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@John2Win Are you aware that millions of people are shocked and furious about Labour’s failure to hold a grooming gangs enquiry and, further, that this failure is seen as deliberate because you prioritise Moslem votes above the lives of white girls who have suffered unconscionable abuse?

📣 I’ve been selected to ask Keir Starmer a question at PMQs tomorrow! What should I ask him?

@Marcelo38033715 @BLackgold_5 SR-71 isn’t there

@BLackgold_5 Yes! The faster aircraft is the SR-71 Blackbird

Can you find faster aircraft in this image?

@Matt_Pinner Snickers

If you could name the first city on Mars, what would you name it?

@tglass @TGrammie2 Pesticides and the demise of wilderness to blame… and it goes up the food chain from insects to birds to felines to you-name-it… the annoying little windscreen stainers are the basis for all wild feasting…

@TGrammie2 I am still trying to figure out why I no longer have to clean squashed bugs off of my windshield. Where did they go?

My husband would like to know if any of you remember white dog poop from the 70's. If so, why isn't there white dog poop now?

@TGrammie2 Yes…. its disappearance suggests that the poor mutts were eating weirdly chemicalised dog food? [I can hardly believe Fate has actually served me an opportunity to share that bizarre thought.]

@Matt_Pinner Lips Inc.

What would be the perfect group name for these ladies?

@Rainmaker1973 Absolutely brilliant, I’m sure Jacques is smiling down beneficently, but it did call to mind Truly Scrumptious’ turn as a wind-up doll performing in Vulgaria… (or is that just me?)

The Song is considered to be one of the most difficult arias ever written for a soprano. And yet she makes it look so easy, and with such power. And she was only 17 years old when she performed it.

@onlyyou_5510 127

Brain test 98% failed

@realzoestrimpel Aside from his transparent and hysterical antisemitism, it has to be said that Collings is a truly talentless artist.

Update on David Collings exhibit at Margate’s Joseph Wales gallery. Kent police sergeant just called. He told me: no action to be taken. The pictures (a few below) are in his view ‘criticism of the Israeli state’. He said ‘because some Israelis happen to be Jews it doesn’t mean it’s antisemitic’. He said: ‘you’re obviously very passionate’. (Thereby dismissing my complaint). I tried to tell him that he was perhaps not best judged to evaluate antisemitic content if his view was that this was not ‘Nazi imagery’ but ‘criticism of the Israeli state’ and could he possibly send someone who knew more about this stuff. ‘No police officer is an expert in racism’, he told me, oddly. I gave him some friendly, if ‘passionate’ advice: sometimes ‘criticism of the Israeli state’ overlaps with anti-Semitic content and incitement. This is one such case. I’ll be complaining - please join in. Case 21-0938 I always want to believe the best of the polite agents of the law on the other end of the phone. But this well-spoken man telling me that hail of swastikas and blood and Jews was nothing but ‘criticism of the Israeli state’ is why we are where we are, why Jews don’t expect anything from the police, and how we find tha Kent police are exactly in tune with Matthew Collings.

@realzoestrimpel The thoughtful non-shouty polite majority are 100% on your side. Hope you’ve recovered.

In Margate. My cheeks are red. I am shaking. I popped into an exhibition that turned out to be the insane fever dream of an artist called Matthew Collins: ‘Drawings Against Genocide.’ The exhibition is described as ‘drawings… raising consciousness about hell…. Israel is the pure encapsulation of it. Zionism is this terror state’s ruling ideology.’ Shocked by the use of Nazi imagery - the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood, to say nothing of blonde yummy mummies wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ shirts, I spoke to the artist to share my reaction as a Jewish person. He was instantly aggressive. As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying. Anytime I tried to speak (calmly) he said: ‘you don’t mean any of what you said, you’re just repeating ‘hasbarah talking points’ because ‘you’re defending a genocide’. On and on he yelled, in my face. I said: ‘if I was a Black person…’ but couldn’t finish the sentence because: ‘you’re not are you?’ On the Nazi ideology point he said: ‘yeah. Why do you think it’s there. Israel are the Nazis’. His breath was disgusting. The crowd began booing and closing in around me, making to shoe me out. I said: ‘fine, get the Jew out’ and he yelled more across the room at me, ‘repeatedly jeering ‘call the police, go ahead, call the police’. I said I would, and the community security trust, which features as a devil in his exhibition. This was met with even more jeering. ‘Yeah, call the CST’ was the last I heard before leaving. Someone snapped pictures of me while I was being shouted at. Short video shows the artist. The longer video, of our final almost surreally disgusting exchange, didn’t record.

@afneil @nats_tired My cat has a deeper understanding of economics. And human nature come to think.

This is worth watching.

@mattwridley Absolutely - some parts are barely 50 feet below the surface.

The cost of creating an island on doggerland by building a sea wall and pumping out the water might be smaller than the benefit. The benefit would include fascinating archaeological finds.

@afneil @No_Bikers Wow. How can anyone be so successful financially and understand nothing at all about economics?

This must be a record even for X. A factual mistake in every single sentence. Amazing. Almost admirable in its consistency.

@MicheMoffatt Beautiful speech, such self-critical integrity. Indeed the government has no business in enabling depressed people to commit suicide.

