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@fwmarqix Yeah, right. Why people make up nonsense like this used to puzzle me. Now I realise they really want just two things. Attention, and to be seen as ‘the good guy’. Obviously, in reality, they are far from the good guy, they are just liars and virtue signallers. Get a real life.

I took my daughter out for Chinese food last weekend, she’s 16, old enough to know better. We sat down, and when the waiter came to take our order, she made a comment, A racist one, directed at him, to his face. The waiter kept his composure, took our order, and walked away. I put my menu down and looked at her. She could tell from my face that something was coming, I called the waiter back over, told my daughter to stand up. She looked at me like I had lost my mind, i told her again, she stood up. I told her to apologize to this man properly. She started with a weak “sorry.” I told her that wasn’t good enough, i told her to get on her knees and apologize like she meant it. The restaurant went quiet. She looked around at the other tables. Then she looked at me. Got on her knees, and apologized. The waiter was gracious about it. He told her he appreciated it, then briefly explained what it felt like to deal with comments like that while just trying to do his job. She was crying before he finished talking. We ate our meal mostly in silence. When we got home, I grounded her for a whole month. No phone. No going out. Nothing. Some people told me I went too far. That kneeling was too much, I disagree. She embarrassed a man in his place of work in front of strangers. The least she could do was feel a fraction of that discomfort. I’m not raising a child who thinks people are beneath her. Not on my watch. Was I too harsh, or did my daughter get exactly what she needed?

@HerdImmunity12 It is worth pointing out that Starmer didn’t dismantle the Royal Navy or our armed services in 2 years. It wouldn’t be possible, incompetent and destructive as he is. It took fourteen years of Conservative governments prior to his election to do most of the heavy lifting on this.

Breaking News🇺🇸🚨🇬🇧: "PM Starmer is polling right up there with Gonorrhea. The current UK political leadership have hollowed out their own armed forces and couldn't send a SINGLE functioning Royal Naval ship to defend its own RAF base in Cyprus". The wise and noble @SenJohnKennedy takes a blow torch to the hapless, feckless and traitorous Keir Starmer, once again in another epic summary of the demise of the UK. We thank great men like Senator Kennedy for taking the time and effort to shine a very bright light on the internal destruction from within taking place in real time. We shall do all we can to take our country back sir. GOD bless you and GOD bless our patriotic American cousins.

@KayBurley @bbclaurak @vicderbyshire How can you say this with a straight face? I assume you aren’t being sarcastic, in which case you should be embarrassed.

No fan of Starmer but he continues to hold his nerve and carry out the supreme duty as PM - to keep his citizens safe from harm. @bbclaurak @vicderbyshire

@YvetteCooperMP You clearly have no idea how pathetic this sounds. Just what do you propose to do about it, who do you think is paying any attention to anything you have to say? The voice of the UK government is just a hopeless yelp. We have no bite.

In my Mansion House speech, I made clear: the Strait of Hormuz must be fully reopened, without restrictions or tolls. The blocking of this vital waterway is hitting trade around the world and prices here at home. Freedom of navigation means navigation must be free.

@Mr1beard @DPJHodges Chucking gays off the roof, beheading teenagers, beating girls to death for taking off their head covering, exporting terrorism around the world, building nuclear weapons specifically to take USA, Israel and western civilisation off the map. Sure, they’re great guys.

@DPJHodges I like the Iranians. They're very scrappy. Don't take any shit. More people need to start standing up to America like they do.

Iran is one of the most secretive, dictatorial and oppressive states on earth. And Donald Trump has managed to plumb such depths of misinformation that the Iranian regime’s statements now carry more credibility than those of the United States.

@Donone243 @punt_rd Much as I would like that to be true, the more likely version is that their manager suggested they change their name from Halfnelson to the Marx Brothers because that’s who they reminded him of. They didn’t like it but changed it to The Sparks Brothers then shortened to Sparks.

@punt_rd "Sparks" - Was a huge shout out to Nicola Tesla, which seemed to go over everyone's head at the time.

