Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦

Derby born, Somerset living, sport loving esp. DCFC, DCCC & cycling. Dad to 2, hubbie to 1. All tweets my thoughts. #BrokenRecord #NHSBlueHeart

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

J.D. “JUST DANCE” VANCE, WHO NOBODY LIKED UNTIL TRUMP PICKED HIM OUT OF THE "BARGAIN BIN" IN THE WALMART CLEARANCE SECTION, WENT ON FOX TO TRASH ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR GOVERNOR. THE DANCING QUEEN CAN’T STOP! I LIVE RENT-FREE IN HIS HEAD (VERY TINY SPACE, ALMOST NO ROOM WITH "THE COUCH"). HE IS VERY WEAK... THE GUY CAN'T RUN, TAKES MORE "VACATIONS" THAN ANY VICE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY (AND WE’VE HAD SOME LAZY ONES!), GOT CAUGHT TAKING PHOTOS IN THE BATHROOM (VERY SICK!) AFTER APPLYING HIS EYELINER AND WEARS A COMMUNIST RED SHIRT. PERFECT, SINCE "CHAIRMAN TRUMP" NOW OWNS INTEL AND TELLS HIM WHAT TO WEAR. WHY DOES FOX AIR THIS NONSENSE? THEY EDIT THE TAPES, AND EVEN TRY TO MAKE HIM LOOK "SMART," BUT HE IS A TOTAL JOKE. FOX SHOULD BE ASHAMED. STOP GIVING AIRTIME TO A TOTAL LOSER. HIS TIME WOULD BE BETTER SPENT PRACTICING FOR HIS SOON “DEBUT” ON DANCING WITH THE STARS. EVERYONE’S LAUGHING AT HIM, BELIEVE ME! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump LOSES big time in court.

Would be very terrible if this went viral!

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

One for all the farage fan girls

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Ukraine agreed, with the United States, to a complete ceasefire for 30 days. Russia rejected this ceasefire and increased its attacks on Ukrainian civilians.

The United States then imposed an unjustified 10% tariff on Ukraine and no tariff on Russia.

Trump is a Russian asset.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

FACT CHECK: Trump:

“China has become a rich country because of people in the WH who allowed this to happen.”

FACTS: The current trade agreement with China "Phase One" was forged by Trump on Jan 15 2020 while in the White House.

[Jo Thomas @rthomas86]

I own a small dessert business. My business has a 100% trade deficit with the grocery store. I’m always buying from them, and they’ve never once bought anything from me.

Now, of course, I take products I buy from the grocery store, turn them into delicious baked goods, and make a 50%+ profit, while the grocery store is running on 2-4% profit margins, but WE HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT! They’re ripping me off with their low, low prices, because they NEVER buy anything from me!

Of course, the alternative is for me to grow, harvest, thrash, grind, then finely mill all of my own flour, including into the various mixes of flour that I use for various products (cake flour, bread flour, all-purpose, etc…), maintain and milk a dairy cow, churn my own butter, make that milk into heavy cream, yogurt, sour cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk, etc…grow cacao, and then turn into all the different kinds of chocolate and baking cocoa… grow and harvest sugar cane, sorghum, mine salt, make baking powder, baking soda, grow vanilla beans, etc, etc, etc…

All of that (plus WAY more), and we haven’t even talked about all the different fruits and nuts I would need, or how I would only be able to offer certain products during certain times of the year, or how a lot of what I said before wouldn’t even be possible in the climate I live in, but I digress.

If all of that wasn’t cost-prohibitive enough to completely wipe out my profits (it would be, and then some), the time commitment and significant additional physical labor certainly wouldn’t make any of it worth the tiny remaining profit.

Now, compare that to the current screeching about the trade deficits we have with other countries. We import raw materials (aluminum, steel, lumber, etc…) from other countries, which would be labor and/or cost prohibitive for us to make, or that we simply cannot produce or source here, and then we take those materials, and turn them into higher profit margin products, which we then export to other countries. It is exactly the same as my example, but on a macro scale.

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@elonmusk You are fucking joking me you fucking Russian patsy.

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@DimaZeniuk Did he fuck!

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@RichardLadd_1 @MartinSLewis Fucking listen to yourself you privileged wanker.

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@BabaYoungblood @ianbrown Got it Lily James.

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@BabaYoungblood @ianbrown OK could be Felicity Jones then.

[BY @BabaYoungblood]

Had lots of interesting answers to the question below, ranging from @LilyAllen to @Vicky_McClure, with the most popular answer being "Me!" 😄

But can anyone name the actual actress I based "Penny" on? The first person to do so will win the print! 🙌

[BY @BabaYoungblood]

Had lots more interesting responses to the question below, ranging from Hurley (Liz) to Hilda (Ogden) but no one has guessed the right actress so far...

If no one answers correctly I'll randomly pick someone who RTs the tweet below for the prize 🙌 x

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@ColinMurray @bbc5live I am so gonna miss this feature, Colin.

[Nigel Thorne 💙 🇺🇦 @nethorne]

@RichardCusackBM Really sorry to hear this Richard. RIP Maddy. Thoughts and prayers to all her family and friends.

[Football Nostalgia @MemorabiliaMal]

Archie Gemmill #DCFC
Shoot magazine 17/8/74

[FootballRetroPlus @robertmdaws]

#geraintwilliams #dcfc @dcfcofficial

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

July has already seen:

The hottest three-week period ever recorded.

The three hottest days on record.

The highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.

It is still possible to avoid the very worst of climate change, but only with dramatic, immediate #ClimateAction.