Ian Dodsworth

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

Michael Crick is in no mood for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s failed ideas wrapped in a posh accent. Superb. 🔥

[Sir Michael Take CBE @MichaelTakeMP]

Our Danny
Who art in prison
Racist be thy name
Thy balaclava come
Thy will be done
In ports as it is on dinghies
Give us this day
Our daily funding
& forgive us our racism as we intimidate those who speak against us
& lead us all into aggravation
But deliver us from being civil🙏

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This literally made me laugh out loud. Belly laugh. 😆🤣👌👏

Les Dawson’s last TV appearance…singing karaoke with a member of the public. You just don’t get telly like this anymore.

Absolute comedy gold. Enjoy, everyone.

[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

GRANGE HILL series 6 (1983) is astonishingly great drama from start to finish. The centrepiece is school bully Gripper Stebson's transformation into a racist thug surrounded by cowardly sycophants. Hard-but-fair (mainly hard) teacher 'Bullet' Baxter is having none of it...

[Bev 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Bevtbyh]

Are we crying for them or about our own mortality or both? #70up

[John @d1052541]

Wilson Pickett and Tom Jones "The Midnight Hour"💥💥

Tom Jones and Wilson Pickett famously performed a live soulful "In the Midnight Hour", on Tom Jones's television variety show "This Is Tom Jones" in 1970.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

OMG I was there .. Man could that guy water ski

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

‼️ Jim Ratcliffe:

🔹 Backed Brexit
🔹 Moved his tax residence to Monaco
🔹 Abandoned plans to build the British 🇬🇧 Grenadier in Wales and moved production to France
🔹 Now lectures Britain from Denmark about why the country is on the slide

And who does he blame? Immigrants and people on benefits.

The billionaires who helped hollow Britain out always point down, never at Brexit, tax flight, chronic underinvestment or their own decisions.

*Toughness* seems to mean somebody poorer paying the price.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴'Companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received STATE SUPPORT to the tune of £630m in recent years. Now this 'wealth creator' is leaving the country because he doesn't want to pay taxes and doesn't like black and brown people.' - @David__Osland

👉Ratcliffe avoided £4bn tax by switching domicile to Monaco. 🇲🇨

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

How the fuck did we get to this point? How the fuck could we have allowed this to happen?

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

@ofcom - when an MP hosts his own TV show on a TV Channel that are paying him and then re-posts clips from that show on his social media account branded with his Party's logo.

At what point will you do your job?

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

You’ll have read plenty this week about Sunderland’s League One plight, and it’s a fair way to highlight just how remarkable this turnaround has been. To think there may be players involved tonight who represented us in the third tier of English football is extraordinary.

But in our view, that period was always the anomaly. Before the double relegation in 2018, Sunderland hadn’t dropped below 23rd in the pyramid for 23 years. And throughout that horrendous time, we were often told things that suggested the club was almost cursed, as though an inexplicable force was stopping Sunderland from becoming what we all knew they could be.

What’s worse, is that even when we saw some genuinely good top-tier teams get close, we’d often be told not to get too expectant, too demanding.

So what excites me above all else is that this all feels like it could actually be the beginning of something. While it does feel surreal that we were languishing in the third tier five minutes ago, it's nice to embrace the possibility that this is what the club both can and should be. The ambition feels real and tonight doesn’t feel like our big day out, it feels like we’ve finally arrived.

And the best part? Our manager and captain are saying exactly that. They aren’t telling us to temper expectations, despite outsiders being desperate for us to fail this year. Granit Xhaka and Regis Le Bris are telling us this is only the start. After years of hearing otherwise, I’ve decided I’m gonna listen.

✍ @WiseMenSayPod

[Black Cats Chat Podcast @BilbaoBlackCats]

Kyril Louis Dreyfus comment after defeat against Lincoln in league one playoff semi final 2021.

I look back to this comment and pinpoint it as a key turning point.

What a journey with more adventures still in front of us.

Ha'way The Lads 🔴⚪

#SAFC

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Polymath and raconteur par excellence, Peter Ustinov, tells a wartime anecdote on a 1972 episode of Parkinson. The other guests on this episode were Jackie Charlton, Jimmy Reid and Blossom Dearie.

