Ian Maggs

Bristol Rovers

@ianmaggs.bsky.social

[Sam @SamCKx]

What Boris Johnson is doing here is finding a way to grossly mislead us all without telling a direct lie. Let me explain how...

The 2020 Intelligence and Security Committee report found that the government had "failed to adequately investigate potential Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum". It did not conclude that Russia had not interfered. It concluded the investigation was a failure.

The US investigation, however, backed by a comprehensive, bipartisan Senate inquiry, did establish extensive Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Read the comments.
The bots are gone.
Really scroll deep. The bots are gone.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

It’s really an A+ troll by Zelenskyy to take out half of Russia’s bot farm, weeks before the US midterm elections.

[Tomáš Zdechovský @TomasZdechovsky]

If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉

So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺

[CSPAN @cspan]

President Trump: "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap."

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

He has betrayed us

[Tom💐 @TomHulme79]

This is one of the reasons we can’t have a serious conversation about things like the triple lock; as children, people in their 50s were told “your grandad fought in the war” and they don’t seem to realise we’re not talking about about their grandparents anymore.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts.

1. Who would benefit from the cuts?

[The Venerable Jeff of Bingen @petrolemulsion]

A younger Jeffrey Archer would be much more successful in politics in a post-truth age

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump is going to try and steal this election…

There is only one conceivable reason to join Russia and Belarus here…

[Tara Bella @Tarasworld21]

TIME Magazine has released the full, unedited transcript of its interview with Trump alongside its cover story I put in the comments. I had to take several breaks to get through it, it's bad, really bad, because it's our President. If you've ever visited a loved one in a Memory Care facility you'd know the residents can give hours long dissertations without saying anything of substance, long strings of filterless free association that could lead anywhere. While Trump has always been a narcissist and a con man, he was also an effective communicator, you can't pull a successful con without that skill. What we see in this interview seems to be truly disturbing and we need to face it together as a nation and do something about it. Please take the time to read.
https://t.co/bQqjnpk9nB

[Ciaran or Siri @BinnyPiper]

Can I bring my mates dad he’s sound

The mates dad…

[Ian Maggs @ianmaggs]

@DailyMail

[bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect]

A selection of posts by Alan Sugar, the 138th richest person in the UK. In awe.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

And here’s Richard Tice saying Reform can’t guarantee the triple lock

[Michel Barnier @MichelBarnier]

For sure !

[Darth Craven @CrazyCraven01]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Joseph Gellman @joseph_gellman]

The WASPI women are going to be apoplectic when they hear about this in 20 years time

[fareed @it_is_fareed]

Everyone upset about the rumoured triple lock changes, remember, is insisting that the state pension should rise *faster* than the wages of the people who pay for it. That’s the only thing at stake here. Andy is not cutting the pension, or even suggesting it should stop rising.

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

Actually, a ‘single lock’ - to real wage growth alone - would be fairer still. Plus, pensioners would then be incentivised to favour growth and lower inflation through supply-side reforms, as opposed to being shielded from its costs by the wallets of unshielded workers*…

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