Tony Benton

Athletics nut. Coach, official and other volunteering stuff. Upminster local historian (sometimes!). Opinions my own.

[Paz is Right @BritisherPaz49]

Southampton Police try to kill another white guy by repeatedly kicking him in the head 👀

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: An arrest in Southampton last night is being investigated after it appeared a Police officer repeatedly kicked a man in the head

The incident was caught on camera

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

Footage from the Henry Nowak protests shows a demonstrator restrained by multiple British police officers before an officer kicks him while he is on the ground.

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

Read it and then read it again. 79 VAPE SHOPS are ons list of visa sponsors. They can bring people over on a visa to work in a vape shop!! They are doing this with Kebab shops, halal slaughter houses, barbers etc

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Just saying … Britain hit 32.8°C in May back in BOTH 1922 and 1944.

This was long before SUVs, budget airlines and air fryers.

Hysteria from the media is not fact ..it’s narrative and fear porn.

As you were!

[Statler Reimagined @ElCapitan_Chaos]

“Didn’t have the faintest idea what was going on”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Shocking that @Keir_Starmer is labelling all who attend this rally as far right dangerous citizens. Just shows how little he understands the anger and the patriotism of the average ordinary member of the British public

[Aston Villa Statto @AVFCStatto]

This was given as a goal this season btw.

Shock.

#AVFC

[Mike Keegan @MikeKeegan_DM]

The only thing clear and obvious is that VAR has killed football.

[BLAIM GAME @BLAIMGame]

“We asked 48m voters ‘What would make you vote for Labour again’

You said - Gordon Brown

If it’s up there I’ll give you the money myself”

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️| Joe Hart on West Ham’s disallowed equalizer vs Arsenal, accuses VAR of saving Arsenal’s title hopes:

🗣️“Listen, I don’t care what anyone says, that goal should’ve stood. VAR has absolutely ruined moments like that. West Ham fought for that equalizer and somehow they’ve found a way to disallow it for the softest little touch you’ll ever see. If that’s Arsenal scoring at the Emirates, nobody even checks it for more than five seconds.

And this is what frustrates fans, Arsenal have lived off those scrappy, aggressive goals all season. Blocking keepers, crowding the six-yard box, little nudges here and there… suddenly when it happens against them, it’s ‘clear and obvious.’ Give me a break.

I was a goalkeeper, I know when a keeper’s genuinely impeded and when he’s looking for help. There’s no way you can tell me that was enough contact for the goal to be overturned. The game’s gone soft. West Ham have been robbed, simple as that.

You wonder why fans think certain clubs get favourable decisions because moments like this keep happening. Arsenal are in a title race and somehow every 50/50 call seems to land their way. That equalizer changes the whole atmosphere of the game and VAR bottled it. Absolutely bottled it.”

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world will have to deal with 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades by Net Zero in 2050.

To put that in perspective, it’s the equivalent weight of 215,000 locomotives. These blades are made of high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather, and they are notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but they weren't built to disappear.

Every turbine standing today will likely be decommissioned and replaced at least once before 2050. Without a cost-effective way to recycle fibre-reinforced polymers, the majority of these massive blades are destined for eternity - buried forever in turbine graveyards.

China, Europe, and the US will account for the vast majority of this waste, creating a mountainous industrial heartache that many Net Zero models simply haven't priced in.

But 43 million tons of purely composite blade waste every 20 years is a colossal physical reality.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times.

They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

Lest we are expected to forget.....
Three men go on trial at the Old Bailey on Monday 27th April, charged over a series of arson attacks on properties connected to #KeirStarmer
last year. The defendants are a Ukrainian (21), a Ukrainian (34) and a Romanian (26) of Ukrainian origin.
None has been granted bail. All three have been held in HMP Belmarsh since their arrests.
All three have pleaded not guilty.

[West Ham United @WestHam]

Job done at London Stadium ✅

[Tensions Rising🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @Sutton1Mr]

My Honest Account of what happened last night.
I arrived at Epsom expecting to see maybe 20/30 people there. It was only a flash demo after all.
But such is the anger and feeling of betrayal in Epsom that there were several hundred people at the station.
There were not many police either.They had been caught on the hop.We marched off in a peaceful manor. No shouting. No singing.When we reached the junction we decided this was as good a place as any to hold our protest.
We held the traffic up.But I did not hear one motorist complain.Most were locals and were giving us the thumbs up from their cars.Everything was peaceful.And orderly.
Then as van after van of riot police started to arrive the atmosphere turned a bit. It was a total overreaction by boys in blue.And one that I have not seen at other demos such as the pro pally mobs that have plagued our streets for the last couple of years.
Any major trouble was only averted by the leadership of our guys at the front calling for calm.
All we were asking for was a bit of honesty and a bit of dialogue.We were met with riot shields.
Well done to the people of Epsom.
Shame on the police.

[AW @AthleticsWeekly]

We are sad to report that Mary Rand, one of Great Britain's greatest athletes, has sadly passed away at the age of 86.

With long jump gold at the 1964 Olympics, Rand became the first British woman to top the podium in track and field at the Games.

She held the long jump world record of 6.76m – set at the Olympics – for four years (between 1964 and 1968).

Rand also claimed three medals (4x100m & pentathlon being the others) at Tokyo 1964.