Diane Francis

🐟Mother, Grandmother. Want a fairer society. We need PR

[Diane Francis @DitoFrancis]

You no nothing about our country

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The UK has become a police state

[Angela Eagle DBE @angelaeagle]

Jenrick and the tories bought this contaminated site for £15M a hugely overinflated price ignoring expert advice. They wasted all this public money. Whilst creating huge backlogs in the asylum system leaving us with a complete mess to sort out. https://t.co/EA7IHXHNzl

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

Looking after customers means hiring great people and giving them a great place to work.

Proud that 🐙 tops this list of outstanding companies.

We're not perfect (and X is good at letting us know!) but I hope we're the best of a good bunch.

https://t.co/nWN0WuH0t0

[Philip O'Connor @PhilipOConnor5]

I really don't expect so much support. But, please if there's anyone outside the biased media, who thinks Keir Starmer is a kind of pretty good Prime Minister, please repost

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

A lot of politicians would have you believe that handing over parts of the NHS to private providers is our only option

But…

* Only the NHS takes care of patients at A&E
* Only the NHS trains our doctors and nurses
* Only the NHS looks after all patients

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

Dear @FA,

Usually an open letter is quite polite. This one won't be. You don't deserve it. You made a 17-year-old girl cry and get on her knees and apologise for calling a full grown man a fucking man.

Women aren't having that.

In fact, she only asked a question, the fairest question on the pitch. She asked a man if he was a man, and then told him to get off the pitch of a woman's football game. Your actual FUCKING JOB is to make sure women's football is played fairly, by women, and you let a man with a beard and some jewellery lie and cheat his way onto the pitch.

Have you lost your fucking minds or do you just hate women? Could be both, even if your chair IS a woman. She's just a traitor to the rest of us fighting for fair and safe sport for women. When the snivelling misogynists at @kickitout came along reporting her for telling the truth, it was your actual fucking job to tell them to fuck off with that snitching, bullying bullshit. What did you do? You gave her a 6 match ban.

You made the choice to prioritise a hairy-arsed cheat over a girl who has had to fight her way to that team place, only to be told she's a bigot and a transphobe for correctly pointing at the hairy-arsed cheat. Sue me if he waxes his arse because that would be the only lie here.

You're banging out "discrimination" judgements at 17-year-old girls who can correctly identify what they see in front of them, while you get on your knees to the fucking trans bullies because you can't stand up for women.

This is why this letter isn't the usual, gentle plea to listen. You have listened. You listened to men who lie about themselves. You made the wrong fucking choice and women are judging you hard for it.

I'll snitch tag in @IanWright0 because he needs to know how angry women are about this. He will also be more than aware how many men agree with us. Maybe he can knock some sense into the rest of you.

So can you all stop fucking hiding in the trophy room or wherever the fuck the bunker is for this atrocious attack on women, and come out and talk with us? DM open.

We are loud, we are angry and we will see you Sunday.
Jean. @twelve0fiveUK

#AreYouAMan
#HesAMan
#SeeYouSunday

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Every Tory tabloid and broadsheet in Britain is trying to convince the average Tesco worker that it’s a bad thing that their employer, who makes billions per year, pays them properly instead of the state subsidising their low wage via universal credit.

Don’t buy the bullshit.

[Elizabeth Bangs. No accountability? No democracy. @ElizabethBangs]

I'm getting the hang of the Starmer era now. As long as the media are upset and flailing around looking for absurd stuff to attack him with, he's quietly doing fine, and by fine, I mean fearlessly and doggedly pissing off the all right people. I'm quite getting into it.

[Hacked Off @hackinginquiry]

We at Hacked Off are calling for Leveson Part Two. 📷 Over a decade ago, lies turned into a tangled web of corruption: 'one rogue reporter' became an entire industry crisis, implicating newspapers, police, and even politicians. The Leveson Inquiry was split, and Part One exposed a culture of hacking, bribery, and data theft. But Part Two — the investigation into who orchestrated, ignored, and enabled this — was never completed. It’s time to uncover the full truth. Join us in demanding accountability. #Leveson2 #HackedOff #HughGrant #PressAccountability"

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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[Diane Francis @DitoFrancis]

#Xdissenter

[Diane Francis @DitoFrancis]

@TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Would you just shut up! I’ve been following you from the beginning. No more!

