Russell Finn

Runner, cyclist, book reader, Linux and MacOS user, nerd.
[email protected]

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

Whether you agree with him or not, you can always rely on @IanDunt to eschew hypocrisy and say the unsayable. https://t.co/zd48UQ1wqo

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

You can criticise Starmer and Reeves for all sorts of things - insufficient honesty at the election, insufficient bravery now - but it is astonishing how comprehensively the last government ran the country into the fucking ground.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Looks like a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is bitterly opposed to Labour's plans for inheritance tax

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

At some point perhaps the MSM should focus on whether this guy has some sort of mental condition that makes him a pathological liar on a level that no one else in our political history has ever approached, and that maybe this goes to whether he’d make a good president?

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

In 2022 alone, the Tories took over £62k in donations from Lubov Chernukhin. The wife of Putin’s ex finance minister. Post invasion, to be clear.

Weekly meetings with the PM and chancellor. No outage or headlines despite national security risks.

Why wasn’t THAT on the news?

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

When people complain that there's a double standard for Trump, they are wrong: there is literally no standard.

He can say absolutely insane things like they are giving kids sex change operations in schools and it won't even get a single headline.

[Claire McCaskill @clairecmc]

A candidate for President of the United States posts that his opponent used “blow jobs” to further her career. Why isn’t he being asked about this? And how many ministers are going to support him in spite of it?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

It's far nastier to paint over a children's Disney mural at an asylum seeker dentention centre than to take down a portrait of Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. Tell me I'm wrong.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

You probably know the start of this Olympic story, but do you know how it finished?

This photo is of Eric Moussambani, aka 'Eric the Eel' from Equatorial Guinea, competing in the 100m Freestyle event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, alone.

Why?

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[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Now that prisoners - including some convicted of violent crimes - are being released early due to overcrowding, it is even more outrageous that peaceful climate protesters face jail. The Tories' authoritarian anti-protest laws must be repealed.

[Chris Atkins @scatatkins]

Narrator: none of the last 4 Tory Prime Ministers lasted one term

[Billy Bragg @billybragg]

Everyone knows Labour are going to win the election, but if you’re feeling like there’s no point in voting as the outcome is a foregone conclusion, I’d like to draw your attention to something really radical that is on offer tomorrow: 1/8

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

I can categorically say I’ve never loathed a political party like I loathe this Tory party. I’ve never felt this angry about what a govt has done to our country. And never thought that a bunch of politicians deserved the total crushing defeat these Tories do.
How many agree?

[katie spalding @supermathskid]

Thinking about how it would be reported if the ex-president of a non-Western country was ruled immune from prosecution by a panel of judges he himself appointed

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

This graph could be subtitled
“Getting the Big Calls Right”.

[Tim Brannigan @tim_brannigan]

It’s revealing that she feels it’s entirely reasonable that a family should want to emigrate, simply for a better life. No war or persecution, just a lifestyle choice.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

(Except if you got fined by the police for breaking your own lockdown laws)

[Anita Singh @anitathetweeter]

Michael Heseltine speaking at the Hay Festival:

“Racism is basically what underpins UKIP and Reform. I’m just over 90, I have lived through some of the most tumultuous events of our time, and anyone who is looking for the common theme: it’s racism.”