Chris

@BBCkatyaadler there's lies & lies - “Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having economic purpose, but which will eventually & irreversibly lead to federation"

🚨Two lefties caught on camera illegally ripping down Reform Party posters in the North West. They’re breaking the law while pretending to be the good guys.

@Furious_red_ clumsy

One word for Dalot.

@AidanWalshMUFC great contributions and seems to have the knack of finding the right positions to score - and the trio of him, Sesko and Mbeumo fits really well together

Honest opinion on Cunha's first season at OT?

@abelmike @LewisJonathanE @yudapearl True

When a Jewish actress is portrayed with devil horns and a pitchfork, and the demand is that she be removed from public life, we are no longer in the realm of “criticism of Israel.” This is the ancient machinery of antisemitic propaganda in modern activist costume: demonise the Jew, brand her morally repugnant, then insist she must be silenced. History has seen this script so many times before. The costumes change. The target does not.

Aberdeen (Scotland) "pro-Palestinian" activists are demanding a Jewish actress - who they portray as the devil - not be allowed to perform in a local theater production This is gutter-level stuff

@BanGaoRen Oh dear, did he have some hard questions? Shame.

Genuinely think the Green Party should write a formal complaint to Sky News about Trevor Philip's interview of Zack Polanski today. Not even the pretence of reporting and good faith questioning.

@UtdMaI very short memories - perhaps a clip or two of Onana should bring back reality

Nobody should even OPEN their mouth about Senne Lammens making a mistake. The same guy that’s been saving this team week in, week out? Carrying us on his back? One error and suddenly everyone’s a critic… football fans are actually shameless

@UnitedUpdates Absol yes - 12mth ext at least. The replies knocking his 'style' and achievement are laughable - they've beaten all the top teams and turned it around big 'style' (Amorim had a 'style'!). 2 indiv mistakes cost Utd - 1 by a player just coming on, the other a gk error - they happen

Debate: After today's win vs Liverpool, do you think Michael Carrick should be given the permanent job?

@TDVL78 @UnitedUpdates ffs

@UnitedUpdates Not being able to keep at 2-0 advantage at home says a lot

@EzzyMUFC Amad had only just that minute come on - prob still 'adjusting' to the game. Interesting though, was Carrick's reaction/approach to Amad at the end of the game - speaks volumes for him and his man-management I suspect Amad will be ok whilst Carrick's in charge

Amad going straight to apologise to the fans after that error, you can tell that goal really hurt him💔

@SirSimonClarke Or possibly just any body who appears to support/sympathise with illegal immigration and rabidly protesting Palestine action groups? How big's your back garden - just asking?

We need to stop illegal immigration, but this is abhorrent from Reform. Zia is proposing the siting of detention centres expressly as a form of political punishment for people and places that don’t vote Reform - not just Green, but presumably Conservative, Liberal and Labour too. (And what about Reform voters in those constituencies?) It would almost certainly be deemed an abuse of ministerial power for political purposes, and as such would likely be stuck down in court before ever being implemented, wasting millions for the taxpayer without detaining anyone. If it were to go ahead, it would still represent an appalling waste of public money as these sites might well not be in any way suitable for the proposed centres, or near the other infrastructure required. What’s worse is that he is doing all this to provoke outrage and draw attention to Reform a few days out from the local elections. Reform know what they are doing. But this goes beyond a pre-election stunt. It’s declared as a major policy commitment, and should be treated as such. We need a proper plan to leave the ECHR and restore safe border controls, not gimmicks that wouldn’t survive first contact with reality.

As usual at this time of year we have people on worried about having a bumblebee ‘hive’ in their garden. ‘Are they dangerous?’ ‘Should I have them removed?’ ‘Will they be there forever?’ Here’s a quick #bumblebee #lifecycle thread to explain. Please #retweet for the #bees. 1/14

@AnnemarieDray likewise - best coaching combination and man-management since Fergie - Carrick congratulating Mainoo but also 'reassuring' Diallo after the game was excellent stuff

I’ll be very happy personally if Michael Carrick is in charge of Manchester United next season. When I watch them I feel like I’m watching the team I grew up watching. You can’t get that from just any manager.

