David Watts

Obsessive follower of Manchester Music; wildlife photography and The Spireites. Be kind to fellow humans

[Joe Armitage @joe_armitage]

Came across Euan Blair in a previous job a couple of times. Exceptionally talented person who, despite the difficulties of doing so in Britain today, founded a multi-billion £ company. I hope he enters politics one day. The country desperately needs competent people in office.

[David Watts @spireite65]

@markpougatch @gpa297 But … like all Test Cricket Grounds… it is isn’t supervised

[David Watts @spireite65]

@henrywinter Totally agree. Cricket matches can be a pain in the a*se due to the constant interruptions for the same proposed regions.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

Jim Ratcliffe has lost confidence in the world’s 3rd largest innovation economy with two fifths of Europes high growth young companies. Ignorant and ill-informed this tax exile deserves no air time https://t.co/RJ3Phc1CpP

[Griz 🇾🇪 @griswald92]

@utdreport He wasn't complaining about benefits when INEOS were receiving taxpayers money though. Another parasite.

[Andy Bowes-Roden = = @AndyRoden1]

@KirstieMAllsopp Kirstie, I think you're flat wrong here. Holiday lets in places like Cornwall are a plague, and the tourism sector is struggling to recruit... because there's nowhere for workers to live. I know people who've been made homeless so landlords can chase Airbnb lucre.

[David Watts @spireite65]

@trevhewsongy @charliekeegan Paint pot for me.

[David Watts @spireite65]

@LawrenceDunhill Love to read this, but, it’s behind a paywall

[David Watts @spireite65]

@CoachNoshaba @trussliz Or spell “Savile” either apparently.

[jacob @jxcxbrxss]

I lost my Dad on 9/11. I don’t get a lot of reach on here. But I just wanted to share a picture. He was 39. I thought he was old. I’m now in my mid 30s and I still feel like a kid.

He was a great trader. He loved markets. He loved to find a stock no one was talking about.

The first trade I ever placed was on his work computer, where he let me click the button to buy AMAT. I loved going to the office with him. It was electric.

He was the best dad. We spent hours out in the street after dinner where he’d throw “pop flys” for me to catch. Eye on the ball.

He loved watching Sponge Bob and eating cereal, wrestling with us in the living room. He just loved being around his kids so much, and we knew it. I’m so grateful I got a dad like that.

Love you, Pops.

[Big Audio Dynamite @BigAudioDyn]

15 years ago @jimmyfallon show

[Mike Bones @mrmikebones]

If you needed proof that Big Audio Dynamite were (and are) untouchable ... Mick Jones and the crew detonate “E=MC²” live on Fallon during their 2011 reunion, underrated legends putting on a masterclass.

[David Watts @spireite65]

@BBCr4today He was laughably inept this morning…

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Nigel Farage: “They got a couple of our contractors to say things that perhaps should not have been said. They have been removed this morning”. Contractors? Dan Jukes was his longest serving, closest aide. He wasn’t just some guy he hired in to do a bit of photocopying.

[Sam @SamCKx]

What people don’t seem to understand is that sensible people across the centre, centre-left and centre-right broadly agree that we need to effectively eliminate undocumented migration by people entering under false pretences as asylum seekers. Very few people seriously disagree with that.

What sensible people object to is the hard right obsessively focusing on this one group, then weaponising every crime committed by an individual within it to stir up fear and hatred towards minorities across Britain for political gain.

And this is where their sanctimony becomes particularly galling.

The hard right has a serious violence problem of its own, notably violence against women. These people don’t get to lecture the rest of Britain about keeping women safe while conveniently ignoring the wife-beaters, domestic abusers and violent thugs within their own ranks.

If we jailed every hard-right scumbag who beats his wife or abuses women, violence against women in Britain would probably fall 50% overnight.

Yet strangely, they never seem interested in talking about those men.

Because this was never really about protecting women.

It was about exploiting women’s safety as a vehicle for hatred, division and corrupt politics.

[David Watts @spireite65]

@markxdavies @80s90sfootball @SpursOfficial @benhainess My favourite 3:
Brian Moore
Clive Tydesley
And Sir Barry

[Saj Sadiq @SajSadiqCricket]

Michael Atherton "It was Greg Chappell who initiated the first letter in February of this year. He contacted 13 former international captains and said it's time for cricket to raise it's voice. We repeated that letter with 21 names attached to that letter. It's really important to stress that we are not trying to interfere in the legal or judicial process in Pakistan. This is a humanitarian appeal because there are increasing concerns about the health and wellbeing of Imran Khan. He is 73 years of age, he's been held in prison now for more than 3 years. The former players who signed the letter many of them played against Imran and he's held in the highest regard as a former player and one of the greatest players that Pakistan has produced. There is an increasing sense of urgency around his health and we want to make sure that he gets the proper and requisite medical care" #ImranKhan

[Arslan Baloch @balochi5252]

سابق انگلش کپتان مائیکل ایتھرٹن نے لائیو۔ ایک بار پھر عمران خان کے ساتھ ساتھ کئے جانے والے سلوک پر آواز اٹھا دی۔

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Striking new data today: asylum backlog at six-year low...