David Hodgson

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@TicketmasterCS Any chance of an update on the NFL London queue? What happened to the presale window? Why so many tickets are hitting resale sites already?

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

‘Just as with Brexit, the consequences of populism and culture wars were both foreseen and forewarned…’
Brilliant explainer from the always excellent ⁦@DavidOlusoga⁩. https://t.co/F80cJyO5rY

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Three little words that would, in any honest discourse, destroy the notion that ‘two tier policing’ somehow *favours* people of colour…

Stop.
And.
Search.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@darrengrimes Who hurt you Darren? Who made you this way?

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@TRobinsonNewEra Fuck all the way off

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem.

It doesn't.

Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press.

Britain has a problem with racism.

Britain has a @Nigel_Farage problem.

RT if you agree.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@davesumnersmith Yep

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Britain does not have an immigration problem.

Britain has a racism problem.

RT if you agree.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@oliviakarenn1 Yep

[Georgie W - GENNI ♥️🐦 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @genni_w]

Just to clarify:
- If you support the thuggish riots, you're SCUM
- If you believe misinformation on SM you're BRAINWASHED
- If you believe Robinson, Farage, etc you are THICK
- If you believe in attacking other religions/cultures, you're RACIST
To sum up, you're VERMIN
#Riots

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@EricTrump @joedurbinNYP Your father thinks you’re called Derek

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

THIS!

Everything I've wanted to say since the moment his ear was nicked by the glass.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@adamjahns Hi Adam. Greetings from the UK. In response to your book recommendation requests, especially historical fiction. C J Sansome’s Shardlake books are excellent. I’d also recommend any of Alex Gerlis’ novels, especially the Spymaster series.

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[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@ShaunHumphrey65 @MonicaLewinsky

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[🐸 Remy2cents @remy2cents]

#TrumpIsNotWell

Repost this very time you see a comment about Biden's mental health.

MAGA Republicans hate it.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Her husband is deployed overseas in the military.

Periodically it’s good to remember that apart from all the unhinged lying and the self-dealing corruption and the disdain for democracy, Trump is at his core a terrible human being.

[David Hodgson @doodlebug9176]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse.