Derek Murray 🇦🇺🇬🇧

@KarlBrophy You mean this Australian born and bred Wallaby Irish rugby player? I think we’re just confirming the problem.

@dmurray59 He’s the son of an Irish international, Derek. Cheer up.

Chilli Tonelli-Smith, the son of former Irish fly half Brian Smith, seems like a talent. Hope the IRFU have him tapped up. Would be great to have a 10 called Chilli.

@KarlBrophy @SunnyDoha I specifically meant the Dolphins

@dmurray59 @SunnyDoha It could be worse. He might have declared do England or Scotland. League is a huge step up on that.

@SunnyDoha @KarlBrophy So we’ll never hear of him again as he disappears into that black hole of underperformance

@KarlBrophy He’s already signed up by the Dolphins league team

@BBCWorld Well, he would, wouldn’t he. Same old story. Revolutionary discovers he likes the power and money that leadership brings, and decides to reneg on any plans he might have had to help his country and his countrymen. Rinse and repeat. Sadly, Africa doesn’t change.

Burkina Faso must 'forget' about democracy, military leader says bbc.in/41bOuGU

@HistoryBoomer On Brie, absolutely.

Do you eat the rind on brie, or are you a barbarian?

@ret_ward Bob, that sounds like your version of honesty. Which isn’t honesty at all. Drilling North Sea oil is the definition of accepting reality. We want the planet to exist but we can’t run a country without a secure source of energy. And renewables aren’t yet that secure source.

Let’s be completely honest. Those calling for more drilling in the North Sea do not accept climate science and the need to reach net zero. They do not accept reality.

@spencertbarber Knowing that you hate playing into generational stereotypes and then doing exactly that. Less time spent shouting at people deemed not like ourselves (age, colour, religion etc) and more time spent working and solving would be helpful.

I hate to play into generational stereotypes, but they can feel very real sometimes. I was traveling with my family last night, and we were in the hotel hot tub with two baby boomer couples. They were going off about how much golf they’re playing. The conversation shifted to the war, and first they complained about Trump’s speech interrupting their shows, then about how the war is hurting their retirement accounts. It was amazing to me that two couples who probably don’t have more than 15 years left didn’t say one thing about their posterity for a whole hour, but talked about golf, TV, and stock prices. I’m a millennial, but I have daily conversations with multiple people from Gen Z, and the attitude feels completely different. Gen Z seems optimistic but realistic. They know the fate of the future is in their hands, and they’re focused on making sure things are better for their future kids. I honestly don’t know what happened to the baby boomers. I know many are great, but many can also be intolerable.

@Sinfulskin2 Short answer, yep. You’re a prick

I need advice. My wife is really good friends with a girl from work and come to find out she is MAGA. They’ve been hanging out a bit which is fine, but now I'm being asked to go out on double-dates with her hubs and I'm not hanging out with fucking MAGA. Am I being unreasonable?

@Johnnypapa64 @JamieMagill5 I know nothing about soccer. Is Bale really that good? Wow

The Four Four Two Top 25 British Players of All Time (Not sure I agree with all of this no Archie Gemmill? No Peter Shilton?)

@harrisondale88 How bloody good was that try? Quick tap, 20m pass on the money, flat 30m cross field kick, caught at full stretch. They played some extraordinary rugby in that game

So Fainga’anuku can play centre, wing, 8, and now he can cross field kick 🤯 #CRUvDRU

@Moon_River05 Perhaps not the only one, but a tiny minority

Okay what am I missing here. Billions has just been spent on astronauts going to the moon.....again. Am I the only one that thinks its a collossal waste of money?

@RupertLowe10 This message resonates. Anybody not completely self-absorbed can see that this generation has been dealt a shit hand and we all need to chip in to help. Build more houses. Kill the triple lock. Lower business costs and admin. Go for growth. The jobs will come.

It wasn’t that long ago millions of young people had some of the best months of their lives stolen from them all to unsuccessfully avoid what was a nasty cold for the overwhelming majority. To suggest youngsters have not sacrificed anything in recent years is offensive guff.

@rugbyexpansion I think you’re right, but France has been making semis and finals since the inception of the tournament and seems no closer to winning one. It’s no easy feat to win 6/7 matches against top level opposition. You need skill and a shitload of luck

It should come as no surprise when (not if) Argentina win a World Cup. Having made 3 semi finals in the last 5 tournaments they just need to overcome the final hurdle.

@ReemAmirIbrahim The triple lock is dead. We need to invest in the young and everybody needs to ante up.

If you want to keep the pension triple lock, you want higher taxes. You can’t have one without the other.

@ArchRose90 Does anybody believe this zealot came to that decision on his own? Whilst you’re actually listening to common sense Ed, where are the nuclear plants please?

Net Zero Eco-fanatic Ed Milliband has finally woken up! Ed Miliband is expected to give the green light to Jackdaw drilling, first major North Sea gasfield project in decade. Reality and common sense has won. Another U-turn for a failing government.

@isnit0 Joe, are you stupid enough to equate £2000 1970 to the same amount in 2026? It seems you are.

For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.

@linmeitalks Explain then how my child, raised in the west, by parents from the west, manages to be a polite and decent individual.

Their parents lost their ability to discipline like the older Caribbean generation. Western culture told them to soft parent and that doesn’t work clearly. This is a western cultural issue and not about race.

@dave43law As a recipient, I completely agree.

The time has come for 'state pension' to be means tested Removal of those 3 million from the equation at the very least would free £36billion to fund others

@IainDale Yep. I suspect a large majority of recipients agree too. I do. Have the courage to tell people what the problem is and they’ll understand why triple lock was a bad policy and needs to go

One day, a politician will have the bollocks to say in public what they're quite happy to say when the microphone is off, and that is this. The Triple lock is unaffordable and must go. We all know it. And I say that as someone who in four years would benefit from it.