Chris Rogers

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

When you look past the two tier judiciary, the cost of living increases, the diminished relationship with the US, David Lammy, the failure to implement the Supreme Court ruling on women only spaces, the restarting of the trial of puberty blockers, the closure of 100 private schools, siding with Hamas, the murders of Wayne Broadhurst, Henry Nowak,Rhiannon Whyte, the hosepipe bans, the pissing rain, the appointment of Peter Mandelson, the Chagos Islands surrender, the battle to bring an Egyptian terrorist to the UK and give him citizenship, the prosecution of veterans, the bombing of UK sovereign territory in Cyprus with no response, closure of our last blast furnace, youth unemployment that would shame a Spaniard, the Chinese Embassy being hooked up to MI6s servers, twenty Ministerial resignations, the return of James Corden from the US, Mrs Browns Boys recommissioned, the a303 remaining unwidened, the tax take hitting a record high and still borrowing grew, a third of our electricity coming from foreigners, GB Energy, taxing farmers to suicide, rape gangs being replenished in every town and city, apart from that Lewis it has felt we've just lived through a golden age. You pillock.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[Chris Rogers @Chris95mz]

@ianwheeler Melandri?

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

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I've got some shows with Andrew coming up in Rotherham, Stafford and Southampton, see my bio for tickets

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

If Angela Rayner can get HMRC to pull their finger out maybe she *should* run the country.

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

The corner

[Man Of Kent @ManOfKent424882]

@BurnsideWasTosh

[Jay Mack @JayMackComedian]

All of a sudden Islamists don't like getting blown up.

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

If only Joe Biden was still President to send his best transgenders and whatever the fuck this is into battle.
Imagine coming from a culture that sees dogs as filthy, then one parachutes in on top of you with an M16 and an erection.

[Christopher C. Leon @Christcleon]

Going to be honest… I enjoyed this. Didn’t think I would, I came to bury Caesar, but no. This is a good, esoteric, lovingly assembled collection. If you have stupid money to try and make sense of, this strikes me as a pretty sane way to go.

@matthewbate , what say you?

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.

A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?

It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.

These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.

Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’

Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’

Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.

Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.

I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.

I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.

Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

[Stuey @MGPStuey]

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With the three day test at Sepang completed is it time to admit that Yamaha have built a turd?

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#MotoGP #SepangTest #MGPNews

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

At least a Labour civil war will keep them occupied and limit their attempts at government
https://t.co/0kU1GEEWjd

[DEAN 🇬🇧 DEATH BY HANGING FAR RIGHT HOOLIGAN @DeanHaupt]

Hi morning guys and girls saw this before made me laugh x have a nice day x

[Oti @Blackjoeoti]

He is a loner 🤓🌚

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Out and about on a Saturday morning, seeing window cleaners up first thing getting on with the job. Plumbers and electricians starting work. Cafe owners, opening for a busy day. Publicans, preparing for the weekend Christmas rush.

Such a brutal contrast to the army of jumped-up little civil servants and politicians in Whitehall who have already clocked off the Christmas - the ones who implement the tax, devise the nonsense regulations, make the life of small business owners absolute hell.

They don't care about dividend tax rises, or VAT thresholds, or IR35, or mountains of bullshit HR rules.

They don't understand, they don't care.

Comfortable work environments, absolutely zero accountability, total job security, great pensions, no targets. Nobody EVER gets fired. The out of office reply in regular use, of course.

Work from home a few days a week. Maybe head in for drinks once a week, but that's at a stretch. Don't even try and contact them past 15.00 on a Thursday.

These busy little bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own pompous role seems irreplaceable.

Honestly we need to drag these people into the real world. The world of Saturday morning work. Weekend work. ANY WORK.

Freeloaders gliding through life on the back of productive Britain.

I'm with the cafe owner. The publican. The window cleaner. The plumber. The electrician.

THEY deserve our respect and our gratitude.

They're the ones who make this country work, not the pretentious empire-building desk-jockey in central London.

A total reset is required.

[Chris Rogers @Chris95mz]

@matoxley @MGPStuey @GLewis10 @denkmit Didn't he try and get Colin Edwards sacked from BT Sports because he (a Texan man) likes guns.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Not quite feeling Christmassy enough? Henrietta & Myrna will brighten up your day… you’re welcome…😁