Mark Higson

Many many times but the picture above triggers no nostalgia. The true Maine Road suffered a serious injury when Platt Lane was knocked down around 1992 for a soulless replacement and finally died when the Kippax was redeveloped. The Kippax was the heart and soul of the stadium and the new version ruined it. Popular ends like the Kop or the Stretford end managed to retain some similarity to the original forms but the new Kippax was a sh1tsh0w.

Hands up if you ever visited Maine Road! 🏟️

@kelvmackenzie Unite the right with the not as far left as Labour crowd ? What will this achieve. Any kind of coalition will be “as you were”. The Tories got us into this mess amd still insist they did nothing wrong.

My bet is that come May 6 Reform does better than the 21% Lord Ashcroft’s poll predicts ( a new low for Farage) and that the Tories do worse than 21%. Nevertheless, Nigel should show he’s the bigger man and open talks with Kemi after next month’s election. Unite the Right.

@TiceRichard Wrong Richard - discrete fields and unconnected to UKCS fields. Bullshit like this will lose you credibility - you don’t need lies to embarass Miliband @ Liebour.

Net Stupid Zero In pictures …. Making us poorer

@RicHolden @reformparty_uk Am I the only one scratching my head when I hear the party that spent 14 years raising taxes and expanding the footprint of the state claim to be the only party interested in cutting taxes. You had 14 years FFS - 14 F***ing years !!!! Why now ?

🤪 If you want tax cuts, you’ve got to show where you’ll cut spending, otherwise, you’ll be treated as a joke for just making stuff up… ✈️ Yesterday, @reformparty_uk said that reducing the tax on airline tickets known as APD is their priority 💷 They said it’d cost £566 million over 5 years, which they’d fund from spending cuts to environmental projects BUT there’s a big problem with their numbers. In fact it’s more like £1,400 million. An £800 million difference… 🤡 1st they can’t multiply by 5. They said it’s cost £142m/year. Well, £142m a year is £710 million over 5 years, not £566 million - a difference of £144 million. 🤡 2nd, In any event, the true cost of their APD change is more than £130m higher per year than they claim. Analysis of HMRC figures shows that removing APD for 20% of all domestic and Band A flights would cost £276m per year, not £142m as Reform claim. An almost doubling of the cost. 🤡 Finally, this calculation doesn't even cover travel with grandparents or school trips, meaning the figures are even further out. (HMRC’ air Passenger Duty Bulletin, June 2025)) 💷 The policy is therefore at £276m x 5 = £1.4bn. Instead, Reform have claimed it will cost £566m, which is £141.5m x 4. That is a £814m gap. Now… 💷 No-one wants to cut taxes more than @Conservatives. That’s why we’ve outlined a credible plan of £47 billion of spending cuts, mostly on welfare, to deliver tax cuts, including: 🏡 Ending stamp duty on primary residences 🏬 Ending business rates on high street leisure; retail & hospitality with a rateable value of £110,000 or less Sadly, other parties aren’t as… clear or responsible…

@Worker_Snake @peterSc11726914 @toadmeister Utter crap - there is plenty of oil left & Norway also has depleted fields. The government makes it uneconomical / illegal to recover oil for insane and illogical ideological reasons. If you wish to ‘fix it’ try being accurate rather than countering one lie with another.

@peterSc11726914 @toadmeister Fixed it for you

Former trader Francis Holburne has put together a mythbuster to explain why the seven most common arguments trotted out by Net Zero zealots against drilling in the North Sea are all wrong. dailysceptic.org/2026/03/31/nor…

My feedback would be that whoever does it - just use their native accent. The attempts at the non US trader accents from all past books are cringeworthy - especially the British traders in the last book. Completely unauthentic - if you want none US accents use a native or don't bother. I am more concerned about the content but the bad accents were a distraction.

Narrator for Upcoming Market Wizards The Next Generation Would like feedback. For those of you who purchased the recently released audio of Stock Market Wizards, would you like to have the same narrator for the upcoming MWNG?

@mwebster1971 @TaPlot A true warrior and an inspiration to many.

It was an honor & a privilege to record a Webby Rambles On Hangin' Out episode with @TaPlot After hearing his journey & seeing how he's handling the war of his life, I'm giving him the nickname The Beast! When you watch, you'll see why! As a true believer that good vibes, prayers, etc... work way more than folks give them credit...please take the time to send your positive thoughts to a truly inspirational man ♥️🍀♥️ I concider The Beast a role model for all of us and a new hero of mine! I'll send updates when we have a release date for this WRO

@Bazro10 Pickford ahead of Shilton - Jesus F Christ. I would not even have him ahead of Joe Hart.

No fucker is telling me, Saka is Englands greatest ever right winger man hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

This may be the case if the UK were still a true market economy, but with the number of people on 1. Benefits 2. Pensions 3. Public sector contracts negotiated by Labour Party puppet string holders The weak economy will not suppress inflation. The government will support aggregate demand via inflation+ settlements for those cohorts above. Private sector wages may stagnate but it won’t hold inflation down.

Thank goodness someone at the BoE sees sense. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@IsabelOakeshott @PeterTatchell Just arrived in Singapore - theirs work like a charm - even for fidgety kids who won’t look at the camera.

