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@CourtNewsUK Model?

Ukrainian model told police he was ‘threatened by a Russian’ to carry out Starmer arsons courtnewsuk.co.uk/ukrainian-mode…

@DAaronovitch @annettedittert @ajcdeane Maybe, but it’s not the far Right going around stabbing Jews. It’s Islamists.

@ajcdeane Ever since Elon Musk took over this site people like me with Jewish names have been subject to continuous and increasingly abusive antisemitism. In my case 90% of it comes from the far right, including recently people who claim to support Restore Britain.

They don’t even hide it.

@barneyronay They can't defend bruv. Pimped up National League stuff

An astonishingly brilliant game in Paris. High craft, fearless, constant energy, imagination, adrenaline. Any tips on how to fit this into an 800 word runner pls send help

@danobrien20 Nah, Johnny Foreigner just can't defend bruv

Difference in quality of continental and English football is massive. Biggest since the ban on English clubs over hooliganism.

@PL__OOC @Grok who is this a photo of?

@BootneckStuff Why is this written by AI?

Listen up, Aberdeen. While the suits sip coffee and talk about “risk matrices” and “resilience frameworks,” someone’s finally had the bright idea to bring in the lads who actually know how to handle proper threats. Energy bosses and security wallahs gathered in the Granite City for the Offshore Energies UK security conference. The chat? How to stop the North Sea from turning into the world’s most expensive shooting gallery. Because right now, with the Middle East on fire and Russia playing silly buggers with Ukraine, everything from oil rigs to wind farms and sub sea cables is looking temptingly vulnerable to sabotage. Defence experts have been shouting it for years: offshore installations are soft targets. The Government’s even signed a fancy deal with Norway to keep an eye on the joint. The Royal Navy’s doing underwater surveillance. All very impressive. But Captain John Niven of the Royal Marines Reserves Aberdeen detachment stood up and basically said what everyone was thinking: “Why not bring in some proper bastards who’ve actually done this shit for real?” Royal Marine Reservists – lads who’ve been through the full Commando pipeline – bring something the average security contractor doesn’t: the ability to stay switched on when everything’s gone to rat shit. As Cpt Niven put it: “The physical resilience that you only go through as part of Royal Marines training is not to be sniffed at. It’s really tough.” ​We’re talking the final Commando test – a 30-mile tab across Dartmoor with full kit, after weeks of being deliberately smashed physically and mentally. You’re exhausted, broken, starving… and you still have to navigate and make smart decisions. That’s not just fitness. That’s mental armour. “If you have people that can still think straight even when they’re under pressure – physically and mentally – they’ll make the right decision in a security environment.” And here’s the bit every CEO should tattoo on their forehead: “Royal Marines training instills the drive to always do the right thing. If you’re having an incident, Royal Marines Reservists will do the right thing, they will flag it up and they won’t just walk on by.” ​No box-ticking. No “not my problem.” Just proper Bootneck DNA: see threat, deal with threat, crack on. So if you’re running an energy operation in the North Sea and you actually want people who can handle high-tempo warfare, cyber threats, sabotage attempts and still keep their heads when the alarm goes off… maybe stop hiring more middle managers. Start hiring some bootnecks instead. They’ve spent years training for exactly the kind of chaos the North Sea might be facing. And they’re bloody good at it.

@joshglancy Some sanity at last

Unless he is found to have deliberately lied, it would in my view be pretty odd for Starmer to resign over Mandelson, or indeed his government’s wider political struggles. For our own democratic wellbeing, the bar for an elected prime minister to resign should be very high.

@DouglasCarswell No one likes you, Carswell

Boomer Brits when presented with facts re Mississippi overtaking them. This is how nation fail

@LordRickettsP And yet the FO was much better run in those days...

These three, and others like them, helped to sweep away the barrier to women serving in the upper tier of the FO. This happened in 1945, but women were still required to resign on marriage. That disgraceful rule was only scrapped in 1973. Result: we now have women in top jobs!

Three weeks to publication of geni.us/PeaceMakers. This week’s🧵is on the women of the Foreign Office in WWII. They were barred from joining the ‘administrative grade’: the senior staff/policymakers. Many hundreds joined the FO in support functions like typing. BUT 1/6

@paulmasonnews @AlistairCarns Eh?

"If Ukraine is the teacher, Iran is the headmaster that's just hit us with a ruler and told us to listen" @AlistairCarns tells #LDC2026

@BDOH @phildstewart @MaryMargOlohan He was in your Grindr messages last week bum boy

@phildstewart @MaryMargOlohan Still no official photos or video tape proof that the GayAyatollah is alive and cognizant.

