DianeOliver

This place sucks since Musk. Hate breeds hate. BlueSky's better. Never knowingly kissed a Tory or a Fascist. She/Her

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@KaitlanCollins on Trump's verbal attacks:

"It's really not about me, and I don't want it to be about my reaction. ... In those moments it's important to put the reminder back on the work, on the question, and on the non-answers that we get."

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

Minute to midnight.
https://t.co/exMttTqFaN

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

@DonnaWarburton1 Yep, I'm actually crying. What a baby.

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

Same place the rights of every woman who ever had the misfortune to come across either you or your brother are.

[🌿O.G. Botanist Johnson 🌿 @Thugg_Speedman]

He got his baby "bicycle"!!!

[AnnRuth 🇨🇦 ESC @AnnRuth8587]

@CalltoActivism

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I just wrote an open letter to the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, about why is he ignoring the climate and ecological emergency, and how all his policy is totally unrealistic until he acknowledges it?
https://t.co/rNLI9PMhmr
1/2

[Sam @SamCKx]

Last night's @piersmorgan debate around Andrew & Tristan Tate featuring @pearlythingz, @sostalksmoney, & @michaeljknowles, was so excrutiating that I felt compelled to make my first ever response video! It's pretty crude & unrehearsed, I'm not a videomaker, but hopefully I've added vital legal context to the conversation.

This show was the perfect example of influencers speiling off all the established illogical and misleading propaganda that has come direct from the Tate camp in their mass-misinformation campaign. I take each point apart one at a time.

Pearl & Adam in particular, I'd be interested to know if you are simply willfully ignorant, or deliberately making such obviously misleading statements in hope of influencing public opinion?

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Robert, spare us the pantomime.
Gary Lineker did not drag the government to court so he could pay less tax.

HMRC tried to reclassify his freelance work as employment under IR35 and hit him with a £4.9 million bill he did not owe. He took them on, won the case, and proved they got it wrong. That is not tax dodging. That is making the taxman stick to the rules instead of inventing them.

Defending yourself against a false bill is completely different from choosing to support higher taxes. One is your right. The other is putting your money where your mouth is.

You, on the other hand, are busy sneering at millionaires willing to pay more while the Met Police are investigating a £37,500 donation to your own Tory leadership campaign. The Electoral Commission referred it because part of the money allegedly came from a foreign source. You say the claims are false. Fine. The investigation is still running.

So whose side are you really on? Not the ordinary voter in your constituency watching services get cut.

Not the people who actually need the system to work.

You talk tough about tax while your own campaign finances are under scrutiny, and you still found time to abandon the Tories for Reform after failing to lead them.

You lecture others on hypocrisy while the police check your receipts. That takes a special kind of nerve.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

".. probably the greatest criminal fraud ever perpetrated on the people of England & Wales"

@Feargal_Sharkey on the privatised water industry.

The solution is simple. Prosecute the bosses, fine the companies into bankruptcy & take our water back.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The mask is coming off.

Andy Burnham used to support rent controls because "there was a significant crisis in the rental market"

Sorry, what? Apparently now renters are just fine?

Labour won't support renters properly.

The Green Party will.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

@ayojoestar Omg, thank you. I always wondered why laying on my back felt 'wrong'.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"More than 120 millionaires.. have signed an open letter urging PM Andy Burnham to tax their wealth. The campaign, called 'Proud to Pay' says a 2% tax on wealth over £10m could raise £24 billion a year" #GMB

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

Outrageous.

[LBC @LBC]

'They expelled me and said that if I was upset I should phone the Samaritans.'

@JeremyCorbyn responds to Andy Burnham's Cabinet appointments, and reveals whether he'd return to Labour in the future.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is beautiful from start to finish.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Why isn’t the media reporting more details about the Ann Widdecombe suspect?

Our FactCheck team explains the laws around contempt of court and other laws that impose automatic reporting restrictions. These affect what newspapers, TV news and social media users can say about ongoing cases.

#UK #Channel4News #AnnWiddecombe #News #Politics

[YesCymru @YesCymru]

STEPHEN KINNOCK WANTS EVIDENCE. HERE IT IS.

Commenting today on calls for further devolution, the new Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Kinnock, said:

“I think we have to be evidence-based and it’s really important to look at what are the costs and benefits of making change.”

Fair enough. Here’s the evidence.

Over the past 15 years, independent commissions and constitutional reviews have repeatedly examined Welsh devolution. Their conclusion has been consistent: the settlement is incomplete and Wales should have further powers.

2012–14 – Silk Commission

Set up by David Cameron’s Conservative-led UK Government, it recommended tax and borrowing powers, a reserved-powers model, and the further devolution of policing, youth justice, energy and transport.

The Wales Acts of 2014 and 2017 implemented some of this, including tax and borrowing powers and the reserved-powers model. But major recommendations, including policing and youth justice, were left untouched.

2019 – Commission on Justice in Wales

Chaired by former Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, it concluded that separating devolved Welsh services from a non-devolved justice system was inefficient and unsustainable. It recommended devolving justice and policing.

2022 – Gordon Brown’s Commission on the UK’s Future

Commissioned by Labour, it recommended further powers for Wales, including youth justice and probation.

2024 – Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales

After more than two years of work, including extensive evidence gathering and public consultation, the cross-party commission unanimously concluded that the status quo was not sustainable. It recommended devolving justice and policing, rail services and infrastructure, and the Crown Estate, reforming the energy devolution settlement, strengthening the Sewel Convention, and reforming relations between the Welsh and UK governments.

These are only four examples. Senedd committees and expert reports have also called for further devolution in areas including rail, broadcasting, justice, energy and the Crown Estate.

So yes, let’s be evidence-based.

The evidence has been gathered repeatedly, and it is overwhelming.

Successive UK governments have repeatedly stopped short of implementing the most significant recommendations, and the new Welsh Secretary seems unaware of the weight of evidence supporting further devolution.

Further powers would be welcome and important, but devolution will always leave Wales dependent on powers granted or withheld by Westminster. Only independence would put the full range of powers and economic levers in Wales’s own hands, giving us the freedom to shape our own future.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Equinor, an oil company behind Rosebank, made £8.6 billion in just three months, nearly doubling its profits as war-driven oil prices surged.

Meanwhile, communities in the UK are living through extreme heat, wildfires and climate disruption.

Yet Equinor and Shell want the green light for Rosebank, a project that would lock us into more fossil fuel extraction when we should be investing in a safer future.

Andy, you must stop Rosebank and tax polluter profits. Protect our future - not their profits.

[DianeOliver @DianeOliver]

We can only hope she knew nothing about it after the first blow. What a terrible way to die. Didn't like her politics, but am outraged at another man killing yet another woman.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This is HORRIFIC

Joshua Kerry, suspect in the murder of Ann Widdecombe appeared in court today.
We learn that Ann was struck 21 times in the head with a hammer

Omg. Poor Ann #rip

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Democracy only works when people have access to the facts. That's why I'm supporting @ChrisGPackham's petition calling for a UK-wide public briefing on climate and nature risks.

Help us reach 100,000 signatures:
https://t.co/aRWsZ9TC1S