matt

somebody should write a book

[RT @RT_com]

Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo

[matt @ramsdenmatty]

@Camp4 I mean he’s basically playing the role of Maverick in the first top gun

[bellå @ella_camo]

in the UK you’ll notice this obsession with proximity to success. Anyone with a bit of clout is somehow “their mate”, but when it comes to actually championing people, the energy gets very strange

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

A beautiful detail from the FT’s obit of Sir Alex Younger

[Morgan Jeffery @morganjeffery]

A quick story about Anthony Head.

He was of my earliest interviews as an entertainment journalist. It was GILES… from BUFFY. I was nervous.

Towards the end of our conversation, I dried up and forgot my next question… (1/2)

[matt @ramsdenmatty]

@CharIieBennett A good system can cover cracks in the defence. Rooney for the X factor

[matt @ramsdenmatty]

@EiFSoccer Kvi

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Alex Younger, with whom used to play toy soldiers with as a boy growing up in the Borders half a century ago, was an intensely moral man, perhaps unusually for a successful intelligence officer. Privately he was forthright in his criticism of those, such as Netanyahu, who were happy to slaughter the innocents among their enemies. This line in his obituary rang very true to the man I knew: "He was acutely aware of the corrupting powers of espionage and of the compromises it requires, but decried the “pernicious myth that, somehow, intelligence services are moral equivalents; that the end justifies the means, whatever the cost”. MI6 was not the same as the services of authoritarian states. “If we undermine the values we defend, even in the name of defending them, then we have lost.”"

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Scaffolder who killed innocent Saudi student in an unprovoked attack by stabbing him in the neck is jailed for over 22 years https://t.co/5SMNwU7w5F

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Powerful from Starmer, seeing Farage having to sit there, squirming and take it made the speech all the more enjoyable.

[James Ellin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JamesEllin_AFC]

Sikh's are the very best of us, don't use this as a weapon against them. Great community

[Eagle Eyes @vern_6510]

This is truly heartbreaking The bond between them is so deep and pure . After all the years of working side by side , trusting each other with their lives , the dog doesn't understand transfers or orders - he only knows loyalty and love . Seeing him refuse to let go and run after the car shows how real that connection is . Moments like this remind us that animals love with their whole hearts , without conditions or explanations . It's impossible not to cry watching such raw devotion

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

Absolute banger

[Adam Hurrey @FootballCliches]

Really rate the body shape from Keir here

[Kurt @_kjs1874]

Best ‘limbs’ anyone could ever be part of. It was complete carnage

[Adam Fulford @immasters]

I once met a woman who survived the Holocaust because her mother threw her, as a baby, into a German soldier’s arms before boarding a train. His family raised her and told her the story.

[matt @ramsdenmatty]

@Sawyer_DAA I think it’s more respective of the fall of England, the austerity, decline in public services and national outlook. The films took place in a very different country after the first 2. Nothing was ever as good as the 2012 olympics