Woodrfc 🇯🇲

Realist, observer of society. Married to a wonderful woman with twins!! A Utd fan.

[Woodrfc 🇯🇲 @RFitzgeraldC71]

@MELBOURNE69 I'm stopping the world getting off. Tops off 2016.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵⚪️ EXCL: Danilho Doekhi to Lazio, here we go! Deal in place between the centre back and the Italian club on contract terms — contract until June 2029.

Doekhi, in Roma right now for medical tests and contract signing to follow soon. 🦅

[Woodrfc 🇯🇲 @RFitzgeraldC71]

@UnitedPeoplesTV F

[Woodrfc 🇯🇲 @RFitzgeraldC71]

Check out Xevi's video! #TikTok https://t.co/jG88GjM1r0

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

John Oliver, "The Conservatives have had 5 different prime ministers over the past 14 years.. It's worth briefly revisiting all of them"

1⃣"David Cameron.. Austerity.. Brexit"

2⃣"Theresa May.. More austerity, two child cap"

3⃣"Boris Johnson.. His time in office was a shambles.. Britain left the EU on the same day of the first case of the corona virus was announced.. His handling of covid was an unmitigated disaster"

"For the record there is only one actual f*ckpig in Downing Street.. David Cameron.. As a student at Oxford he once put his d*ck in a dead pig's mouth"

4⃣"Liz Truss who had the shortest tenure of any British prime minister in history.. Her budget full of tax cuts for the rich which caused a mini economic crisis"

5⃣"Sunak the wet.. A man who literally does not have the sense to get in from the rain"

"Brexit created red tape that has grown exponentially.. Trading goods with the EU is now so onerous that many businesses have chosen to relocate into mainland Europe which is not good news for the UK"

"Brexit is estimated to be costing the economy about £100 billion a year"

"While Brexit makes the news, austerity is the legacy of Cameron and his successors because it has in so many ways obliterated public services"

"Take the NHS, years of under investment have left it gutted and understaffed.. Wait lists for NHS treatment have exploded.. More than 7.5 million waiting for non emergency treatment, that's over 2.5 million when the Conservatives came in in 2010"

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

The Big Short: Rishi Sunak 🛁

[Mark Williams-Thomas @mwilliamsthomas]

MP Michael Gove put forward his Conservative party donor friend David Meller CBE– owner of Meller Designs . Meller Designs, via the VIP lane was awarded six PPE contracts worth £164mMeller designs made more than £30m profit after tax in 2020 as a result of the PPE Pandemic . Gove has refused to release the communications he had with Meller during the pandemic. Time for Gove to answers questions re Meller designs ?

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

This might be the single most embarrassing thing I've ever seen

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

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.”

-Nate White

[Rabka Amatarp @rabkaamatarp]

The Glazers never used their own money to invest at the club!! 😡
#GlazersOut

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

I’m constantly in awe of more and more Palestinians refusing misleading framings from mainstream media. This @Yaraeid_ interview on Sky News is an absolute must-see.

[Jon Culshaw @jonculshaw]

Watch out for #Partygate on ⁦@Channel4⁩ tonight at 9.30. In it I’m playing Boris Johnson, both vocally and physically, filmed over the shoulder and at distance so as to blend with the real news footage. ‘Partygate’ is a tough watch in places but a very important one..

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Guess they tried that in a small town

[Byline TV @BylineTV]

Here it is. Our EXPLOSIVE Documentary exposing Boris Johnson's links to the KGB while he was in charge of MI6. @johnsweeneyroar uncovers:

🚨 The meeting at former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev's castle in Perugia where Boris was photographed hungover without security

🚨 The shocking Italian intelligence report uncovered by @jacopo_iacoboni that claims Lebedev never left the KGB.

🚨 Johnson's general election victory party hosted by a former KGB agent in London.

🚨 How Johnson put the son of Alexander Lebedev in the House of Lords AGAINST MI5 advice.

🚨 The unbelievable threat to democracy if our prime minister was compromised by Russia

Watch the full documentary on Twitter & share to spread the truth about our former Prime Minister:

[Positive Black Sisters @PositiveBlackS1]

Ending this day by sharing something "Positive"

#PositiveVibes #PositiveAttitude #positivenews

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“Make no mistake, these charges are really serious... the severity is of a whole new magnitude to the New York charges.

@jonsopel and @lewis_goodall on Donald Trump’s Miami indictment charges.

Listen on @GlobalPlayer

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“Your water bills are going towards making foreign corporations rich”

Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes ‘financial sense’ to renationalise the water industry

#bbcqt https://t.co/WE26zbv7cT

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

How Fox and Murdoch are undermining American democracy - along with the very idea of what journalism should be. A jaw-dropping read by @MatthewdAncona https://t.co/vZGz1emWY1

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?

—Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.