AJ

Animal lover. Art lover. I retweet to inform, not necessarily to agree.

[ABC News @ABC]

HAPPENING NOW: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a flag on top of its spire.

The unidentified people appear to be wearing masks.

ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports. https://t.co/UXGzh22MoB

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Just going to leave this here.

Before Southgate:

1984: Did not qualify
1986: Quarter-finals
1988: Group stage, lost every game
1990: Semi-final
1992: Group stage
1994: Did not qualify
1996: Semi-final
1998: Last 16
2000: Group stage
2002: Quarter-finals
2004: Quarter-finals
2006: Quarter-finals
2008: Did not qualify
2010: Last 16
2012: Quarter-finals
2014: Group stage
2016: Last 16

Under Southgate:

2018: Semi-final
2020: Final
2022: Quarter-finals
2024: Final

Whatever people thought of the football, the record speaks for itself.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Yeah, Southgate isn’t looking so bad now is he?

#ENGDRC

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Family run bakery chain Coughlans with 31 stores across south London and the South East is closing after nearly 100 years blaming devastating tax hikes including higher National Insurance and business rates

Co-owner Sean Coughlan said the extra £20,000 pounds a week in costs from the changes introduced under Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves had made the business unsustainable especially after heatwaves slashed footfall by half

The closure which comes as comedian Romesh Ranganathan is also a co-owner has sparked anger locally with some accusing Labour of destroying high streets.

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@vxlspsn @sixinchbeys There's a special place in hell reserved for people like you. 🙄

[AJ @ajpowderly]

No it isn't!!! Not according to he fans.
Lily Allen’s West End Girl Arena Tour Is A Complete Triumph - https://t.co/pmxTsqW5y1 via @euphoriazine

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@DeOne___ "Chip on his shoulder". Interesting.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Why I have decided to back Andy Burnham for Labour leadership http://t.co/0rwPLtkxaB

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@bobittwit @christopherhope @GBNEWS Farage doesn't deserve protection. Even if he were prime minister, which will NEVER happen, he still wouldn't deserve it.

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@ExOperator65 @PolitlcsUK AI sure is amazing these days. 🙄

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@free_equal

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The white working class aren’t oppressed because they’re white. They are oppressed because they are working class.

They are oppressed by millionaires in slick suits and 5 houses, like Nigel Farage.

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@ncbscotts @MichelleDewbs You live in America. You have enough problems over there you cretin without poking your nose in where you obviously know 💩.

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

Forty three years after Declan Flynn was murdered, I stood in the Dáil today, during Pride month, as a gay man and said what many won’t.

This movement has been hijacked.

It no longer speaks for the people who built it.

One flag flies over this State. The Tricolour.

It unites us. It does not divide us into identity groups waiting for their month.

We marched for freedom from fear.

Not to become props for somebody else’s politics.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The findings of Donna Ockenden’s Nottingham maternity review are appalling.

But this is only the latest in a long line of these sorts of reviews.

Review after review is not enough. Change is needed so other families are spared this pain in future.

There must now be full accountability, not just another set of recommendations left to gather dust.

https://t.co/796Zy6KOCU

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@GoodwinMJ @sharrond62 It simply means their employers aren't paying them enough. 🙄

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@cleanupbritain @sharrond62 @NationalHways Yes. This is what Brits REALLY think of their country. No respect. No class.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

This is fantastic news.

But it's worth remembering that £187,000 split between seven nurses does not come close to compensating them for what they have been through.

These were women who simply wanted to get changed at work - without a man being present.

Yet they were treated as the problem. Not the man insisting on access to the women's changing room.

Perhaps it resonates with me more right now, because I am currently pursuing my own legal case. After my choir was dropped from the London Marathon - on account of my gender-critical views.

While it is a personal matter, I know it will, almost certainly, continue to affect me professionally - for years to come.

And there is no apology - and no amount of money - that can fully compensate for the damage caused by these cases.

Being shunned by colleagues, friends or even family members. Watching opportunities disappear. Sensing even people who agree are wary of you - simply because you spoke up and they didn't.

Because people who challenge the status quo are often both respected and feared.

What I find especially troubling is the amount of public money spent trying to prove these women were wrong.

More than £600,000 was reportedly spent defending a policy that a tribunal ultimately found to be discriminatory.

How much easier would it have been to tell ONE man that, regardless of how he identified, women's changing facilities are for women?

These nurses should never have had to fight this battle in the first place.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Humiliated NHS trust pays out after huge trans row | UK | News | https://t.co/3zDA2kG2v6. 800k in total spent to try & keep men in the womens changing rooms intimidating nurses. Money that should have been spent on patients. Heads should roll https://t.co/gv7TaqKUbn

[AJ @ajpowderly]

@ArchRose90 You're really in no position !!!! 🙄