Christopher Day

@jofus02 @LozzaFox 'I'm not a racist or a homophobe, I have black and gay friends!' is the oldest trope in the book...

@LozzaFox Didn't you literally use the word 'f*ggot' last night you cretin

Last night I went out to dinner with my wife and some friends. Some of whom happened to be black and some of whom happened to be gay - not that that should make any difference to anything in in Britain in 2026 - where everyone is so incredibly kind and everyone is so included and welcome. When we arrived at the restaurant I could tell immediately that the manager recognised me - and he wasn’t a fan. In these rare circumstances I tend to overcompensate and be extra polite and courteous to win people round, but nothing worked with this bloke. He was rude to the point of open hostility. Wanting to enjoy the evening - which we did enormously - I just tried to ignore him. As the meal finished and we were leaving, I asked for the gentleman’s name so I could write to the management of the restaurant with my thoughts about the service - or lack therof - He refused to give me his name and proceeded to tell me that he didn’t need to be polite to racists and a homophobes - even after I politely reminded him of the fact that i was sat at a table well stocked with homosexuals and black people. So instead I took a photo of him and said if he refused to give me his name then the photo would help identify him in my correspondence. The minute I did this his entire demeanour changed and he started to realise that there were going to be potential consequences for being so rude and unprofessional. He began to apologise profusely and - long story short - we ended up sat together at the bar with him telling me he was sorry for jumping to conclusions and that he had had a horrible day he had and before I left we gave each other a hug. He even texted when he finished his shift to apologise again. New friend made. So it’s all good! But it reminded me what irritates me about the media. This man had read the one sided dross that the dying media put out and despite the fact that I was sat having a laugh with a very “diverse” table of friends, he refused to let go of his own bigotry and prejudice, to the point where he was happy to potentially jeopardise his job over it. I get that we live in a world where the media likes to make monsters of certain people, and I don’t expect everyone to agree with what I say. I get recognised quite often and commentary goes with the territory, people express strong views - both positive and negative - about what I think, which is great. You may have noticed, i’m very pro free speech and people expressing different views! The more the merrier! I am still however a human being, with feelings and emotions, and I don’t think it’s too much to ask to be able to go out to a restaurant to eat with my wife and friends without a waiter trying to do everything he can to ruin our evening. We don’t often go out to restaurants we don’t know well for just this reason and after last night, it will be a while before I do again. So might you do yourselves a favour dying media? Try to be at least balanced when you write about people. You would have saved this poor chap and myself an unnecessary and unpleasant experience. You are already on your last legs. Perhaps you should ask yourselves why your audience is getting smaller and smaller with every passing day? Many thanks. Happy Sunday. 🙏

@indieHackney The problem appears to be lots of people in cars, in a city that has excellent public transport and an improving cycling network. Imagine if even half of them had decided to cycle or get the bus or tube instead.

10 mins ago. View from the 56 in Hackney.

@adjenkins @anon_opin Yes, I'm Christopher and in all my 54 years no-one has ever called me that. I've only ever been abbreviated to Chris - apart from one family friend who called me Christy when I was little.

@anon_opin Honestly, I've never heard that and I know at least four Christopher's.

People named Christopher who choose to go by 'Topher' can fuck right off. Pretentious twats.

@TerTranslator @GBNEWS Farage literally hawks himself for cash on video messaging sites!

@GBNEWS . - "Green parteh? All SHE wants to do is tek pictures of 'erself!" - This from some mad old far right cunt cheering Farage the frog-faced fash. Fact: If there's a flash of lightning, Farage flashes his rotten teeth and gives a thumbs up. NOBODY is a bigger media whore .

‘Farage is the only man who can save us.’ Catering business owner Lorraine Campbell believes the Labour Government should ‘bow out gracefully’, and says they are punishing people for working hard. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

@AshbyDebee @bringbackpage3 Hi Debee, do you know what happened to Tracy Neve? She used to post on here quite a lot but hasn't posted anything for ages.

@bringbackpage3 She was my favourite x

'Daily Page 3' The stunning Sian Adey-Jones Image the late great Beverley Goodway #BBP3 #Bringbacktheboobs

@RichardWellings You're saying it's another part of the sinister government plot to get people out of cars and onto bicycles? Potholes can damage cars, but they can seriously injure or even kill people on bikes. You've not thought this through, have you?

The neglect of basic road maintenance is a deliberate policy to "nudge" people out of their cars and restrict the public's mobility. Potholes slow down journeys and make driving more stressful, dangerous and expensive.

@TheMrLoophole @GBNEWS @BBCNews @JeremyVineOn5 @TalkTV @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer So you don't count speeding as an actual crime? And you're supposed to be a lawyer?

Wouldn’t it be far more noble to ramp up the war on crime? ⁦@GBNEWS⁩ ⁦@BBCNews⁩ ⁦@JeremyVineOn5⁩ ⁦@TalkTV⁩ ⁦@Nigel_Farage⁩ @Keir_Starmer mol.im/a/15653745

@toryboypierce @reformparty_uk Right. How much will that cost, and where will they make up the lost money from?

