Rich

Have returned to UK after a good few years in Sweden. I've been scandivised in the process. #FBPE

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

HEAT was released 29 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great crime thrillers of the 1990s, and the film that brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on screen together, the making of story will walk out on you in 30 seconds flat…

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[DramaAlert @DramaAlert]

Hackers just dropped the hardest AI music video of all time. 😂😂

[Brad Bo 🇺🇸 @BradBeauregardJ]

The CIA Director on Homeland, Mandy Patikin just released this video where he talks to the real national security leaders who he played on the shows.

You have to see what they say about Donald Trump.

Thanks for doing this @PatinkinMandy

[Rich @RichardWHearn]

@dieworkwear This @dieworkwear quote made it into the UK news: https://t.co/ekL0hNnPl9

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Said it before and I’m gonna say it again. Private hospitals do NOT have A&E, they use NHS ambulances, in emergencies they use NHS Drs. Why TF do you think using the private sector will save our NHS? Tories admitted it cost more to use agency staff than just give NHS staff a pay rise. You KNOW this will cost more. Who do you call in an emergency? You call the NHS. Just pay them fairly and you’ll retain staff. Using the private sector costs MORE money and they will never be as qualified as our already existing NHS. Omfg.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Creating a narrative that he's winning not losing is now an existential issue for Trump and his allies:
- that is he winning and strong and that we are losing and weak is his entire campaign. He is nothing w/o it
- he needs data showing him winning to contest the election 1/

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Both of the actions you see in these photos potentially amount to the offence of ‘public nuisance’.

One is punishable with “long, long prison sentences” & the other is rewarded with huge bonuses & billions in profits.

Why the disparity? What does this mean for the rule of law?

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

How bananas…

Our King got an inflation-busting pay rise of £45m last month and barely any of the UK media covered it

Where were the voices of those who typically hate anyone getting a pay rise?

All while so many are struggling to make ends meet

Deluded deference all round.

[Fi 🇪🇺 @rahhead01]

I have to say, putting an accordion is Trump’s hands is a stroke of genius! Whoever did this deserves a medal! 🤣🤣

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Imagine the shock for UK news shows this morning reporting a ‘£20bn black hole’ in public finances when they find out Bloomberg calculates Brexit is costing the UK £100bn a year in lost output— that’s roughly £40bn less for the new Labour Government to invest in the UK

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Tescos counts profits by the billions but pays wages so low that a majority of its staff claim universal credit. This top up subsidises shareholder dividends. Such corporations should be made to increase wages in line with profits so that none of their staff need a top up.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Rishi Sunak warned by senior civil servants a week before he called election that he was at risk of breaching legal responsibilities if he failed to take action over prison overcrowding crisis, leaked document reveals. https://t.co/LtRGTdHZjR

[Morten Øverbye  @morten]

An assassination attempt by a mentally ill person using an AR-15 is a terrible reason to vote for the man who made it easier for mentally ill persons to obtain AR-15s.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

The last government’s treatment of the criminal justice system, and prisons in particular, goes beyond incompetence. It is deliberate scorching of the earth, endangering the public in the hope of scoring cheap points against the next government forced to clear up the chaos.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

A former government chief scientific adviser as science minister. A businessman with years of experience in rehabilitation as prisons minister. A barrister with years of experience as attorney general. A focus on specialism, domain knowledge and expertise.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

James Timpson OBE @JamesTCobbler has been appointed Minister of State (Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation) in the Ministry of Justice @MoJGovUK.

[John Hyde @JohnHyde1982]

A compassionate and informed prisons minister with a deep understanding of the issues.

How novel.