Matthew

Strathclyde University Academic, Elder at Houston and Killellan Kirk, Singer, Walker, Cyclist, Runner and wine drinker - all my own views here

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

This is a great thread!

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine should hold a presidential election in wartime. Nazi Germany demanded the same of Britain in July 1942. This is the story of why the UK delayed holding elections throughout World War II. ⬇️

[dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod]

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation”

George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

@SkyNews ‘Wow’ describing a Nazi salute as a ‘dance move’… this is a new low for journalism

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

This seems like a pretty important tweet to report right now!

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Here’s what the Independent Inquiry said:

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

Here’s what the Independent Inquiry said:

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

Amazing work by Campbell’s!!

[MaggieMay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪 @CailinasEirinn]

😂😂😂👏👏👏

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

Read this excellent thread before shedding too many tears over poor farmers

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own.

Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest?... 1/

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

Listened to this yesterday - very powerful…

[BBC Radio 4 Today @BBCr4today]

After Irish actress Saoirse Ronan silenced the Graham Norton sofa with a comment on women's safety last week, @BBCNickRobinson discusses the topic with his daughter Alice.

Click below to listen on @BBCSounds ⬇️

[Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr]

The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

Love this 😂

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

that academia was a meritocracy

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

Greenock Cut - always a fabulous walk ❤️☀️

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

This is excellent

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

These mindless riots are doing untold damage to the UK’s reputation right across the world. And yet the secret sympathisers still say ‘Of course I disapprove of what’s happening, but…’ And then they make the racists’ case for them.

[Matthew @MatthewJA178]

This…amidst all the disgusting and frightening scenes over the weekend, and the bravery of the police, and the community minded folk who clear up we must remember that these individuals are a minority and that underneath it all we are better than this 🙏🏼

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors"

"To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society better in many ways"

"What's going on is specific to these crowds.. Crowd psychology is there when people are cleaning up the streets as well as attacking the streets.. The difference is one group has an ideology of hate and violence, another has a vision of community and solidarity"

"Most people are pro immigration.. The irony is that over recent years attitudes towards immigration has become more positive.. People see immigrants as a boom rather than as a menace to the country.. Britain is one of the more liberal countries"

"If we didn't have migrants then our care service would fall apart, our NHS would fall apart.. It's important not to highlight the negative exceptions, but to show that most people are pro migrants"

[Jo @notgonnagoyet]

#FarageRiots #FarageDoesNotSpeakForMe

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Has @wself been proved spot on right about Farage, Trump and Brexit?

Nothing more than grubby little opportunists riding on the coattails of history!

#FarageRiots

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

Can’t share this often enough

#Riots

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Farage supporters raging about this from the Times
- do share widely
#ToriesAreOut #StarmerIsPM29 #LabourLandside #Changebeginstoday