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[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

Today marks the anniversary of one of the sauciest passes since records began.

Ian Crook. Carrow Road. 1989.

You scoundrel.

(👍🎥 @forgottengoals)

[Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve]

According to @SuellaBraverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. Fuck her 🖕🏽🖕🏼🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿

[G @GCB82]

@TonyRivers1927 @tristonrobinson Outstanding this 🤣🤣

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: The Met Police has now submitted charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017

The charges include fraud, corporate manslaughter and misconduct in public office

[Malice Maven 🖤 @Alice_1971_]

Last night I shared footage of the Patriot Platform's statement being read out in Basingstoke, implying it was unclear & that their spokesman couldn't be heard properly.

I was wrong; that was not the finished video. Here is their message in full. Volume up!

[Ian @Fussball5645]

Danny Tommo of no fixed abode hahaha

What an absolute parasite.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

THE FUNK SOUL BROTHER

[₿rowny @mrk___brwn]

@oJARDINEo @Matt_A_Shea @C4Dispatches Oh yeah, sorry, here’s one by the same director for channel 4 In 2004, Anna Hall’s Edge of the City. Filmed over two years in Bradford and Keighley, it appeared seven years before the issue exploded into national attention in 2011… ever heard of Google?

[Louise @LouisePage_]

Mrs Brown’s Boys winning best comedy at the National Television Awards is precisely why Burnham won’t be calling an early general election - this country absolutely cannot be trusted to vote.

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

As an antidote to the poison being thrown at the @RNLI, I give you Bill Bryson.

[Andy⚫️⚪️ @AndyNufc48]

Got it! Honestly man! Someone check how he’s doing now 😂 #itfc

[Chris Kane MP @chriswkane]

Today in Parliament, I raised a point of order following disgraceful remarks made by Rupert Lowe MP on a podcast.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

This one stopped me cold.

I was listening to Joe Rogan with Rupert Lowe as a guest. Yes, I listen to Rogan, probably the best podcaster out there.

I listen to people I agree with and people I do not. That is how you learn, test arguments, and understand what is moving in the world beyond your own little trench.

But I had to turn this off.

Lowe was talking about the police confiscating his shotguns. Fine. There is a legitimate debate to be had about licensing, police process, rural communities, sport shooting and the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Britain should be able to have that debate without importing America’s gun-war lunacy wholesale.

Then Rogan asked about handguns.

That is where Lowe crossed a line. He described Britain’s handgun ban as the result of “a murder up in Dunblane”, then repeated it: “one murder.”

No...

Dunblane was not “one murder”. It was the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996. Fifteen others were injured. The gunman then killed himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in modern British history.

For those of us old enough to remember it, Dunblane was not a footnote in a gun-rights argument. It was one of those days that lodged itself in the country’s bones. Children hunted in a school gym. Families destroyed. A town broken. A nation looking at itself and deciding that whatever else came next, this could not be normalised.

That is why the law changed. After the Cullen Inquiry and the public Snowdrop Campaign, Parliament passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 under John Major’s Conservative government, and the later Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997 under Tony Blair’s Labour government further restricted handguns in Great Britain.

Lowe knows this. He is not a fool. But sitting in front of an American audience, talking to Rogan, he chose to frame Dunblane in a way that softens the horror and flatters the gun lobby’s worldview.

That is what angered me.

There is a difference between defending clay shooting, game shooting and lawful firearms ownership, and reducing the murder of little children to an inconvenience in a licensing debate.

The United States has chosen one path. Again and again, children die, politicians offer prayers, the gun lobby digs in, and nothing serious changes. Britain chose another path after Dunblane. Not because we are perfect. Not because all violence disappeared. But because a civilised country looked at murdered schoolchildren and said: never again means something.

Like many people at the time, the news of #Dunblane hit me hard. It stayed with me. I am not saying that for effect. I have written about the horror of that day before, because some events should not be allowed to fade into the small print of political argument.

https://t.co/jP0hnNY4Bi

You can argue about gun law. You can argue about licensing. You can argue about policing. But do not minimise Dunblane to make yourself more palatable to the American right. It showed Lowe to be little more than a grifter afraid of the truth in case it gave him a negative from the gun lobby.

#JoeRogan #RupertLowe #RestoreUK

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

The reason why the name Muhammad tops the list of boys’ names is very simple. This is a long post to explain it because some people struggle to understand basic maths.

Imagine 10 boys are born in a town:

3 boys are from Muslim families.

7 boys are from non-Muslim families.

The 3 Muslim families choose different spellings of the same name:

1 boy: Muhammad
1 boy: Mohammed
1 boy: Mohammad

That’s 3 different boys with the same name spelt differently.

The other 7 boys are:

1 boy: Noah
1 boy: Leo
1 boy: Luca
1 boy: Theo
1 boy: Oliver
1 boy: Ethan
1 boy: Elijah

The name Muhammad appears as the most common. It does not mean that most boys have that name.

In this example, 7 out of 10 boys are still not named Muhammad.

In reality, around 5,000 children are named Muhammad out of roughly 220,000 boys born.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

The penny drops for Ryan as he finally realises that Raise the Colours should have been looking far closer to home to 'Protect Are Kids'.
Ben Cullen (Raise the Flags Oxfordshire) appears at Reading Crown Court today charged with possession of indecent images of children.

[G @GCB82]

@RupertLowe10