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[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

After the horrific crash on the A66, and another in Ireland only days ago, surely it is long overdue that we treated deliberately driving the wrong way down a motorway as an extraordinarily serious crime.

If you deliberately take a car the wrong way down a motorway, you are knowingly creating the risk of a mass-casualty event. Innocent people coming the other way have virtually no chance to protect themselves. As we have seen, the potential consequences are catastrophic.

This isn’t a prank, high spirits or lads messing around. It is utterly reckless behaviour that can destroy entire families, and the punishment should reflect that.

And when something like this ends in tragedy, hearing people talk only about what “great lads” those responsible were, with seemingly little acknowledgement of what they inflicted on innocent people, is profoundly disturbing. Something has gone badly wrong when behaviour this dangerous can be romanticised rather than unequivocally condemned.

[Fiona-Natasha Syms @SymsFifi]

We’ve had 2 fatal crashes in a week - the other in Ireland - where teens were deliberately driving the wrong way down the motorway/dual carriageway for TikTok content. The penalty for this - in the unlikely event you survive - should be life imprisonment. And anyone who posts police baiting/racing content should also fail jail. Driving the wrong way generally is also on the rise - 30 prosecutions in as many weeks. A disgrace and we are far too lax with the punishment.

[Prostate Cancer UK @ProstateUK]

(1/3) We've seen some misleading headlines over the weekend suggesting men can no longer get a free #PSABloodTest from their GP.

That's not the case.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

A brief note for @nadhimzahawi @ITV @GMB @kategarraway.

[Jo @JoName321]

@vulturetrades Yes please

[Jo @JoName321]

@Mikethejourney1 I'm really looking forward to seeing your progress. Do you have a pie in Trading212 that people can copy? Or do you share info about what you hold in your portfolio?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The test of any Prime Minister is: do you leave your country in a better place than you found it?

I’m proud that the answer is yes.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

The true import of what Starmer did behind the scenes after Trump’s return to power to support Ukraine, rally Europe behind Kyiv and diplomatically beat off Putin when it comes to Washington remains a story not fully told. Much of it quite rightly confidential and classified. But in due course, how pivotal this moment was and what he achieved as a diplomat will come to be seen as one of the most complex and against the odds successes of British diplomacy. Together Starmer and Macron have stabilised what was almost a very bad situation — the task now falls to Burnham to sustain this and react with similar subtlety at the next twist.

[Alice Vinten @AVintenAuthor]

‘First class honours maths student, Poppy Devey Waterhouse, murdered by jealous ex boyfriend.’

Fixed it for you, @DailyMirror.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Reform: The party of very successful aristocratic families.

That'll look great on a leaflet.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Robert Jenrick: “Nigel Farage had the courage to put himself up for a by-election, which very few people do.”

Tim Stanley: “Well you didn’t.”

[Kirralie Smith @KirralieS]

I have been ordered to pay $95,000 in "damages" to two men in women's sport because I apparently hurt their feelings. It is potentially going to be doubled because I didn't pay in 30 days. So that is $190,000 in total to reward two men in women's sport. I am appealing in the NSW Supreme Court, so for now, there is a stay on the orders.

@salltweets has been ordered to pay a man $20,000 for not allowing him on her female only app. His hurt feelings claim is hoping to be challenged in the High Court. Sall is still waiting to see if leave will be granted for the appeal.

Jasmine Sussex could have to pay up to $95,000 to a man with hurt feelings who falsely claimed he could breastfeed a tiny baby. Her case is still to be heard by a Queensland tribunal.

None of these numbers include the court costs which run into millions.

Others have lost jobs, been censored, gaslit or threatened if they speak the truth or object to the lie that men can be women.

Men who wish they were women not only want to dominate our sports, spaces and services, they are also trying to make money as they go. It appears quite lucrative if they succeed.

Stand with us. Men are not women and we should never be penalized for stating the facts - especially in court where evidence and facts are meant to be paramount.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

Nick Robinson to Zia Yusuf: "You say this is all about standing up to the establishment.
"You're a multi-millionaire. You made your money selling luxury helicopter charters and rare wines to the super-wealthy.
"Nigel Farage is a public schoolboy, a former commodities trader who gets £5m gifts from his friends and lives in a 5-storey house next to Buckingham Palace courtesy of a man convicted of fraud.
"Do you really think you are in a position at Reform UK to claim not to be part of the super-wealthy, self-serving establishment?"

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Clarification: Sky News was not at the property at 7.41am. As has already been acknowledged, and as shown in the footage from 10.19am, Sky News was outside a property where Mr Farage was registered to vote at the last election. Sky News did not interact with Mr Farage’s daughter.

On a single occasion, we approached the property without a camera operator, identified ourselves as Sky News, and the adult occupant chose not to engage. We were seeking to contact Mr Farage to ask questions about the gift he accepted from Mr Cottrell. This is a well-established and routine journalistic practice when reporting on matters of legitimate public interest.

The footage clearly demonstrates that Sky News did not “hound” or pursue Mr Farage’s daughter. At no stage did we seek to speak to anyone other than Mr Farage in connection with this story.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The Bin Must Win!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Today the UK celebrates 250 years of independence from the tyranny of the United States of America. Imagine living in a society where the leader can repeatedly break the law and nobody stops them!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Resident doctors have just agreed a deal with us to stop the strikes.

This deal will see better pay progression, better career opportunities, and better working conditions for resident doctors.

Together, we can get on with delivering for patients and cutting waiting lists.

[Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS @Sorelle_Arduino]

Two headlines, two papers

@Independent blames a mother for her toddlers death while the father was looking after him

@DailyMail frames a man raping his daughter as ‘romping’. She tragically went on to kill herself

The British media is in the gutter @IpsoNews @MichelleDewbs

[. @LouiseRawAuthor]

I will be pursuing a press complaint against you @DailyMail for this revolting, dangerous, damaging headline.

His poor daughter went to live with him after a difficult life, hoping for love and stability. He got her blind drunk & raped her. She killed herself.
Shame on you.