Peter Snaddon

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@LBC Ridiculous 🤬

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@timruss2 Charles III is King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories. No one holds the title, 'King of England.' 😡

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@NancySinatra 👏👏👏❤️

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@NancySinatra I see that Rudolph and 6 other reindeer have been made redundant now that Santa has a rocket booster. That's progress, I suppose. Happy Christmas 🎄 🎅 🎊 🥳

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Thirteen years ago, my administration acted to protect young people who were American in every single way but one: on paper. 

DACA was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies. 

We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect. In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@jk_rowling Brad has it completely wrong. Very many of us (perhaps even the majority) DO give a f***.

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@NancySinatra Happy birthday, Nancy 🎉🍾🥂🥳

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@jk_rowling A very Happy Easter to you and yours, Ms Rowling🎊🎉🐣🐇😀

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@daviddspalding It had all indicators of a set-up to try to humiliate him in front of the world's media. They're treating it like some sort of corporate business deal. The Ukrainian people's lives and liberty are at stake here.

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@IanGee2023 @jk_rowling If you read the report properly, the BBC is not 'rooting for the man' but merely reporting what was said and asserted at the tribunal. BTW, I am not a supporter of the trans lobby but I do trust the BBC's policy of impartiality. It's in their charter after all.

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@Karol1669024 @jk_rowling Oh, no it doesn't.

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@NancySinatra Marvellous!! 👏👏 ... and you weren't too bad either, Nancy 😉😘😍

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@elonmusk Rubbish!

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@jk_rowling I've known my best friend for 58 years... and we still keep in touch. 🙂

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@elonmusk As illegal as Nigel Farage campaigning for Trump?

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@jk_rowling Happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

Scary...

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@OkayBiology @jk_rowling His answer is quite astounding. He's talking utter s**** 💩

[Peter Snaddon @pipeybw]

@VictoriaPeckham @jk_rowling @wesstreeting I agree, absolutely. 👍

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”