Dean Simkins

I don't know what I'm doing.

[Darren Dutton @Darren_Dutton]

Well that’s one way to start your premiership

[Paul🥷 @l4pablo]

When your Nan falls in love with the waiter in Tenerife

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

England's B team when there's nothing to play for.

[Sean Cranston @themoviedadsc]

Wives anytime they see their husband relaxing:

[Benj @BenjoPompey]

Either way

It’s coming home

#england

[T.R. Sartor @DripChud]

“I’m sorry ma’am, but 6’3 athletic millionaires are not compatible with your physical or behavioral traits. I have several looksmatched alternatives for you.”

[Dean Simkins @DeanSimkins]

😢

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Designating Egypt v. Iran the “Pride Match” is just amazing, amazing work

Well done

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

@ADL @nytimes wait wait wait
"goy, the hebrew word that refers to non-jews"
so you have your own little slur for us but we're bad for using it ourselves? LMFAO

[Dean Simkins @DeanSimkins]

There is no good reason why they death sentence shouldn't be reinstated for crimes as horrific as this.

Finger crossed he'll get the Watkins treatment in prison and won't live to see the end of the year.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A teacher who sexually abused and murdered his adopted baby boy has been given a whole life order, meaning he will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

13-month-old Preston Davey died in July 2023 after being subjected to months of physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of Jamie Varley and his partner John McGowan Fazakerley.

Warning: there are highly distressing details in this report.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Dean Simkins @DeanSimkins]

I genuinely don't believe a word of it, you can't just blame Russia for everything. People are not buying this bullshit.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The BBC has revealed Russia has been setting up fake far-right and Islamist groups in the UK to stoke division

Operatives paid people to vandalise mosques, spread extremist propaganda and inflame tensions after the Southport riots

[Dean Simkins @DeanSimkins]

They deserve their prison sentences? The guy who broke the police officers back with a sledgehammer definitely does.

Being justifiably angry about what is happening doesn’t give people free reign to comment criminal damage into the millions and smack people with sledgehammers.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[Eugene @eugeneh84]

1-0 down 95th minute, last chance saloon, ref ready to blow, keeper's up, everyone in the box, steadying yourself to whip in a corner to save your country's world cup, this is it, the weight of a nation on you. All whilst a yank gobbles down a hoagie and slurps from a 5 litre cup

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

Sorry, but there's no way you're building a billion mile long ship for sixteen dollars

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

The entire rape gangs debate has just been 90% this bullshit. It's rage-inducing. They've learned nothing.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

No. Because NEVER once, EVER, have groups of white British men, EVER, targeted ethnic minority girls - especially Muslim girls - to repeatedly torture and rape them. Ever. And if they did, not only would we all unequivocally condemn them, but the entire country would be on fire, within minutes, and every single man involved would be publicly slaughtered.

[Dean Simkins @DeanSimkins]

Tbf calling for farming to be 'decolonised' in Britain is fucking ridiculous, decolonised from who? The British people in Britain!? 🙃

[Cllr Benali Hamdache AM @greenbenali]

The right wing rags are terrified

Proud of our great candidate in Makerfield. Good luck Sarah Wakefield