Mark Todd

@LeoMars75 🤣 it is ironic that the people who contribute the most to the public purse are the most vilified. Attitudes need to change.

People diss M&S as a middle class snob shop. M&S have a range of everyday basic products that are cheap and high quality. Their small wholemeal bread is 65p. It's outstanding. Butter is good value and so are their baked beans. About 1/3 of the price of Heinz.

@wesstreeting Give it a rest.

Big Tech has learned from the Big Tobacco playbook. It’s extremely addictive, bad for our health, and causing real harm to our children. It’s time for action. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

It is the same temperature that it was 82 years ago because of climate change. Obviously.

@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.

Every year there's an unbearable heat wave for about a week, where I seriously consider dropping £600 on an AC unit, which then subsides so I don't bother. And then I repeat the same doom loop the following year.

Anyone live with a partner than comes in to nearly half a million quid & not notice? No me neither..

As part of the "climate lockdowns" plan, they're trying to nudge young people out of cars by increasing the costs and reducing the benefits of motoring. It's likely to be counterproductive in terms of saving lives.

@FWyhowska Lidars read signs… news to me. Never trust the ill informed.

Telegraph today

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

You have no idea how much headache and torture the 𝕏 team and Elon have to endure with the EU The EU really thinks they rule the world. Their entire regulatory attitude is: “Do exactly as we tell you to do, and nothing more.” It's purely a dictatorship disguised as a democracy You try to comply with one lunatic policy just to get them off your back, and boom... here comes another one, and another one... It's not just for the EU, they've become a pain in the backside for the entire world Then one day, they hit you with a massive fine and try to loot up to half of your global REVENUE. Not even your profit... your gross revenue It's pure extortion. Straight-up economic terrorism dressed in a suit

Walter Rodney was wrong. Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work. Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer. Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

Yes

@JamieWHU__ @NickFriend1 True!

@NickFriend1 Only at Middlesex

Middlesex hoping to have Matt Boyle available for Blast outings next weekend - debut delayed by a difference of opinion between club and ECB legal teams, which led to his registration being withheld: thecricketer.com/Topics/county-…

@We_OwnIt Please No!

If Palantir’s technology is so useful that the NHS, the MOD, the Met and other depts need it, shouldn’t the British state just build its own version of it? Why would we put something so vital to our national security and our democracy in the hands of a private US company? This makes no sense. x.com/SaulStaniforth…

There are many of us of a certain age who grew to love cricket through the John Player League, either on TV or in person. We were lucky to see many top players week in, week out. This book by @MarkSands756027 will stir many happy memories ...

Watch how a secret Chinese surveillance platform is used to track foreigners, journalists and individuals deemed "of interest" to the state, using facial recognition technology to build files on people in granular detail - report by @Telegraph @sophia_yan We don't want anything like this in the UK - but with Digital ID and facial recognition it is all too easy to envisage Stand #together

'You want to give 16-year-olds the vote, but you're saying a 23-year-old was too immature to fully understand what he was doing?' @aliciakearns challenges the government's logic on an asylum seeker's rape of a 12-year-old girl, adding there is an 'epidemic of misogyny'.

Compete based on cost and quality.

“Our capacity to uphold order has declined at exactly the time it is most needed; to convince people that the rules are fair and fairly applied” Jenni Russell nails one of the most important trends of our time. thetimes.com/article/d47e0e…

Frozen stealth taxes. Worth a quick scan on your way to Alton Towers.