John Lennon’s phone call to fellow Beatle Ringo Starr after a UK TV appearance by this band… “You won't believe what's on television—Marc Bolan is playing a song with Adolf Hitler!" The near unknown most famous band you’ve never heard of…….Sparks!

@METhompson72 @CPierceUK But Boris ate cake on his birthday. Much more serious.

Is This Plausible? I am Morgan Macsweeney I am Chief Of Staff to the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland I hold a top-secret security clearance I own a mobile phone I use this phone to conduct Government Business I use this phone to message with Lord Mandelson My phone is tracked by GCHQ There are protocols for officials using personal phones to conduct Government business My communications are monitored to ensure they are not intercepted My phone is "stolen" a month after Lord Mandelson is sacked The police do not investigate The phone is not tracked down The police are too busy to track down the phone the most senior member of the Prime Minister's team - someone with a top-secret security clearance I do not contact my service provider to block the stolen phone I do not consider asking GCHQ to do this as a national security priority I do not ask for a replacement sim I do not buy a new phone I do not activate my new phone with the new sim I do not log-in to my Google account I do not select "Restore" I do not download WhatsApp I do not recover my messages Nobody, ever, who had their phone stolen was ever able to get their messages back. @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer DO YOU THINK WE ARE ALL STUPID? It is the cover-up that will take you down

@DeborahMeaden Leadership vs middle management.

And there it is. A Prime Minister who consults with his team ( which includes experts) versus a President who makes his mind up on his own… dangerous dangerous man.

@JohnSimpsonNews Fair enough. What would be your alternative solution to deal with murderous regimes who want to destroy us?

Over the years I’ve been in many towns and cities when they were being bombed — in a few cases (Baghdad, Belgrade etc) by my own country. No matter what the justification, most of the victims have been entirely innocent. I’ve come to loathe the very thought of aerial bombardment.

@MatthewMacnabb @consequence Unless they are Jewish, or from Northern Ireland, or England? Isn’t that the case? Kindness and understanding my arse.

@consequence This is the core ethos of being Irish. To be Irish is to have kindness and understanding for those less fortunate. It’s woven into us through our history of persecution at the hands of colonial powers.

Conan O'Brien says he has "incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country" after traveling to Ireland and seeing his great-grandfather lived. "I went back to Ireland and I [saw] a great genealogist who said, 'I found where your great-grandfather’s home was.' The home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived, near the Galbally Mountains. He said, 'I’ll go there and show it to you,' and I said, 'We’ll do it on camera.' "I was expecting to have these jokes loaded up; we had props and funny things we were going to do... But I got there, and I did not expect this because I'm not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve, but I got emotional. It was very powerful. "This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later. "What's amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. It takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where, often, people don't speak the language. They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation; it's a whole lifetime that you're feeding into this process. "I was just thinking about this guy, whom I'll never meet, who had to do that. I think I was overcome by the fact that there's a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People leave not because they think, 'Hey, I just want to go have fun in America.' They leave because they have to." (via Jimmy Kimmel Live)

@RoryStewartUK All simple cost/benefit analysis? What about morality and defence of the individual?

Analyse • costs, benefits, risks • compare Iranian capacity and threat vs Russia + Indo-Pacific • integrate law, norms and strategy • think about 2nd and 3rd order consequences for global trade and stability All suggest the answer was contain and disrupt not attack.

@SageDespatches Nicely put.

I think it's safe to say that approximately 97% of people in Northern Ireland have an opinion about the life of Gerry Adams. We live in a small country and Gerry has not exactly been low profile over the last half century. I'm allowing for the fact that 3% are babies or new arrivals to the country. I grew up in the same small city as Gerry so I'm not unaware of him and as with virtually everyone else, I have an opinion. I could state that opinion but would it actually change anyone else's opinion? Probably not. Will the verdict of the civil claim court case (starting tomorrow) change the opinion of anyone in this little country? Probably not. In general terms, people here fall into one of two camps: There are people who think the sun shines out of Gerry's arse. And there's everyone else. When the court case ends and a verdict is announced, virtually everyone here will still have the same opinion. I accepted this fact long ago and I didn't start blogging about terrorism, hoping to convert people or deprogramme them. I work on the basis that many people, especially those of us who were around when the Troubles were actually occurring, already know the truth about what was occurring and who was doing whatever. Me, stating in a blog that Martin McGuinness was authorising terrorist attacks whilst also being a senior member of Sinn Fein, isn't a startling revelation to people who lived through the Troubles and retained critical thinking skills. We don't need a court case to validate our opinions on McGuinness or anyone else. Ultimately, the only thing that really matters is that collectively, we all know who the bastards are, we know what they did and we won't be forgetting.

