Paul

[Michael Cox @Zonal_Marking]

Same old England. On first viewing I thought Tuchel’s subs were disastrous. On second viewing, the retreat happened beforehand, a consequence of Argentina pushing on & England being exhausted. The three defensive subs did make sense. Analysis here…⬇️
https://t.co/gi6kEDTPaV

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Daisy Eastlake, "You said you would withdraw from the UK-Israel trade agreement, trade was worth £6.2 billion in 2025, do you accept policies like this come with an economic cost? And how would you plug gaps like that?"

Zack Polanski, "I don't think we should be putting a cost on people's lives"

"We've seen an ongoing genocide in Gaza. We've seen hundreds of people die in the last 24 hours in Lebanon. As well as schoolchildren who have died in Iran"

"It's totally unacceptable"

"So the first thing is that there is no price on this and that we are protecting human life"

"Second, what does economic sovereignty look like?"

"Are we relying on countries that have bad human rights records, or human rights abuses, or terror acts, as we see this rogue state of Israel doing at the moment"

"It's clearly important that we disentangle from that"

"Either more robust sanctions, or making sure we have an industrial revolution in this country"

"Whether it's building the wind turbines for the climate crisis, or the productivity of the future"

"That means we wouldn't be relying on countries committing human rights abuses"

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

About 9months ago I had a really frustrating call with people in the UK government following years of frustrating meetings with people in the UK government. An archive of the UK's bus open data, the location of every bus in real time, was going to be too hard to release,...

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

But banning Russia was perfectly fine?

Seems like hypocrisy if you ask me.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

It took FIFA and UEFA just 4 days to ban Russia after invading Ukraine.

Today, the UN confirmed Israel is committing genocide and they’re still minding their business like it’s just another day at the office.

[Paul @paulhdickson]

@BryanShankman @Legend_dary__ @AlsikkanTV Absolutly brilliant

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @MagnumGlobal #FreeBenAndJerrys

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

BBC’s Jeremy Bowen: Israelis don’t want us to film outside the window at the devastation in Gaza…communities in the north of Gaza are flat, there’s nothing left…Israel will not allow reporters, like myself, to enter Gaza to report the story and they don’t want us to see it

[Laura 🖤🤍 @lspark_89]

KNEECAP at Glastonbury 🇮🇪🇵🇸

#FreePalestine

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

What do we think?🤔

Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.

Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!

So, what’s going on here?

Let’s take a look!👀

🧵

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[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

I’m SICK of saying it, but I’ll say it again. Asylum seekers can’t claim benefits. You need an NI number to do that. Asylum seekers aren’t staying in 5* hotels. Asylum seekers get £49.18p a week to live on. Could YOU live on that? NOPE. So stop pretending they’re living it large.

[Eugene @eugeneh84]

Americans have started liking this tweet. For reference i'm not referring to some 'Frat boy' with his shirt open over a white tshirt. I'm talking about a Great British long sleeved Ben Sherman shirt that is two sizes too big and drenched in Davidoff Cool Water.

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

My photo kissing a nuclear waste cask went viral and people had… opinions about it.

There was outrage, with many claiming it was dangerous and that I was hurting my future children (lol).

Here’s why kissing a nuclear waste cask is actually fine🧵

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"emergency"

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🧵SALT🧵
It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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[Rania @umyaznemo]

Well, it is an illegal occupation & apartheid after all!

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

The more I reflect on what happened in Amsterdam the stranger it seems. A racist team who have a reputation for hate speech come to Amsterdam during a genocide and engage in acts of racism and violence against the local population. They are accompanied by Mossad agents. All this happens under the increased success of Islamophobic Geert Wilders and the PVV. The media, not just in the Netherlands but in Europe and North America publish what looks like an Israeli press release using incendiary language about pogroms and Kristelnacht. Politicians around the world immediately and uncritically embraced this rhetoric and say nothing of pro-genocidal chants. They media mislabel on the ground journalism by Dutch photographer @iAnnetnl to minimise Israeli violence. They ignore evidence from other Dutch journalists like @OmeBender. Channels like Sky News even re-edit packages to maximise the narrative of antisemitism and minimise examples of anti-Arab racism. Dutch parliamentarians then wield propaganda by the Israeli diaspora affairs as if it constitutes evidence. Many media outlets still haven't corrected the record about what happened, from the BBC to WSJ and Sky. It's disturbing and sinister, and shouldn't be allowed to slide.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"I did amputations on people who just had to take paracetamol after the operation as pain relief.. one of my colleagues took maggots out of a childs throat in intensive care"

Yesterday Professor Mamode explained to MPs how Israel blocks medical aid from entering Gaza