@PaulEmbery Years of being EU puppets - having their strings pulled and told what, when and how to do things - just follow the rules/orders - leaves us with political pygmies Castle, Benn, Shore, Smith, Jenkins, Wilson, Brown, Thatcher, Whitelaw, Mowlam, Grimond - must be 'spinning' up above

Nobody with an interest in British politics could fail to notice the decline in the calibre of our MPs. Just compare the candidates in Labour’s 1976 leadership election with those who are likely to be on the ballot paper next time. My latest piece (£). ⬇️ paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…

BREAKING: Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s postal ballot was examined in an explosive 2004 vote rigging trial. 😳 The judge found “widespread fraud” in two Birmingham wards. Her special adviser threatened injunctions and lawsuits last night to kill this story. The Dispatch ran the story anyway. Brilliant investigative journalism from @brumdispatch. 💪🏼 👇🏻

It's not every day you get threated with lawsuits by a Home Office employee. But @ShabanaMahmood's special advisor really didn't want us to publish this story linking her to an explosive vote-rigging trial. birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-shab…

@FUDdaily brilliantly argued and correct - please add Morris dancing, folk music, May Queen celebrations, Whit walks, pub culture, love of the countryside. British culture also includes so many Welsh, Scottish customs. It's always been culture with a small 'c'

Ok I'll bite. British culture is diverse. But you know it when you see it. It's pub culture. It's Wimbledon. It's airshows and steam rallies on a Summer day's. It's boating on the Thames. It's fish and chips on the harbour. It's eighties nights and rock clubs. It's garden fetes and village galas. It's bingo halls and snooker clubs. It's 40's revival weekends. It may be subjective but it's all around you if you open your eyes. It struck me recently that a lot of British culture is based around nostalgia, but it's more than that. We come together to enjoy our common heritage, marvel at our accomplishments and remember our fallen. I tend not to see minorities at airshows, battle reenactments and steam rallies because minorities aren't meaningfully part of that story. I see sons with elderly fathers, and fathers with young sons, passing on knowledge about our country. But I'm always surprised to see a south Asian or an African. They're just not interested. But then I wouldn't expect to see minorities at such events because they're not exposed to it. Our schools would rather teach black history than English history. It teaches our young people that our history is something to be ashamed of - and something to be contextualised, scorned and dismantled. But then so many minorities have no interest in integrating at all. I walk through Bradford and see women in burkas and men in pyjamas who can barely speak English and prefer not to - who go to places of worship to hear sermons in another language. They're nothing to do with me. Pakistanis have been on Bradford for more than fifty years, and whatever assimilation process that might have occurred appears to be in reverse. They don't dress like us, don't speak like us, don't interact with us and don't participate. They don't participate in our local politics. They colonise it. They will turn out in their hundreds in solidarity with Palestinians, and bring their tribal bickering over Kashmir to our streets. Contrast that with Eastern Europeans who have effortlessly integrated, and are now part of us. Part of our social fabric. They come to our rock clubs and raves, they drink in our pubs, they assimilate into our politics. They're our friends and family now. They're compatible because their places of origin share similar foundational values. Democracies striving for equality. But what has Pakistani/African/Arab culture contributed to British life? Honour killings, acid attacks, grooming gangs, deep rooted misogyny, suicide bombs, cousin marrying, FGM, forced marriage etc. And for what? They weren't needed or wanted. And now we have parallel cultures that don't interact, and lawless cities that no longer look or feel British in any meaningful sense. Though it's not entirely the fault of minority groups that they don't integrate. It's a two way thing and it's human nature to seek out the familiar. Most of us don't really want anything to do with your culture and we'd prefer it if y'all weren't here - even if we keep that sentiment to ourselves. It's not a racial thing. It's not personal. Xenophobia = evolutionary instinct + experience. Y'all just don't fit here, spend most of the time denigrating and complaining, and seem intent on turning our country into the sort of corrupt basketcase slums you hail from. So you're not really welcome. It might be different if we could see any kind of effort to integrate and if we felt like you appreciated being British as much as we do, but when we see Muslims taking to the streets to stand with Hamas and call for Jihad, how can we not conclude we have an enemy in our midst? Ultimately a functioning country is about kinship. The more alien cultures we import, the more diluted our commonality - and the more fragmented we become, to the point where we're just a rabble of competing tribes, where there's no sense of obligation to each other. A failed state basically. Those who won't integrate need to be gone.

Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case. I think it’s strongly in the public interest, so here it is. birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-shab…

@SarahWoods66 wow - worth waiting for!

This afternoon Chris and I met this legend, Sir Anthony Hopkins, on location for his latest film ‘A Visit to Grandpa’s.’ It’s based on a Dylan Thomas short story and part of it was filmed on the railway. He was a true gentleman.

@PoliticsJOE_UK @SorchaEastwood love this woman - tells it like it is

“Labour had so much goodwill behind them “And literally from the get go, it has been nothing short of a sh*t show.” MP @SorchaEastwood lambasts Keir Starmer’s premiership.

@BennettArron 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nearly had me thinking you were 10 years out of date - but subtlety is all

They are saying that people who vote for The Green Party are not intelligent. That is unfair and not true. They are clever and have every right to vote for the Greens. And you should vote for them too. So remember, vote Green at these coming elections on Friday May 8th.