Splutterby

Trying to make sense of things. Not succeeding.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Funniest thing is MAGAs not realizing that Mikel Merino was clearly trolling Trump

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

England now into the last three

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented.

He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.

[Wol @WasOnceLoved]

Wow.
Farage has really fucked up.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Justin Webb "What is your appeal to the people of Clacton?"

Count Binface "Well I'm not Nigel Farage."

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Always worth knowing when bin day is.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Clarification: Sky News was not at the property at 7.41am. As has already been acknowledged, and as shown in the footage from 10.19am, Sky News was outside a property where Mr Farage was registered to vote at the last election. Sky News did not interact with Mr Farage’s daughter.

On a single occasion, we approached the property without a camera operator, identified ourselves as Sky News, and the adult occupant chose not to engage. We were seeking to contact Mr Farage to ask questions about the gift he accepted from Mr Cottrell. This is a well-established and routine journalistic practice when reporting on matters of legitimate public interest.

The footage clearly demonstrates that Sky News did not “hound” or pursue Mr Farage’s daughter. At no stage did we seek to speak to anyone other than Mr Farage in connection with this story.

[Splutterby @screwballistic]

the People’s Nige. The man who chose to resign as an MP and call a byelection as a matter of principle. And that principle is the right to receive gifts from a Thai crypto billionaire and benefits in kind from a convicted fraudster without declaring them

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

https://t.co/HXnm0YXzXH

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

@Nigel_Farage Nige, if you want to cover my travel costs from Sigma IX, you can pop five million quid here: https://t.co/F8x87pEplq

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Game on, Nige.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

One other thing. If I were the other parties, I leave Farage to his by election. Call it a stunt and let him fight it out with Count Binface

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

From one England legend to another, goodbye ❤️

[Muriel Gray @ArtyBagger]

This is simply magnificent.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The word Legend is massively over-used in sport… but @benstokes38 is a bona fide Legend. A brilliant, swashbuckling, heroic warrior.
His match-winning century to beat Australia at Headingley in 2019 was the greatest innings I’ve watched by anyone, ever. Thanks Stokesy. 👍👏👏

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

One of England's all-time greatest captains, Ben Stokes, has decided to retire from international cricket at the end of this Test match.

Ben, you have been the most inspirational captain, leader and legend this team could have ever hoped for.

We love you so much and wish you all the best in your retirement ❤️

England will never be the same again.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Chances of Farage quitting before next election, partly because he hates this sort of questioning, still underpriced.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Quite something that around the tenth anniversary of the Brexit campaign murder of Jo Cox he says he is the most attacked politician of the last decade. Well done Sally Nugent for pressing with Qs so many of her colleagues have decided to move on from because he doesn’t want to answer them

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Farage on #BBCBreakfast: “If Andy Burnham becomes PM we need a General Election, no mandate!”

Sally Nugent: “Do your MPs who defected from the Tories have a mandate?”

Watch the chancer’s face as his own logic gets rammed straight back down his throat. Pure gold.

This is the exact line every interviewer should use on him from now on.😂😂😂

RT if Sally Nugent deserves a medal 👇👇👇👇

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

I know just how hard it is to both hold and leave office, not just on those who held it but all those close to them too, as Keir rightly acknowledged today. He spoke with dignity and duty, and my thoughts are with him and his family.

I was proud to serve as Deputy as he led our party into government. History will remember not just the challenges he faced but the achievements he oversaw. I pay tribute to his record of dedicated public service.

His premiership saw us legislate new rights for working people, renters and leaseholders, invest in a generational boost to social housing, devolve powers to communities, the creation of Great British Energy and Great British Railways, action to tackle child poverty and so much more. This is a record of which any Labour government could be proud.

Labour was elected to change Britain, and as a new chapter begins, we must now redouble our efforts to deliver for working people.