Monica Dowling

Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield

[Housing Technician @HomeManager2018]

@politixintheuk If people don't come to there sense's and do not! vote Reform this is nothing compared to what our streets will look like if Reform are voted in. Your voting for practically civil war so they can piggy back off hate and fill there luxury lifestyles.

[Philip Piggott @PhilPigX]

@politixintheuk Were Nige decent, he'd refund the Southampton #FarageRiots police, council and local's costs. The two Southampton wards affected are Portswood and Bargate - expect the 6 ward councillors to hold Reform UK to account at the next meeting of Southampton City Council. @SouthamptonCC

[dualnatgbgd59. @Smithgeoffrey59]

@politixintheuk Basically they should just send the clean up bill and the cost of policing the farage riots to 🤔 lets think about this a minute!
Well yes farage?.

[Carl Stein @carl_stein_]

Far-rage did it cleverly, he came out from his 11 weeks hiding hole hoping we'd forget his £5M bribe and two houses with unexplained funding, to feed red meat to his thugs, without saying the exact words of "vandalism and attack the police" so he's contributed to it occurring with a weak plausible denialabity.

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Smashed car windows. Bricks littering the streets. Families left clearing up the mess after a night of chaos in Southampton.
This wasn't done in Henry Nowak's name. Associating this destruction with Henry or his family's memory is an insult.
This was the work of Farage and his mob of thugs who seized the chance to riot while pretending to be the victims.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

A man of small vision…

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The chart isn’t the story. The story is that every single person in that room watched him compare a reflecting pool to skyscrapers and said nothing. These are the people running the most powerful country on earth, and not one of them had the spine to say ‘sir, that’s a puddle.’

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

I am deeply grateful for the many kind messages and positive feedback I have received, both online and in person, about my Second World War posts.

It is heart-warming to know that so many of you find them informative and worthwhile.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I seem to remember the BBC telling me back in the day, when the polls were good for Labour, that their guidelines prevented “reporting of single polls as news items in their own right.”
Seems to have changed if a single poll is good news for Reform! And to think that the consequence of all their favours and flattery will be to help elect a party committed to destroying them. Weird

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

@Keir_Starmer Be under no doubt. This is Farage feeling a bit sorry for himself. Not for the Nowaks. Nor for those impacted by riot he invoked.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

@Keir_Starmer @jonesr2310 Well said.

Now regulate social media. It’s the only way to stop the out of control far right radicalisation. It’ll also curb the foreign interference, troll farms and ai disinformation that Farage and all the other traitors are actively involved in/ using.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Henry Nowak’s family have lost their son and brother in the most appalling circumstances.

Nigel Farage is exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division.

It’s completely unforgivable.

[Anne @Anniepop2027]

Good interview by @GarethBarlow (who I don’t always praise😬) with a Sikh representative who was very eloquent and asking why media are using the word Sikh whenever they mention this when it is just a heinous crime and also calling Farage’s comments disgraceful @SkyNews

[Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉 @Nermeenalswaisi]

I am a Palestinian from Gaza. This is my land.

I am not an aggressor—I am simply trying to survive.

If you see this, leave a dot (.) so the world knows we are not forgotten.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Powerful from Starmer, seeing Farage having to sit there, squirming and take it made the speech all the more enjoyable.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Dmitry MacKenzie 🇺🇦 @dmitryshchipkov]

How many people are still willing to support Ukraine? How many still find the strength to keep going? Please don’t forget to share the latest updates.

As a crew commander, my first responsibility is to cover the needs of my own crew. But how can I refuse to help friends who spend 70% of their salary supporting their unit and ensuring it has what it needs?

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

Would you support President 🇺🇦 Zelensky receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?

YES or NO?

https://t.co/4ne7pMmmkp

[Monica Dowling @MONICA9291]

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