Patrick May

Chemist, Scientist, Guitarist, Optimist. Bibliophile, Czechophile, Operaphile, Dylanophile. Retweets not always an endorsement. @[email protected]

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

I have listened to Sir Olly Robbins evidence for last hour and forty minutes and am seeing the very best of the civil service. I am left incredulous that the decision was made to fire him. Has there been a more egregious and shameful decision by a political master desperate to save his own skin?

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

I’m pretty sure Trump really doesn’t want this photo of his bald spot circulating… so whatever you do, do NOT retweet!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was on a jolly to the British Virgin Islands when he says he learned Peter Mandelson was apparently a flight risk (unlikely).
No surprise he was in the Caribbean. Long been branded ‘long-haul Hoyle’ at our expense, spending more than £320,000 of taxpayers’ cash on foreign jaunts up until last summer since becoming Speaker in 2019.
He spent more than £200,000 on first and business class plane tickets plus tens of thousands more spent on chauffeur-driven cars, stays at luxury five-star resorts and restaurants.
During a previous Caribbean tour in March 2023, he shelled out nearly £5,500 chartering private planes to hop between the islands of St Maarten, Montserrat, Anguilla and Antigua.
In 2024, he spent £22,000 for a five-day trip to meet his counterpart in the Cayman Islands, staying at the Westin Grand, where his room was billed at £679 per night.
His snout. Our trough.
They really do take us for fools.

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

This is the book - and cover - that gave me my name, with my brother thought I looked like a hairy, scruffy caveman.

[Patrick May @PatrickFMay]

@coldwarsteve Superb Steve!

[Brian Moore @brianmoore666]

So you were lying all the time you were in government.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

David Frost is close to unique. Almost always and invariably wrong.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history. He brought the arts into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie amplified the arts, celebrated the arts, stood up for the arts and artists.

It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not.

Next thing perhaps he will want to rename JFK Airport, rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial. The Trump Jefferson Memorial. The Trump Smithsonian. The list goes on.

Can we not see what is happening here? C’mon, my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny. This is way beneath the stature of the job. It’s downright weird. It’s obsessive in a weird way. Just when you think somone can’t stoop any lower, down they go…

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

And people will continue to defend and support this vile, heartless, indecent little man…

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

What an utter ass. Beyond the pale. And for sure there will be complete silence about this from his cowardly sycophants

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

This is narcissism turned up to volume 11, as the Spinal Tap director might have noted

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

This guy. Sees a man with a gun, runs towards the problem and takes it off him. What a hero. In these awful and abhorrent moments, there’s always a reminder that people can be magnificent too.

[Patrick May @PatrickFMay]

@Martina It’s outstanding in every way. A bit like you actually.

[Patrick May @PatrickFMay]

@Maga_Trigger 11

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman. More front than a M&S support bra. £39,000,000 owed in taxes by PPE MEDPRO. If Michelle Mone had any shame she would resign her peerage.
A truly awful pair of con artists. Not one ounce of accountability. HMRC shame on you.
#HMRC

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

You’re reading my last post on this hate-addled pipe of septicaemia. Goodbye all!

[Patrick May @PatrickFMay]

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