Ian Halstead

Freelance business journalist. Likes: Burnley FC, Eastern Europe, beer and original thoughts. Dislikes: Cliches and Blackburn FC.

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@Apok____ @ProjectLincoln You are a MAGA moron, and a particularly foul-mouthed one. Remember when Musk *joked* in the WH about “accidentally” ending the long-established prevention programme for such diseases as ebola in the Congo and Uganda? Actions have consequences, but Musk never stops to think. 🪵

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@RaexJess @SkyNews Absolutely …
When a white British scumbag slaughtered his ex-GF and her sister with crossbow bolts, no-one suggested crossbows should be banned.
This is not a Dunblane tragedy which requires radical legislative action and societal change. It is merely Farage being Farage. 🤬

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@Apok____ @ProjectLincoln Dear MAGA moron.
The program was set up in Central America to ensure the lethal parasite didn’t head towards the US via Mexico.👍
The clue is in the word “monitoring”. 👀
Without advance warning, the US only knew the parasite had crossed the border when animals began dying. 😢

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@AnthonyRJ2023 @MENnewsdesk It makes 100% sense that females are repulsed by the sexist and misogynist filth from Reform’s fake plumber.
It makes 0% sense to call the MEN *Marxist*. 😂
The MEN was sold by the Grauniad in 2010. 👀
The most likely outcome is that Restore splits the RW vote and Burnham wins.

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@sfordnyc @washingtonpost The MAGA misogynist is entitled to remain anonymous. Their unhinged complaint was thankfully ignored, as the article points out.
The real issue is that the MAGA loons at the @NatlParkService are happily obliterating US history to please the clown masquerading as POTUS. 🤬

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@MENnewsdesk Drunken white man admits repeatedly abusing a person of colour in public. Judge condemns his toxic behaviour.
Drunken man claims to have *no recollection* 🙄 of being abusive … but pleads guilty. 🤔

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@MattyVsTheWorld @NickWestonAFC @TyBracey Burnley’s net spend after promotion was £65.2m, including agent fees.
The net spend of the club which shares their colours was £67.1m.
Assuming (obv) the billionaires who own Villa don’t have a weird accounting system which excludes agent fees.

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@timespolitics What will be acceptable?
What about NHS staff who agree with the government’s policy to:
1) Recognise Palestine as a state, and
2) Support the case for a two-state solution.
Can they wear a *two-state* badge without causing offence?

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@TimHamblinShale @SkySportsNews @keelyhodgkinson True … but it’s cats and dogs outside, the pothole-repair folk are blocking the road, and my frustrations (somehow) whisked me back to an earlier time, and more pedantic era. 😇

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@JulesG08 @jrod2589 @BurnleyOfficial @AlanPaceBFC Indeed … or a return to Belgium, a week in the Netherlands, Germany or Portugal. Denmark would have been lovely, albeit that it’s dearer than going to Port Vale or Kiddie Harriers.

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@JulesG08 @jrod2589 @BurnleyOfficial @AlanPaceBFC Am sure they’d rather watch players from Spain they’ve never heard of than see Hannover 96 again. 😇

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@JulesG08 @jrod2589 @BurnleyOfficial @AlanPaceBFC Hopefully, Ted Lasso will be there sipping a bottle of Bud Light.

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@BurnleyOfficial Intriguing that US banks and institutional investors own shares worth $80 billion in an enterprise from Inner Mongolia, whose biggest shareholder, COFCO, is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Wall Street’s moral compass certainly swings when there is 🤑 to be made.

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@harry_brig @BurnleyOfficial Does Grok write all *your* material? 🙄

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@ThinkOnNow1 @BurnsideWasTosh @geedeeaitch The banner was flown over the Etihad. 🪵
The stunt was condemned by Burnley’s captain, Ben Mee, and the club’s fans.
The neo-Nazi cretin who hired the plane was later sacked - as was his GF.
Do provide evidence 👀 that Burnley, which is 80%+ white British, has CSA issues. 🤔

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@Thewarjurnal_ @thehill Thank you Grok for such an objective and non-partisan assessment. 😂

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@thehill Thank goodness Trump’s WH prioritises talent and experience, carefully researches potential candidates, draws up a short list and then conducts meticulous background checks into its favoured individual before making a decision. @DAGToddBlanche must be exhausted by the process. 🙄

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@GBbooze The previous managers walked away from this Stonegate pub last summer, blaming the high prices they had to pay for *wet products*, but their successors are hoovering up five-star reviews, particularly for their meals. Wonderful views of Cliviger Gorge from their beer garden too.

[Ian Halstead @TheIanHalstead]

@ExpressandStar @JohnCorserxStar If only forms of technology existed allowing reporters to interview the humans looking to create the micro-pub, to enlighten readers, and inform local residents, rather than merely replicating the dry text of the planning application. 🙄