Pete Trotman

Solicitor and former Legal Executive, defender of Access to Justice, previously a master cueman

[Wendy Oldershaw @WendtheWalker]

Absolutely bloody marvellous - credit to whoever did it!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽️🏆
#Fıfaworldcup #ItsComingHome 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 A van driver in Kent saw armed police chasing a suspect on foot, pulled over, told the officer to get in the back, and just drove them after the guy.

They caught him.

Absolute legend move.

Writer: Oliver
https://t.co/MQgDBoS4B3

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian

England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

FIFA told Gillette to cover up its logo because it wasn’t an official World Cup sponsor.

Gillette responded by turning it into a giant blob of shaving foam. 😭🪒

Brilliant response from them… 🤣👏

[Sébastien Mélières @SbastienMlires1]

El dia que Inglaterra venció a Croacia y el show fue del público que entonó Wonderwall de Oasis a todo🫁

Wonderwall es un término inventado por Noel Gallagher. Una metáfora para describir a “un amigo imaginario que vendrá a salvarte de ti mismo”. ¡Inglaterra ya tiene su himno!♥️

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇨🇦 Canada midfielder Ismaël Koné underwent surgery to repair severe fractures in his leg yesterday.

And now, he's back with the squad to support them through the World Cup. Warrior.

[Mark Stephens @MarksLarks]

Just noticed that France had President Trump sign the Iran deal in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles…the room where Germany signed its humiliating WWI surrender in 1919.

And if you think Macron didn’t know exactly what he was doing you haven’t been paying attention.

[Daughter of Theotokos @Koko47798658]

@OrevaZSN I had to look for he story am stunned

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

Trump blames the pool algae on vandalism. Yes, vandalism in DC is rampant. Last year vandals destroyed half the White House. Last week a gang of criminals ripped up the South Lawn and staged a fight club. A few months ago some cretin graffitied the Kennedy Center with his name!

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Really surprised to see Katie Hopkins being kicked out of a London pub. It's almost as though the real world bears no relation to the bots and Russian shills of Twitter and ordinary people don't like hideous hate-filled divisive grifting twats.

[Sanny Rudravajhala @Sanny_Rudra]

Hahaha superb way for ITV to open its coverage of Germany - Ivory Coast 😂

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Lawyer Peter Stefanovic - whose political films have been watched over a billion times - breaks down Reform's Great Repeal Act line by line: strip day one sick pay, legalise fire and rehire, lift zero-hours protections, repeal the Renters' Rights Act, abolish the Equality Act, and leave the ECHR.

He also notes that almost half of Britons believe net migration has increased when it's fallen 48% to 171,000.

His conclusion: if the media explained Reform's policies, nobody would support them.

Full story at the link below 👇

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

On the hottest day of the year so far we’re already at sub sauna levels in #Nottingham crown court because the heating is fully on.
It can’t be turned off because it’s controlled from Birmingham ……

[Acyn @Acyn]

A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight.

“You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”

[Charlie Hills @charliejhills]

Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim.

Spoiler: not even close.

Here’s what the study found.

[Moritz Leicht @MineCooky]

Wo kommt eigentlich der Strom her, wenn wir alle elektrisch fahren?

Klingt nach einer guten Frage. Aber guckt man genauer hin, stellt man sich die gegenteilige Frage: Wo kommt eigentlich der ganze Strom her für all die Verbrenner?

In der Theorie klingt es einfach. Verbrenner fahren mit Benzin und Diesel, das kommt aus dem Bohrloch und kann da abgepumpt werden. Wiederum: Strom muss man erstmal "erzeugen", der sprudelt nicht einfach aus dem Boden.

Aber was kommt da eigentlich genau aus dem Boden? Denn Benzin und Diesel sind es nicht. Tatsächlich kommt da klassisches Rohöl raus, das ist nicht mal übermäßig flüssig. Und noch weniger kann man damit einfach ein Auto betreiben. Auch kommt es nicht von selbst da raus.
Benzin und Diesel haben eine bemerkenswert hohe Energiedichte, da kommt auch die Reichweite dieser Autos her. Aber es ist ein weiter Weg bis dahin. Buchstäblich.

Rohöl muss raffiniert werden, also in einem hochkomplexen Prozess aufgeheizt, gefiltert und bearbeitet werden. Das braucht verhältnismäßig viel Energie. Pro Liter Benzin sind es je nach Quelle um die 1,5 kWh, für 7 Liter Benzin also beispielsweise 10,5 kWh, damit fährt ein Elektroauto bereits pessimistisch 50 km, die meisten sogar eher mehr.
Und das ist noch ohne auf AdBlue oder etwaige weitere Zusatzstoffe einzugehen. Ebenso wenig auf die verschiedenen Schmieröle, ohne die ein Verbrenner auch nicht auskommt. All das braucht weiteren Strom, um so aufbereitet zu sein, dass es für das Auto von Nutzen ist.

Zum Schluss fehlt bei weitem nicht so viel Strom, wie man erst meint. Die Frage ist eher, warum wir mit dem Strom noch Kraftstoffe aufbereiten, welche wir aus aller Welt einkaufen müssen. Die aktuellen Preise zeigen erneut, dass man mit dem Strom sinnvolleres machen kann, als ihn für Diesel und Benzin zu verheizen.
Man könnte damit auch einfach nur fahren.

All meine langen Threads findet ihr übrigens auch auf meiner Webseite unter "Kommentar" @smartEMOTION:
https://t.co/fkfLdjvpk2

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

One of the best and simplest explanations of how juries keep politicians honest in this passage from Lord Judge (who was indeed a judge).