Imagine what it must have been like in the green room!

Good morning.

[Ian Dodsworth @dodsworth_ian]

@JamesAHogg2 Blossom Dearie is a fantastic name!

[James @Surreycricfan]

Worst delivery of the year….
Strangest dismissal of the year….
Oh cricket we love you. Please never change 🏏 https://t.co/znvQOtxEwt

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

This attention-seeking whistleblower will probably be using his newfound fame to launch his own AI startup soon you watch. It's utter nonsense. The world's not going to end. AI will never be able to build bioweapons. It still struggles to spell rhododendron. Put the kettle on. Enjoy your Sunday night.

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

Like Ukip and like Brexit, Reform is fundamentally a scheme hatched and backed by very rich men who are peeved that they don't run the country. Surely even their own voters have to grasp this eventually.

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

Why did you delete this post @Arron_banks ?

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

In a difficult and dangerous world, a decade on from Brexit, there is a risk that Britain loses the confidence to lead and stand up for its values.

I’m not prepared to let that happen. It is more important than ever that Britain stands for something.

We have called for years for a two-state solution in the Middle East, but we must recognise that those words are meaningless unless we back them up with action.

For too long, we have been hesitant to act, fearful of being accused of being anti-Israel.

Today we are announcing carefully judged, targeted steps that are not aimed at the Israeli people, but at the unacceptable policies of the current Israeli government.

The suffering of the Palestinian people is a scar on the conscience of the world. Innocent Palestinians, including children, continue to be killed in Gaza. And there is still a humanitarian crisis, with far too little aid getting in.

The scale of destruction is hard to comprehend. More than 70,000 people lie dead - at least 20,000 of them children. Families and communities have been torn apart. Millions displaced. And the population of Gaza is now penned into just one third of the territory.

I know that people across the UK feel very deeply about this issue - and so do I.

Before I became Prime Minister, I said our country’s response had been too slow and simply not good enough. That’s why I committed to changing the government’s approach.

I will not stand by as the horrific suffering continues to grow and the prospect of a two-state solution - the best hope for peace and stability in the region - comes under attack.

More settlements have been approved under the four years of this Israeli government than in the previous 20 years. The UN has reported more than 1,500 incidents of settler violence so far this year, aimed at driving out Palestinians. And the situation is growing worse, fast.

The Israeli government has now approved 104 new settlements since it took office in December 2022, and ahead of the October elections in Israel, it is allowing tenders for the construction of the E1 mega settlement to go ahead. This would cut a swathe through the heart of the West Bank - snuffing out the hope of realising a two-state solution. It cannot be allowed to happen.

That’s why we are announcing a new package of tough measures to put pressure on the Israeli government:

First, we will ban the trade in goods with illegal settlements in Palestine.

Second, we have formally changed the view of the British government to say for the first time that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful - independent of, but in line with, the conclusion of the international court of justice.

And third, we will sanction individuals and companies that support, facilitate or profit from illegal settlements. That includes any businesses or investors that take part in the construction of the E1 settlement.

In addition, we are announcing a new package of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza.

We are taking these steps because it is the right thing to do.

I have condemned the monstrous terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 in the strongest possible terms - and continue to condemn Hamas. However, it does not justify the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza or the West Bank.

The measures we are taking are about targeting illegal settlements and increasing the pressure on the Israeli government to change course. We are not imposing sanctions on Israel as a whole, which would punish the Israeli people, many of whom disagree with their government’s position.

The Israeli people are not responsible for the actions of their government. And nor is the Jewish community in the UK. Blaming British Jews for the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is wrong, plain and simple. And it is antisemitism, plain and simple.

I met the representatives of the Jewish community just last week. I know the fear they live with day by day. My government will stop at nothing to ensure they are safe and to stamp out antisemitism in every part of our society.

The measures we are announcing today are about protecting the only solution that could see the Israeli and Palestinian people living side by side in peace and security - something that people up and down the UK desperately want to see.

The government I lead will keep working with our partners around the world to keep that hope alive.