Diane Murphy

Family, retired nurse, run/walk, hospice trustee. Retweets for interest - not necessarily opinion.

[The Rest Is Money @therestismoney]

How many farmers will actually be affected by the changes to inheritance tax?

@DanNeidle does the math...

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Speculation about Southport case continues despite the many warnings that it’s
(1) against the law & (2) liable to prejudice the case
Every comment & online post is undoubtedly collected by lawyers to make the case that the accused cannot have a fair trial
Is that what you want?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

A word on @AllisonPearson free speech row and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. Today on @TheNewsAgents, we asked her to appear. She said ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
You gotta love a free speech warrior

[Briefcase Michael @BriefcaseMike]

Never made sense that #r4today presenters are allowed to write for politically partisan organs like the Mail, Spectator and Unherd and former top political interviewer Andrew Neil was Chair of a right-wing magazine but a sports presenter Gary Lineker couldn't express opinions.

[Diane Murphy @murphy_di]

@Lesley5856 @BakerKatyhaynes @alisonleary1 Totally agree. Tools are there to assist and are not definitive. Currently witnessing hospital care of relative. It is truly dreadful /lacking in every way possible. Using a checklist for a procedure a RN asked 91 year old. “Are you pregnant”. 🤷‍♀️

[Nick James @Prof_Nick_James]

A key aspect of Sir Chris #Hoy’s sad, brave announcement about his prostate cancer is that his father and grandfather also had it. Systematically testing high risk men as recommended in @TheLancet Commission on Prostate Cancer could start now @ICR_London @NDowJames @WisdomVania

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Why might there be a delay in the details of a police investigation being made public?

Well, many reasons. None of which relate to a conspiracy or a “cover-up”.

Let’s take a quick look🧵👇

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

I’m not going to retweet Honest Bob Jenrick’s latest desperate grift.

Suffice to say that stoking conspiracy theories about live criminal cases is potentially a contempt of court.

And any politician who saw the summer’s violence and behaves like this is unfit for office.

[Diane Murphy @murphy_di]

@TheNorthernEcho Is this list for the County of Durham or for the County Durham local
Authority area?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Reader, he did not pay his own air fare

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

I apologise to all the racists sending deranged potty-mouthed tweets that I can’t respond individually to all of your legal analyses, but it’s lovely to see so many of you converting to liberal criminal sentencing 🥰

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

“Instead of Ozempic, why don’t we just give everyone a gym membership to treat obesity”- said by someone who literally doesn’t understand obesity.

Exercise is important but not sufficient to treat obesity, a truth people can’t accept🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[Nicholas Soames @NSoames]

@Conservatives Please, Conservative party and speaking as a member and a former MP layoff the Prime Minister’s children grow up
This pathetic war on dresses and children just shows that you have nothing else to say. I am ashamed.

[Diane Murphy @murphy_di]

@timfarron @Anna_Soubry Well said .

[St Teresa's Hospice @StTeresas]

We have been asked by members of the community what they can do to be heard.

In addition to contacting your MP & sharing your experiences with the Northern Echo or on our social media, a community member has a petition which can be accessed here: https://t.co/CtCiwipeab

[@joshfwd.bsky.social @JoshFwd]

for some reason Boris Johnson was missing from that declared accepted gifts chart.

i fixed it.

[Andrew Kersley @AndrewKersley]

EXCL: MPs accepted over £700,000 of freebies last year, from helicopter rides to Taylor Swift tickets.

And despite their criticism of Keir Starmer's receipt of luxury gifts, Tory MPs took more on average than Labour MPs.

My @ObserverUK scoop:

https://t.co/ofWxcDgOda

[Jacks 🍉 @danny28748565]

#c4news What a load of bullshit, a Taylor Swift concert, a football game, a dress....

Boris Johnson charged us for his legal fees, gave his mates 100s of millions in PPE contracts...