Sir Roderick Long KC

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Lots of things annoy me but will try to keep it civilised on here

[Sir Roderick Long KC @longrod_KC]

Bang on chaps

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

The wearing of face masks will no longer be mandatory starting in schools from tomorrow

"We will trust the judgement of the British people" says PM Boris Johnson

https://t.co/vBlve9AILl

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Well, we waited through 50 days of blather about what kind of ketchup he likes to put on Oasis, safe in the knowledge that when the day came he'd be just as fucking clueless, inept and damaging to this nation as we thought.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Nick Lowles of 'Hope Not Hate' tells Radio 4 that people concerned over mass immigration and the small boats should use "the ballot box" to register their protest.

Honestly, where has the guy been for the past 20 years?!

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

The Government have gone absolutely mental about 600 *thugs* wearing face coverings, but 625 third world strangers are being bused by the Government to your childrens playground for tomorrow morning.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Why more women carry the 'mental load' - and how couples can share it https://t.co/Q8s1ehqyFT

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

The patriarchy is real.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Where the fuck did Andy Burnham get that tie? Looks like a binman on his way to a wedding at a flat roof murder pub.

[Steve Pye @1980sSportsBlog]

Wimbledon, the World Cup, and the Open all done and dusted. An ideal time for Test cricket to take place. But instead we block out a period of the summer for this ridiculous tournament.

Next Test starts on Aug 19, just before the new Premier League season begins. Well done, ECB.

[Daniel Keller @dnlklr]

Is nothing sacred to these AI freaks???? Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison just built this monstrous data center in the very heart of Paris—only steps away from Notre-Dame and the Louvre. Can’t the EU do something?

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Rob Moody @robelinda2]

He was so good to watch

WARNE

[Sir Roderick Long KC @longrod_KC]

@WolfgangRichtEU There's also a possibility he was from Djibouti

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Everything about this clip is brilliant.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Nick Ferrari: Would you take the knee for Henry Nowak?

David Lammy: I…I..I…errr…no, I don’t think the family are asking for symbolism.

Nick: So you agree taking the knee is mere symbolism?

Lammy: We were in a pandemic!

David Lammy’s hypocrisy on full view.

[Matt Chorley @MattChorley]

I owe Nigel Farage an apology.

During last night’s Newsnight we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about “pure, cold rage”.

However I referred to “white cold rage”. This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.

[Wolfgang Richter @WolfgangRichtEU]

@BurnsideWasTosh Dear Burnside,

With Digital ID this will not be necessary. We will just check your online history and then not send an ambulance if you're a racist. Europe one step ahead as always.

All the best,

Wolfgang

[max tempers @maxtempers]

The largest supermarket in Britain, that operates on razor-thin margins, is about to be crushed for the crime of paying different jobs different salaries, while our legislature shrugs.

How dare they suggest that “so-called market rates” can exist in Soviet Britain.

[Strategic Advisor @BBDaybreakEU]

Assuming you're literate, it's a selfish way of communicating. It saves the sender a small amount of time where they can 'ummm' instead of formulating a point properly. Then the receiver has to sit through it all, spending multiples of the amount of time they'd spend to read it.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

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