Steven Norman

Labour & Co-operative Lichfield District and Burntwood Town Councillor for Chase Terrace Ward, Burntwood in Lichfield Labour Constituency.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Almost like Farage and Boris Johnson lied to us....

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I think it's about time women journalists started walking out on Trump. 'Ok Mr President, you've now insulted me three times during this interview and that is enough. You either apologise or I terminate the broadcast'.

[Steven Norman @StevenGNorman]

https://t.co/jqjSCFSYHA

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Our support for Ukraine is ironclad.

We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security.

Slava Ukraini.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

7 June 1933 | An Italian Jewish girl, Nedda Segrè, was born in Venice.

In February 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

There’s a lot I’d take exception to here, but
I’ll highlight two:

(1) the misinformation

Palantir does not own NHS data. We cannot use it, sell it, or move it. It stays inside each NHS trust, under NHS control, and the contract is the NHS’s to end whenever it likes. You may be right about NHS data being a goldmine, but it is not one Palantir can monetise, or would want to.

(1) the double standard

Your chief concern seems to be that Palantir’s contract with NHS is akin to letting “a foreign, state-adjacent company into critical national infrastructure.” You should apply this concern consistently then.

Yesterday, NHS England announced that 505,000 staff will get Microsoft 365 Copilot. The NHS also runs on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google. All are US firms. All have the same “deep roots in US defence and immigration enforcement” you mention with regards to Palantir. If US ownership, and having certain US government clients, are disqualifying tests, then surely these should apply equally to every such company?

Either US technology in the NHS is a sovereignty problem (in which case maybe the relevant news today is the 505,000-seat deal signed with Microsoft). Or it isn’t, in which case perhaps singling out Palantir isn’t really about sovereignty at all?

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

As so often find I agree with @matthewsyed - here arguing facts have been competed out of our politics - but dare I suggest what few ever say in media: the ‘print’ media and commentariat have often allowed fact-free news - or low fact news - to flourish…. on Brexit… on so much else… Musk has been able to find friends among the editors…and Vance…

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

6 June 1897 | A Scottish woman, Jane Haining, was born in Dunscore. A @churchscotland missionary in #Budapest.

In #Auschwitz from 14 May 1944
No. 79467
She perished in the camp on 17 July 1944.
Haining was recognized by @yadvashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

At the request of the illegal “Havat Maon” settlers, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children, aged 8–12, for gathering wild vegetables and flowers near the settlement.

[Michael Gray @1michaelgray1]

Sheer spite, all these cuts to welfare, to services, to research, to disease prevention measures:

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

As so often Kenan gets closest to the reality and the history

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

It is disappointing to see critics trade empirical reality for emotional tropes and protectionist myths.

Palantir’s software is open, sovereign, and operationally proven. NATO owns and controls its own data. These complaints are about problems which do not exist.

When a critique leans on easily falsifiable claims instead of engaging with how the software actually works, you have to question the underlying agenda of those looking to push high-performing, open systems out of NATO. Europe needs software that works, not digital chauvinism.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse https://t.co/yKfcJNxpfk

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

There were two tiers of possible response to the express wishes of Henry Nowak's dignified family in the light of his traumatic murder. One humane and empathetic, the other inhumane and exploitative. This version of "Lyin' Eyes" (Eagles) is for @JDVance and those in the second.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, the Russians again struck the special territory around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A “shahed” hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility. An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy, and all our services are already working to ensure that each of our partners knows what has happened.

Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility. As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts. Ukrainian first responders extinguished the fire at this facility after the strike. And real new steps by the world are needed so that the Russians feel that this terrorist war of theirs is a blow to Russia itself.

Last night, there were also Russian strikes on other civilian facilities in 13 of our regions. In total, over the course of this past week, Russia launched 88 missiles, more than 3,250 attack drones, and around 1,800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Pressure on Russia must be increased. Thank you to everyone who’s helping!

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is a special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness , grotesque stupidity, and comically ludicrous self- importance . As if the little people's rage against immigration somehow is superior to the war against the 3rd Reich and entitles this comic book nobody to lecture the actual heroes

[arf @arf84648947]

Robin Williams once said, "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers, then we know who owns them."

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP JUST HAD HIS WORST MELTDOWN EVER.

Trump completely unravels when Kristen Welker challenged him on his California election claims.

Instead of providing evidence, he called her "crooked" and "stupid," attacked the press, and abruptly WALKS OUT in the middle of the interview.

She did what every journalist should do every time Trump spews his unfounded bullsh*t.

Thank you, Kristen.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Loudest applause at Retford (which most of media would have down as nailed on Reformland) when I said a few misguided young thugs would be sitting in prison reflecting on how their lives have changed forever while Farage and Musk and the media oligarchs will be busy doing what multi millionaires do on a weekend, not giving a toss about Henry Novak, his family, or the people they whipped into a frenzy.