Cameron Timms

[WH Fan Place @WestHamPlace]

No person, no government, no movement, no anything will ever have the ability to bring this country closer together more than football can

It is a universal language that we all understand and this here is why we love it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.”

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.

[TheEuropeanLad @ThaEuropeanLad]

🚨‼️𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧: Liverpool vs Manchester City drew 700–750M viewers globally, more than 3× the 220M viewers for the 2026 Super Bowl.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Going vegan will save the planet."
Farmer: "Going vegan means importing more food from industrial monocultures."
Activist: "But local beef uses too much land."
Farmer: "That land won't grow anything else."
Activist: "Then leave it wild."
Farmer: "It was grazed by wild ruminants for millennia."
Activist: "Cattle aren't wild."
Farmer: "Cattle are doing what wild aurochs did."
Activist: "The methane though."
Farmer: "Has been part of the ecosystem forever."
Activist: "We need to reduce animal agriculture."
Farmer: "And grow what on this rocky hillside?"
Activist: "Something sustainable."
Farmer: "Grass is sustainable. That's why it's growing here."

[Alice Cordier @CordierAlice2]

SUPPORT IRANIAN WOMEN from France 🇫🇷

#SupportIranianPeople #RevolutionIran2026

[West Coast Main Line @networkrailWCML]

🏗️Final dress rehearsal complete ✅

🎥This time-lapse footage shows how Clifton bridge will move into position tomorrow⏱️

⚙️Machines called SPMTs will very slowly drive the 4,200-tonne structure into place on more than 600 wheels 🛞

ℹ️ Project page 👉🏻https://t.co/IHFcnZptQh

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Hey so marching into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and leading with a chant saying “we support Hamas” is a disgusting and antisemitic thing to do.

Pretty basic!

[george @StokeyyG2]

PURE CARNAGE.

WHAT A MOMENT.

[Centrist Tweets 🌹🌐 @CntrstTweets]

This is one of our brilliant young MPs.

She was born just after the 97’ landslide and here she is taking apart the 2nd biggest con artist and buffoon in British politics. Go get em!

[Gordon McKee MP @GordonMcKeeMP]

Britain's debt, explained with custard creams.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Ed Miliband is making electricity expensive then taxing you to force you to use electric heating.

Here’s a revolutionary idea.

Just make electricity cheap.

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

Shabana Mahmood calling the Green Party out here on their bullshit is absolutely glorious.

[Ring Magazine @ringmagazine]

Conor Benn's ring walk in Tottenham was ELECTRIC ⚡️

The Ring: Unfinished Business | Buy now at https://t.co/AxmwuHu4GB l #EubankBenn2

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Troy Parrott's goal that has given us the lead!

🇮🇪 1-0 🇵🇹

[Cameron Timms @CameronTimms]

@gloucesterrugby Few teams will come away with points from the Rec this season. Good 15/20 minute spell after half time and great heart in defence during the 2nd half. However, this team is a long way off from ‘clicking’. Too many basic errors and after 5 phases of attack we look confused.

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

Genoa scored a 92nd minute equaliser vs Como. Look how crazy the fans went behind the goal. Pure passion! 🤯🇮🇹

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.

We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.

I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”

He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.

He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.

He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.

Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?

I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.

Some were. But not all.

This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.

Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.

That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.

We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney+, Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.

Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.

And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.

I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.

Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.

If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.

And by then, it will be too late.

[Cameron Timms @CameronTimms]

@LBC @lewis_goodall The state has never and will never have the right to dictate what people do with their money and assets. This provocative statement is only being said to draw attention to a bland show with a journalist who has fair facts but doesn’t have a compelling argument.