denis kemp

Manchester united fan, Lancs CCC fan, music lover, history and current affairs obsessive, been known to like a tipple.

[denis kemp @den_64]

@Muppetiers Very good ist half, but when Brazil got back into it after substitutions his 1st touch and close control looked pretty ropey

[denis kemp @den_64]

@prodnose @ITV Bring back Trevor Brooking, nobody's been better

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:

🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.

🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.

🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.

🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.

🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.

Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

An extract from my chapter on Brexit seen around the world - from the excellent collection of essays edited by Sir @AnthonySeldon: The Brexit Effect 2016-2026 @cambUP_History
https://t.co/n782gOy08w

[denis kemp @den_64]

@AdamJoseph @R_o_M He was shite, but tbf so was Dembele. Think Keano described Saka as world class a couple of years back, really!

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

The parched outfield during a match at Hove in September 1976.

[Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 @marcrileydj]

There was a lot of this going on at Super Furries last night. Proper pisser. People there for the ‘event’ not the music,

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Orban and the British influence operation - including Brexit apologist Lord David Frost. More to come on the Hungary files

“This was not “sovereignty protection”. This was Orbán’s taxpayer-funded foreign influence operation. A public-money laundromat for ideological networking. A state-financed fan club for foreign right-wing pundits, academics, Trump-world operators, Brexit nostalgics, culture-war influencers, and professional Hungary-praisers.

They accused everyone else of foreign interference while literally paying foreigners to interfere on their behalf.”

[denis kemp @den_64]

A bit annoying it took them scoring a few minutes from the end for utd to start playing in that 2nd half. Just weren't quite good enough

[denis kemp @den_64]

I don't love Burrnham, he hasn't achieved half as much as he pretends he has in manchester. But he gets some of the things that need to change in this country. PR, devolution. Basically he's a left-wing liberal

[denis kemp @den_64]

She's a labour machine candidate, union then the labour party. That is not a 21st century formula for success. I mean she's obviously not up to it anyway.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Labour's @AngelaRayner intervention is being - classically - misreported: it's not about Burnham, it's a statement of political philosophy and it is largely correct. I don't want a change of leadership, I want Labour to wake up to the threats Angie outlines...

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power https://t.co/zHuVfDV8dh

[denis kemp @den_64]

@DAaronovitch @FayeBrownSky @Johnmcternan A bit rich given all the no names around Starmer and his people, ie McSweeney and co.

[denis kemp @den_64]

@NewStatesman @AnthonySeldon That is so not reading the room, oh dear

[Rooney @Rooney0161]

Gary Neville is a wanker

[No Question About That @nqatpod]

At some point “it’s a very complex case” stops being an explanation and starts becoming an indictment of the system. Regulation that takes multiple seasons to regulate isn’t regulation, it’s performative nonsense. At this rate the commission will publish its findings on papyrus, just in time for City to win another title that may or may not count.

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

My first onshore sites designed for 20 years are still running at 30+ years. My first Offshore site Scroby Sands running quite happily at 22 years will no decommissioning plans. Every decommissioned site I worked on was re-powered with significantly larger capacities.

[Clive Tyldesley @CliveTyldesley]

I am doing some part-time media teaching at uni. This Laura Kuenssberg ‘in depth’ piece on the BBC website includes 6 quotes to back up the tone of the headline. All 6 are from anonymous sources. Is this sound journalism?

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

To those who believe the journalists killed in Gaza were all Hamas operatives, Israel’s Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center stated that roughly 60% of the media workers and journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 were linked to "terrorist organisations”. That indicates that 40% (well over a hundred) who were killed were just journalists, plain and simple. This figure alone (and it may be an underestimate) is something to be deeply concerned about.

[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

The reality is, nobody really cares because nobody really takes City’s success seriously. As long as those charges hang over them, this will be the case no matter how angry they get that it shouldn’t.