.