Ben

Software Developer, boxing fan & #RPG player. I also create non-russian 'Fantasy RPG Themed' Twitter Bots.

[Ben @Benelio]

My best man, @rjessop213, decided to devote a large part of his speech to discussing my GMing habits at my Wedding earlier this year, and did a damn fine job! 👍 #DnD #RPG 🤵⚔️👰

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

So the UK's 10-year gilt yield - the cost of government borrowing - is now up at 2008 levels.

An 18-year high

The difference is that, back then, UK national debt was 48pc of GDP, and now it's the best part of 100pc.

So the debt service costs are much MUCH heavier.

Of the £14.3bn the UK government borrowed in February alone, no less than £13bn of that was spent on interest on existing debts - a situation which is not only unsustainable, but very close to provoking a disastrous financial collapse.

Yet still, our national discourse is all about more spending, more borrowing, more "state intervention".

When is the Labour party – and much of the listless, unthinking rump of the UK's political and media class – going to start acknowledging reality?

WHEN ....?

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

To be fair to Starmer, he couldn’t have known that the ‘Prince of Darkness’ would be up to anything fishy.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

@jamiesont Are you aware how time works? My post was 17 hours ago. After 12 days of BBC mostly ignoring story. And they JUST finally set up a breaking news.

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Very Britcard Problems.

Very 1984, lots of Daleks - this is Labour’s Britain. 😡

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Socialists simply do not understand wealth generation

They will tax us into oblivion. Everyone will get poorer. Especially the poor.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@EdwardJDavey You are a craven coward

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

Imagine leaving X because it was too ‘toxic’ only to end up celebrating a man’s murder on a different platform.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

You don't have to say "I disagreed with him on some things". No-one agrees with everyone on everything. It's a pointless statement that just distances you from your own humanity.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I have no words. I don't understand how to live in a world where someone would take a father away from his young children for having a different opinion.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

I'm following this far-right account, some guy called "Keir Starmer". Pretty hardcore anti-migrant rhetoric, might be too much for some people. Imagine if someone like this was Prime Minister!

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

Oh we know you’d do it again. That’s why your party has been decimated.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

“Do you want to have lots of free stuff paid for by people you envy” is a question sadly likely to produce a positive response. The correct question is “do you want to screw the economy to buy the NHS a six month stay of execution?”

[Dominic Frisby @DominicFrisby]

Hero

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

@LucyMPowell As a strategy to win back voters from Reform, denouncing people opposed to child-rape as "racists" is a pretty bold one.

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

Fabian Henry raped a 17-year-old girl whilst on bail for abducting a 15-year-old girl he’d groomed since she was 14.

When the previous Government tried to deport him to Jamaica, Labour MPs signed a letter to stop his flight. He wasn’t deported.

Keir Starmer signed that letter.

[Dominic Frisby @DominicFrisby]

Incredible to think that in 1914 the price of gold was £4.25 per ounce. It was £4.25 in 1930 too. And in 1716 when Isaac Newton set the price 200 years earlier.

FOUR POUNDS 25p

Today it's £2,475 per ounce.

From £4.25 to £2,475. That's how much we've been robbed

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

Britain has spent billions on counterterror landscaping, ‘defensive street furniture’, ballistic glass and so on. ONE city block in Westminster cost at least £35 million to fortify. Read my book The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century. They’re walls, Sadiq, just hiding in plain sight.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

If there's no "two-tier policing", why is a mother jailed for 31 months for a tweet, while Labour politician Ricky Jones is walking the streets after screaming at a crowd of leftists and Islamists to ‘cut the throats of the far-Right’ (a dog-whistle for British people furious that children were killed)?

[Ross Ulbricht @RealRossU]

In prison, I had to pay a dollar for a hug.

My wife visited me every week for years, and I would buy photo tickets for us for $1 each. We didn't need the photos. We had plenty. I just bought the tickets for the hugs. This stack is a small fraction of all the photos we took.