Benn Kay 🇺🇬

On my grown up stuff... Sometimes

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Scott FFC Tanfield @scott_tanfield]

How all those non-Fulham fans with zero loyalty points are currently feeling, after getting a free ticket away to Brentford, by completing a 2 mile marathon put on by the Fulham Foundation 🫠 #ffc

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Fulham (1.88) 2-1 (0.64) Brentford

[Premier League Communities @PLCommunities]

Graham Goodden has supported his local community for 19 years at @BrentfordFCCST, overseeing the delivery of the Trust’s Premier League Kicks activity ⭐️

He was chosen as Brentford's Community Captain for the #PLMoreThanAGame campaign for the @premierleague 2023/24 season 👇

[Mike Holden @MikeHolden42]

Tell me again about Starmer's fucking box at Arsenal.

[Rich Woodward @IpsRich]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 'Mike Bassett: England Manager' was 23 years ahead of it's time...

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: Three Valencia fans have been jailed for eight months for abusing Vinicius Jr during a La Liga game in May 2023. This the first criminal conviction for racist abuse of a footballer in Spain 🚨

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Sad reality of Congo which is deliberately ignored by the media. #FreeCongo

[Stephen (Стівен Ральф) 🔶🐟🇺🇦🇪🇺 #SlavaUkraini @TheStephenRalph]

@SamCoatesSky @JakubKrupa Also Tense. Do watch in full.
He didn't make sure his diary for 06.06.24 was cleared for #DDay80 and he had weeks of notice.
https://t.co/ODQE3M0xFm

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

So Rishi Sunak just took a question from a hi-vis jacket-wearing man at a campaign event in a McVities warehouse.

It turns out the man is actually local Conservative councillor Ross Hills.

Hills just admitted to me to being asked to appear at the event
https://t.co/HWdWtnteEO

[United Nations @UN]

Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.

Around 1 million children have been forcibly displaced from their homes & families have been torn apart.

An immediate, sustained humanitarian ceasefire is needed.

Now.

https://t.co/rwhPmY7sXp via @UNICEF

[Shoaib M Khan @ShoaibMKhan]

So the £38,700 income threshold *will* apply to spouses of British citizens who are already in the UK.

They need to satisfy new, higher threshold when applying for extension of their visas.

This is unbelievably low and appalling, even for the Tories.
https://t.co/SF3AI5XxFc

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Rachel Reeves, "Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak allowed billions to be stolen in covid loan fraud, can we get the taxpayer money back?"

Jeremy Hunt, "We've got back £1.6 billion"

RR, "Covid fraud losses are £7.2 billion. And £8.7 billion is bring written off in pandemic PPE contracts. Can we get both back for taxpayers?"

JH, "We helped the country during covid"

[Howard W. French @hofrench]

Global silence.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

"Fire sale” of land bought for HS2 north of Birmingham set to cost the taxpayer more than £100m.

Land was bought at a premium under compulsory purchase.

£100m loss to the public purse. But Tory cronies will make money again.
https://t.co/zefgWw5kp8

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

So to summarise, the Government has just announced plans to scrap the biggest public transport infrastructure project planned for any Northern city, while taking part in its conference in that same city, which its Chancellor chose to travel to by plane. https://t.co/x45OU9DGhu

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

16 year old boy arrested for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree within 24 hours.

Water companies dumping sewage, trashing our rivers and sea, for years, not a single arrest of a water company exec.

[Nels Abbey @nelsabbey]

GB “News” presenter tweets that a Black man should “f*** off back to Jamaica”, and returns to work like nothing happened. This is the bastardisation of British journalism and media. And the re-normalisation of racism. Shocked the former head of Sky News condemned the ad boycott.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

I just voted in Parliament for the Tories to publish the papers about what Rishi Sunak and others knew about school safety when he cut the funding for school repairs.

But the Tories voted to cover up the truth.

What are they trying to hide? The public has a right to know!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White