Geneva airport may just be the worst in Europe. ⁦@PeterTatchell⁩ blames Brexit but look at all these EU-funded “smart” immigration machines; not one works. Tells you everything about Brussels!

@ZiaYusufUK Wowzers - you had an extra shot in the morning latte !

No, Nick Timothy is not “brave”. He was literally Theresa May’s Chief of Staff, the driving force behind Mayism and its “burning injustices” agenda.  He is an architect of what you saw in Trafalgar Square. He launched the Race Disparity Audit – a massive government trawl of ethnicity data across schools, NHS, prisons, jobs and housing to unearth any disparity of outcome and claim it was evidence of institutional discrimination. He personally oversaw the 2017 Tory Manifesto, the wokest of all: Forcing civil service diversity targets, an obsession with tackling “hate crime” including transgender identity. It was this rampant wokery that laid the foundations for Labour’s Islamophobia definition. All while talking about building a “Great Meritocracy”, obsessed with group disparities. He promised to cut net immigration to the tens of thousands.  Instead he supercharged immigration and net immigration has been over *3 million* since. Now he wants to be celebrated for pointing to the fires he started. Make no mistake, what you saw in Trafalgar Square would not have been possible were it not for Nick Timothy. He is a classic Tory.  Tweets in the direction of where the wind blows. Set the country ablaze when in power, then lie when kicked out. He is an arsonist firefighter and belongs in the dustbin of history, along with the rest of the Tory Party.

@1ChartMaster I see a really shitty, volatile ‘handle’ or ‘consolidation’ - whatever you want to call it which could break either way or keep going sideways. If this were a stock I would not go near it long or short - there are always better setups.

This is the Inverted QQQ chart. Tell me what you see?

@KarlTurnerMP No words apart from Fucking disgrace. Actually I retract that - here are more works Hypocrite, coward, liar, unprincipled, enemy of the people.

There has been a lot of public debate about todays vote, I want to make clear that abstaining at Second Reading allowed many of us to make clear that we do not support the Bill as it stands, while ensuring it can proceed to the next stage where the real scrutiny happens. 1/3

@PeterLBrandt @Vivek4real_ He means 280k Indonesian Rupiah

@Vivek4real_ On drugs?

BITCOIN IS GOING TO $280,000 IN 2026 🚀

@markminervini Monday morning inspiration - thanks Mark.

What percentage of people aspiring to make a living as an artist, a baseball player, a musician, a talk show host or an actor make it? So, I guess we shouldn't even try? Thank god everyone doesn't think like you my friend. What a world lacking in passion and achievement that would be. But I will answer your question. Of the people who truly make up their minds to do the work, commit unconditionally and not let negative comments like yours distract them from their potential, 100% succeed. Success in the stock market is a choice, not a chance. But more importantly, guess how many people who think and talk like you make it? Zero.

@LeeHurstComic Spot on. For anybody who thinks more money is the answer look at the NHS. The MOD is no better.

Just a brief example of some of the waste in military spending in the UK. In the USA they have 219 Generals for 480,000 soldiers. In the UK we have 211 Generals for 73,000 soldiers. Completely and irresponsibly top heavy. I do remind people that the British Army is still the public sector. It’s basically the local council with guns.

@StevePenk It was £400 for a shorter flight from Cairo in 2011 when Egypt overthrew Mubarak. Nothing new.

@johnredwood GDP was growing due to migration but it was consumption funded on borrowed money and raised taxes. GDP per capita was falling - but you knew that.

Labour inherited the fastest growth in the G7, inflation at 2%, unemployment at 4.2%. They called this broken. They have put inflation and unemployment up and have undermined growth. What do they call that?

1. Huge premium over ICE to buy 2. Huge premium over ICE to insure 3. The most expensive part of the car will need replacing in 5-10 years for £££££££. 4. Impractical if you do long drives. I have an EV and love it but I rarely leave the city - and living outside the UK I paid £29k for something that sells for £45k there.

With an Octopus Energy EV tariff, you can charge your car with 250 miles of range for £6, using cheap overnight rates of 7p/kwh. That's around 275 miles per gallon of petrol, equivalent. Why is there still a resistance to Electric Vehicles?

@afneil But we do have a successful implementation of DEI. Once the Mullahs or the Wagner group see those rainbow flags and our diverse military they will think twice about attacking.

The US/Israeli attack on Iran and the widening hostilities in the region are exposing the growing scandal that is Britain’s military capabilities, or lack thereof. We are still in the world’s top 5/6 on defence spending yet: We don’t have a single warship in the whole of the Mediterranean, despite the eastern Mediterranean becoming part of the theatre of war. We don’t have a single warship in the Gulf. We have a naval base in Bahrain. But a base with no ships. We don’t have any subs to deploy. The one active Astute Class sub is in Oz. We have a handful of fighter jets in Cyprus. And a smaller handful in Qatar (attached to Qatari airforce). That’s it. Most of what’s left of the Navy — not even in the top 30 in the world in terms of warships these days — seems to be in repair/maintenance/renovation. Brilliant MoD planning. Labour/Tories/LibDems who all had a shot at government these past 16 years need to be held to account. When Ed Davey says Brit expats in the Gulf should pay for UK protection, exactly what protection does he have in mind that would be worth paying for?