Paul Dobson

Strava trips sink ships bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@memechaotic Who the hell is filming then?

Bro just wants peace 😭

@nickfshort Check out a jazz club. Grab a beer up by the big metronome.

#Prague. I am in you. Nice sunny day too. Now what shall I do?

@nickfshort Na zdraví!

When in Bohemia ... #Staropramen

@fesshole More effluent than fluent

I told my partner I was fluent in French on our first date. Five years later, we're moving to Lyon for his job. I've spent £2,000 on intensive tutoring in the last three weeks. I'm currently at 'The cat is under the table' level. I am terrified.

How on earth do the BBC know the scores already?! Rugby is fixed and this is the proof.

@Shazza827 You had me until "Vote Reform". Most of these posts are highlighting how wrong this is. What should be a non-party issue of basic rights on the country. Making it party political diminishes that.

This is Richard Quigley. He is my MP. He voted to take away my rights to a jury trial. Make sure that he is never again voted in as MP for Isle of Wight West. Vote Reform and toss this man out.

@afneil But...but growth is their number one priority. Along with a dozen more things at least, I know. But it's definitely one of their many number one priorities. And if they fail, they at least have some other number one priorities to succeed at. Or not.

Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project: Growth in November 2025: 0.2% Growth in December 2025: 0.1% Growth in January 2026: 0.0%

@polcurrency Why don't we have a military? In large part because of your decisions, @George_Osborne.

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@timothy_stanley @JohnRentoul I don't disagree, but it's only because it's a barren land of policy, achievement and events. I work in education and no one ever talks about it.

@JohnRentoul Maths til 18.

Two years on and it is still not obvious for what Rishi Sunak will be remembered

@thesundaysport @NeilDotObrien But you can in a chamber pot

@NeilDotObrien I'm not that well up on Erskine May but I bet you wouldn't be able to call him a policy turd in the chamber

Terrible policy turd even Labour ministers hate? But wait, there's MORE It will be shaped by a fake managed democracy process You are really spoiling us!

@henrywinter Shame he didn't behave as admirably off the pitch.

“I will not be beaten” has always been Kyle Walker’s mantra, a statement of intent, defiance and steel forged in Sheffield. But he was never going to beat Father Time. At 35, Walker’s England race is run. It has been for a year. But what a race, what a long run, what a contribution he's made in 96 appearances over 14 years. Walker started the two Euro finals and took the armband when Harry Kane was withdrawn in the 2024 final. Even when doubts grew over his pace and place, Walker told himself, “I will not be beaten”. That’s his mindset. He grew up on a challenging estate in Sheffield, needing his wits about him, and occasionally his turn of speed. But he wouldn’t be beaten by circumstance. Walker was never the most skilful of right-backs but he always had this prodigious pace and commitment. He wouldn’t be beaten. Kylian Mbappe tried to take Walker on in the 2022 World Cup quarter-final, and got away from the defender only once. Further back, Walker endured a troubled game against Spain in Alicante in 2015 and, a year later, Ragnar Sigurdsson got the better of him for Iceland’s first goal at Euro 2016 in Nice. But Walker’s record demands and commands huge respect. He played in five tournaments, including one World Cup semi-final as well as those two Euro finals. So committed to the England cause, Walker willingly played everywhere across the back, right wing-back as well as full-back, right centre-back in a three, even left-back. He finished his England career wearing the armband in the friendly defeat to Senegal on June 10, 2025, again after Kane was withdrawn. Walker's announcement is hardly a shock. He wasn’t in contention for the World Cup, not with Reece James first choice, and other contenders including Tino Livramento, Djed Spence and Trent Alexander-Arnold. Two of Ezri Konsa’s 17 caps have come at right-back. The FA has promised to make one of their post-World Cup games a celebration of Walker’s huge contribution to his country. Comparing generations and eras is difficult but Walker will certainly go down as one of England’s greatest right-backs along with Jimmy Armfield, George Cohen, Phil Neal and Gary Neville. Walker deserves England's gratitude for his performances. On so many occasions, Walker simply would not be beaten. #ENG

So basically, companies pay Youtube to show ads and we pay Youtube to not show ads

When Starmer said he would stop the boats I didn't think he meant our navy.

@Renaus_3rd @JournoStephen @BenGunnEx We would be the worse for placing revenge above all in our justice system. We must hold higher values than the lowest and scummiest in our society.

@JournoStephen @BenGunnEx If he'd murdered my daughter, I'd want him to die alone in absolute agony. And it would be NOTHING compared to the pain of losing a child. State sadism? Ffs.

And what crime did his mother commit?

@Adobe Welcome to the list of companies I now avoid because @ITV are ruining @SixNationsRugby at @ITVRugby and interrupting games. Did @WPP put you up to this?

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@TheSimonEvans He's pretty close to the bottom of people I'll mourn.

@profoundluck Perfectly reasonable view. As long as you take no pleasure or satisfaction on reading that Huntley was killed by a murderer in jail.

Few would disagree with this sentiment. It is as others have said, both a satisfying conclusion and also a damning indictment of the British state, that we quietly, grimly nod when other prisoners do what we lack the resolve to do in the name of the Crown. Some times the “judicious fudge” has evolved to be the best solution to intractable problems and competing moral claims. But I would rather we condemned individuals like this to hang rather than expose them to rough justice and hope nature takes its course.

Radio 4 has changed a bit.