Roger Bettridge

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

The reason why the UK is on its arse is not because of Keir Starmer.
A big reason is that too many people believed some bollocks on a bus 10 years ago.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

He isn’t … there are plenty of vested interests who want us to believe he is…

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Hard to escape the feeling that soon Britain's commentating classes will have an entirely new prime minister to try and kick to death

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Amazing it takes the Polish foreign minister on @BBCr4today to point out the gravity of a Russian sponsored firebomb attack on the PM’s home.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Really? Why do they always manage to hit the worthwhile, quality programming? This is similar to the evisceration of Newsnight. What a terrible mistake. https://t.co/YD0ujRnb7J

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Wise words by @jonsopel

The arson attacks and subsequent baseless lies also revealed deeply homophobic sentiments from many right wing commentators.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

@BethRigby Genuinely. I don't think we appreciate our PM enough

[Reuters @Reuters]

A cat took to the stage during the final scene of a Romeo and Juliet ballet performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in İzmir

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: President Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center.

The building’s exterior reads “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” once more. https://t.co/3B3sArJI5u

[Opera with Opera News @operamagazine]

Detrumpification: President Trump’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts yesterday. Washington National Opera has filed a lawsuit against the venue to recover assets totalling more than $17m that it says were blocked after the takeover.

[Rob Powell @robpowellnews]

Asked by @SophyRidgeSky if the disorder in Northern Ireland amounts to "racist riots", NI Sec Hilary Benn says:

"If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin, how else can you describe them? That is racist thuggery. There's no question about it at all".

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.

I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

@BobbyManzi Hey Bobby
It’s normally at about this point that the Daily Mail would write an article about the BBC ‘wasting’ money sending staff to cover a World Cup. Hard for them to win isn’t it?

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley very strong on scenes in Belfast:

"I was watching a bit of the news last night, and I can't remember what channel it was, but a journalist was talking about 'these protesters.'

"I thought, that isn't a protest. People are setting fire to cars. That's not a protest. That's violent disorder, that's criminality. I really feel for Northern Ireland colleagues who are wrestling with that. It's really, really difficult.

"We live in these volatile times and, some of what goes on online whips up, sentiment on the street.

"We know that Russian state actors, Iranian state actors, they want to sow discord on the streets of the UK. So this is a really complex issue we're wrestling with. So you've got very polarised debates in the UK, and you've got other people overseas who want to drive wedge issues to create disorder, and you've got the great men and women of Police Service Northern Ireland on the streets in the middle of that, trying to sort of protect people and stop people burning down houses and things. It's awful."

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

More than 100 people die every day in the United States due to gun related violence.

Gun violence is the number 1 cause of child death in the USA.

And this charlatan thinks he’ll try to exploit the Nowak family’s grief in England.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Someone paid Farage £5 million to thank him for achieving this, I think I’m in the wrong business.

[Andrew Western MP @AndrewHWestern]

Not a parliamentarian.

Not a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

And certainly not the Shadow Home Secretary.

Also missed “Ltd” off the end of Reform UK.

This is just not true, @ZiaYusufUK

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

So… an unnamed “source” in Lord Ashcroft’s biography of Farage saying Desert Island Discs “effectively” banned Nige is enough to sustain this ridiculous story as a runner even though you cannot turn on UK broadcast without Reform being on it. This is how PR works folks.