David Whirledge

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@glosswitch @sharrond62 What disappoints is the acceptance that gender as a word has now given up it’s own meaning, the ideologists have convinced normal people that the term man and women, does mean male or female. Why and when did this happen

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

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[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup. The actual TDS

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@salltweets Exactly right

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@ZackPolanski @mehdirhasan ….you forgot to mention they broke a police woman’s back. Unfit to run a bath let alone a serious party

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@owenjonesjourno They broke a police woman’s back you pompous clown

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@carolecadwalla https://t.co/zebfUC7jyk
Think this answers your question

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

https://t.co/igPrg5wSLh

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@LizWebsterSBF @mehdirhasan @Jeremy_Hunt Economically illiterate from the left as ever. There was no money left after the financial crisis…which still has not been tackled and affects everyday life. There was no banks are still carrying huge amounts of zombie debt.

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@knicksrevenge @mehdirhasan Reminds me of @rickygervais comment at golden globes … if ISIS had a streaming channel you’d be calling your agent

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

Politicians are intentionally deluding themselves into thinking this isn't organic.

Normal people have had years of being told a million immigrants a year is good actually, and if you don't agree you're a nazi. All while being taxed into oblivion, not being able to afford a house and, if they are lucky to work, watching their earnings stagnate.

Then they turn on the news or social media and see Pakistani rape gangs, Sudanese beheading attempts and asylum seekers blowing up concerts with bombs paid for by benefit fraud.

And if they have the temerity to complain, they risk 6 officers showing up at 4am to have a stern word, search thier PC and log a non crime hate crime.

These rioters feel no different to most people, they are just the ones with the least to lose by acting. They certainly aren't being inspired by anyone, in the same way BLM rioters weren't, they are naturally angry.

The social contract is broken and it's getting worse, but those in charge show no interest in fixing it. They don't even want to acknowledge it exists.

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@BBCNewsnight Jeremy Hunt giving @mehdirhasan an economics lessons. The left want a levelling of the playing field ….but the level is the bottom of the barrel

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Thread 🧵

It's 100 days since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Despite a ceasefire agreed in April, sporadic attacks continue, negotiations have repeatedly failed, and Hormuz Strait is still largely closed.

We look at the war's impact on Iran and the wider world ⤵️

[Sir Jeremy Hunt MP @Jeremy_Hunt]

We CAN turn around the British economy! Read this extract in today’s Mail on Sunday from my new book Can We Be Rich Again?

How I'd make Britain rich again: Former Chancellor JEREMY HUNT

https://t.co/vmDhJxsheW

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

This @historyinmemes post refers to the events of 19 September 2005, in Basra, Southern Iraq

2 SAS men captured by Iranian-backed insurgents whilst conducting covert surveillance of an Iranian-controlled Iraqi Police Force, were about to be spirited away to Iran for ritual humiliation or worse.

The British chain of command, who had ordered the SAS surveillance operation in the first place, became overly worried about the negative presentational impact of an SAS rescue operation on their plans to withdraw British Forces and hand over Southern Iraq to local police and security forces that they knew would be controlled by the Iranians. They feared that such a high profile operation would (correctly) prove to the US-led coalition and the Baghdad government that the UK was withdrawing its forces too soon, and certainly before the area was properly stable; that they were simply enabling a safe logistics base for Iranian insurgents to target Iraqi and US forces in central Iraq.

Whilst the many Generals, ambitious staff officers, civil servants and diplomats (in London and Iraq) wrestled with this emerging reality and its potential consequences for their withdrawal plan - hoping that there was a less visible way to recover the men, the SAS prepared an operation to rescue their own men, the moment an opportunity presented itself.

The moment it appeared, the SAS pushed past the concerns and fears of a confused, conflicted chain of command that had refused to give permission for a rescue declaring to the SAS CO “that there is more at stake than your men’s lives” and executed successfully the recovery operation, returning the men safe from the clutches of a vicious and merciless enemy.

If the SAS Command hadn’t ignored the concerns and constraints of the London HQ staff and their advisors, if their rescue force hadn’t been as skilled and decisive, then the outcome would have been dreadful for their two men and for the country; and for no good reason.

As Martin Luther King is reported to have said: “The time is always right to do what is right” and so it was in September 2005. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@DanNeidle At last someone who understands tenants and occupier costs

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"It is outrageous this idea that you cannot be English or British because of your ethnicity."

Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed, who won a gold medal for England, tells #Newsnight that he finds the idea "profoundly divisive".

[Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire]

Sir Alex Younger on #Newsnight last year 👇

[David Whirledge @DavidWhirledge]

@ZackPolanski Economically illiterate as ever. Don't borrow then you won't need bond markets

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yikes