At last @reformparty_uk will axe VAT on fuel which Tories should have done in 1st Budget after Brexit

@CharlotteCGill Sure, the show that regularly features those well-known left-wingers Ann Widdecombe, Mike Parry and Carole Malone...

The Jeremy Vine Show is turning into Novara Media

@dave43law @toryboypierce @Nigel_Farage @YouGov @reformparty_uk Yes, this one, the Poll of Polls, shows support for Reform steadily declining over the last few months from a high of 31% down to 26% now: politico.eu/europe-poll-of…

@toryboypierce @Nigel_Farage @YouGov @reformparty_uk It's actually bull - promoted by a one dimensional media BUT no focus on the 6 polls they fell in last week nor the falls in Scotland and Wales

Big win for @Nigel_Farage after @yougov agree to change its poll results after criticism from @reformparty_uk they underplayed party’s popularity

@Sathnam He also gave a huge amount to charity and deserving individuals but never publicised it, showing that he wasn't after praise but just wanted to do the right thing. Just an all round good guy.

One of the things that made George Michael unusual as a popstar was his activism. He was pathologically incapable of keeping his mouth shut, whether it was speaking out about apartheid, AIDS, Cool Britannia, or the Iraq War, even if it attracted mockery and abuse. He once said that his political views made him "look like somebody who’s been let out of an asylum. It’s true. Everyone around me thinks I’m my own worst enemy." But you know what, he was eerily right, a lot of the time. My new book, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: the Meaning of George Michael is published in the summer and tickets are now available for launch events @intelligencesquared @unionchapeluk and @hayfestival. sathnam.com #GeorgeMichael #Wham #TTMSSL

@SimonFawthrop_1 @CharlotteCGill @Councillorsuzie How many bike parking spaces can you get into one car parking space?

@CharlotteCGill This includes planning permissions where cycle parking is included as a London Plan requirement. Developers hate this because it ends up as wasted space, which could be used to increase car parking spaces. @Councillorsuzie

The Deliveroo riders effect

@salowa87 @PolitlcsUK Fine, how would you want the external costs of motoring to be paid for? Road traffic collisions alone cost the economy at least £36 billion a year.

@PolitlcsUK Just remove the damn tax. There are three layers of tax on fuel, one is a tax on a tax. How many other countries do that? Just us clowns by the looks of it.

🚨 NEW: The Petrol Retailers Association has cancelled a meeting with Rachel Reeves over "inflammatory language" by the Government which was leading to "incidents of retail staff being abused"

@CharlotteCGill Not really, only a small percentage of total journeys:

@ClarkeMicah It's quite possible to oppose the death penalty and also not want murderers to get killed by other inmates in prison. That's more an argument about chronic underfunding and mismanagement of our prisons.

'To liberals, I am cruel and barbaric for even thinking that the death penalty may - rarely - be justified. Yet who is barbaric now? Huntley’s recent death was neither just nor civilised nor lawful. Yet it was brought about by the policies of smug liberal reformers who think they are nice.' mol.im/a/15645947 via @DailyMail`,

@FlairTwenty @ClarkeMicah Did they? I oppose the death penalty and I didn't want him killed. I wanted him to have as long and as miserable a life as possible.

@ClarkeMicah And a great proportion of those who think the death penalty is barbaric responded with absolute glee to Huntley’s killing.

@salowa87 @gmaximumwell @Sargon_of_Akkad 'Babies'... The vast majority of abortions occur before 12 weeks, when the foetus (not baby) is just a tiny bundle of cells.

@gmaximumwell @Sargon_of_Akkad So the 73 million babies that were aborted globally last year were all because women wanted a second chance at their lives?

You support abortion. 🤷‍♂️

@Lord_Talbot64 @CrumbledBovril Yes, right wing racists don't like him because he's brown, they regularly send him death threats, which is why he needs to travel in a bulletproof SUV. You idiot.

@CrumbledBovril It is almost as if people don't like him for some reason.

If that is true why does Khan travel round London in a Range Rover?

@AnnabelDenham1 You do realise that motoring has huge external costs which have to be paid for somehow? Road traffic collisions alone cost the economy £36 billion a year. Not to mention air pollution, road wear, congestion, global warming...

The real ‘price-gouger’ is the government. Over half of what we pay at the pump is tax, and Labour have decided even that isn’t enough.

@markchristie @hiltonholloway What an utter load of bollocks. You seem to have completely ignored a little thing called physics - kinetic energy = 1/2MV2. The faster you're going the less time you have to react to something unexpected and the more damage you'll do to someone (and yourself) if you crash.

@hiltonholloway Facts? Nah mate. This is road safety in the uk. We don’t even let facts intrude into speed limit setting: mmcmusings.com/2024/02/23/get…

Simply publish the accident reports for those killed by a vehicle. SUVs may in theory be worse. But are they actually killing people? Is it low-down cars with a poor view? Or vans? Facts please.