oppositejohn

Renaissance man - edupreneur, artist and photographer. Read a lot & been told I write like an angel too. Modest & learning Mandarin.

[DamienJohnKellyHouse @DJKHouse1]

Stu is swimming the length of Lake Windermere - 11 miles - to try and send the residents of DJK House to Anglesey for a few days. You can help by donating or sharing.

Thank you!

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[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

I linked to this 16 months ago. It's still as described. RIP Sir Alex Younger.

[oppositejohn @oppositejohn]

@welshroots Mandelson.

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@mickormikew @Jim41254103

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

“The UK is quite quickly tipping towards serious civil disorder: in many parts of the country whitey has had more than enough.”

Nobody sums up the nation’s current woes like Rod Liddle, in today’s Spectator.

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@Glinner Jenrick’s a turd.

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@LizziejackLiz Sounds perfect. Enjoy 🥂

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@RuthDavidsonPC Wouldn’t want to get his hair wet.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Sara Sharif.

The Nottingham killer.

The Manchester bomber.

The grooming gangs.

Now Henry Nowak.

We have to unpick the mentality across our public services that says accusations of racism are more important than protecting the public from harm.

The police, social services, mental health services, security guards. These are some of the hardest jobs in society where so much rests on personal judgement. There is no way they can get every call right.

But if we stay the hand of those who are meant to protect the public, if we tie them up in knots with unconscious bias training and Islamophobia definitions, then we are making their jobs even more impossible and we can see from case after case that we are failing to protect the public from serious harm.

[oppositejohn @oppositejohn]

Voice of common sense on #GMB this morning #HenryNowak

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 7
Perhaps a succinct précis of what ails this government, with Keir Starmer the heart of the problem:
Mandelson: ‘They [10 Downing Street] don’t work as a team, they are not led and none of them really know what Keir [Starmer] thinks or wants.
‘In fact most of them don’t think Keir knows what he wants.’
In these 33 words Mandelson sums up why this government , despite its landslide majority, has gone off the rails so quickly and so completely.

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

Nothing to see here! Just Mandelson setting up meetings between Peter Thiel, Palantir founder, you know the company that mines data, specialises in mass surveillance amongst other things, and the Prime Minister.

I'll ask it again- "What was it about the twice-disgraced, pedophile-adjacent, self-styled Prince of Darkness that you found so attractive to put into this plum job?"

[Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire]

This decade's Liam Byrne note

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Tories have stuck up the first graphic of eternal McFadden quote

[oppositejohn @oppositejohn]

@GuidoFawkes QED

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files. May 2025
Peter Mandelson tells cabinet minister Pat McFadden that Keir Starmer ‘lacks verve’ — ‘as does the cabinet as a whole.’
Labour’s problems ‘stem from the top’ — and Starmer’s failure to prioritise economic growth.
McFadden admits the Government appeared ‘tone deaf’ and a ‘bit robotic’. Now, who could he have in mind?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@DalgetySusan @amscanlon @bindelj I shall afford Nicola exactly the same compassion she extended to female prisoners locked in with rapists.

[oppositejohn @oppositejohn]

Parkgate late this afternoon.

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@Mark1957 Thought Dublin might have been more up for street tbh.

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

“A loved that pendant…so a did”.