Gilo

Father of 2, husband of 1, rugby fan, player, coach and ref, Berkshire based.

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@paulpowlesland @EnvAgency What would happen if their sewer discharge was blocked somehow?

[UmdarTamker @UmdarTamker]

They spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started.

USA the superpower 🤡🤡😂😂

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

You might be wondering how Trump’s new slush fund is being reported outside the US.

To hear Trump and his yes man acting Attorney General speak, you would think it’s perfectly normal to take almost $2 billion and secretly hand it to who they want with no oversight.

Here’s Mikey Smith a journalist from the UK Daily Mirror to share his thoughts.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/1Q5oXPJGlO

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@2147mill How do you protect that from inheritance tax?

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@Feargal_Sharkey @FT Simply outrageous. I have cold fury in my heart at how they are continually allowed to poison my country, accrue debt to make themselves unattractive and pay bonuses to their SLT. How do we end this?

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170 million building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night.

Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #GBNews

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I've always found this incredible useful. An easy guide to exactly how much sh*t your local water company is in.

Southern Water customer, 27% of your bill it doing nothing but paying interest on their stinking pile of debt.

Thames Water, 28%, Anglian Water, 24% and on, and on, and on..........

https://t.co/RATNjUmc7i

[Met Office @metoffice]

Equilux meaning equal light is the day when daylight and darkness are closest to being exactly 12 hours each

This year, the Vernal Equilux occurs on the 17th March for UK locations roughly south of Norwich, and on the 18th March for locations generally north of Norwich.

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@Feargal_Sharkey @TheCriminalBar What's the definition of success? Overturned or altered sentence but remain convicted, or something else?

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@AndyGoode10 You don't think it's Borthwick's time thats up? Got to believe with the talent available we ought to be more competitive - so where does the buck stop?

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@thepaulwilliams Cannot remember either of tbe products advertised either. How worth it was it?

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Is Shakespeare still relevant?
Sir Ian McKellen reminds us history always repeats itself and that Shakespeare’s words …well watch for yourself

[Ineluctable Chris @BoveFromAbove]

#EpsteinFiles #NigelFarage

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

@TimesSport @chrisjonespress @martynziegler Horrendous. How long before you pay a fee to not have ads?

[Gilo @RuftyTuftyGilo]

Lying bastards

[European Unity #FBPE #RejoinEU🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦#NAFO @EuropeanUnity1]

Happy #BrexitDay from the brexiteers

Here they are promising you that food costs, energy bills & taxes will all be lower after brexit and your household budget will be bigger

How's that going?

#RejoinEU #FarageRiots

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

This is one of the most beautiful moments you will ever witness.

Sir Nicholas Winton helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape the Holocaust.

His humanitarian accomplishments would remain unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years.

Then in 1988 he was invited to the BBC TV show That's Life!.

There he sat — unknowingly — as part of the studio audience, surrounded by the children he had rescued. They were now adults.

Then they surprised him with one of the greatest gifts of all time. Their presence.

They were there, all alive — because of him.

Not only was he reunited with dozens of children he had saved, but he was also introduced to many of their children and grandchildren.

Please remember Sir Nicholas Winton, for his humanitarian operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

Sir Nicholas George Winton, a British stockbroker, and a gift to this planet, left us on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.

May his memory forever be a blessing and inspiration to all.

Please share. International Holocaust Day cannot be forgotten. But many are working to make that happen.🕯️♥️

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works."

It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books...

"We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

"This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."

"Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration."

"But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit.

"The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said.

"And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."

Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that.

The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet.

"But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."

"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."

There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage.

The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is destroying America.

[Theresa Verity @theresaverity]

Imagine if our grandparents resisted Nazis with Iron Crosses on their aircraft when they slaughtered families with bombs, and their desperate stand inspired an international effort by people of all races and faiths to come together to stop fascism.

And then 80 years later someone tricked their country into isolating and bankrupting itself and then after years of people warning that they were fascists and not to do something so obviously stupid, they changed their flag to an Iron Cross.

And people still tried to pretend they were patriots.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Well this is embarrassing 👇

[Talking Bottom @talkingbottom]

When being given an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter, Rik Mayall imparted the lucky assembled students with his five mantras to live by, plus some very powerful motivational words.