Matt Hamilton

Retired Chief Superintendent, Tayside Police, graduate of Open University, former engineer. Married to Karen with four children, grown up and 5 grandchildren.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The issuer of that vile statement is a man, as anyone with even 1% vision could tell you. Specifically, he’s a man who said he hoped she died handcuffed to a bed and screaming in agony.

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨🗣️ José Mourinho on the Repeated Argentina World Cup Controversies

"I look at what happened with the Folarin Balogun red card being magically suspended after politics got involved, and I look at how Egypt was completely robbed in the Round of 16 against them, and I just have to smile. All of this started in the very first week of the tournament when Lionel Messi was allowed to escape a clear red card against Algeria. When you set a precedent that the rules do not apply to certain teams, you lose all control. We are seeing it match after match. It is a recurring script."

"Some people are calling it a scandal, but a scandal is something unexpected. For me? This is just normal now. We witnessed the system protecting them throughout the group stages, we saw it against Cape Verde, and we saw it again when Mohamed Salah was denied a clear penalty while Cristian Romero stayed on the pitch after a horrific tackle. You can put the tournament in America, in Mexico, in Canada, it doesn't matter. The geographic location changes, but the hands pulling the strings stay exactly the same. It is a cinematic production."

"If you are a smaller nation playing in this World Cup, you have to accept that you start the match 1-0 down before a ball is even kicked. Egypt played beautiful football, they went 2-0 up, and they still couldn't win because you cannot defeat a referee who is determined to look the other way. When VAR can rewind the play from five minutes ago just to disallow an Egyptian goal, but refuses to check a blatant foul on Salah in the 93rd minute, the game is dead. The integrity is completely gone."

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Watch this.

We currently pay £1.5 billion a year to switch wind farms off when it's too windy.

Rachel Fletcher from Octopus Energy has just told Parliament that could soar to £10 BILLION by 2030.

Ed Miliband is writing cheques for wind farm developers before the grid can move their energy to where it’s needed.

This is a political choice and it is making electricity expensive.

Government needs to wake up to what their plans are doing to our energy prices and make electricity cheap.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFER UNRESERVED APOLOGY TO GRAHAM LINEHAN AND PAY HIM £25,000

The Metropolitan Police have at long last offered an unreserved apology to Graham Linehan and paid him £25,000.

Last September, the Irish comedian and co-creator of Father Ted was arrested by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow Airport.

His crime? Three gender-critical posts on X.

He was arrested, taken to a police station and questioned for several hours. In the early hours of the following morning, he was rushed to hospital after his blood pressure rose to dangerously high levels.

The Free Speech Union is proud to have supported Graham in taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest and breaches of his free speech rights.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, has said: “I’m beginning to lose count of the number of cases we’ve fought in which the police have arrested someone for a tweet, decided to take no further action and then had to pay them substantial compensation for wrongful arrest.

“At some point you’d think the penny would drop: police our streets, not our tweets.”

While we welcome the Metropolitan Police’s apology and compensation payout to @Glinner, this should never have happened in the first place.

It is high time the police focused on our streets, not our tweets.

Watch Graham’s reaction below 👇

[Michael مايكل منير (ن) @MichaelMeunier]

الفيدو دة الفيفا عمال تستخدم حقوق الملكية الفكرية وتمسحة من مواقع التواصل علشان تمحي آثار الجريمة. انشروا الفيديو في كل مكان قبل ما يختفي. خلوه يوصل لكل الناس فيصعب مسحة.

[Darren @MUFCDarren_]

🚨 Roy Keane on Argentina vs. Egypt:

“Once is a mistake. Twice, maybe. But when it keeps happening, you have to start asking questions. An Argentina player appeared to slap an Egypt player, and the referee ignored it. There was a foul in the penalty area—at least go and review it.

That’s what VAR is there for. If you’re only reviewing incidents for one team, then what’s the point? It felt like Argentina started the game with an advantage before a ball was even kicked, and that’s the referee. That’s not how football should work.”

[shenawy @shno74]

عاااااااجل : أسطورة الكرة الإنجليزية آلان شيرار:

عندما يعود الحكم للـ VAR في هدف مصر ويُلغيه بسبب إعاقة في بداية اللعبة، ولا يعود للـ VAR في هدف فوز الأرجنتين رغم وجود إعاقتين في بداية اللعبة.. إذًا فنحن نشاهد "مسرحية" وليست مباراة كرة قدم.
إذا كان الفيفا يرغب في إهداء كأس العالم لميسي فليعطيه اللقب من الآن ويذهب لاعبو باقي المنتخبات إلى منازلهم 👏👏👏👏👏

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

'...merely because dishonesty is present.'

So it's OK for a barrister to 'merely' be dishonest

What else would a barrister have to do to get disbarred

Murder someone ?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

The Egyptian Football Association posted a video titled: “The Secret to Victory.”

They openly state that the key to victory is to begin the match by cursing Christians and Jews.

Before each match, the team gathers to recite Quranic passages calling Christians and Jews infidels under Allah’s wrath.

Coptic Christians make up 15% of Egypt’s population, but they are not allowed to be part of the national team.

For some reason, FIFA thinks this is ok.

[Freyja. Missing Children Advocate🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @FreyjaBakke]

Let's make her famous
Credit Andy brook's

[Matt Hamilton @matt7914]

@Glinner She cant stand criticism or hurty words imagine ‘the greater lesser thin skinned politician’ a rare beast indeed

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

"I'm leaving this platform because I said male sex offenders should be placed in female prisons and people keep reminding me."

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Prosecutors have been told they must ‘consider unconscious bias’ before charging ethnic minorities.

This risks yet more two-tier justice.

So I have called on the CPS to drop this nonsense.

Justice must be blind.

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨NEW: KC Anu Mohindru has been allowed to continue being a barrister despite falsely claiming that he studied medicine at Oxford University and for claiming that he was a qualified doctor.

He also claimed that he had played cricket for the Bar, for Lashings Cricket Club and for MCC, and that he was a cricketing blue having represented Oxford in a varsity match against Cambridge.

A tribunal disbarred him for telling his 23 Essex Street interviewers a “reckless, foolish and completely unnecessary lie” about studying at Oxford, and because he “doubled down" on his CV.

On appeal at the High Court, Mr Justice Johnson overturned  Mohindru's expulsion, stating that it "would be wrong to impose the ultimate sanction merely because dishonesty is present".

[Matt Hamilton @matt7914]

@TheMercianNews Wow, that says as much about the eminent Justice Johnson - imagine thinking being dishonest is ok for a Kings Council hopefully juries will remember that during the trials he is engaged in. There should be red lines for lawmakers and those who uphold it - DISHONESTY is one!!!

[Matt Hamilton @matt7914]

@sharrond62 Excellent, especially if you can’t stand the heat, the measure of a limited political brain.

[The Patriots Voice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @Proudofthisland]

😂 Karma just served a full English breakfast with extra irony.

Oxford’s finest “Refugees Welcome” warriors are now frantically petitioning against a 1,250-bed asylum camp right on their doorstep in Bicester.

Not in my (very nice) backyard, apparently!

Who knew virtue signals had an expiry date and a postcode?

“Isn’t karma wonderful” indeed 👏

#NotInMyBackyard #OxfordHypocrisy

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is disgraceful.
Why the f*ck has this monster been released, and why isn’t he being deported today?

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

David Lammy’s plan to appoint for diversity not merit is probably unlawful.

So I asked to publish his legal advice.

He says it’s "not in the public interest" - and told me to submit an FOI!

What does he have to hide?