holly🇵🇸

been singin all my life all round the towns n everythin

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

The RNLI issue might be the bleakest of UK issues. A LIFEBOAT charity. Doctors don’t check whether they approve of you before treating you. Firefighters don’t ask whether you deserve saving. The minute emergency help becomes conditional, we are in very VERY dark territory.

[Aurora Britt @Britt4rva]

I know we are all numb but here’s the sitting president threatening to do war crimes to 90 million people in front of the entire UN

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

Christian bride and groom
Bethlehem, Palestine c. 1943

[Brandon Acosta 🇵🇷 @KinglyRed]

RIP to the man behind the greatest line read of all time

[kolbasos @kolbasos]

My biggest contribution yet #koth #kingofthehill

[G.T @gingerrtom]

oh did he now?

[holly🇵🇸 @Hollyv_m]

This is *my* Barbie (2023) monologue

[beth @bethpuss]

this random feminist tea in a 2000s porno i was watching

[C. West @WestttC_]

This is how Clavicular sounds to me

[raina douris @RahRahRaina]

elmo. please. do not read the book he tries to give you

[not ‘rihanna’ 🇯🇲 @__rnt91]

Can’t believe the world just accepts this

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

This is the most Nigel Farage thing Nigel Farage has ever done. Stand down in the safest seat Reform holds, then stand again so he can win it back and say: “See? 20,000 people voted for me, so we can all forget about my dodgy billionaire mate.”

He is such a fucking drama queen.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

The greatest tweet a BBC reporter has ever done was when Nick Robinson described elderly Brits as "people who grew up with films about world war 2". I think about it all the time.

[Foreskin and Seven Inches Ago @redrummarts]

Guy who thinks Hollywood is run by pedophile rapists but also thinks MeToo was overblown

[Gerry Samuels @GerrySamuels12]

Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’

Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….

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[OT @olivertudge1]

Just a message to everyone telling young people to "toughen up" because you had it harder...
Fine. We'll cancel your winter fuel payments.
Toughen up. It's not that cold. Put a jumper on.

[Milli Hill @millihill]

This headline from @Independent
clearly blames the mother for this tragedy. In fact, the father was in charge of the toddler at the time.
https://t.co/Ys7X8DIgDY

[devi @gutsbian]

one day we really need to talk about modern mematic warfare and how the “tel and aviv” or “spiritually israeli” jokes use internet irony to desensitize the public to mass violence, laundering the language of apartheid and genocide into casual, everyday discourse.

[garlic wife @garlic_wife]

Trying as hard as I can to bring an “Angelica Huston photographed by Annie Leibovitz” vibe to my late 30s

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.