Paul Collis

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

An American checks her student loans.

She borrowed $49,548.74.

After 120 payments, she’s paid $25,558.36.

Her current balance? $50,121.33.

After PAYING $25k… she now owes MORE than she originally borrowed.

This isn’t aid — it’s legalized USURY.

[Nicky Allt. @NickyAllt]

Admission Prices into the match 50 years ago. They estimate the cost of most things has multiplied by 10 since then. So by that adage it should be a Tenner tops to watch your team. The Game has been stolen from the people who made it great. Yes - THE FANS! #fans #football 😱😱

[ali @ali__samson]

Americans needing 155 aircraft including bombers, Transport and dozens of fighters to do a job which the Brits could do with four SAS soldiers and a flask of tea.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Inappropriate?
Asking for a friend...

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Iran just told Trump to go ahead and pull the trigger. