Ant Lendon
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Ant Lendon
@iamlendon
approaching middle age quicker than usain bolt on crack.
Shoeburyness Katılım Nisan 2010
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Starmer is respected on the international stage. Can you imagine the laughingstock the UK would be if either perpetually outraged Badenoch or furtive Farage was in charge?
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Armenia ahead of the European Political Summit in Yerevan, the country's capital. trib.al/vAkhilb 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Carreño-Busta MAX 🅿️♻️
As expected, Wawrinka suffered a serious injury at the end of his last match, but is forced to withdraw 10 minutes before start of R2. Nobody else in the world other than me and my insider sources knew he was severely injured and had 0% chance to win.
Mpb@matchpo1ntbets
In 5 hours, my most confident bet in 2026 starts. Thanks to news I just received from sources in Rome, it is not possible for a player to win due to their physical condition. Use link in post below to join discord and get full card. Free lifetime vip and refunds if we lose 🔐
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Lu Dort always targets star players, and then you can’t touch Shai……. 🤯🤯
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@DrOsitaMba @SaulStaniforth @hanwayplace @ZackPolanski @bbclaurak He wage isn’t the argument. Mute point.
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@SaulStaniforth @hanwayplace @ZackPolanski should have asked @bbclaurak about her £395,000 per annum pay from the public and why she is worth it but other workers are not worth £15 per hour. Yes, we need to tax millionaires and billionaires properly but there is also a debate to be had on wider inequality.
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Kuenssberg asks, how can we afford to pay people £15/hour
LK, who earns around £400,000/year, doesn't ask, how can people afford to live on less than £15/hour? Neither does she ask, should we be subsidising the profits of businesses by topping up the poverty wages they pay?
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@TimSimonH @SaulStaniforth It’s wholly dependent on the type of business you run.
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@JohnSlinger If you took less time filming yourself, you might be able to run properly.
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I won’t let Reform get away with thinking the normal rules of politics don’t apply to them as they do to the main parties.
Reform:
Party of working people ❌
Cut council tax ❌
NHS free at point of use ❌
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@Vfynn_ “And that’s where Declan Rice comes in. For me, he’s the one. Not because he’s trendy, not because he’s putting up flashy numbers but because he’s an Arsenal player”
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🚨🎙️| Ian Wright on the PFA Player of the Year race between Bruno Fernandes, Declan Rice, and Erling Haaland and who truly deserves to win it:
🗣️ “Honestly, I think people have completely lost the plot with this award, Every single year we do the same thing, reduce football to numbers on a screen and then act shocked when the wrong player wins it.
“Take Bruno Fernandes for example. I’m hearing all this noise about him potentially breaking assist records in the Premier League, and suddenly he’s everyone’s pick. Since when did racking up assists automatically mean you’re the best player in the league? Football doesn’t work like that. Half the time those numbers don’t tell you about control, about discipline, about what happens when your team doesn’t have the ball. It’s easy to look at a stat sheet, it’s harder to understand the game.”
“And then you’ve got Erling Haaland. Look, I’m not denying he’s one of the best finishers we’ve ever seen, he’s unbelievable at what he does. But let’s be honest for a second… what he does is exactly what he’s supposed to do. He’s a striker. He scores goals. That’s his job description. Are we now saying that just doing your role at an elite level while brilliant, is enough to make you the standout player in the entire league? Because if that’s the case, we might as well rename the award and save ourselves the debate.”
“What frustrates me is that the real essence of this award, players voting for the player who actually dominates them gets lost. This isn’t meant to be about who has the nicest highlight reel or the cleanest numbers. It’s about who you come off the pitch thinking, ‘I couldn’t get near him today.’”
“And that’s where Declan Rice comes in. For me, he’s the one. Not because he’s trendy, not because he’s putting up flashy numbers but because he’s doing the hardest job in football and making it look routine. He’s everywhere. Breaking up play, driving forward, dictating tempo, covering spaces others don’t even see, and then on top of that, he’s stepping up in big moments. That’s influence. That’s authority. That’s a player running games, not just appearing in them.”
“You watch him and you realise he’s not just playing well, he’s controlling matches. And that’s what top players respect. Ask any midfielder in the league who they’d least like to play against right now, and I guarantee his name comes up more than the lads putting up big stats.”
“But because he’s not scoring 25 goals or getting 20 assists, people overlook him. That’s the problem. We’ve become obsessed with output and forgotten about impact. There’s a difference. A massive difference.”
“So when I hear people saying it has to be Bruno Fernandes because of assists, or Erling Haaland because of goals, I just think, have you actually been watching the games, or are you just scrolling through stats after full-time?”
“For me, if Declan Rice doesn’t win this, then we’ve completely misunderstood what this award is about. Because the best player this season isn’t the one padding numbers, it’s the one imposing himself on every single game, the one other professionals walk off the pitch talking about.”
“And right now, whether people like it or not, that player is Declan Rice. If he gets overlooked, then the award’s lost its credibility, simple as that.”
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Why are people saying we won’t have Nuno next season.
We can’t afford to sack him
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@UKLabour The end of June is 2 months away. I’m yet to see the £300 saving that Starmer promised before.
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@hol40900 It’s idiocy trying to defend a man guilty of stabbing two people.
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Zack Polanski saw five kicks to a tasered man's head. Instead of performing outrage for cameras, he's doing the harder thing: taking it to the Met Commissioner directly. Social media wants spectacle. Zack wants accountability. That's not weakness — that's maturity. #bbclaurak
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If this happened in the womens game, football twitter would be all over it
National League on DAZN@DAZN_NationalLg
Abudlmalik’s shot too hot to handle and Boreham Wood lead Carlisle in the Play-Off Semi-Final 👀
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Nigel Farage didn't turn up folks.
Knew his story wouldn't stack up over the £5million gift he received.
Knew he would be exposed nationally as the fraud he is and couldn't risk losing votes before May 7th
Guess who did turn up? @ZackPolanski
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Lewis Potter drags down Soucek in the box, VAR look at it and do nothing
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@ZackPolanski Scared? Maybe he has better things to do than discuss legalising class A drugs and the pipe dream know as Net Zero
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Nigel Farage asked on BBC news this morning if he'd debate with me.
Says he's too busy with the local elections & it will just be a "big row."
I've been asking him for months. Someone's running scared?
Vote Green.
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@WolfgangRichtEU @HarrietAnn40374 @RachelReevesMP Dear Wolfgang,
It would appear that you’ve been misled by the flood of far-left on social media. Perhaps take a step the middle and take the high ground above both the “left and the right”, and your life might be a bit more peaceful.
Yours sincerely
Someone trying to help.
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@HarrietAnn40374 @RachelReevesMP Dear Boudicca,
This is my business. X does not feel safe for me or my family due to all the uncensured racist right-wingers on this platform. EU Commission will solve this I hope.
All the best,
Wolfgang
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This is not our war, but it is now pushing up bills for families and businesses.
That’s why keeping costs down is my number one priority – and our economic plan has put us in a stronger position to face this crisis.
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@labourpress Let’s have some more coverage on the U Turns by the schoolboy in charge then? If you’re going to balance the argument.
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Richard, you've shared an article from over a year ago...
But thanks for allowing us to remind everyone that rail fares are frozen thanks to Labour - after years of hikes under the Tories.
Richard Holden MP@RicHolden
Labour are hiking rail fares by 4.6% as services are still plagued by delays and cancellations @UKLabour are even squeezing railcard users with a 16.6% rise, the 1st increase in over a decade Passengers pay more & get less That’s the deal under Labour independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…
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@JackWDart “Immediately”. I mean, they’re contractually in agreement of provide services of varying degree. So, to “immediately” remove them has legal consequences. But sure, you’ve thought of this before a knee jerk post.
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Why the fuck is a technology company posting a manifesto? Get them out of the NHS, and then out of Britain, immediately.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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