Phil Cooper

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Reform UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about the £5m.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about his support for the Iran War.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about Nathan Gill.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget his support for Trump, Orban, Le Pen and Milei.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about his antisemitism.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about DOGE failing.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about the Clacton house.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about the councillors dropping like flies.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about the council leaders sacked for racism and ineptitude.

Nigel Farage wants you to forget about the racist candidates, the misogynists, anti-Muslims, the hypocritical and criminal Reform UK candidates.

Tell everyone, don’t let anyone forget.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero

Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.

Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.

Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.

Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.

Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.

Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.

Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.

Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.

Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.

Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.

Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.

Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.

Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.

Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.

Pint, mate?

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Who did this lmao

[Scott Willis 🏆 @scottjwillis]

https://t.co/LzVL7qWJFm

[all arsenal news @Alarsenalnews_]

Here's why the narrative of Arsenal is going to be the 'worst EPL champions' has developed.

Yesterday, at TalkSport, Jamie O'Hara and crew spent significant time discussing how Leeds United would get a result against the Gunners to ensure that by today, the league leaders would be 1 point ahead of number 2. They were not alone. This was the average opinion.

Any other football fan and pundit affiliated to other teams and clubs and not Arsenal, wanted or expected Leeds to do something. It didn't happen. The Gunners beat Leeds United 4-0 at Elland Road.

So what goes on next? You begin to see tweets and posts about set-pieces and own-goal attacking Arsenal. You can see their anger and frustration that Leeds have not done the job. They say, 'You can't win the league with set-pieces and own goals!' and many more similar tweets.

Jamie O'Hara comes again and says, 'No one will remember this Arsenal team.' Here's the interesting part. Jamie is making an admission, but he has to acquiesce while at it. He doesn't like what he saying, and that he has to say it, that Arsenal will win the league. But he has to say it, anyway, because it is inevitable, and denying it now would make him look foolish.

So, he has to say something that makes his ego feel better. He drags Arsenal down and says the above statement. He is not alone. Last week, Paul Scholes said that the Gunners will be the 'worst' side to win the English Premier League. He too, was making an involuntary and forced admission that Arsenal are the champions in waiting, only that he doesn't like it. He made it known, again, disguised in the language of punditry or feigned foolishness that masquerades as intelligible speech.

How did we get here apart from the obvious fact that it is Arsenal versus the rest?

The Gunners are doing the impossible in the minds and hearts of many. Remember they said that they'd crumble in December? When Arsenal went ahead to have a spectacular December and Christmas, they pushed it to January, which the Gunners cruised past while still ahead of the rest.

They don't like this. In the last season, these were the months where the Gunners would have 'bottled' the league in their language and expectations. On the contrary, this season, that's not happening. So they get mad and angry. Their hypotheses are thwarted. Their realities are challenged. They feel bad that Arsenal is defying their expectations. So they come with narratives to express their dissatisfaction and frustrations.

Is there a way that the Gunners could score more set pieces and own goals? That is what we now need. Paul Scholes say Arsenal don't score enough goals, and are struggling to score. By STATS that matter, Arsenal score 23 UCL goals, the most prolific side in group stages, and right now have 46 goals in the EPL, one behind City, who in their world, score the most goals.

[EBL @EBL2017]

"If we play this game 10x more, in the same fashion, then I think it is 8 times a draw, we (Liverpool) win it 1 time, and Arsenal win it 1 time."

Unsure why this statement has not been publicised by reporters.

Maybe as it is too sensible/gets less clicks.https://t.co/A6LFbmdMeH

[Fan_Monty @AFC_Monty_]

Arsenal had the most xG
Arsenal had the most Shots
Arsenal had the most Corners
Arsenal had the most Final Third Passes
Arsenal had the most Crosses
Arsenal had the most touches in the opposition box.

By all means criticise Arsenal. But can we stop with these baseless lies?

[Forresterbird @forresterbird]

The Band of the Coldstream Guards perform "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at Changing of the Guard today. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" #guard #kingsguard #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #paranoid #heavymetal #rockband #london #buckinghampalace 💂🤘🏽

[NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASAJohnson]

The future of low Earth orbit 🌎 

On this week’s #HWHAP, @NASA and @Axiom_Space’s mission managers discuss how they work together to enable private astronaut missions ahead of Axiom Mission 4’s launch. https://t.co/zo8PjjrBU0

[Ben X @Benn_X1]

If you have this mindset, you won’t blame others for your misfortune.
You’ll understand that your destiny is in your hands.

[メイデン @maidenjap]

"Hallowed be thy name"
Live at Abbey Road Studios（2006）
- Iron Maiden

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

Is this you!?
#IronMaiden

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." — Epictetus

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

6 Stoic questions to ask every day:

1/ Is this in my control?
2/ Is this necessary?
3/ What's the worst case? Am I prepared?
4/ Where can I do better?
5/ What habit bonfires am I fueling?
6/ How can I make the best of this?

[TheYoungOnes @youngonesfan]

Rik Mayall on Wogan discussing the end of the road for #TheYoungOnes

[Bottom Stuff @BottomStuff]

What's that smell?
#Bottom #Holy

[Bottom Stuff @BottomStuff]

What on earth are you eating?
#Bottom #RikMayall #AdeEdmondson #FridayNightFryUp

[Trevor Baxendale @trevorbaxendale]

This is why WHERE EAGLES DARE is a Christmas film.

First off, if a Junkers Ju-52 carrying Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and a bunch of hand-picked commandos over the icy blue Bavarian Alps doesn’t give you Santa’s sleigh vibes, then I can’t help you.
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