Andrew Parker

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

Oh goodness me, I miss Lauren Laverne SO MUCH 🥺😫 #6Music #whenwillitbeover #getwellsoon

[Aston Sociology and Policy @AstonSap]

Online seminar tomorrow with Aston Sociology’s Prof Helen Woods, ‘Reality Celebrity Work and Practices of Care’ hosted by University of Otago. 10am New Zealand Time. Register here: https://t.co/PG7NLoXR1k

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

Was there really NOBODY ELSE to do the Lauren Laverne slot on #6Music ? 😫

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

@discoveryplusUK honest to god, has ANYONE who works at Discovery + tested how long it actually takes to log in and watch a match on a Smart TV? And that's when you are already a paid-up member! Want the answer...? Too long, that's how long 😕 #makeitquicker

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

Whoever had the idea to involve Snoop Dogg in the Olympics is a bona fide genius. Of all the ways the IOC could have tried and all the money it could have spent to attract disaffected audiences 😏🤷🏼 #TopMarketingStrategy https://t.co/IQTNFd5b0M

[Shahid Kamal Ahmad @shahidkamal]

I drove east into London on the A40 this afternoon. Light breeze, not too hot. London is always beautiful in the sunshine.

Drove past Uxbridge. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Greenford. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Drove past Acton. No riots, no looters, no cars overturned and ablaze, no sirens.

Parked in Westfield. There is sun, no sign of rain, but the full rainbow of humanity is here indoors.

(They say they want their country back, but they actually want their empire back, the one their grandparents' generation lost. The Empire came home. And here we all are! )

The shop assistants everywhere were from every corner of the earth. The customers the same. Girls and boys, men and women, from every place in the world, peacefully going about their lives on a London Sunday in a cathedral to capitalism in Shepherds Bush.

No shouting. No swearing. No mugging. No knifing. No looting. No burning. Just the world in one city under a giant glass roof in peace.

Sometimes, you don't know how good you actually have it. When London is good, it's really bloody good.

Most places in England are good, most of the time. Most people in England are good, no matter what the forces that seek to divide us want us to believe.

I remember being broke and homeless 20 years ago this year, carrying my possessions in four bags and thanking God for my legs when I was deep in my material nadir.

You already have your country. I already have my country. Both can be true.

I don't want to take your job, unless I'm better at it. I don't want to put shariah in place over your head and in any case, the law in this country is about as close to shariah as I need. Why would I endanger that just to piss you off for some marginal gain? Think about it.

We can get along. We are not enemies. Those grifters are fooling you, scamming you, and they're thick. They think 1+1=Foreigners. Their sums don't add up. They get tax breaks. Do you? Work it out.

We aren't going anywhere and we won't roll over frightened like our parents did. We belong here. We ARE the British Empire. This is the legacy.

It's not us you want your country back from. It's the foreign papers, the con artists who took COVID money, the scum who bought our water, the financial institutions who gambled away our future and made us pay for their next round of bonuses in an endless era of austerity. We didn't freeze old people to death. We didn't make food banks necessary. Cameron and Co did all that. We're just easy targets. A distraction.

This is still a beautiful country. This is still a peaceful country. How about we find away to make it better for all of us:?

Isn't London beautiful in the sunshine?

[Saima Mir @SaimaMir]

If you've been watching the riots with horror & wondering what you can do to make change, then here's an answer: make art, write stories, make film.
Commission voices that represent all aspects of society.
Offer bookdeals, greenlight stuff, and put on shows.

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

Peaceful protesters should be released from prisons to make room for violent criminal rioters.

[Alison Kriel 💚 @AKLondon UpScrolled @AlisonKriel]

Can’t share this often enough

#Riots

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

@PIF_en So what are you doing to improve infrastructure and provision for EV users in the UK? There are way too few charge points, way too few of them work or charge at an acceptable speed, and prices fluctuate far too much from company to company. Not to mention battery lifespan!

[Andrew Parker @appfoto]

@richardosman This curls my hair...

[Birmingham Loves Libraries @BrumLibraries]

We will be in front of Council House on Tuesday from 12-2pm to lobby councillors before the full Council meeting.

Our libraries are lifelines. We cannot afford to lose them. Stop the cuts.

Our open letter:
https://t.co/YLZ2yHtnwe