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@SarahjevsEvans Howard bach realising he needs to come to grips with south Wales valley accents pretty sharpish. Welcome home hardd 😘

Howard is home 💖

In 1946 a Hungarian visiting Britain made an observation. 🇬🇧 "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." He was right. But nobody told you why. It started in the factories of the Industrial Revolution. Same factory. Same start time. Same end time.

Britain invented the world's first traffic lights. 🚦 1868. Britain introduced the world's first driving licences. 1903. And in 1931, when seven thousand people a year were dying on British roads, a man called Herbert Morrison decided enough was enough. 🇬🇧 No driving test

@BBCBreakfast Lacklustre Cooper dribbling her way through the interview round this morning is a prime example of why the talentless, vacuous Labour Party and government have become a fringe party and a laughing stock

'We want to see Lebanon urgently included in as part of a ceasefire' Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper spoke to #BBCBreakfast after more than 100 Israeli air strikes killed 182 people and wounded 890 in Lebanon - according to the health ministry bbc.co.uk/news/live/clye…

@soniasodha Labour Party is now a fringe party. All by it's own making. Starmer et al and lacklustre, lazy personnel, some sailing very close to criminality, have ruined it and have shown they are unfit to govern. The Green islamofascist alliance is a clear and present danger not just wacky.

A bit depressing that the best pitch I can make for voting for one of the establishment parties (for me, Labour) is that the Greens and Reform are worse. But there we are. My column in today’s Times. 🔗 up next.

RT @ProudofusUK: In 1871 a man sat at a desk and wrote fifteen letters. ⚽🇬🇧 Nobody knew what those letters would become. His name was Cha…

@GroomB Fach or fawr?

Rhondda Valley, south Wales, 1957, photo by Philip Jones Griffiths.

@GBNEWS When schoolgirls need a rape alarm there is something very wrong with the environment they are living in. In this Scottish town it is believed that the girls may be stalked by hotel migrants. This is not a civilised society. It is like a script from a horror movie. The

There's a pub in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It's been open for over a thousand years. You can walk in tonight. The Porch House. Stow-on-the-Wold. The Cotswolds. As old as England itself. And when it opened... there was no united kingdom. No parliament. No Magna Carta. Vikings were still

Every country on Earth armed their police. Gave them military uniforms. Made them answer to the state. Except one. In 1829, Britain created the first police force in history that carried no weapons. Wore civilian clothes. And answered to the people, not the government. Before that, London had no police force at all. It was the largest city in the world. Over 1.5 million people. And the best they had was a handful of night watchmen who were famously old and frequently asleep. Then there were the thief-takers. Bounty hunters paid per conviction. Many of them were criminals themselves. The most notorious, Jonathan Wild, ran a criminal empire while claiming rewards for catching the very thieves he controlled. The Bow Street Runners were the closest thing London had to real law enforcement. Established in 1749 by the magistrate Henry Fielding. But there were never more than a few dozen of them. For a city of millions. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel proposed something no country had ever attempted. A civilian police force. Accountable to the public, not the state. Not soldiers. Unarmed. They wore dark blue tailcoats instead of military red. That was deliberate. The Metropolitan Police Act 1829 created the force. One thousand officers began their first patrols on 29 September 1829. People called them Bobbies. After Bobby Peel. The name stuck for 200 years. Two commissioners wrote the founding principles. Colonel Charles Rowan, a Waterloo veteran. And Richard Mayne, a barrister. Nine principles. The most radical idea in the history of policing. Principle Seven: "The police are the public and the public are the police. The police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen." Not above you. Not against you. One of you. No other country on Earth had ever said that. In France, the Gendarmerie nationale had existed since 1791. Military police. Armed. Uniformed as soldiers. Serving the government, not the people. Most of the world copied France. Colonial police forces across every empire were built on the same model. Britain chose consent. For nearly 200 years, British police officers carried no firearms. Just a wooden truncheon, a rattle, and the trust of the people they served. That model spread to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and became the foundation of democratic policing worldwide. Most people in this country have absolutely no idea how rare that is. Or that it started here. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

@BBCr4today @hzeffman Even more than that, Starmer's relationship with the electorate has deteriorated completely. All his running off to the Middle East for photo opps won't save him or his future reputation

"Over the six weeks or so of this conflict... Keir Starmer's personal relationship with Donald Trump has deteriorated significantly." Chief Political Correspondent @hzeffman shares analysis of the state of the UK's relationship with the US and countries in the Gulf.

🇬🇧 Magna Carta had a twin. It was law for 754 years. You've never heard of it. After 1066, the Normans claimed the forests of England. Not just the trees... Villages, farmland, rivers. One third of the country. Land ordinary people had farmed for centuries. Taken. Hunt a

@BBCBreakfast And if we needed a reminder of the abysmal calibre of Labour government personnel.....up pops Sarah Jones. Hopeless, useless and pathetic like most of them.

'Most of us woke up this morning with a real sense of relief to see that ceasefire announced' Government minister Sarah Jones spoke to #BBCBreakfast after the US and Iran agreed a two week ceasefire, if shipping is allowed to move through the Strait of Hormuz bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yw…

@BBCBreakfast Useless man Starmer will turn up to the opening of a set of curtains if he thinks it'll help him. The man is a complete waste of space and no credit whatsoever to our country.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed a two week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran. Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman told #BBCBreakfast the PM is travelling to the Middle East to meet leaders of Gulf countries bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yw…

RT @tomhfh: Find him. Prosecute him. Make an example of him. (This is obviously worse than lucy connolly).

A chocolate maker bought 120 acres of Birmingham slums. 🍫 His name was George Cadbury. He didn’t build a factory. He built a world. Every house had a garden. By law. Every single one. 🌿 Schools. Parks. Swimming pools. Cricket pitches. Pensions. Education during working

@BBCr4today 🎯 Mr Streeting 👏👏👏👏

"Should he be headlining Wireless Festival? Absolutely not." Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemns Festival Republic for standing by its decision to have Kanye West perform, but refuses to comment on whether the rapper should be let into the country.

Last week, my post about Boomer life drew some ire from young people who feel we "destroyed the world and their future." (But lots of fellow Boomers liked it!) So for the young people. Here's a peek at life before the late 70s. The life you DON'T have because of us. 🔹Women

They didn't wait for the government. They didn't wait for anyone. 🍺🇬🇧 Centuries before the NHS, ordinary British working people built their own system. In secret. In pubs. Every week they pooled their pennies. If you fell ill, they paid your rent. 🏠 If you died, they buried

@soniasodha No don't be ridiculous It's time to stop paying ever increasing amounts in a variety of state benefits to those who won't work and yet have endless children and benefit from education, healthcare and housing paid for by those who work and pay tax. Including tax paying pensioners.

It's time to retire the triple lock. It's unfair to expect a generation who face much higher housing & education costs than their grandparents to indefinitely fund the state pension to outpace wage growth. comment.press/triple-lock