Mark

🇬🇧 41 Male, here for Motorsport, F1, Comedy & Sci-Fi, Star Trek, Disney, EPCOT, Engineering, Railways, Science, Transport.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

I want someone to fund my idea of a Davos-style event where every speaker has recently retired.

You would then immediately hear the unvarnished truth about absolutely everything.

[Mark @marks359]

@___BMA___ @zetecinsidecom Brands used to be @DG_Assist and is now Trackside, Combe is Circuit Motors, I assume most circuits tender it as contracts

[Autosport @autosport]

A classic Maserati drifting around Monaco. Perfection 🤌

(via @ACM_Media)

[🏁【 Alerta F1 】🏁 @AlertaF1]

Los más jóvenes no lo recordarán, pero hasta hace unos años, se podía ver el mar mediterráneo antes de entrar al tunel de Mónaco.

[Mark @marks359]

@___BMA___ @zetecinsidecom As a spectator it’s interesting to see how circuits compare in keeping to time and delays in recovery, small circuits like Combe and Brands often had lots of recovery trucks but larger Silverstone had less and so always seemed slower to recover from incidents.

[Phil @___BMA___]

@zetecinsidecom So yeah it does come down to staff like that, but the average punter and even half of the competitors aren't aware that the clubs staff are the problem, not the circuit. I personally kind of know the answer already to the theoretical question, but we'll see the proof today

[Graham Blackwell @zetecinsidecom]

@___BMA___ @TheRealDJPete I questioned why I was told "Unfortunately, we cannot share documentation or reports with competitors." And I couldn't find anything in the NCRs that stated the same thing. Never had a reply. Did she make it up?

[Pete Josper @TheRealDJPete]

@___BMA___ @zetecinsidecom As someone with a Motorsport UK officials licence, I do think a more proactive culture of learning from events (be it good, bad or indifferent) would be beneficial to everyone - but sadly this is lacking.

[Phil @___BMA___]

@zetecinsidecom I actually sat down with the owner on Thursday and as I assumed, Mallory is responsible for the tarmac and the local med services. Yet every time there's a bad meeting, it's the circuits fault. Whether that be slow recovery, shit grids, inability to be even remotely on time, etc

[Graham Blackwell @zetecinsidecom]

@___BMA___ Officials never get the blame. I'd still like to see the CofC report from when I hit the barrier two years ago, but they're "not available to competitors" so we never get to see why they make the decisions they do.

[Phil @___BMA___]

@zetecinsidecom Issue is nobody wants to be seen blaming 'volunteers', and if MSUK are involved to a higher degree than usual then you won't. Self preservation and all that. And if there wasn't some saddo filming it you'd might not even have remembered it with how hard your face hit the dash!

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

There he is! The Andy Burnham I remember from his Westminster days. Tetchy, evasive, unable to explain himself fully, irked by female interviewers.

[Formula 1 @F1]

A sight to behold! 🤩

Mika in the McLaren M2B, as part of @McLarenF1's 1000th Grand Prix celebrations 🙌

#F1 #MonacoGP

[Paul McGinnes @PaulMcG1992]

Adrian Newey demonstrating that you can overtake at the Circuit de Monaco, even at the Fairmont/Loews Hairpin. What a move! #F1

[Mark @marks359]

@notsosexintheci Happy Birthday 🥳

[Paul S Edwards @LovelessAge]

Well done @RoyalMail - took a mere 19 years to deliver this magazine. Inconvenience? Well the kids have now left home ….

[David Opie @DavidOpie]

You don’t understand the stranglehold this Nescafé Gold Blend advert had on the UK because of Anthony Head (long before he was in Buffy)

[tern @1goodtern]

I've not really had any reason to comment on the death of Henry Nowak, until I had a conversation with a local retired policeman that changed my view of the incident.
He gave me permission to share this.

He's a reform voter. He voted for brexit. I've found him to be casually racist at times. So hold that in mind while you read this:

He said he had put handcuffs on a thousand people and most would say absolutely anything to get you to take them off.
He said he must have heard hundreds of people in handcuffs say that they were injured and even dying.
Only one was actually injured, and yes, they were dying.

Exactly like Henry Nowak, they were wearing a dark top at night and bleeding abdominally both internally and externally.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak, he and a fellow officer called for emergency support and started first aid as soon as they knew there was a problem.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak the first aid wasn't enough and the young man died.
Unlike Henry Nowak, that young man was both a perpetrator of knife violence and a victim of it. His assailant also needed emergency care.

The policeman telling me all this stepped down from active duty two weeks later due to 'stress' and retired months later.
I knew about the death and the stress years ago, but didn't know about the details until yesterday.

He said he still has nightmares about pulling up the young man's shirt to see the sucking bubbling knife wound.

When he started talking to me yesterday, I thought he was going to complain about two tier policing and wokeness and reverse discrimination, but instead we just cried a lot.

I'm crying again as I write this too.

Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy, and that's all it is.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

A few people not quite getting the point saying "but you recommeded Quotum". Of course I didn't, I don't do adverts. This was a fake news story by scammers (ie organised crime) pretending to report me saying something on the TV!