Andy Fletcher.

@policecommander Bullshit!!! You do arrest them. You inconvenience them. You inconvenience the parents. You bring back bindovers. (It's amazing how much people will moderate their behaviour when they know it'll cost them hundreds of £ if they don't. )

This is not a policing problem. It is a family problem. A community problem. A society problem. And we aren’t going to be able to arrest our way out of it.

@Keir_Starmer Is his other half spying for China? Has he enjoyed lavish Epstein hospitality? Is there a warrant out for his arrest? Why didn't you sack Nick Brown? As the UK news media have been prevented from reporting on the matter, tell us the result of Labours inquiry into Nick Brown?

Shameful. Nigel Farage should do the decent thing and sack him.

@lesley26macdona @UKDefJournal

@UKDefJournal Buying ships for Britain

Britain orders 13 new super stealth cruisers for Royal Navy ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-orders… via @ukdefjournal

@maurice_1960 @InspGadgetBlogs @lyeemoon Well, in the video she started with *Good afternoon* and continued with *At 6.50pm yesterday* so I'd think 12hrs+

@andy2186 @InspGadgetBlogs @lyeemoon How many hours after the incident

I’m sick & tired of scruffy police officers on the streets. Yes policing’s much more confrontational than in my day due to aloof & ignorant leadership, caused by politicians, but lack of headgear & variation of uniform is appalling & seriously reduces the authority of officers.

@iwasinnam @ThePosieParker

@ThePosieParker That is nothing compared to what they did to Lebanon. After they were kicked out of Jordan(!), they used Lebanon as a launchpad for terrorist attacks against Israel, eventually prompting Israel to invade Lebanon. Unfortunately Lebanon was (and is) too weak to kick them out

Why Kuwait kicked out the Palestinians.

@2092Ashton @PoliceInspForum @lyeemoon Genuine. youtu.be/6Or5hSbnzZw?si…

@andy2186 @PoliceInspForum @lyeemoon If this is genuine then it's appalling I cant see her insignia and it looks like she is naked under that blouson a sad reflection of Policing these days im glad I've retired I hope she is dealt with like a PC/Sgt or Insp would be. Shocking.

@rgaillimhe @super64isdown @lyeemoon As you might imagine she was getting pelters on some retired cop SM pages.

@super64isdown @andy2186 @lyeemoon Standards. I once told a very senior officer that they were one and therefore should look like one.

@eatmychuddies @afneil Among our European neighbours there is only Germany in a worse state than the UK in terms of readily deployable major warships.

@afneil My living room tonight - "It's a national disgrace": Andrew Neil quoting the opinion of a French TV station as evidence of the decline of the British navy. Apart from Trump calling it a "toy" did they offer any reason why we need to pay for a more powerful navy?

French TV tonight - "C'est une honte nationale": dépassée par la France, suppléée par l'Allemagne, qualifiée de "jouet" par Trump... Le déclin de la marine britannique embarrasse les Anglais

@NJ_Timothy @Mr_Andrew_Fox @threadreaderapp unroll please.

The UK Together rally in London today is being sold as a march of love, unity, and hope - against racism and the far-right. But a quick look at who’s backing it reveals a very different story. 🧵

@JonathanWiltsh7 @ZackPolanski @Paul_Hatchwell Why do you think you're in the *good* camp?

@ZackPolanski @Paul_Hatchwell They can't justify it. But they do it anyway. The tide's turning though. Good will prevail... I feel it!

How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…

@MartinSLewis Following the death of my mother and probate being granted, my sister & I opened an executors account at a branch of HSBC. For what reason would they then perform a hard credit search on each of us , given that we're not wanting any £ from them?

@afneil An embarrassment indeed. A pertinent question should be, not necessarily the reasons why, but how HMS Daring was ALLOWED to be effectively laid up for 8yrs. That is scandalous. All six of the T45 class took approximately seven years to build.

The current state of the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers — neither operational. 6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus). 7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational 5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?). Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged. Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy. Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.

@TheCanaryUK @JustBarold

This morning when activists went to Pearson Engineering to peacefully blockade the entrance, they were met with a heavy police presence. The police swiftly moved in with violence and a disregard for normal operational procedures. Today at a separate protest, outside the factory on Scotswood Road in Newcastle we caught up with a protester who was injured by the officers who attended the scene.

@history99917180 T-MAC

Drill bit - he was a small, boring tool. Thrush - you know the rest! Olympic torch - he never went out. Gurkha - never took any prisoners. Coleslaw - the bloke was a complete cabbage.

@Keir_Starmer "I refer the honourable lady to the answer I gave last week." You oily bastard.

Moments like this tells you about leadership. The Tories and Reform would have rushed us into the conflict in the Middle East without thinking through the consequences it would have for British people. My Labour government will always make decisions in the national interest.

@A_J_Snowden Jesus Christ! He's giving the same answers as he did last week!

So, bets on PMQs this week? Kemi: When did you find out Morgan McSweeneys phone had been stolen and what did you do to recover and secure the critical data on it? Starmer: We’ve announced a new breakfast club in Barnsley.

@AlistairHaimes @LoftusSteve Her attitude typifies the lacklustre attitude to delivering infrastructure seemingly prevalent in the UK in recent years. She's the same re Nuclear power; It'll take too long so let's not even bother. Defeatism writ large.

I mean increased supply is the way to get prices down, this is the first hour of the first day of economics. This might come as news to someone in the Boob Whisperer's party though, admittedly.

⚡️Starship is the most important machine on Earth because it is the only serious bridge between a trapped species and a spacefaring one. That is the real truth. Everything else is downstream of lift cost. Moon bases, Mars cities, orbital industry, space solar, off world mining, deep space telescopes, mass drivers, lunar factories, all of it stays trapped in PowerPoint until you can move huge amounts of mass off Earth cheaply, repeatedly, and at industrial cadence. Starship is the attempt to break that lock. If it works, the future stops being metaphor and starts becoming logistics. That is why people respond to it like a symbol. They can feel that it carries more than hardware. Modern civilization has become psychologically small. It worships management, caution, compliance, and local optimization. Starship says scale again. Build again. Risk again. Leave again. In a world trained to think inside ceilings, that feels almost religious. The deeper reason it matters is power. A civilization that stays bound to one planet stays bound to one set of bottlenecks. One gravity well. One biosphere. One grid. One political surface. One set of supply chains. One cluster of elites deciding what is possible. A civilization that can industrialize beyond Earth changes the structure of power itself. More energy. More room. More redundancy. More survival. More strategic depth. More future. That is why Starship is so much bigger than SpaceX. It is the opening bid for off world industry. Once heavy lift becomes cheap and routine, the moon becomes operational. Once the moon becomes operational, infrastructure begins. Once infrastructure begins, throughput replaces spectacle. Then the human story stops being purely terrestrial. The real view is brutal and simple. If Starship succeeds, the ceiling over the species cracks. If Starship fails, humanity remains psychologically and physically trapped longer than people understand. Bottom line: People love Starship because they can feel that it is carrying more than cargo. It is carrying the claim that humanity does not have to accept a smaller destiny.

@A_J_Snowden @WilloWispish