David Souter

London-based researcher/writer. Tweets from this address on life, arts & culture; on the Information Society as @DSouter_ictDA. Keeping the Twitter bird alive.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Aiming to do for the climate what he did to Northern Rock.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

MATT RIDLEY: If Britain reaches its Net Zero target, the world will be 0.00376C less warm by 2100. Is that REALLY worth £695bn? https://t.co/qRkDGSKh3q

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

One of the reasons we have such a problem with the far right in this country is that some politicians who should know better parrot its propaganda because they think it makes them relevant. Cameron should be ashamed of this betrayal of Britain’s commitment to human rights.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive by @MishalHusain

David Cameron calls for Britain to leave the ECHR to stop small boats crossings

He says Kemi Badenoch is “absolutely right” that the UK should leave the convention

“One of the reasons we’ve got such a problem with populism in our world is politicians of the center right and center left have not done enough to tackle illegal migration,” Cameron says in his Bloomberg interview

“We have to do whatever it takes to stop the small boats and to stop the illegal migration” that’s “stopping us having a sensible conversation about lots of things”

“I would say to Kemi, whatever it takes, we’ve got to fix this problem,” he said

Via @ChaplainChloe: https://t.co/DKMe3ZjBUS

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Goodness! Someone’s told Zack Polanski about the climate crisis!

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@JohnRentoul @ShippersUnbound Wouldn’t it be nice if people who oppose the far right focused on beating the far right rather than indulging in arguments with other people who oppose the far right.

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

"Michael Carrick's future will be decided at a meeting in Monaco"

Says it all really

https://t.co/NUhgOGfAZw

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@santanderuk : Many of your banking needs can be done online or on mobile. But if they can't we will make it so impossible for you to conduct business with us that we drive you to take it elsewhere.

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@baerskin How do I use a moka pot

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@Saul_Sadka Possibly the stupidest thing ever said about London on Twitter.

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

More in “We can’t afford pensioners” news as we get it!

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

@BBCPolitics @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer Of course, BBC. Always good to have a middle distance runner rather than a Liberal Democrat. And of course that GB News presenter who moonlights as an occasional MP.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Anyone who calls Brand “possibly the most influential critic of capitalism in the English language” deserves ridicule.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

My latest: A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
https://t.co/6DtLnFZzn9

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

What can we guess about selfish entitled young men who can’t be bothered to book seats on a train to Oxford but think senior citizens will did book seats can fend for themselves on a full train? Quite a lot.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

I’ve written about the Russell Brand verdict

https://t.co/gUyozqqttc

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

And now Radio 5 is going to hold a phone-in about whether a convicted rapist is really a persecuted saint.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Royal Mail's support email address isn't working because its mailbox is full and can't accept any more messages. I wonder why.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Does Radio 5 plan to broadcast self-justifying audio from all convicted rapists, or was this morning a one-off?

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Radio 5 “journalism” today: That’s all very interesting, expert, but I have a random tweet here from an unverified account that could be anyone (or just a bot) which says you’re talking rot. What do you say to that?

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

It used to be possible to buy concert tickets before the days of @axs and @ticketmaster. Now they refuse to accept payment for no reason whatever unless you reconfigure your computer. One more instance of digitalisation reducing customer experience and access.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

Justin Webb's response to the US elections (on BBC radio) is to suggest that Democrat victories are bad for Democrats because not all Democrats agree about everything. But not talking about potential divisions among Republicans.

[David Souter @DavidNSouter]

If the BBC does not allow Gary Lineker to have political opinions because he’s a sports commentator, why does it allow third rate comedians to slag off the Chancellor on sports programmes?