richard bacon

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No President in History has ended the same war so many times.

Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

No President has ever done this before.

And he is nowhere near finished ending it.

It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

Extraordinary the way in which journalists are now, belatedly, carrying out some journalism in the coverage of #Farage

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Horrible symbolism on this day of all days, which says “we don’t give a damn about the next 250 years”.

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

Oh yeah of course. Egyptian football fans personally set policies about the country’s border.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

If they want to free Palestine, why don't they just open their borders?

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

He’s a character not even Dickens could invent

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Elon Musk is the world's richest man who killed the world's poorest children.

[Mark Ravenhill @MarkRavenhill2]

I’d recommend the new film The Invite, a stylish sharp sex comedy with excellent performances and cracking dialogue

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

For the 100th time. Just because they think a terrorist is hiding beneath a hospital, it doesn’t give them the right to blow up the whole hospital.
Or, as even Trump explained, an entire apartment block.
Nor does it give them the right to “deliberately target children” (the UN).

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

No. For the thousandth time, Hamas hide beneath and fight from civilian infrastructure like the cowardly rats they are.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776:

James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40

Age didn't matter. Education did. Classically educated founders built the greatest system of government in human history.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So you want to send Melania back to Slovenia too, right? Right??
Because if you don't, that would confirm you're a white supremacist.

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

I cannot recommend this episode enough. Even though I am in it. But it’s not me that’s good. It’s Alain De Botton, he’s endlessly fascinating. https://t.co/ywRGAXUz8n

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

Karoline Leavitt went to an expensive private high school, then worked in the White House immediately out of college, then married a billionaire her daddy's age. What kind of spoon is that?

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

"A letter to Yvette Cooper, signed by 71 cross-party MPs and peers, says the "systematic and well-documented torture of Palestinian civilians lies with the government of Israel, including Prime Minister Netanyahu".

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has confirmed on Reddit that he will not call an early general election

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

The Film is wonderful

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

Producers wouldn’t let Olivia Wilde shoot THE INVITE on film, so she paid for it herself.

When the movie sold big to A24, the producers paid her back.

Baller.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

"The US's special relationship is with Israel."

While Brits might be obsessed with US politics, Americans couldn't care less about our endless stream of prime ministers or anything else in Westminster

@mehdirhasan joins @OliDugmore on The Exchange.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Kinda insane that one country is allowed to have this kind of clear competitive advantage.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 ✅ Bridget Phillipson make a good point on @andyburnham (responding to McSweeney’s claim Labour wasn’t ready to govern after 4 years):

“Andy Burnham has been in Cabinet previously. He’s held a number of roles. He’s been an MP before.
He actually has more experience of governing than many of us did when we entered government for the very first time as ministers in 2024.”

Unlike Andy Burnham, who has real Cabinet and parliamentary experience, neither Starmer nor McSweeney had ever held office while Labour were in power.

Starmer then sacked Sue Gray, the one senior figure who actually knew how government worked and their attempt to rule with iron fist failed spectacularly.

The inexperience at the top has been glaring.

[Sean Woodcock MP @SEANLWOODCOCK]

Mate...

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Oh ya for sure dude imagine a system like that