Andy Smith

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Spare us the civilisational lectures, you charlatan.

Atatiana Jefferson, 2019. Shot dead through her bedroom window during a welfare check. Playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew. The officer never identified himself.

Botham Jean, 2018. Shot dead eating ice cream in his own apartment by an off-duty officer who "thought it was her apartment".

John Albers, 2018. Seventeen years old. His friends called police because he was suicidal. Officers killed him during the welfare check.

Parkland, 2018. Seventeen children and staff massacred in their school. The armed officer paid to protect them? Hid outside.

Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School, Minab, February 2026. At least 175 dead, most of them girls aged 7 to 12. NYT analysis and US military investigators believe American forces struck the school. Trump blamed Iran without evidence. US Senators are still waiting for answers.

In 2025, American police killed 1,201 people. 98 unarmed. 233 school shootings at K-12 schools. American children do active shooter drills in primary school. American families are afraid to call for welfare checks because officers shoot the people they're sent to help.

Henry Nowak's father said: "We do not want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension". You used it anyway, to lecture a country 3,000 miles away while your administration bombs schoolgirls and your officers shoot people through bedroom windows.

The UK's government has plenty to answer for. But we don't take civilisational lectures from those who run a country that can't keep its children alive in their own classrooms and in their own homes and bomb children in far away lands, you pathetic charlatan.

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

I find myself in a box at the Oval with a free bar…

I must be cautious!

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"It is outrageous this idea that you cannot be English or British because of your ethnicity."

Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed, who won a gold medal for England, tells #Newsnight that he finds the idea "profoundly divisive".

[Helix Exploration @HelixExp]

A key takeaway from #HEX results:

🔹Exceptional consistency across Darwin, Linda & Weil
🔹Strong indication of a single reservoir system beneath Rudyard
🔹A positive characteristic as production scales

[Helix Exploration @HelixExp]

From semiconductors to MRI scanners, helium shortages are spreading across the economy.

Quoted in @Telegraph, #HEX CEO Bo highlights that even after a reopening of Hormuz, meaningful #Helium supply could take months to return.

Supply remains constrained.

https://t.co/iCWJMkVm3D

[Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @floboflo]

What low self esteem Zia Yusuf must have.
Of all the jobs in the world you can pretend to have he’s gone for Shadow Home Secretary!
Not King of the World, not Head of the Galactic Empire, he’s gone for Shadow Home Secretary!!!
What a dick.

[Mark Crossfield @4golfonline]

The governing bodies that run golf have

1. Changed the drop from shoulder to knee height
2. Banned anchor putters based on no research on it’s effectiveness on performance
3. Played Open championships at venues with questionable rules towards women.
4. Banned a shape of groove based on a study that showed what they thought was happening was wrong, but they banned them anyway
5. They have let the equipment get to a stage they are now saying they don’t like. (Under their watch)
6. Promoted diversity on golf club committees while not practicing this good idea at some of its venues used for their flagship event

Anyway who cares. Make sure you socks are the correct length out there golfers.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The hatred for Sadiq Khan is actually something else.

They're criticising him for putting free refill fountains.

[Luke Robert Black 🌳 @lukerobertblack]

Good for him. There’s nothing wrong with a self-declared Muslim man going on Hajj - a key pilgrimage for religious Muslims. He’s allowed to practice his faith - we have in freedom of religion in the UK.

There’s a million reasons to criticise @SadiqKhan - this is not one of them.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

3 English makers to follow today:

@HawksheadRelish - chutneys, relishes and preserves from the Lake District.

@FineCheeseCo - Bath-made crackers and biscuits for proper cheese boards.

@ChapelDownWines - English wine that helped change how people see our vineyards.

No affiliation - just good English makers worth knowing about.

More tomorrow.

#MadeInEngland

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

We built these water refill points for days like today...

London now has over 4,000 free water refill points across the capital. Find your closest here:

https://t.co/iYq3RmT5fC

[Dr Mariana Claire Marinovic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇲 @DrMarianaClaire]

@_HenryBolton Oh, give over with the faux outrage already. The water fountain is based on the iconic Thames Water water droplet. They have also been dotted around London since 2018

[Ineluctable Chris @BoveFromAbove]

They look great; they have a slick modern look to them, and provide an amazing service that we should be proud of. You only hate them because of Khan; it they were Johnson’s idea, you’d be singing praise. Not that Johnson would ever do something like this; he’d rather spaff up public funds on water canons that nobody could use.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@SecRubio you must fully support @ZelenskyyUa be on the good side of history! You can not play it like both sides are the same….Russia is the aggressor…..support @MFA_Ukraine now please!

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Served his country"? Fuck off. A couple of rainy weekends in Wales. Hardly Black Hawk fucking Down.

[Bobby Manzi @BobbyManzi]

Adam Wharton would have offered England something unique. Instead, veteran Jordan Henderson and Kobbie Mainoo got the nod.

An absurd decision by Thomas Tuchel. #CPFC
https://t.co/0NWow3rV4j

[Sean CPFC @SH20CPFC]

Left at home for Jordan Henderson.
😂Its actually laughable its so bad.
#england

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is the home of Babbacombe CC in Devon

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to.

Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map.

If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021.

Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change.

And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski.

So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement.

There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.”

What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie.

Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.”

We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself.

Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses.

It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation.

That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

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