Paul Davey

Husband, father, chief dog walker and sometimes bottle-washer. Originally here to tweet about ports and shipping but ….

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

@matoxley Leopard have been suspiciously fast for a few years now. I wonder how long they’ve been getting away with it?

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

But what we really want to know is what do three random people in West Bromwich think of Starmer. Thank God for the 6 o’clock news! #wasteofgoodtime

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"The prime minister is in office but not in power," Kemi Badenoch says

"Everyone is trying to pretend it's alright, it's not alright," the Conservative leader adds

Follow live: https://t.co/KAbXByemX3

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

#dogsatpollingstations

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

I’m not sure those espousing a ban on marches protesting a genocide as a means of fighting anti-semitism have thought it through fully. Associating British Jews with Israel’s crimes isn’t going to make anyone safer. More likely the opposite. Stupid idea.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Stephen Kapos has attended every pro-Palestine march. He is Jewish and a survivor of the Holocaust.

“We get the warmest, most enthusiastic response from the marchers. They are happy family events, nothing to do with hatred at all. It is a slur.” 🎯

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

Can someone explain what’s wrong with Starmer saying yes, we knew Mandelson was a risk but thought it one worth taking because of his relationship with Trump? Everyone knew that and most people thought it also worth taking at the time.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

What an odd way to admit that your staff are committing crimes, and to let them know they won’t get in trouble when they commit more.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

Apart from the small matter of killing tens of thousands of people, their actions have now increased food and fuel prices for everyone else. Isn’t it time they were sanctioned?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Israel is a rogue state and our government should treat it as such.

Our Government should have suspended diplomatic and trade relations long ago but if not now, when?

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

Stop press: Pink Floyd see huge pension boost.

[NASA @NASA]

It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕

Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

The BBC doesn’t need enemies. It does such a good job itself.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

@BBCPolitics Would that new jobs package be the training places increase desperately needed by patients and the NHS?

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared.

Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR.

The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

@DPJHodges But at the same time you’re railing against Starmer for not blindly following him?

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

Catching up, as you do, with the Tour of Sardinia, remembering when the south were the poor of Europe, and marvelling on what better condition their roads are in than ours these days. Ho hum.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

@AnnaJerzewska @pmdfoster True but the border and processes underpinning it have evolved over a long time. Top down imposition of a new system is pretty much a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Better for all with continued market led organic development.

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

Good. Not only was proscribing PA a misuse of terrorism laws, it was also patently absurd #GoTerrorGrannies

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge against government ban https://t.co/fk4xWBFC9q

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: £0

UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: £17,000,000,000

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Have written about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of his relationship with Epstein but in a sense because of it, because of what it represented. Many congratulated him for it at the time. And are now pretending they didn’t.

I write about that hypocrisy. And one of my own.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni.

Is that fair?

[Paul Davey @PortsWatch]

@cyclingontnt Superb? Don’t you mean sneaky?