Stephen Robson

Left of centre, wishing the UK was the caring, morally sound country it has always claimed to be. Recently moved to the Netherlands. Pro EU, anti-tory

[Stephen Robson @Stephen_Robson]

A quality post from Neil Johnston at the BBC

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@BladeoftheS Legend, best PM we never had

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@fesshole Seems fair

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@SoVeryBritish There goes my “the pavements were melting!” stories…

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@rebekkarnold A Fab from the Ice Cream Van was such a treat, 50 years ago!!

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@SangitaMyska @zeteo_news Congratulations Sangita, what a breath of fresh air!

[Barry Halverson @barry_halverson]

BBC News today “British pubs closing at a rate of almost two per day in 2026”

What they didn’t say in local election week- “Between 2010 and 2024, industry bodies like the BBPA & CAMRA consistently recorded between 18 & 30 traditional pub closures per week.”

So it’s less then…

[Stephen Robson @Stephen_Robson]

@MBrundleF1 chatting with @jimmyfallon on the grid at Miami F1 just made my day 😀🙏

[Stephen Robson @Stephen_Robson]

@CultureExploreX View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Let me just remind Arsenal fans who Manchester City is and what we do.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Stephen Robson @Stephen_Robson]

@rebekkarnold What a legend!

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Reminder that under Obama's Iran Deal the Iranians shipped 98 percent of their enriched uranium out of the country - without a pointless and devastating war.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Hits areas not in Hezbollah’s control”

What a weird way to say Israel attacks civilians.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise.

We were the hosts.

I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless.

The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president .

The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind.

The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation.

We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack.

Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane.

A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

[Richard @ricwe123]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation.
Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Suspect this is going to be the first big Reform defection that backfires. It's not just that it fits the "dumping ground for old Tories" narrative. It starts to build the idea Reform aren't actually that different after all.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

It’s 8pm, you want a walk. You step out the door in shorts & a t-shirt. The sky is bright, grass is green, a breeze is a relief. You smile at dog walkers, head to a pub garden, have a drink, walk home, grab a Cornetto, STILL IN THE LIGHT. That’s just 4 months away. HANG IN THERE.

[Gino The Ghost @GinoTheGhost]

Neighbors just released a new angle of the ICE shooting and it settles any debate on what actually happened.

This was a mother doing something completely ordinary: Dropping somebody off, then trying to leave. She goes to pull out, stops for one car to pass, then waves the agents to drive past. Within seconds, those ICE agents exit their vehicle and rush her, shouting and escalating the situation. Panicked, she tries to drive away and gets shot in the face three times.

She posed no threat, showed no intent to harm, and was interfering with no one. She was a civilian going about her life. The official statements that followed contradict the footage and read like an attempt to rewrite what happened.

This was a reckless, unjustified killing, followed by a dishonest effort to evade responsibility. It’s horrifying, and it exposes something deeply wrong with the US government and these ICE agents. They must be held accountable.

This is not a partisan issue. I need you to lock in gang.