Anne

Duranie / LFC / Green Bay Packers / Jersey Bulls

[Anne @LipstickCherry]

@TheTennisTalker Tim needs to read the room.

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@Wimbledon Why no wild card for Dan Evans? Disgraceful.

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@QueensTennis Are you going to give any indication as to when play might start please?

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@StevenMtennis The TNNS Live app is very good.

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@CTAairport Your men's toilets are a disgrace. Broken seats and covered in graffiti. Not acceptable for an international airport.

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@VictorianDad2 I think most of the old series are on YouTube.

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@CroydonAth @AFCWhyteleafe There's nothing happening on the live stream!

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@CroydonAth Where is the live stream?

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@vcd_club Is there parking at the ground?

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@Moviemusicpolls Shocking result!

[Anne @LipstickCherry]

@JChimirie66677 Horrifying.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Eurovision winner Dana International, the competition’s first trans victor has a message for the boycotters:

Good evening, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia.

I have performed in your countries numerous times - on your stages and on television shows. I was always welcomed with warmth and love, and you sang with me "Viva La Diva", connecting to the message I brought with me: a message of equality, acceptance, human dignity, and the basic rights of every person.

You know, Israel is the only country in our region that is this liberal. Tel Aviv Pride parade is one of the largest in the world. We are also the Holy Land, the land of the Bible - whose capital, Jerusalem, holds the holiest sites of the three monotheistic religions, and draws people from all around the world to pray. But we are also the land of Tel Aviv, of beaches, of some of the biggest Pride parades in the world, and of epic parties.

Beyond that, we’ve been part of the Eurovision Song Contest for many years. We try our best in the competition, and sometimes we even succeed.

So, explain to me how and why you have turned against us and announced your withdrawal? You no longer want us singing with you? Do you understand how violent and insulting that decision is? How much it adds only hatred and harm?

A large part of the people in Israel do not agree with our government. They want a different government. You don’t punish an entire country because you disagree politically with its government.

The unbearable war that went on far too long has ended. It is legitimate to criticize it and to resent how long it lasted. Nevertheless, it must not be forgotten that Israel is a country fighting for its existence, trying to balance security challenges with sanity and liberal values, things that are not well accepted in the region we live in. Hamas executes people for being gay. Almost every Eurovision winner would have been hanged in the town square in Gaza.

That doesn’t justify anything, and of course we must fight for peace and reconciliation with all human beings.

Announcing a withdrawal from Eurovision harms the very idea of peace, harms Israel, and harms the contest itself.

I believe this decision will be reversed, and that we will all celebrate together at Eurovision with this message of equality, love, and acceptance, and with the music that brings people together. Because that is what Eurovision is truly about.

Looking forward to hearing your Eurovision song, instead of declarations of boycott.

[Anne @LipstickCherry]

@jillwebb2005 My favourite Depeche Mode song. ❤️ 😞

[Anne @LipstickCherry]

@jillwebb2005 I voted for two of those! 🤷‍♀️

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

If you want to understand how far Britain has sunk, look at the case of Lorne Castle – the Dorset officer sacked for tackling a masked 15-year-old knifeman and telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch." For those who don't know the story: Castle brought down a youth suspected of assaulting an elderly man, carrying a blade, linked to drug dealing, and causing chaos in Bournemouth. The teenager wasn't harmed. The knife fell from his pocket. The arrest was clean. And for this, a decorated officer with a decade of unblemished service was dismissed for "gross misconduct."

A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers who know the system protects them from consequences. Castle was at the end of a ten-hour shift, responding to warnings of gang fights and violent offenders still at large. He did what any sane society expects of its police: he acted fast, acted hard, and removed a threat. That should be praised. Instead, it destroyed his career.

The panel didn't care about the knife. They didn't care about the elderly victim. They didn't care that Castle had been awarded for saving a woman from a freezing river only months before. They didn't care that the youth had links to drug crime. No – they obsessed over a single phrase. A fleeting remark. A scrap of rough language in the middle of a dangerous arrest. One sentence outweighed a decade of duty, grit, and courage. That tells you everything about who now runs British policing.

Castle wasn't sacked for wrongdoing. He was sacked because the new managerial clergy inside UK policing despise old-school officers. They fear "perception" more than they fear armed criminals. They want constables who speak like counsellors, not men who can handle a blade-wielding thug in a dark street. They have built a system where morale collapses, crime soars, and frontline officers walk on eggshells while criminals laugh in their faces. After Castle's dismissal, drug dealers mocked the police openly: "Touch us and you'll get fired." They understood what the panel didn't – the leadership had handed the streets to them.

And here is the heart of the rot. A police force that sacks its bravest men is a force that has forgotten its purpose. A leadership so scared of bad optics that it treats a violent youth with more care than its own officer has no claim to public trust. This is what happens when institutions are captured by ideologues and risk-averse bureaucrats who view policing through the lens of PR, not duty. They would rather sacrifice a good man than stand up to activist outrage or a headline about "rude language."

The public saw through it at once. They backed Castle, raised over £130,000, and praised a man their own force tried to break. They understand what the police hierarchy refuses to admit: courage keeps a country safe. Cowardice destroys it. And sacking a man for doing his job is an act of pure cowardice.

Castle will appeal. I hope he wins. But the verdict we should fear isn't the one that ended his career – it's the one that reveals what Britain has become. A place where a teenager with a knife commands more institutional sympathy than the officer who disarms him. A place where leaders punish bravery and reward disorder. A place where the state turns its own protectors into targets.

This is how a nation decays: not in a single collapse, but through a thousand small betrayals of the people who still hold the line. And Lorne Castle was one of them.

"A country that punishes a man for stopping a knifeman is a country that has lost its mind. This wasn't brutality. It was policing – real policing, the kind that keeps streets safe when they're full of gangs, blades, and feral teenagers"

[Anne @LipstickCherry]

@jhoburgh @Salsasweetheart @Russell_Allen29 @BrianImmekus1 @MeldrewsGhost @andrew_gilmour Impossible to choose a favourite, but Sunday Girl is the one I like the least.

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@PollSter_Mike1 While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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@musicpollz Nick Rhodes

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@SkySportsTennis This is why she will never be universally popular.

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@jhoburgh @23duff @Mikea991 @RachelChellis Don't Stop, Off The Wall, and I Can't Help It.