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[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

This hasn’t gone viral the way it should.

Jamie Corry, an Irish lad from east Belfast, has lost his home of 13 years after masked rioters set fire to cars outside and it engulfed his house in last night’s violent chaos.

He stood right there and begged one of them:

“This is my house. This is my house.”

They didn’t care.

They burned it anyway.

“They’ve done it to one of their own.”

These racist, uneducated thugs and street urchins destroy everything in their path. They don’t care who gets hurt: locals, families, their own community. Just mindless arsonists ruining innocent lives with no excuse.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”

It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh here we go again. @YorkshireWater claiming they are "INVESTING" £8.3 billion between 2025 - 2030.

That of course turns out to be completely untrue.

The only money I can see that shareholders are putting into the business is paying back the "loan" they took, by March 2027 and the £100 million they were supposed to pay to help reduce sewage dumping by the end of March 2025.

Every other damned penny of that £8.3 billion, that's £8.2 billion is being funded directly out of bill payers' pockets and not a damned thing to do with shareholders.

Why are water companies allowed to tell such utter lies?

Ofwat?

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.

Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.

They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.

People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.

Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.

Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.

Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

Three problems, Rob: it's not a mosque (it's a food bank with a small prayer room), it wasn't a consecrated church (it was an old school building), and it doesn't serve any faith exclusively. The one thing genuinely destroyed at the site was a digger torched by arsonists who'd swallowed the exact "it's becoming a mosque" myth you're reposting. The C of E condemned the attack. Maybe read past the headline next time.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The victims of abhorrent crimes deserve justice. All children need to have their innocence protected. Every single one of the perpetrators should face the full force of the law.

As you know, in 1997 the Channel 4 programme Despatches broadcast "Soccer's Foul Play" - it included allegations of sexual offences against children by former Southampton FC coach Robert Higgins.

Two decades later Higgins was convicted of sexually abusing young children and was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Southampton FC commisisoned Barnardo's to conduct an independent review into Higgins, who worked for the club until 1989, in 2019. That report is here and makes sobering reading: https://t.co/PAJCOOBSxw

That review includes the response of the club to the allegations in the Despatches programme in 1997 (sections 244-250)

As this article from the BBC reveals, following the Despatches programme both Hampshire and Southampton social services consulted police and wrote to local youth organisations expressing concern about Higgins coaching boys. A joint letter urged parents to "make an informed choice about his contact with your child/ren"
https://t.co/QDidSCiMJE

That is an example of action taken following the Despatches programme in 1997 to reduce the risk of more children becoming victims of Higgins.

Section 248 of the Barnardo's report (image below) tells us that there is no record of the board of Southampton FC even discussing the allegations against Higgins, let alone evidence of them taking any action in relation to them.

You were chairman of Southampton FC in 1997 Rupert, having taken over the previous year. I've posted these questions several times now in the hope you'll acknowledge them but you never have and I suspect you never will:

Are any of these details incorrect in any way?

Why didn't the board you led have a minuted discussion of the allegations about Higgins revealed by the programme?

Given the serious nature of these allegations, why didn't you commission a review or inquiry into Higgins actions while at Southampton FC?

Given the conversations you've now had with victims of childhood sexual abuse, do you regret that you personally didn't do more to respond to the allegations made against Higgins in 1997?

Higgins convictions relate to crimes against 24 children. The Barnardo's report tell us they were left vulnerable to ongoing abuse by Higgins which impacted upon their lives as children and the adults they became. Those abused were offered no support and were "left to make sense for themselves of all that happened"

A shameful example of how a failure to act against a sexual abuser can have devestating consequences.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Reform UK's Robert Kenyon says he wants to stop St Mary’s becoming a mosque

Right: The building was never a consecrated church. It was a former school used as a prayer hall. It closed, stood empty for five years, and is now being turned into a food bank with a multi-faith prayer room

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Beaufort Castle is an astonishing impregnable crusader fortress that’s survived 800+ years of turbulent Middle East history.

Then along came Netanyahu

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Not sure who's sillier on this site, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I also asked how @bbcquestiontime intended to introduce Laura Gilbert. She is a paid employee of the Tony Blair Institute. It is funded by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle who has commercial interests in AI in the UK & beyond.

She is not, in any capacity, an independent AI expert. @bbcpress did not respond to my query

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Palantir’s UK mouthpiece has been uncritically platformed the BBC (multiple times), the Sun, the Times, the Observer & now the Evening Standard.

It’s a really instructive lesson for everyone on how power works & the role the media plays

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Thread! 🧵

Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends.

#TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news.

Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals.

Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Imagine if a candidate of any other party was found to have deleted an account with so many disgustingly offensive posts. I suspect we will hear very little of this as the Double Standards Squad continue to ply their trade to the benefit of the 5 million pound man

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Correlation is not causation but facts are facts.

@thenerve_news has also established that Harbourne has poured an extraordinary £30m into British politics! In just 6 years.

This is a story not just about Farage, but Johnson too.
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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Senator Murphy, as someone with first-hand experience in authoritarianism and media consolidation, I can tell you that this kind of power is being accumulated rapidly under one political roof precisely to guarantee that political control will never be lost.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

President Trump is rapidly moving this country toward authoritarianism.

Part of that is creating the myth of the “Great Leader” by naming public buildings after himself — something dictators have done.

Today I introduced a bill with @ChrisVanHollen & @Sen_Alsobrooks to stop it.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron just flatly rejected Trump’s Greenland fantasy.

The French president made it clear: Greenland is not for sale and will not be taken.

A direct rebuke of Trump’s threats and a reminder that allies aren’t colonies.

That’s what leadership looks like.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I think all of us prefer the inexpert. We want unqualified teachers to teach our kids, people who’ve failed their driving tests to drive our taxis, faith healers to deal with us in A&E, the gobby bloke in the pub to represent us in court and RFK jr to run the public health system of the world’s wealthiest country

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

NOT a violation of the law:

- Telling ICE agents to go fuck themselves
- Flipping off ICE agents
- Yelling at ICE agents
- Filming ICE agents
- Refusal to cooperate with ICE agents' demands
- Disobeying commands without fighting back

This is all according to...@DHSgov