[Diane Francis @DitoFrancis]

@alexarmstrong Get your facts right! He arrived late! You’re the laughing stock. I’m glad he didn’t have to shake Orban’s hand!

[David @Zero_4]

George Monbiot: “I’m not going to take lessons in climate from someone from Policy Exchange which is funded by the oil industry”

David Goodhart (Policy Exchange): “It isn’t”

GM: “I can demonstrate that it is”

DG: “Anyway, that’s not what we’re here to discuss”

#PoliticsLive

[Palmer Report @PalmerReport]

We’re in Hell

I’ve spent all morning trying to think of more meaningful and graceful words to write, but I’m at a loss so I’ll just say it: this sucks. We woke up today and found out that Americans are a lot worse people than we always hoped they were. And a psychotic senile extremist criminal is going to be President of the United States (again).

Like the rest of you, I have no explanation for why 2024 saw record high turnout, yet something like twenty million fewer votes than in 2020. There will be abundant theories about this, and there will be a temptation to chase them, but I’m not sure it matters. The bottom line is that a stunning, jarring number of people were willing to vote for a monster, even after they knew full well that it was a monster. These people are never to be forgiven.

It also needs to be pointed out that the media once again screwed us royally. With a hundred days to go the major media outlets (on both sides) suddenly decided to use dishonest pretenses to force President Biden out of the race, at a time when he was still within the margin of error and was in far better cognitive condition than Trump, simply because the media felt it could get better ratings by forcing Biden out. It forced Kamala Harris to enter the race very late, and while she ran a historically inspiring and incredibly competent campaign, winning on such short notice proved to be unrealistic. The media’s dishonest last minute railroading of Biden was a criminal level of election interference on the part of the major media outlets, and they are never to be forgiven either.

If I can offer you one piece of advice right now, it’s to try to take this one day at a time. If you start thinking too far ahead about the worst case scenarios… let’s just say that in times like this it’s vital to keep yourself sane. One day at a time. One fight at a time.

It’s okay to feel sick to your stomach. I know I do. Right now I’m thinking in particular of women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGBT community, all of whom are in danger. All I can tell you is that it’s been an honor to fight alongside all of you – and I’m going to keep fighting. Whether I want to keep fighting is irrelevant. I have to keep fighting. I have to try. Much hope is lost, but not all hope is lost, and that matters. This is too important to simply give up because things have gotten harder. And I hope you’ll ultimately be willing to keep fighting alongside me.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Donald Trump is a bad man. Convicted fraudster, rapist, serial liar, racist, misogynist - the list goes on - and now two time POTUS.

What a world we live in. America just dumped Trump on the rest of us. Expect trade wars with the EU and China - and real wars in the Middle East. And the rise of racism and sexism and all the isms on the world stage.

The only good news - this is Trump’s last term, he can’t stand again - assuming there are still elections in 4 years time in the US. (And the US constitution is beyond even his reach......)

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.

And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.

When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.

What then?

Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?

You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.

You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.

You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.

You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.

You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.

You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.

You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.

You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.

You just made women less safe and less free.

You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.

You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!

You just ushered in Fascism.

Because your cereal costs more.

Congratulations.

[Diane Francis @DitoFrancis]

@mrjamesob

[J-L Cauvin @JLCauvin]

Trump winning is the fault of America. It's time to own up to who our fellow citizens are

[J-L Cauvin @JLCauvin]

Trump winning is the fault of America. It's time to own up to who our fellow citizens are

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

The world feels a whole lot more terrifying this morning - especially for any hope of climate action. Right now I feel sick. But I also know we have choices on how to respond - and will try even harder to light candles rather than curse the darkness 🕯️