Richard Williams

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

You are a nasty, ignorant woman. You have no sense of history. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. Horrible cow.

[Sarah Pochin MP @SarahForRuncorn]

Pity the French did not show the same resolve in defending their sovereignty in June 1940.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

What a tool you are!!

[Rael Braverman @raelbrav]

Binface is an establishment tool.

Don’t be fooled by the act.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Oh dear. What complete bollocks. Shite like this makes folk flock to Reform.

[Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @AndreaEganGS]

Every penny that goes to the military is money that could have gone to our public services.

From my speech at RMT's AGM.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

It's the courts, it's the law thicko. She incited violence. She encouraged the burning of hotels hosting migrants. She pleaded guilty. Starmer had nothing to do with it. Are you simply hard of thinking?

[Homely Woman Kenobi @Homely_1_Kenobi]

@DamianLow3 He dismissed the concerns of ordinary women as “hate speech” and condemned anyone concerned about violent crimes committed by unvetted migrants (or their offspring) as “far-right thugs” but did not hold his own party members to the same standards.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

The level of ignorance from you right wing types in the US is truly stupefying. What a complete bell end.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Want some truth?

We were never supposed to know what they did to Henry Nowak.

We were never supposed to know about the rape of 250,000 UK girls.

Without X we wouldn’t have.

The Media would have seen to it.

That is why Starmer is slithering away.

He needs to pay for it.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

It might make us feel good for a moment, but don't forget the people they have refused entry to the country, the people they've deported and the people they've imprisoned or killed. *That* is America. Both halves.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Yes, it is. But it's wrong. To say "this is who we really are" misses the point. Yes, it's who many Americans are. Many wonderful Americans across the country. The Americans we know and love, whose films we watch and books we read.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Posted by former US Congressman @AdamKinzinger on Facebook. Beautifully written, in both form and substance:

Hey everyone, happy Sunday. Are you ready for some good news? I know I am.

We are told, over and over, that America has gone cold on the rest of the world. That we have decided the people on the other side of the ocean are a threat to be kept out. That the welcome mat got rolled up and put away for good.

Then a soccer team from the North African nation of Algeria showed up in Lawrence, Kansas, and within a week the whole town was wearing green.

For today's Good News Sunday, I want to tell you about one of the best things happening in this country right now. It is happening at a soccer tournament, and it has almost nothing to do with soccer.

The World Cup is here, 48 teams playing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each team in the tournament picks a base camp, one town to live and train in between matches. Germany set up shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Spain is training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And Algeria, playing two of its games up the road at Arrowhead, picked Lawrence and made it home for the summer.

What the people of Lawrence did with that is the part I can't stop thinking about.

It started small, with a whole town of people who had never given Algeria much thought deciding, more or less overnight, that this was their team now. Flags went up in shop windows. Folks pulled on the green jerseys. People drove over just to catch a glimpse of the players. And then a local news crew stopped an older gentleman on a Lawrence sidewalk, standing in front of a storefront draped in a whole row of Algerian flags he had clearly just gone out of his way to find.

They asked him what he actually knew about the country whose colors he was flying. He grinned, paused for a beat, and said something along the lines of: not much yet — but we want to welcome you here. There is no agenda in that man. Nothing performative. Just a neighbor, thrilled to his bones that these strangers chose his town, and perfectly at ease with the fact that he has a lot left to learn about them.

The welcome only got bigger from there.

The University of Kansas, the state's flagship school that calls Lawrence home, sent its marching band out to the training ground. They had spent the previous days learning Algeria's national anthem, note for note, and they played it as the players walked out for practice. Think about what that means for a moment.

These men are thousands of miles from their families, living out of a hotel in the American Midwest, preparing for the biggest sporting event of their professional lives. And the first thing they hear when they step onto the grass is the sound of their own country's song, played by a hundred American college kids in red and blue who learned it just for them. Several of the players stopped walking. A few of them looked like they weren't sure what to do with themselves.

