David Jackson

[David Jackson @belman297]

@RnaudBertrand Economic failure weakens liberal democracies. It happened to the new democracies after WW1. After WW2, they adopted the mixed economy which greatly helped in winning the Cold War. Now, neo-liberalism is failing in the traditional heartlands of Europe & North America.

[JPCampbellBiz @JP_Biz]

A good piece from Reuters which notes NI’s recent relatively good performance is primarily a services story & that there have been spillovers from the strongly performing Irish economy, helped by Sterling depreciation

[David Jackson @belman297]

@MichaelLCrick David Steel and John Pardoe?

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Game long over, Red Sox lost, Scotland’s fans still going strong on the Fenway Park concourse belting out “Super John McGinn!”

Superb. 😂

[JPCampbellBiz @JP_Biz]

A US maritime training vessel which was supposed to bring 500 cadets to Belfast this week has cancelled because of last week’s violence & will instead dock in Southampton. The decision was taken at the peak of the trouble.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

83% of British people are white

87% of MPs are white

92% of Police officers are white

94% of the House of Lords are white

85% of Britains richest families are white

The notion that Britain experiences systemic anti-white racism is absurd

It’s a far-right conspiracy

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[David Jackson @belman297]

@steverichards14 @YouTube It's an excellent discussion. Hard to imagine the current crop of politicos doing this.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

When a national anthem is about a nation, not a family.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism.

It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

There’s a clear pattern here: removing trial by jury for a whole layer of cases; blocking Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the country; the Filton 4 being sentenced as terrorists but not charged as terrorists (yes, really); a British citizen in Russia having his citizenship removed without being charged with anything; stuff like this - constantly.

It’s becoming so normal now. There’s a great phrase ‘turnkey tyranny’: you might like the people doing this today, or despise those on the receiving end, but tomorrow it WILL be different. The end point is very obvious. And these tools, and this trajectory, in the wrong hands, is quite a terrifying thought.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Tartan Army are a credit to Scotland. Here they are in full voice singing ‘Loch Lomond’ in Boston Stadium last night for the World Cup match between Scotland and Haiti. Absolutely glorious.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

What has Elon Musk taken from you? So ask many including Andrew Neil.

Here's the answer:

He has taken our peace of mind.

He has purposefully pushed us apart, divided us further and profited from our loss of community.

And that is hard to ever forgive.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Absolutely love this. A US police officer does keepie-uppie and is cheered on by the Tartan Army in Boston. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️🇺🇸

[William Crawley @williamcrawley]

Belfast ranks 32nd per capita for asylum seekers in the UK.

Northern Ireland hosts 2,379 in total. That’s 0.1% of its population.

NI is 97% white.

Asylum seekers are not “illegal migrants”; they’re going through a legal government process.

https://t.co/JPdeJFLpVv

[Kieran Cunningham @KCsixtyseven]

So much ugliness and hatred and bile around, and then there's Ciara Mageean. The best of us.

[David Jackson @belman297]

@carolecadwalla So the Sky was not the limit for Trevor Phillips.

[Anything Arsenal🇬🇧 @AnythingArs_]

Arsène Wenger:

🗣️ “There was a time we had £90 million turnover and we had to pay back £22 million per year for the stadium. I couldn’t sleep because we had to qualify for the Champions League to pay back the money.”

🗣️ “We had to sell our best players. Other clubs came in with lots of money but we were on the same level from 2007 to 2016.”

This is why so many Arsenal fans will forever defend Wenger.

While rivals were spending freely, Arsenal were carrying the weight of the Emirates project on their backs. Every summer felt like survival. Every top-four finish felt like a trophy. Every season, Wenger had to replace world-class players while keeping Arsenal competitive enough to secure Champions League football.

🔴 Sold stars. 🔴 Balanced the books. 🔴 Built a world-class stadium. 🔴 Kept Arsenal among Europe's elite.

Many managers would've walked away. Wenger stayed and carried the club through its most difficult financial era.

The trophies are part of his legacy. The fact Arsenal emerged from that period stronger, richer, and ready to compete again is the other part.

Without Wenger's sacrifices, there is no Arsenal of today.

[David Jackson @belman297]

@JP_Biz Be careful - you might have to go on an NHS waiting list for extracting tongue from cheek.

[David Jackson @belman297]

@HannahIamthest1 Were they just like that?

[David Jackson @belman297]

@AlexKane221b Poor Nigel. He has his own Jim Allister to deal with before he's won the glittering prize of high office.