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Hammersmith. Political, social, cultural. Lawyer. Roundhead in Cavalier's clothing
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[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

A reminder for anyone failing to read beyond the headlines that Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein, had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, wasn't in parliament when Peter Mandelson sent his tip offs to Jeffrey Epstein, his sole contribution to the scandal being to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador. Just in case you were getting confused.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts:

"To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza.

"I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms.

"To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing."

The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.

[HammersmithHomie @HammersmithHom1]

Looks like an interesting variety of headgear?

[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

One of the earliest photographs of cricket in India, showing British army officers playing on the parade ground in Kohat (now in Pakistan). This was taken by Major Keyes of the 1st Punjab Infantry between 1862 and 1864

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

This could be interesting.

[. @jdpoc]

Hard to find a more accurate, succinct summary of the Reform Party.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

How can anyone watch the reports of sadistic violence , racism , sexual assault & criminality of ICE in America & wish that upon its own citizens ?!!
Our media & politics are truly broken .

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

A 2022 tweet by Carole Cadwalladr

She alone called out Farage for taking the roubles

Threatened, sued & vilified (remember mad cat lady insults) for doing so

Now Reform Wales ex leader (& close friend of Farage) has pleaded guilty to taking Russian bribes

It’s very quiet

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Another day another news blackout from most of our media on the story of a Farage ally in European Parliament and leader of his party in Wales taking bribes from Russia to spout their lies and BS … Nathan Gill should be a household name by now. But the media that gave you phone hacking and helped give you Brexit are making sure he remains under the radar in case it demands their new pal Nigel …

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Defra secretary Emma Reynolds is writing up plans to leave the habitats directive and draw up a list of “British wildlife” to protect instead in order to make it easier to build." @horton_official

Reputation in tatters govt wonders why it's got no credibility left.

❌ 50% reduction in sewage dumping. FALSE.
❌ Send water company CEOs to jail. FALSE!
❌ £104 billion "private sector investment". FALSE!
❌ £100 billion to nationalise the water industry. FALSE!

What next, oh it's the Habitats Directive.

https://t.co/oeI0VMA3RW

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Say yes and pass it on.

[HammersmithHomie @HammersmithHom1]

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[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Here is the Sun's pitifully small apology for its lie about benefits tourism - a lie that was accepted as truth by millions and helped deliver Brexit.

These lies are perverting our democracy. At a minimum, apologies should be published in the same location and size as the lie.

[AnthroVet50 @spooked75]

I have spent the last 3 days painfully sitting through Charlie Kirk debates. Here are my conclusions:

He was a political grifter pandering to his MAGA base for personal and monetary gain.

He purposely chose divisive topics to maintain relavence.

His videos were manipulated, only showing arguments where Kirk was succesful

When facing actual intellectuals or prepared students, Kirk's arguments were repeatedly crushed, exposing Kirk for the uneducated buffoon that he was.

Kirk was highly succesful against random, unprepared, and often emotional university students, who often didn't have any debating experience, or the media experience he had.

Kirk was a predatory oppurtunist who prioritized entertainment value over genuine intellectual value.

Kirk operated as a sophisticated political grifter who successfully monetized cultural resentment and political division.

His dramatic personal enrichment, calculated message evolution, strategic provocation, and opportunistic positioning all point to someone who prioritized personal gain over genuine conviction

His ability to extract millions from donors while living in luxury estates represents a classic grifter model - exploiting the genuine concerns and grievances of his audience for personal enrichment while offering them little substantive improvement to their actual circumstances.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Calling for the assassination of a PM will almost certainly guarantee a visit from MI5.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

.@Nigel_Farage WHERE DID THE FUCKING MONEY COME FROM?

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

Kruger's defection significant - first sitting MP to switch and one of party's original thinkers

But working for Cameron then Johnson then Farage gives impression more interested in power than principles

Reform increasingly looking like right wing Tories under new name

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

When this government came to power any political analyst with half a brain could have forecast Jas Athwal, Tulip Sidiq, Angela Rayner & Peter Mandelson were all accidents waiting to happen. So why did nobody in No 10 see this? It happens again & again in politics.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Years too late. Incredible that @gmcuk - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long.

Regulatory failure at its worst.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Loving the chorus of outrage about sleazy Peter Mandelson, but many of the big journalists doing the tut-tutting must have known about this stuff years ago...no? So why didn't you say anything? And because you didn't, you're part of the problem, aren't you? Covering for him.