Barry Jackson

Husband, Dad, Healthcare Manager, Toon supporter, rock music fan, runner - personal views only

[Danny @SaintsDanSFC]

I absolutely love cricket 🏏 but I absolutely hate The Hundred.

[Simon Lester @SimonLester2468]

How on earth do we put idiots like this in charge of the greatest game on earth.

Corrupt to the core, totally out of touch with real people.

How bad do things have to get before we can appoint individuals who will run our game for the people that love it, not for corporate greed and back handers.

[Jay @JibbaJabb]

" Nigel Farage is a privately educated former City broker , who has been a member of the political class for 30 years. He's a multi millionaire , he's got 5 properties. His party is funded by a billionaire. He couldn't be any more establishment could he ? "

#newsnight #farage

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Farage is, always has been and always will be the establishment. Like his hero Trump his skill is being able to persuade people he is one of them when in truth he is of money, for money and obsessed with having it. As for being subject to over zealous media I can think of few other senior politicians who have had such an easy ride from our press over the years. Questions unanswered. Scandals ignored. Treated as a jovial commentator. Today was a long desperate whinge by a man being found out and needing to shift the narrative. Classic Trump distraction strategy. Still at least a by election means the people of Clacton might get to see him for once. Will be discussing on @RestIsPolitics with @mehdirhasan out later today

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I miss the days when we could all agree that white supremacists, Nazis and pedophiles were bad and belonged in fucking prison.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

When you love football but hate Reform 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Germany's goal allowed to stand despite German boot high into Ecuadorian's face.
VAR now just a random chance machine there to protect bigger sides.
#ECUGER

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

There's a reason the Michelle Obama-George W. Bush friendship goes viral every time: People are starving for decency. For respect without agreement. For politics without cruelty. Their friendship reminds us what we've lost, and what we can still choose.

[Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo]

The World Cup should be:

In 1 country
With 32 teams
And 64 games
And each game should have two halves (not four quarters)

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: Jurgen Klopp on cooling breaks:

"Football is being held hostage by executives in air-conditioned offices. These so-called 'cooling breaks' were sold to us as a shield for the players' well-being. It's nothing more than a gilded cage built for sponsors."

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Fans against VAR @FansAgainstVAR_]

The single best thing about football and why it's the best sport in the world is the elation of scoring a goal and the superbness of the moment.

Take that away and you lose what football is.

VAR has killed the sport at that level. It's that simple. It's all for tourists now

[Amos Murphy @AmosMurphy_]

The FA Cup should NEVER:

- Have semi-finals at Wembley
- Play the final before the end of the Prem season
- Broadcast on anything but the BBC & ITV

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

St George was born in Turkey and is the patron saint of Palestine

St George never visited England

St George represnts much of Europe, the middle east and Africa

If St George came here today, Reform UK would deport him

Happy St George’s day

[Andy @AndyRejoinEU]

◇Cameron took UK out of the EU
◇Johnson killed 23,000+
◇Truss crashed the UK economy
◇Starmer appointed the wrong man

Get some perspective, folks.

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

I think most Brits had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Americans. We admired their ambition, their music & film, their openess. We were less keen on their boasting, their global ignorance, their guns, their sense of superiority. Under Trump, most of that love has now gone.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Jesus was a brown man born in Palestine.
There are no white people in the Bible.
Happy Easter.