Joe Jackson

Journalist; @AFP | Ex-NYC, LA, HK reporter | #MUFC 🇾🇪 #Dogs

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Glad to be up & running on @bluesky with the not quite as catchy handle https://t.co/ukFHGfns64

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel enforced an invisible “dog line” during its ground operations in Gaza, IDF soldiers tell The Economist:

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

#Tennis overlords should strip #Paris #rolandgarros of major championship status & reward another European city like Madrid. Crowd turnout abysmal every year & insulting to players. 2nd game on middle Sunday & again main court near-empty. Give to city that actually appreciates it

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The UK population is 70m.
Robinson got 50k to his march. That’s 0.07142857% of Brits. Not ‘a large majority’.

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

"We are not the enemy." This from the man who kicked an off-duty officer in the head in 2005, was nicked for attacking police on Armistice Day in 2010, and whose own rally last September left 26 Met officers injured.

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

The Guardian has released a statement after Nigel Farage posted a photo of one of their photographers' press passes, implying that a photojournalist threatened his safety:

"The Guardian is concerned by the recent publication on Nigel Farage’s social media pages of the professional credentials of a photographer working on behalf of the Guardian while he was working lawfully in a public space. Holding public figures to account is the role of a free press.

"As part of the Guardian’s journalism covering Nigel Farage’s purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself."

https://t.co/6iyeYmJAvd

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.

The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.

This grifter must not become prime minister.

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Bit bonkers that on day when best quarterly GDP figures in G7 unveiled, alongside NHS waiting lists dropping at record amount in recent years, members of Britain's govt decide it's the right moment to implode the whole operation

[Mirror Football @MirrorFootball]

Gary Lineker has branded it "the worst VAR decision I’ve seen" 😬

Hearts boss Derek McInnes called it "disgusting" 😡

It kept Celtic in the Scottish Premiership title race 👇

https://t.co/CXFL3oShh8

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Labour MPs sounding/looking as farcical as Tories just few years ago, trying to explain away internal squabbling & power plays when elected in just ‘24 to do EXACT opposite. However unpopular Starmer, appears complete idiocy & gift to Farage. Locking themselves out of power again

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Under long-serving leaders such as Thatcher & Blair, the worst mid-term challenge a British PM might face was rowdy jeering in parliament. Now, #UK leaders regularly fear for their jobs, with Keir #Starmer the latest to face intense pressure to quit...
https://t.co/u7GjANG7Sq

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

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[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: José Mourinho and Real Madrid are now in advanced talks!

— @FabrizioRomano

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

They also tried to build a Trump tower in Baku some years ago and ultimately failed. This scam may also collapse.

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Labour MPs seem to be gifting Nigel Farage exactly what he wants... walking into his less-than-subtly laid trap with their eyes wide open 🙄

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Could you say anything more vapid? Nobody reasonable disagrees with this so it's just the kind of wallpaper utterance that underlines why Starmer so incapable of connecting with voters...

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

When I say every child should have the opportunity to go as far as their talent takes them, I mean every single child.

Children who grew up in poverty, with special educational needs, those who can't get a job.

We back them: every young person struggling to find work will get a guaranteed offer of a job, training, or a work placement.

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

Starmer with another reset speech trying to explain why - despite electorate really not liking him or Labour any more (did more than 40% ever?) - there are theoretical reasons for voters should ignore their lived reality & stick w him & party

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

Editor's note:

Yes Reform won the most seats

But its national equivalent vote share was 27%. That's LOWER than last year

And come a general election it will face widespread tactical voting because many voters really don't want Farage as PM

[Lee David Evans @LeeDavidEvansUK]

If we go back to this Peter Kellner chart, how should the parties be feeling about these local elections?

Lab = Disappointment
Con = Relief
Lib Dem = Relief
Ref = Disaster
Green = Disappointment

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

@metpoliceuk just issued statement saying victims "taken to hospital and both are in a stable condition"

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

A double stabbing, where two Jewish men were targeted, occurred earlier in London, England. Per reports the two individuals are in critical condition. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has decried the attack, saying “The antisemitic attack in Golders Green is utterly appalling.” Per the Uk’s Metropolitan Police, they are working to identify the nationality and background of the attacker and are “considering all possible motives.”

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

@sentdefender @metpoliceuk now saying victims "taken to hospital and both are in a stable condition"

[Joe Jackson @joejackson]

@theawayfans it's not at St James