Mark

Leeds Utd & Crusaders ⚽️. Proud parent & grandad!

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

If you don't get Defence right, you don't get to make choices about schools and hospitals.

Ask the Ukrainians.

Pitiful and strategically illiterate from @RachelReevesMP's Accounts Department.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Head firmly stuck in the sand

[John Gilfillan @gilo747]

@NotFarLeftAtAll The State Pension for Thousands of Pensioners, is not a luxury. It is a corner stone of economic security and dignity in later life.
To qualify for a full state pension, Pensioners, will have to have Worked 35 qualifying years.
The clue is the word WORKED.

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.”

- John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

[Máiría Cahill @cahillbooks]

BBC Radio Ulster's montage of quotes with music, while reporting last night is questionable to say the least. This is not a movie we are all living in. It's violent, with real life consequences.

[Phil Reeves @topcarpentero]

Born June 10th 1928 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, Wilbur "Billy" Cush
9 goals in 90 appearances for Leeds between 1957/60. Signed from Glenavon, also played for Portadown
Wilbur became a butcher in later life and passed away in Lurgan 28th July 1981.

https://t.co/fFLDIOjnCZ

[colour36ud @colour36ud]

Remembering the 36th Ulster Division at the Battle of Messiness 7th-14th June 1917.

[The Ghost of Vim Fuego💛💙🤍 @Diddlysquatv3]

A very happy 60th birthday to the legend that is Tony Yeboah. 🥳
💛💙💛💙 #LUFC

[Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug]

D-Day 6 June 1944. A day that changed the course of WW2.

We must remain grateful of that generation who gave so much, suffered incredible hardships at home and overseas.

Here in Northern Ireland, and across these islands, we should be proud of the Royal Ulster Rifles.

[Richie Taylor @RWTaylors]

Unfuckinbelievable!

[Doug Beattie @BeattieDoug]

Women have a right to single sex spaces free from biological males✅

Women have a right to the protection of female only sporting categories✅

Women have a right to remain visible, acknowledge in law, policy & public discourse✅

This should not be controversial.

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Monty Python would be cancelled today

Society has lost its collective mind

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

If Keir Starmer had said before the election that he would remove the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners, add inheritance to family farms and family businesses, council tax & energy price increases, raise university tuition fees, plaster mass-scale solar panels and AI data centres on thousands of acres of prime farmland despite huge local community objections, spaff £22bn of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines, give £3bn a year of taxpayers’ money to Ukraine, try and ram through government controlled digital ID, betray WASPI women, hang out with BlackRock, pledge a 20% cut in meat & dairy and get exposed for receiving over £100,000 worth of freebies - he almost certainly wouldn’t have won. He duped the electorate. An utterly shameless display of snake oil political salesmanship. And still he lectures all of us in that gratingly sanctimonious manner of his like we are all somehow the problem here.

[RoyK @roy_kinsella]

“Ukrainian children are being shredded by the consequences of the Irish State, no matter how much we bleat about our neutrality. Alumina out of Ireland, into 🇷🇺 smelters, out as components for the artillery that’s been grinding down 🇺🇦 & beyond.”

✅ Essential reading👇

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 1940, 338,236 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force had been rescued from France by 861 ships and boats of @RoyalNavy #MerchantNavy Private & Allied ships, 243 of which are lost. #OperationDynamo was planned and executed by Adm. Bertram Ramsay a remarkable feat

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

BBC World Cup Grandstand..LIVE
Friday 25th June 1982
7:30-10:10pm
Group 5
Northern Ireland 1-0 Spain
Commentator John Motson
#WorldCup #Ireland #Spain

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

This is up there among my greatest concerns.

Nicola Sturgeon spent years telling the world Scotland was better governed, more transparent and morally superior.

Now, thanks to the culture that grew under her leadership, Scotland risks becoming known for secrecy, shut-down questions, closed ranks and corruption at the top.

That matters.

Countries compete for investment on trust, reputation and confidence. People invest where government is accountable - not where power appears concentrated among insiders and scrutiny is treated as an inconvenience.

Nicola Sturgeon did not just damage trust in politics. She damaged Scotland’s reputation.
https://t.co/RwBFtBXujS

[David Gilmour @davidgilmour]

Twenty years ago today, David Gilmour played the first of three shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, with a very special guest appearance for Comfortably Numb from David Bowie, in what sadly turned out to be Bowie's final ever appearance on a UK stage.

On Sunday at 5pm BST / 12noon ET / 6pm CET, the entire show, released as Remember That Night, will premiere on David's YouTube (where you can watch the full performance of Comfortably Numb now).

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

We still don’t know the full details surrounding the Manchester Airport incident involving the two brothers, nor do we know all the reasons why a retrial will not proceed. What is clear, however, is that public trust in the justice system has been eroded to the point where many British citizens will view this as yet another example of two-tier justice. This is Keir Starmer’s legacy.