Gerard Barden

‘In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind’ - Frank Turner

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 @campbellclaret on Bloomberg with Jacob Rees-Mogg cuts through the noise:

A rejoin referendum likely won’t happen anytime soon because while Nigel Farage and Reform remain influential, the EU simply won’t have us back.

“While we’ve got the prospect of people like Jacob getting into bed with people like Nigel Farage… the EU’s not going to think about having us back.”

Brutal but accurate. Farage’s chaos is the biggest barrier to fixing Brexit.

Rees-Mogg admits the Leave campaign was chaotic, different people promised different things, no coherent plan, and the government implementing it (Theresa May, a Remainer) didn’t believe in it.

Classic Brexit: sold with lies, delivered with confusion.

Ten years on, the division Brexit created inside the Tory party helped birth Reform and now it’s blocking the very reset or rejoin that a growing majority of the public wants.

Brexit broke British politics. Fixing it means moving past the Farage era.

[Welsh Rugby Union 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WelshRugbyUnion]

🚨 Solar panels generating enough electricity to power more than 50 matchdays have been turned on at Principality Stadium. 🏟

Over 3,250 panels, have been fitted to the Stadium’s iconic roof, making it the largest such installation at any sports stadium in the UK. 👏👇

#CymruAmByth

[🚨The Celebration Police🚨 @PLCPolice]

Feels like time to call it a day on this account, so this will be my final post.

I started this piss-taking Celebration Police thing 4 years ago and it’s genuinely been great fun. Unexpectedly so.

Through this account, I’ve met and engaged with some brilliant people, built a 55k following, made a bit of money and, for the most part, enjoyed my time here.

But let’s be honest: the joke wore thin a long time ago. And i’m bored of this platform and the increasingly repetitive, shit banter that fills it.

And Arsenal have won the league, so who gives a fuck about weirdos telling you when you can or can’t be happy about the football team you invest so much of yourself in😂

Policing celebrations is about as lame as it gets. It really is😂👎🏻

So thank you for all the support over the years, each and every one of you, and for engaging with The Celebration Police. You’ve been brilliant❤️

So for one last time…

ALL UNITS TO THE EMIRATES!!! 🚨🚨🚨

Chiefo x
#COYG

[The Thing About Arsenal @aboutarsenalpod]

"I have never seen anything like it."

Jim reflects on Arsenal's bonkers parade celebrations 🤯

Get more here ➡️ https://t.co/knY7BbghgK

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

Lovely video and good to have the actual explanation out there (again) cos, again, too much space is taken up by rage baiters and people only half paying attention.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Before Brexit, there were about 300K net migrants a year, mostly from the EU.

After Brexit, immigration shot up to 900K, and EU migration was negative.

It’s amazing how stupid Brexit was from every possible perspective.

Populism is a low IQ movement.

[Michelle Beckett @MichelleBeckett]

My daughter was elected as a city councillor when she was 18, the youngest in the country at the time. (11 years ago)
She worked her butt off beforehand (and afterwards) to ensure she knew all there is to know about how local government works. She was brilliant and did some important work. She knew all this backwards before she got in the chamber.
This is outrageous incompetence. I wouldn’t dream of voting Reform, but this should give pause to anyone remotely considering it.

[LBC @LBC]

"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans..."

James O'Brien reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.

[Amy Lawrence @amylawrence71]

"External critics formed a caricature they choose not to see beyond. Arteta is not a manager they care to try to understand."

But he has got Arsenal, and Arsenal have got him.

Free to read - the roots of Arteta's passion for his club.

https://t.co/13X0KhEvzu via @NYTimes

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history.

Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind.

Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President.

His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history:

Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million.

That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY.

While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock.

Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell."

Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99.

Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%.

And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history.

So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high

And that's just ONE stock...

The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta.

He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia.

He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise."

Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date.

He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense.

He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker.

He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions.

Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't.

His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades.

The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed."

But here's what independently managed looks like:

Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high.

Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips.

Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake.

Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform.

Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades.

Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million.

Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter.

While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks.

This isn't a left or right issue.

We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses.

What do you think?

[The Left Bible @theleftbible]

Led By Donkeys do it again 😭👏👏👏👏

Immigration makes Britain brilliant ❤️

Let’s make this go viral 👇

[rudy @RudyR23]

A Gooner's guide to Budapest 🇭🇺

Topics covered:
🗣️ Language
🎫 Travel
💰 Money
🍽️ Local Food
👥 People
🚬 Habits
⚽ Football Tourism
🎉 Fun Facts

📸: Puskás Aréna, 4/24

[Gerard Barden @PaddyV4]

Oh and thanks for the season ticket renewal message today and the RPI increase, because….why not. Bang on message. #afcchampionsleague #AFCTickets #AFCFinal

[Gerard Barden @PaddyV4]

@Arsenal over the years the clubs policy for ticketing, the platform, the experience has been at best a challenge. Congratulations in finding new ways of making the ticket application process whole new levels of hell. Lots of ways 2 segment application tiers, so little thought.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Piers Morgan, "If we discovered last week that Keir Starmer has taken £5,000,000 without declaring it from a crypto billionaire in Thailand, Reform UK would have gone absolutely berserk" @piersmorgan 👏

Robert Jenrick, "We're talking about a gift even before Nigel Farage was a member of parliament"

Fiona Bruce, "But you know you have to declare it in the 12 months before you become an MP"

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Declan Rice being booed by West Ham fans for captaining them to a European trophy, leaving on good terms, fetching a £105m fee, and not bad mouthing them since. Seems about right.

[🇳🇴 kimmoFC @kimmoFC]

The day I stopped taking awards seriously. It's nothing but politics.

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

Don’t say anything, just repost!😂