🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer hits back at Argentina after their players held a “Falklands are Argentine” banner
“The World Cup might not have been ours but the Falklands Islands are”
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.”
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
If you’re in the pub tonight have a look around you. Memorise the faces. These are the real ones. Mid-week November, no football on, just pints and chat. These are the people that deserve seats in the summer when all the part-timers appear because the suns out. Proper boozers.
Man I love my country 🇬🇧 On the train today, two girls without tickets started kicking off at the conductors, calling them 'fat slags', 'fucking lesbians' and all sorts. A non-white foreign passenger steps in, so they start firing racist abuse, telling him to 'go back where he came from' and that Farage & Anderson will 'sort his lot out.' Then half the carriage jumped in to back him and the conductors, including an old white man who could barely walk, but wasn't going to let that stop him from giving his two pence. The police were called, and a few of us checked in on the conductors. When all was said and done and the train was moving again, the old man got up and turned to the foreign man and just said "cuppa?" and honestly, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Absolute class act from everyone and a reminder that the vile vocal minority do NOT represent our great country. Call me naive, but I truly believe our country is better than the horrid politics of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson etc, and when push comes to shove, when shit hits the fan, we know who we are – and man, it really ain't that, no matter how hard people like Farage try to make it so.
I promised two million extra NHS appointments within a year.
We have hit that target. Seven months early.
I know the job isn't done yet – my government will go further and faster to build an NHS fit for the future.
Gisèle Pelicot is on the stand today and asked about her decision to continue using the surname "Pelicot".
Gisèle explains that when the trial began her children were "ashamed" of the name.
She adds: "I have grandchildren who are called that.
"Today, I want them to be proud of their grandmother.
"My name is known across the world now. They shouldn't be ashamed of carrying that name.
"Today we will remember Gisèle Pelicot."
Yes we will. What a woman.
#ShameMustChangeSides