Pat Clark

[Pat Clark @MrsTastic]

@JamesEFoster @SophyRidgeSky @aakhtar @SangitaMyska So who exposed Peter’s mortgage scandal and the later Hinduja brothers’ passport story? Think you will find it was the media, as was Epstein Island, Prince Andrew on the island and snapped at Epstein Manhattan house. Do let me know how you found out about it all.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Two Suffolk farmers living next to a former bomber base used GPS to draw the shadow of a B-17 Flying Fortress onto one of their fields that lay under the base' former flight path, then ploughed it with a tractor to create this striking temporary artwork! 🙌 🚜

📸 Downed Warbirds

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Sometimes you can only shake your head in disbelief at how unserious this government is.

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

It’s now been reported that Steven has sadly lost sight in both eyes after he was so violently attacked and nearly beheaded by a vile foreigner in Belfast the other day ,so not only is he a vulnerable adult who had hearing loss he now is blind. Well done to the British government

[Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball]

Safe to say the Tartan Army were impressed by this Boston officer's keepie-uppie skills 😅👮

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

I must confess to being a bit emotional this morning at the news of a knighthood for Kevin Sinfield.

I’ve always called him ‘Sir Kev’ and it’s hard to think of a man more deserving. He showed us all what it is to be a friend. What it means to step up when people need you and he did it all for his mate ❤️

After he carried Rob across the line in the Leeds marathon someone sent me this poem anonymously and I kept it on my phone. They called it ‘Arise Sir Kev’…

When shadows gathered, and hearts would break
Kev knew it was time to take…
One step, another, through wind and rain,
Carrying hope, despite the pain.

He never stopped, mile after mile,
Driven by loyalty, strength… a smile.
For Rob, his friend, he aim was true
Showing us all, what friendship can do.

Not measured in trophies, applause, or fame…
But turning up, again and again.
And in every mile he chose to run,
He showed us how friendship is truly done.

[Pat Clark @MrsTastic]

@HurmMatthew @JamesMelville Nice legs!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Massive kudos to Scotland Tartan Army hero Craig Ferguson - who has arrived in Boston after an incredible 3,200 mile trek across America. The mental health campaigner has raised over £1 million for Scottish Action for Mental Health. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Pat Clark @MrsTastic]

https://t.co/fozHg2nh57

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

It's not often that I agree with @DaleVince but he's right on this

$billions has been spent on CCS globally with next to nothing to show for it. And almost all the projects rely on hydrocarbon production or processing for their economics which is incompatible with a net zero world

Thinking the UK will succeed where everyone else has failed is pure hubris. Spending £££ on @Ed_Miliband's vanity project is indefensible when the military is in such dire need of funding

[James McMurdock MP @JMcMurdockMP]

This is important.

Caring for the planet is not mad but Britain’s Net Zero policies are.

Britain has some of the most expensive energy in the world. If energy is expensive everything is expensive.

Labour is fighting the wrong battle and some of the best among them now openly admit they know it.

China has produced more co2 in the last 8 years than Britain in the last 250!

Our manufacturing industries, our high quality, high skill, proud manufacturing industries are dead or dying.

The cost of living crisis and poor jobs market is linked to this.

The world has changed but the basic principals haven’t.

Britain needs to be strong. It always has. It always will.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

EXCLUSIVE from @oliver_wright

Keir Starmer was blindsided by John Healey's resignation as defence secretary because he was far more worried about Ed Miliband and Rachel Reeves

Miliband was on “resignation watch” after he refused repeatedly to meet Starmer to discuss planned cuts to his net zero agenda. The fear was that the energy secretary would use the announcement to quit and publicly throw his weight behind Burnham

Extraordinarily No 10 was also worried about Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, who had been strongly arguing for a much smaller defence uplift of “single figure billions”

Reeves was said to be so angry about the move to take money from other departments’ spending plans to top up defence that she had refused to take part in the process of drawing up the cuts

While her allies said Reeves had worked “constructively” on trying to find the money, tellingly it was No 10, rather than the Treasury, that negotiated cuts to infrastructure budgets.

“It went well beyond what Rachel wanted,” said one No 10 source. “John [Healey] knew how difficult it was and how hard the prime minister worked to get it up to £13.5 billion.”

Our weekend read on how John Healey’s resignation blew a hole in Keir Starmer’s survival strategy:

Healey’s resignation is deeply damaging for two reasons. First, until now, Healey has been as loyal as they come, resolutely defending the prime minister time and again on the broadcast rounds

But far worse was the timing. Starmer’s whole survival strategy was predicated on playing up his national security credentials. The plan had been to launch Dip before next week’s G7 summit at Evian in France and use the event to present Starmer as the man who could take the “big decisions to make the country safe”

It was deliberately designed to contrast Starmer with the inexperienced mayor of Greater Manchester, giving Burnham and Labour MPs at least a few second thoughts about an immediate challenge

Instead the prime minister heads to Evian with that entire strategy in tatters and a date with President Trump that could be excruciating

“The survival plan has been totally demolished by Healey,” a senior Labour figure said. “Starmer’s strongest card was as the man who can take the big decisions to keep the country safe and Healey has accused him of putting the country at risk. It is hard to see how we go from here.”

https://t.co/ZdP2hCQmNr

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.

Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.

Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.

[Belle @RoyallyBelle_]

Please never change, Prince Louis 😂🙏

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

Recent repair work at a school in Chelmsford has opened a doorway into Tudor history.

Workers repairing a historic ha-ha — a sunken landscape wall — at New Hall School uncovered the entrance to previously unknown tunnels believed to date back to the reign of King Henry VIII.

The school stands on the site of the former Palace of Beaulieu, once owned by Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne Boleyn, before Henry VIII acquired it in 1517 and transformed it into one of his early royal palaces.

Inside the tunnels, finds include pottery, bones, glass bottles, glass fragments, and pieces of lead. Selected artefacts are now expected to be examined and displayed.

[Pat Clark @MrsTastic]

@GBNEWS @Ben1Jam No! Must be a joke!

[roger @rogernuminous]

@DailyMail

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Teenage girl was given cigarettes and vodka before being gang raped by four Afghan nationals who then fled UK in back of a lorry to France, court hears https://t.co/IsXCJnPvrE

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

They tell us to turn off taps, switch off hosepipes, drink from bottles with tethered caps, turn the lights off and tell us to eat less red meat…but at the same time, allow huge AI data centres that deplete our natural resources. We are being conned by our own governments.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Rachel Reeves’s ISA overhaul descends into chaos as City warns millions could stop investing

https://t.co/D7YMVaaaPG