Mike Thompson

Freelance med comms professional interested in politics, cycling, tech and keeping my son and heir happy; all opinions expressed are my own

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

@cyclingontnt Watch Dendermonde live while also having to watch at least 10 minutes of adverts in the UK coverage. Good race, bad coverage by TNT.

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

@cyclingontnt Watching the live Namur cyclocross and wondering why on earth you think it’s okay to show lots of adverts during the race? Don’t you get enough money from my monthly subscription? Bet you don’t show adverts during live rugby and football.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Or maybe racists shouldn’t racist spread lies on the internet. Maybe that had something to do with it too.

[Tom Hunter @OneLifeStand87]

Christ you don’t usually have to wait this long for the French to set fire to something

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

When you consider that only 7% of children attend private school, it’s pretty extraordinary that only now do we have the first ever government to come anywhere near representative of that proportion (slightly under at 4%).

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Freedom of movement was a precious gift - to work and travel and live and love in 27 other countries - we should be expanding the opportunity of people here to benefit from it not competing to rule out its return #BBCDebate

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

Just look at how the rate of increase in life expectancy has been dropping in this country. And it’s not just since COVID/2020. The decline seemed to start around 2010… weird, that.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

If you want a good example of how power works in Britain, just consider how many broadsheet front pages are devoted to the relatively trifling problems of private schools by comparison to the day-to-day and long term problems faced by the state sector (where the vast majority of kids go).

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

@ceefaxisbetter Perhaps not at my most fluent, but what the hell 😝. It was good to see that the discussion meant something to Bridget Phillipson and wasn’t expecting David TC Davies MP to be so much less effective than Richard Tice, not that he was great.

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

‘Man in jacket’…. Thought I’d share my thoughts while staying polite to Mr Tice and Mr Davies. A very interesting evening!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Man in jacket, "Surely using Richard Tice's analogy, the way to stop the people smugglers is to make sure there are legal routes for people to come into the UK" #BBCQT

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

“You can’t get rid of 12,000 cars!” claimed critics when in 2017, Eindhoven proposed the revolutionary transformation of Oirschotsedijk.

A former arterial road dissecting Philips de Jonghpark is now an accessible and delightful green space, reconnected by a 5.5 meter cycle path.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Here is @RishiSunak setting back the campaign for mental health parity at least a decade.

This is un-evidenced, performative cruelty.

It's disgusting.

[The Guardian @guardian]

We have seen the failure of Tory levelling up, so in Manchester we have radical plans to help ourselves | Andy Burnham https://t.co/Cod1PBNUYH

[Robert Ford @robfordmancs]

They really have no clue about the voters they’ve won. Johnson is not an asset. You’re reminding these voters of a whole bunch of other reasons they’re annoyed at your party.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Rishi Sunak’s ‘buried’ report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular - by ⁦@peterwalker99⁩ https://t.co/9bT1w8ftNB

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

"Brexit hasn't benefited British agriculture one iota"

Jacob Rees-Mogg interviews farmer David Catt hoping to show that Brexit has benefited farming. Instead, Mr Catt explains how Brexit has been a disaster for British farming

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Rishi Sunak, "Our plan is working"

Sir Michael Marmot, "We're starting to suffer Victorian diseases.. Universal Credit pays 70% of the cost of essentials.. If you're on Universal Credit we guarantee you will get sick because we don't give you enough money to eat healthily, to heat your home"

"Britain has become a poor country with a few rich people.. It's worse to be poor in Britain than in most other European countries. Poor people in Britain have a lower income than Slovenia'"

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

“The land works the people and the people work the land. But does the subcutaneous bond between a parcel of land and a person have a value, or just market value? And if you take that away - take the family farm away - what does Britain look like then?”

[The Guardian Long Read @gdnlongread]

Heather Wildman tours Britain helping farmers face up to the toughest of questions – not just about the future of their business, but about their family, their identity and even their mortality https://t.co/WzowOPQmNR

[Mike Thompson @mjthomp2]

@gcntweet V sorry to see GCN+ shut. Can you do me a favour and confirm how I can get a discount code for Discovery+? I’ve checked my email and no message anywhere ☹️