David Carter

Retired trade union official. Boro fan. International Marxist. Manxman.

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@OptaJoe @untypicalboro Remember watching Neymar play at the Riverside stadium Middlesbrough in 2012, but #Boro decided not to sign him as they already had Curtis Main (Olympic warm-up game v Great Britain).

[David Carter @Manxstar]

I recently took out a credit card with you @LloydsBank which I sometimes use to pay @TheCanaryUK news magazine. I understand you have now debanked them. Can you explain why? Otherwise I will cancel my business with you.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

This is utterly, utterly, outrageous. Lloyds is blocking The Canary from accessing its bank accounts. They are refusing to explain why.

This will undermine free speech and independent accountability journalism.

@LloydsBank must explain themselves NOW! Retweet @LloydsBank and make them come clean.

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@Gedpower Fingers crossed. 🤞

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

From Jeremy Corbyn’s new interview with Katie Halper:

I’ve never heard Jeremy say this before.

“There were lots of very wealthy people who had loaned the party money under Tony Blair, and the day I became leader they all asked for it back immediately.”

Badge of honour.👍

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

"I don't back away from the original decision. I think it gave 20 or so million people in Iraq hope of a better life and you just cannot walk away from that truth"

—Andy Burnham in 2010

By this time, a million Iraqis had been killed by the criminal British invasion he supported

"I'd be proud to follow Tony Blair's lead," he continued

Psychopath

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@mjdaly57 Her hatred for Corbyn goes back much further. According to Private Eye, she never forgave him for beating her to selection in Islington North (where she lived), forcing her to represent deepest Barking instead.

[David Carter @Manxstar]

I stand by what I said 10 years ago. We were right to leave the European Union | Larry Elliott https://t.co/InlBc6ZA2P

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@paullewismoney @Moneybox @FelicityHannah Not only is it produced at low cost, but it saves the rest of us money.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Bloomberg says only two points in the 14-point US-Iran deal favour the US.

Both are simply a return to the situation before the US and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran.

(screenshot c/o John Whitbeck)

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

The writings of former UK ambassador Craig Murray are a superb source of news and analysis that never makes the mainstream news outlets. https://t.co/E8g5VH3BnC

[Plutôt la Barbie @plutotlabarbie]

That's General Sir Nick Carter, former head of the armed forces, and now adviser to Exigent Capital*, and strategic counsellor at the Tony Blair Institute.

* A "Jerusalem-based financial services firm that provides strategic consulting to Israeli defence companies".

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@Somi_AMi Why didn’t the person taking the video (from two angles) put their camera down and help out? I think we know. . .

[David Carter @Manxstar]

I’ve drawn Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 in my grandson’s football team’s #WorldCup raffle. Now I know what it feels like to be a Newcastle United supporter. #UTB

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from
£61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%!

It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia.

Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change.

The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas

Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@BladeoftheS Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland, and the Isle of Man 🇮🇲. The Celtic World Cup.

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@steverichards14 Will you be performing in Edinburgh this August?

[David Carter @Manxstar]

@antonioguterres @UNIFIL_ Who killed him?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.

A different world is possible.