Algeria did its part, too. The team opened a training session to the public and spent the afternoon out on the grass with neighborhood kids, walking them through drills, signing autographs, posing for pictures. There are children from small-town America who are going to be telling the story of the day they trained with a World Cup team for the rest of their lives. And the Algerians have spent the last week calling themselves honorary Kansans, falling hard for a corner of a state most of them could not have found on a map two months ago.

But it's not just Lawrence.

This is happening all over the country, in towns you would never expect.

The city of Alexandria, Virginia threw a street festival with an evening of Croatian food and music, and wrapped a city bus in the team's red and white. After crowds in Spokane, Washington flocked to watch Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah, a brand-new Egyptian restaurant in town suddenly had locals lining up for food most of them had never tasted. All told, 19 American communities that are not hosting a single match still raised their hand to take in a national team and call them neighbors for a month.

There is a story we get told constantly about who we have become. That Americans have soured on outsiders. That we have decided the rest of the world is a threat. That we look at people who do not talk like us or pray like us or come from where we come from and see a problem instead of a person.

And then a college town in Kansas goes and learns every note of a North African country's national anthem, just so a group of strangers feel at home for a few weeks. An old local stands in front of a row of its flags and tells them, in so many words: we don't know much about you yet, but we are awfully glad you came.

That is who we actually are when nobody is telling us to be afraid. The band on the field, playing somebody else's song as if it were their own. The neighbor who knows next to nothing about you and waves you in anyway. We forget it sometimes. The good news is that it takes about one afternoon to remember.

That, my friends, is good news for your Sunday.
— Adam

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

They are not a minority; they voted in a lying, raping, racist, criminal nutcase in the full knowledge of what he was. They are selfish cunts. America is a big place and both things are true. It's not either/or. It's the same here in England.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Cunt? Can you get paid for that?

[Ant Middleton @antmiddleton]

I believe a job vacancy has become available with my name on it! 🫡🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Well said.

[Simon Hoare MP @Simon4NDorset]

Jenrick: HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME. Your slide into the gutter seems now to be complete.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Completely agree.

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

It's quite bizarre to have Labour people panicking about the Government's polling position given:
a) Labour is going up in some polls at the moment
b) a 6% opposition lead in mid-term is not abnormal (winning opposition parties are usually 20% ahead)
c) it's 3 years until the next General Election

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

For a "native" your grasp of English is questionable. Thick as mince the lot of you.

[God Save Great Britain @GSGB01]

🚨BREAKING: MET police reports indicate that MILLIONS of patriots are on the streets of London for Unite the kingdom.

'Who's streets our streets'

Britain is wide awake 🇬🇧

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Completely agree. It's madness.

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

Nothing that has happened today is remotely proportionate or reasonable behaviour this far out from a General Election scheduled for 2029. This level of internal game playing risks driving us into a General Election within months, as well as causing months of deep political instability that have real world consequences for the economy and national security. I am, to put it mildly, unimpressed.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

God you are really are a repulsive grifter aren't you? You have sunk so low. And your starting position was lower than a snake's belly.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Your daily news blast from the beautiful island of Guernsey

Batshit Bonkers Britain needs liberating from King Jung Starmer

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Completely agree. Craven cowards the lot of them. I'm not suggesting he is doing a great job but he deserves to see out his mandate. I am a Labour party member and I intend to leave if they complete this hatchet job.

[Julien Hoez @JulienHoez]

To be clear, there is a reason why mandates are usually 5 years, and we don’t judge governments after two years.

The move against @Keir_Starmer is, quite frankly, an ego-driven hatchet job.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Therein lies the lesson. Every hegemony has an end date. We have had ours. Yours is imminent. Suck it up :-)

[ragnarok @Ragnaroll]

@Partisan_12

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

If you think the £5m gift that Farage failed to disclose is a national disgrace please repost.

The R/W BBC doesn't agree!

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The relationship between Canada and Europe is rooted in a common history and shared values, and we’re building on that.

In a more divided world, we’re choosing partnership — in trade, defence, and security — to build a more prosperous and secure future together.

[Richard Williams @samvin2001]

Your grasp of history is tendentious at best. Stick to largely derivative second rate music. At least the embarrassment would be slightly less.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

I hope someone calls on Trump to give Uganda back Mamdani