I am horrified by the attack at a synagogue in Manchester today, particularly on Yom Kippur - the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those affected and the Jewish community who will be suffering at this time, and my thanks go to the emergency services.
Here I am in March 2020, wearing the flimsy PPE frontline staff were given, bracing for an influx of desperately sick people with SARS-CoV-2 — what we now call COVID-19.
I watched patients die.
Our colleagues die.
Michelle Mone should be in jail.
And she should only be the first name on a very long list.
Michelle Mone should be forced to pay all the money back AND she should go to jail.
Like Lord Bamford, Nadhim Zahawi and all the rest.
If you rob somewhere, do you just pay the money back and not go to jail?
No you don't, should be same rules for everybody.
The Conservative Party now look just about as relevant to modern Britain as the penny farthing bike. Indeed, that's probably how Rees-Mogg commutes to GB News.
@Saffiya_Khan1 Now would be the perfect time for the Green Party and @ZackPolanski to come out swinging in support of cleaning the air and protecting the children.
IMAGINE SENDING 20 WARSHIPS TO INTERCEPT BOATS CARRYING MILK POWDER AND BABY FORMULA FOR STARVING CHILDREN. THIS IS THE GREATEST EVIL EXISTING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW!!!!!
Sid: This is the Mediterranean boy, its 93 degrees in the shade!
Tony: It is still October! I always get into my heavy stuff on the first of October, and I don't get back into the light stuff until the first of May. You can't argue with the seasons!
#TheCruise
In one of his last acts as president, @JoeBiden awarded Jane Goodall the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January.
Back when these awards were actually given to folks who were worthy.
@BBCRadio3 A new one to me, Michael Nyman's piece about the opening of the Liege Railway. But do you know the choral / orchestral one by Hector Berlioz, written for the opening ceremony? Chant des Chemins de Fer!
Brexit: The Trigger for the Fire Sale
None of this could have happened inside the EU. That’s the point. Brexit shattered the regulatory shield that protected food standards, workers’ rights, and environmental laws. It left Britain desperate, isolated, and pliable, exactly what Trump wanted.
Trump has openly demanded Britain stay out of the EU’s single market, and Starmer — terrified of spooking his billionaire backers — parrots that red line. This keeps Britain locked in a low-standard orbit, ripe for one-sided US trade conquest.
Brexit was sold as “taking back control.” In reality, it handed control to Wall Street.
The @guardian, years late & too stupid to spit at, finally admitting what everyone knows - Caster Semenya is a man. Those shouted down with accusations of racism for saying a 'black woman looks like a man' are owed an apology for their misleading coverage.
https://t.co/hsmXT1Vclh
In fairness to his lordship, he's promoting a bill written by lobbyists so it is understandable that he didn't think it was worth mentioning that the same lobbyists also paid for the advertisements.