I once planned my death. I would have passed every safeguard. And I would be dead. That’s why assisted suicide laws are dangerous. They cannot detect self-coercion: the belief that you are a burden. Holyrood must not legalise despair. #assistedsuicide #holyrood #ProtectTheVulnerable

@LeeHurstComic Go bigger on the codeine Lee. Up to 60mg every four hours maxing out at 240 per day, the body can handle it for a week or two. After that addiction lurks…

Stuck in a pain death spiral here. A violent spasmodic cough that has left me with a bad back meaning I can hardly walk. And the back can’t better because the cough won’t let it. No sleep to speak of. Steroids started last night haven’t touched it. 30mgs of Codeine and 400mg of Ibuprofen haven’t dulled the back at all. Anti biotics only 2 tablets in. Grim.

@carolecadwalla @Glos_Police I bet you’re fun at parties.

This isn’t ‘satire’, it’s violence. This should be a police matter & I hope @Glos_Police takes the necessary action.

@RafHM No Rafe, just no, not even the communist community center known as the Barbican… Brutalism is the stuff of barren souls and esthetic cowardice…

Polls consistently show Brutalism is loathed by the vast majority of the public (75%+) Brutalism is another luxury belief foisted on the public by an arrogant (architectural) elite Minority tastes should not control or dominate the public space We can choose which galleries or art exhibitions we visit -- but we are all subjected to hideous architecture. Polling shows that most people associate brutalism with coldness & negativity: it is a blight and a blot on the cityscape. Ugliness begets ugliness. Brutalist buildings and town centres create hostile & depressed societies. As Churchill said: "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us." (Caveat: I do like some of the interiors of brutalist buildings - e.g. the Barbican - but that is insufficient to justify torturing the public with their exteriors)

@DeniseRiedel4 @wakenminds @WyatesL Sorry Denise. Slaves just didn’t build this, not any of it. The degree-less tradesmen who did build it had served a prestigious apprenticeship for a decade at least. Glorious creations come from dedication and love - divinely inspired if you want to be religious.

@wakenminds @WyatesL Slaves built most of it. Only the craftsman made some wages.

Men without degrees built this.

@BenGoldsmith Well put. We’re also told that deathly spruce plantations are good for the environment. The Scottish government ‘donates’ millions to hedge funds and mysterious landowners to cultivate these plantations. Of course, they degrade the soil, ruin animal habitats and look awful.

*Half* of the food produced in the world each year is not consumed by people. Croplands already produce enough calories to support about 14.5 billion people, nearly double today’s population. But half is lost to feed for factory farmed livestock, biofuels, or lost throughout the supply chain. [In America the figure is a truly grotesque 77% of food not consumed by people.] And we're told that rewilding marginal land poses a threat to food security! oneearth.org/half-the-world…

@bluenobby @Tysemon101 Talked to a policewoman who echoed your sentiments perfectly, was retiring young as a consequence. Put blame firmly on SNP culture permeating public services. She had been pro-SNP in her youth and was veering into Tommy Robinson territory now.

@Tysemon101 I could write something nigh on identical about the police 'service' mate. It's grim and like you I'm glad I'm out . BZ 👏 🇬🇧

As an ex Glasgow Firey I’m not going to comment on the fire last night. I wasn’t there and don’t know any of the details. All I will say is that it is another travisty. Another iconic Glasgow building gone. I retired in 2014. I took an option that meant due to my age I could retire after 25 years service. Now, you may ask why I would do that, considering I was only five years off my full lump sum and pension? Well, in those 25 years the job that I loved changed dramatically and not for the better. The turning point was the 2002 dispute, a career low, led by radical union reps that destroyed the structure of the British Fire Service as it existed. We went from a service led, performance rewarding professional organisation to an HR dominated, chronyistic, risk averse organisation almost over night. By 2014 I could not stand going into work. As a watch commander my days were dominated in box ticking exercises and petty disputes all fuelled by WOKE agenda. Worse than that, I was regularly attending shouts where over promoted senior officers with little actual firefighting experience would turn up, countermand firefighting tactics already in place only to watch a building burn to the ground. Whenever I confronted these frankly negligent decisions I was overridden and on more than one occasion reprimanded. At that time, SFRS still had 1000’s of superb firefighters, but most had been by passed for promotion by the ‘New’ firefighters, who were great on computers, female, gay, other, didn’t rock the boat and could write a blinding CV. When I joined in 1989 there were just 5 people in Personal. One senior officer and four civilians. By the time I left there was one HR staff for every 5 firefighters out of 2500! In the end, I couldn’t justify staying. Guys were dying of heart attacks on night shift, dozens off with ilness and work related stress and every other e mail was a funeral notification for a recently retired colleague. More importantly the bullshit was effecting my mental health. At the time I handed in my resignation no one else (to my knowledge) in Strathclyde had ever done it before. Suddenly I start getting visits from the head shed asking why! Why would I go now? I just laughed and told them I was going before I got sacked. I have never felt relief like I did the day I left, not even when I left Afghan with all my bits still attached! It’s the best decision I have ever made, proving that quality of life is more important than money. You cannot take it with you! I feel sorry for the guys and girls on the ground now, I know a lot of great people still serving and morale is rock bottom. In the end and I’m talking specifically about Scotland now, the SNP have ruined the Fire Service. Amalgamating all the regions into the Scottish FireandRescue Service gave them all the power. You get one person in charge and make sure they are your guy. The Union are less than useless Preferring to focus on gay- trans rights in the place of conditions and manning, I’m just glad I’m out of it all. I get that I probably come across like a bitter, un pc old dinosaur, but no one can tell me we are in a better place than we were 20 years ago, a time when courage and skill was more important than computers and skin colour. Thanks for reading and have lovely , safe day. 🙏🇬🇧