Nick Pollard

Old hack..still hacking away. Knows how Ofcom and compliance work - it’s not always how you think.

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Well said.

[Lena @windgieindgie]

Nobody is saying the people injured in the M25 accident were not the priority. Of course they were and my thoughts go to all of them. I too have been involved in a head on accident, I understand the psychological and physical aspect and I hope all victims make a good recovery.

It was a horrific accident, and everyone was concerned for the victims. Getting them out safely and getting them medical help came first, it doesn’t matter if people missed their flights /holidays / days at work.

But after that, the way the traffic was handled was appalling. Being concerned about people trapped in their cars for hours in extreme heat is not disrespecting the victims. It is basic common sense.

Some people may have needed medication. Some were elderly. Some had children with them. Some had no air con and little or no water. Nobody sets off to go one junction and expects to be stuck on a motorway for eight hours.

The exit slip road traffic lights were backing local traffic up, which then stopped cars coming off the M25. Each light change barely moved anyone because the road ahead was already gridlocked. If cars got off at all, it was only a handful at a time.

That needed proper police traffic management. But we saw no police managing that road at all. No clear signs, no notices, no officers directing traffic, nothing.

They should have closed or controlled the local roads properly, dealt with the lights, and got people off the motorway in a safe and organised way. Instead, people were left to their own devices, trying to get off a blocked motorway into even more blocked traffic.

The abuse I have had for saying this is ridiculous. Calling out poor traffic management does not mean I do not care about the accident victims.

I have not once moaned about myself being stuck in a car for almost 11 hours. People’s lives matter far more than my day.

But that does not mean the aftermath was handled well. It wasn’t.

[Sam Street @samstreetwrites]

When England are on the wrong end of a bad decision later in the World Cup, we should be humble enough to remember how Ghana were robbed from winning the group by VAR going to sleep for a clear penalty for the Konsa foul and a red card for Bellingham covering his mouth.

[⚡️🇧🇼 @Priceless_MCI]

Harry Kane after the Ghanian native doctor placed a curse on him 😭

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Best comment so far!

[Ewok @22CaratEwok]

This England game’s like standing at your back door at 1am waiting for the dog to have a shit

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

@GuerrierMa45245 @EssexPR I haven’t seen any suggestion in news coverage that he’s in a secure facility. The Times story says he’s been ‘released on bail’. I agree that if the man is detained in some way it would change the story but if he is, it’s puzzling that that very important detail is missing.

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

This can’t be the whole story surely? Crazed bloke throws child into crocodile pen. He’s ’unfit for interview’ so..he’s released on bail?

Man arrested over boy ‘thrown in crocodile pen’ is bailed

https://t.co/oKadVUcKb5

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

I remember that joke from at least 60 years ago!

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Excellent

[Willie Stewart @Lindsay04555896]

Dear Scottish twitter, please stick to this kind of material

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

Someone on the local paper just made this comment and it made me die laughing it’s such old fashioned British humour.

The question was about protests and feeling unsafe.

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

@NickParrottTV Done

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Painful, very painful..

[Anfield Edition | æ @AnfieldEdition]

60 points is the lowest a team has finished on to secure Champions League football in history.

We’re very, very lucky.

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

It’s final exam time!! 🤣🐾

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

@MrGeorgeThorpe Oi, you, George..you’re fired. Retrospectively, this morning and forever. Collect your things.

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Incredible, his heart rate was lower than mine when I’m on the phone trying to renew my car insurance..

[Serkan Tanyildizi @srkntnyldz]

Nerdeyse Oksijenin bile olmadığı 7620 metre yükseklikten paraşütsüz atlayan Luke Aikins, 30x30 metrede kurulan ağ düzeneğine paraşütü olmadan iniş yapıyor.

Tarihte hiç bir uçuş ekipmanı olmadan bir uçaktan atlayıp, yine ekipmansız inebilen tek kişi…

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Great win but very worrying if the Mill and Co are not able to recoup all their costs. Would be deeply unfair.

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

@_TheLondoner @Coramazov @NewStatesman Thanks to @CharlotteTobitt for reporting on the case in @pressgazette this morning.

"A big victory for standing by your journalism”.

https://t.co/WnTMLV4l7X

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Wonderfully tasteless..

[IKENNA @kena_ewuru]

Who wrote this script? 😭

[Ludek Miklosko @ludek_miklosko]

I wouldn’t usually post a thread all about one decision in a 90 minute game of football, but today’s was so significant, and so outrageous, it has to be highlighted and discussed.

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Fantastic reporting, dogged and sensitive.

[Hannah Summers @hansummers]

Just catching up on this brilliant reporting from @louisetickle who took on the MoD after the government attempted to ban her from reporting that an abusive father was a member of the special forces. https://t.co/YtM6NnbcSv

[Nick Pollard @NickPollard2]

Seems incredible that this isn’t playing as a bigger story across mainstream media.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Today we announce a new policy:

In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of thousands at a time.

Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centres, and each will be held there a couple of weeks before being deported.

So here’s our promise:

A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP.

Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council.

And of the remaining areas, we will prioritise Green controlled parliamentary constituencies and Green controlled councils to locate the detention centres.

Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or Reform MP, we guarantee you won’t have a detention centre near you.

If you vote Green, there’s a good chance you will.

This is an important exercise in democratic consent, not just for our mass deportation policy, but for where the detention centres are placed.

Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates for open borders, I look forward to their warm embrace of this policy.

https://t.co/toKFVERafD

[colin #FBPE @cogitator99]

@HLInvest: why is dividend history not available for Taylor Wimpy at all