Stuart Lyon 💙

[ADAM @adamemedia]

It’s no coincidence that the 11 democrats who failed to show up to the vote to impeach Hegseth ALL took money from Israel PACs. All of them.

They couldn’t even wait a week to commit literal treason.

[Dany Brunton @DBruntz14]

First class job as always from Edinburgh Council to dig up as many roads as possible across the city only for them to never get any better. Disgraceful state to be in, compared to the rest of Europe.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Woman who lives in a second home funded by the taxpayer with most bills paid.

'Well paid job' - shows how out of touch with reality she is if she feels 'minimum wage' (which the Tories also want to freeze for 5 years) is well paid

[Jock Tamson's Bairn @happymonkey1874]

While locals count every penny, @HarrietCross_MP sits on a £91k salary + nearly £180k in taxpayer-funded expenses!

Includes over £20k just on TRAVEL!

When did public service become a luxury travel club? Time to live in the real world...

#HarrietCross #Excess #GordonAndBuchan

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear @KemiBadenoch I see you're getting down in the gutter at #PMQs dragging Ed Miliband re his meeting with Russell Brand.

Fair enough

Your hero Maggie Thatcher with Jimmy Savile.

Here endeth the lesson.

[Jo @JoRejoinEU]

Meet Helen. She's an MP in her 40's whose expense claims are one of the highest. She is medically qualified to give her opinion on autism & ADHD. Helen thinks those who claim PIP shouldn't receive it. Helen still wants to keep all of her expenses though.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

This morning I was told of the passing of my good friend and colleague, Danny Kelly. The tributes to him in the coming days from those who knew him and worked with him will give you an idea of how much he was loved.

I loved him too. Very much so. A man who I called "Dad" on air because I wished he was. I hope you give me a few minutes to read my thoughts, and I hope they do you justice, Dan.

By 2008 I was a mess. I would sleep 18 hours a day, the other 6 mostly wanting to die. Once or twice a week I would open my laptop, organise football tabs, gossip and news as prep for jobs in broadcasting that I knew would never come, "just in case". When hope dies, we die, after all.

Then Danny Kelly came into my life.

I was driving out of London having been to see a psychiatrist about the state I was in and had BBC London on the radio. Danny was presenting with a guest, reviewing books. My name came up in the conversation, so I called in.

We hit it off straight away, talked about football for what seemed like forever but was probably a standard 10-12 minute section. But for me it sparked a temporary respite from sleep and chronic mental health issues and even for that I was grateful.

A couple of years later Danny joined talkSPORT to do the 7-10pm slot through the week. He told me he was offered a few co-presenters but he remembered that conversation we had and he wanted me to do it.

A lifeline of work, passionately talking about our sport, having fun and feeling a value as a human again. Something lost for 7 long years.

Danny gifted me that. Without that I know I wouldn't be writing this today.

"Always fresh, never frozen" was the tagline in a Domino's read we had to do in the show, something we'd instinctively greet each other with until our last meeting, in a pub, broadcasting for talkSPORT around 3 years ago. I didn't know that time would be the last, but perhaps fittingly we hugged as I left, I'm glad I did.

The shows were loved. They were funny, honest, insightful and I hope, along with Saggers after that, proof that Danny's belief in me was worthy. But to say my love for him was only thanks for a job doesn't even scratch the surface.

His kindness, his phone calls late at night ( Dan was a notorious night owl) of support, his man hugs, his indomitable spirit, his big brain on anything from football to music to geopolitics, his love, as I know many others will testify, came from the biggest of hearts and the biggest of souls housed in a giant of a man in every sense.

Dan, thank you, thank you for the kindness, the fun, the hope, the support and for being someone to look up to and aspire to be.

I love you very much, I know I'll hug you again some day. Thank you for everything.

"I love football Stan, I love it ".

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"I have ADHD, got a diagnosis, got treatment, went to Private School and have a 'job' where I do absolutely fuck all and get a fortune and 'expenses' on top."

But I want to pretend that everyone else is lazier and less disabled than me.

Not possible mate.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

What is wrong with this woman?

What made her think weaponising Russell Brand would be a good idea for PMQs?

Has she forgotten the victims?

Or indeed her hero Thatcher cosying up to Saville?!

[Ineluctable Chris @BoveFromAbove]

@Nigel_Farage You shouldn't have been allowed; your side lost.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.

And they stink.

They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.

The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.

Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.

It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.

As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.

I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.

What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?

Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).

Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.

We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.

There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.

[Harry who @HarryJoebanks34]

#TuesdayMotivation

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Why don’t you mention his age @BBCNews?!

And I think the headline should state that he was killed for “PLANNING” to throw rocks!

Disgusting savages

“The Israeli military said soldiers identified "several terrorists who intended to hurl stones" in an area where stones had previously been thrown at Israeli vehicles”

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

I am sick to death of hearing 'we pay billions in welfare' like it is paid out and disappears into thin air. People on benefits do not put their money offshore - they SPEND it back into the economy.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

So rather than renationalising disgraced Thames Water, it will be owned by USA hedge funds.

We are all slaves to billionaires.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

One of my greatest achievements is the space I take up in Dominic Cummings’s head.

[alan seymour @sportmarketing1]

Badenoch and Whately
2 biggest benefits scroungers in UK
⚠️👎⚠️👎

[J - 🖤🤍❤️💚 @JDaBuddah]

Kemi Badenoch will berate Ed Milliband for the Russell Brand interview, whilst clearly having a massive case of amnesia about her hero Margaret Thatcher being besties with Jimmy Saville. Utter buffoon and totally unfit for leadership. Twat. #PMQs

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴BARONESS MICHELLE MONE

There was no protective ring around care homes; but there obviously is one around Michelle Mone and Dido Harding.

- @David__Osland

@MichelleMone @Conservatives

[Marcus J Ball (Private Prosecutor and Producer) @MarcusJBall]

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