@Peston @GeorgeTrefgarne Why on earth shouldn’t he call Starmer out for his appalling and utterly incompetent leadership? Everyone else is. And Trump is completely correct.

It’s really quite shocking to watch President Trump denigrate Starmer for not letting US planes land at Chagos, and vilify him as “not Winston Churchill”. This was not in response to a question. It was something he wanted to get off his chest, attached to his extraordinary attack on the Spanish government. This represents a serious fracture in the tradition transatlantic alliance, as I said yesterday

@williamnhutton Even if you and Miliband were correct (which I doubt), not one of his proposals will make any difference to the climate at all. None. Zero. They will just bankrupt us. For no positive effect at all.

Rain again this morning and forecast all day. Time was when British weather changed - not continuous, never-ending rain. Our right wing media shows no interest in discussing or exploring ; it might prove Ed Miliband - an obsessed neo-Marxist the enemy of fossil fuels - is right.

@danbloom1 @HouseOfTraitors Firing McSweeney won’t suffice. The public don’t know who he is and it won’t work. Starmer has probably only one more incident from having to go, if this one doesn’t finish him off. Given the track record, it can’t be more than a few weeks away.

NEW: Mandelson crisis puts Starmer at his greatest peril Mood among MPs against Morgan McSweeney is volcanic. Even his close allies don't know if he can survive this One loyalist official: "I love Morgan, but Keir has to sack him and he should have sacked him a long time ago"

@rorysutherland @Quemerford @PMarlowe1939 That’s an ungenerous response Rory. The man has been unfailingly polite, pleasant and gives entirely honest responses. You respond by considering it may be deception. You did not need to do that. Anyone and everyone may be deceiving us, including you.

@Quemerford @PMarlowe1939 It may or may not be. I don't know.

About 12 years ago someone explained to me why Nigel Farage was “always” on the telly/radio. If you called up his people to see if he wanted to go on eg Newsnight, they would give you an answer quickly. Once booked he’d turn up on time, would be professional to work with, and would give you a decent quote you could use. Notice that there’s never any “Farage made a runner on the Today Programme cry” style stories even when they’re digging up his school days? In contrast, The Greens at the time were a nightmare. They’d take ages to get back to you, be late, some spoxx would be unpredictable etc. so when you wanted an additional view to ConLabLib, you’d always go for Farage. Because less pain. People like Kaur are just a pain to work with. They do stuff like send you emails on a Friday night complaining about your booking policy. I predict for his faults @KonstantinKisin sticks to his 30 seconds and says thanks when handed a coffee by junior production staff.

@gilescoren Virtue signalling is so boring.

This morning I cancelled our family holiday to America. I cannot in good conscience take my wife and children there and tell them they will be safe. The United States is no longer a place for decent people. thetimes.com/article/78f404…

@mattvanswol The Conservative Party in the UK has been virtually wiped out because of their refusal to stand up for actual Conservative principles and policies. Their supporters just gave up on them. Looks like the Republicans haven’t taken it as a lesson and will end up in the same place.

@michaelwhite What is untrue about that? It’s very clear that was their intention. Why on earth would any country otherwise allow uncontrolled immigration and refuse to remove illegal migrants, even those with multiple criminal convictions. What is your alternative explanation>

Oh Elona, behave

@Nigel_Farage He should take Northern Ireland and turn it into a US military base. Would solve all kinds of problems and give USA direct land access to the EU

We don’t always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly don’t. These tariffs will hurt us. If Greenland is vulnerable to malign influences, then have another look at Diego Garcia.