When Dire Straits took the stage at Live Aid in '85, most fans had no idea why Sting joined them, but when he started singing the opening lyrics to "Money For Nothing", they realized it was his voice on the radio hit which widely went unnoticed til then 🔥 Goosebumps when Mark Knopfler finally plays that guitar riff and the crowd takes over for the drums.
I lived dangerously by writing an essay on the Falklands when I was studying Argentine history at night school in Buenos Aires. I am still too ill and woozy to recreate my argument as coherently as I'd like. But here are a few scattered points. 1/
There is so much here to unpick.
I am going to make general comments only before all facts are known Mr Broadhurst and his family deserve that, with a huge amount of condolences.
Things that jump at me straight away……..incompetent mental health and act assessments.
“Help” at Hayes Police station….what was that help.
A ‘depressive psychotic’ driving an Uber…..……where do I even start with that.
Did anyone doing a mental health assessment report to DVLA or did they rely on a ‘psychotic’ patient to inform DVLA themselves……….🤯
Life tariff please…..let’s take another menace off the streets and we can treat him in prison.
No hospital orders ……unless he has also been the recipient like us in the Nottingham attacks of a flawed psychiatrist’s report.
In which case psychiatrist be ready to account for yourself……..
God’s sake can we not keep families safe anymore…..
@rcpsych@DHSCgovuk
Back up to London.
Meeting with our own MP @GideonJAmos and leader of the party @EdwardJDavey
First of a series where we take the conversation to ALL parties.
No room for manifesto or political point scoring. As I see it; this is cross party and we want that support to ensure that what needs doing gets done!!!
What a courageous little girl.
All my warmest wishes to your family.
Be strong, you will make a big difference for all other girls and women one day when you’re older.
You’re a very brave girl just like my Gracie was. God bless you.
Ali, you do not deserve to be released after 7 years you should spend the full 15 years in prison. An example should be made of you. There is no room for your despicable behaviour violating safety of families, women and children.
@ShabanaMahmood@MoJGovUK@AlexDaviesJones@catkinson80@redrumlisa@AllisonPearson
This sickens me to read.
Firstly BBC, use the gentleman’s name.
The victim was called Wayne Broadhurst.
He’s not a ‘dog walker’.
Yet again we get the insult of an accepted ‘diminished responsibility for manslaughter’.
This illegal and unwanted murderer lied his way into this country and manipulated the system to be allowed to stay.
Question:
Is it not possible CPS and (anything but) ‘Expert’ Psychiatrists, that he misled you too?
Is it perhaps quicker, cheaper, and altogether more palatable to permit psychosis once again be used to get away with a murder charge and trial, and all that it would entail and cost?
Prediction:
Disposal by means indefinite hospital order.
And we’ll be welcoming him back out into our community in 5-10 years?
At least he will have his benefit nest egg to fall back on?
This is a disgrace.
Our criminal justice system is not for for purpose.
Not only do we fail to stop these people getting into our country, we lose track of them and then fail to punish them when they commit the most heinous of acts.
I am in Westminster tomorrow.
This will be added to a very long list of abhorrent conduct by our agencies that must be addressed.
Rest in peace Wayne. 💔
We will add you to our fight for justice. It’s the least you deserve.
Ps: And I hope in the better place that you have gone there are plenty of beautiful dogs who eagerly wait for you to walk them.
Xxxxx
@onetechmedia247 She gets it and nailed it the others are the problem cos they never have to live or see with what they have brought down on us for the last 30 odd years.
Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔
If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.
Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚
For You. For Grace. For Ian.
More examples of the Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, reminding Boris to answer the question put forward to him.
There’s no excuse for allowing Keir Starmer to evade every question time and time again during #PMQs
@_ConnieShaw@GoodwinMJ I listened to to Iman he had on just before you and he never pushed back against him once, he is another 'the crocodile will eat me last' type
Ameer Kotecha’s eye-opening piece on our broken bureaucracy contains this extraordinary opening…
“On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, I was among several thousand officials invited to mark World Afro Day… with a panel discussion featuring a director charged with matters of national security.”
A story almost too absurd to be believable, yet it is far from an isolated incident. Quick thread on staff networks 🧵
The Deputy leader of the Green Party, Mothin Ali, at pro Iran regime demonstration.
This is the real face of the Greens. They’re no longer wacky tree huggers.
They’re dangerous people who side with a brutal regime who have massacred 40,000 Iranians.
Jeff Bridges pulled up to John Goodman’s Walk of Fame ceremony in the actual Dude sweater — Goodman’s reaction is pure joy. Cinema history hugging it out.
Nobody is more shocked & appalled than Emily Maitlis & The News Agents team about this Peter Mandelson Jeffrey Epstein business. But what's even more appalling to Emily is how some old photos of her looking very cosy with Mandelson are circulating again!