(Reuters) - Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle told Reuters.

@danobrien20 Pretty sure Mick Lynch isn’t pro-Putin

Putin-supporting left and Farragist right on bbc newsnight to discuss global affairs. Snooze.

@stevennelson10 @MrHarryCole Bullshit

SCOOP: CIA used secret tool called 'Ghost Murmur' to find airman in Iran, sources tell me Ghost Murmur pairs long-range quantum magnetometry sensors with AI to find human heartbeats nypost.com/2026/04/07/us-…

@henrywinter Strong leadership my arse. Performative stuff from Rosenior, as usual. Fergie might have dropped Fernandez but he would never have spoken about it publicly

Strong leadership by Chelsea to omit Enzo Fernandez for next two games. Unlikely to have played in the first, Port Vale in the FA Cup, but dropping him against Manchester City in the Premier League is significant. Chelsea need the points to get back in the Champions League positions. Enzo is a winner and productive (8g, 3a in 30 PL this season). But his exclusion is clearly the right decision. Enzo’s flirtation with Real Madrid was disrespectful to Chelsea fans, team-mates, head coach, staff, sporting directors and board. He’s vice-captain. He's captain in the absence of Reece James and certainly hasn’t behaved like one. Some of Enzo’s frustration about the club’s direction is understandable but it’s unprofessional and unhelpful to state it publicly. Liam Rosenior is under enough pressure without dressing-room unrest/division. Enzo has also criticised underperforming team-mates like Filip Jorgensen against PS-G. All a bit rich: Enzo kept giving the ball away against Everton (still had two shots well-saved by Jordan Pickford). Opportunity for Cole Palmer at 10 v City? Palmer is not in the best of form, is better floating inside from the right with the ball, and is a different type of 10 to Enzo. Chelsea have options with Enzo dropped. They have enough wingers (Estevao, Neto) to cover Palmer moving inside. They have enough midfielders with Andrey Santos/Romeo Lavia although Moises Caicedo is far from his peak form. A booking against City (the 32nd PL fixture so two-game ban for 10th booking applies) would see Caicedo miss Manchester United at home and Brighton away. Chelsea discipline needs addressing more broadly. Rosenior says he has spoken to Marc Cucurella about his comments in an interview with The Athletic. Cucurella praised Rosenior but questioned why Enzo Maresca was eased out. Should he have been punished by club, too? He wasn’t indulging in transfer speculation as Fernandez was. His comments were actually sensible (a new manager really needs a pre-season etc). And, of course, as one Chelsea fan observed, Cucurella is difficult to drop as no quality replacement at left-back. A final thing on Enzo… would he actually get in Real Madrid’s team? Would Kylian Mbappe welcome the Argentinian who mocked the Frenchman and his team last year? #CFC

@baylissbaghdad @TheCriticMag Fantastic. So the solution is to dismember shoplifters in public African-style?

Kemi was right to say that the kind of disorder we saw in Clapham does not happen in Africa. My latest for @TheCriticMag thecritic.co.uk/kemi-badenoch-…

@CatholicArena Kinky

BREAKING 🇮🇹 Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope in 13 years to wash the feet of priests on Holy Thursday as Jesus did He is at the Lateran Basilica

@barneyronay Manc ting innit

Palmer-Foden-Mainoo-O'Reilly doing triangles/squares. This is good. Can England just be this

@RugbyInsideLine Is that the same Rupava Ruskin who was hooked at half-time?

STATISTICAL TEAM OF PREM R12 1. Rapava Ruskin 🍒 2. LCD 🦈 3. Roots ✖️ 4. Itoje 💫 5. Owen 🐻 6. Gwynne 🍒 7. Harding 🐻 8. Pollock 😇 9. Quirke 🦈 10. Skinner ✖️ 11. Ridl ✖️ 12. Hutchinson 😇 13. Wand 🐯 14. Brown-Bampoe ✖️ 15. Woodburn ✖️

@RugbyInsideLine Sale have been lazy around the ruck all day

🦈 Would be very frustrated as a Sale fan there. Obviously need to play to the whistle. But ref needs to be clearer.

@rugbyontnt @SaintsRugby Pollock inserting himself in there to get some camera time 🙄

Success at The Showdown for @SaintsRugby 😇 Archie McParland and Henry Pollock discuss their dramatic victory over Saracens at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium 🗣️ 📺 Stream TNT Sports with HBO Max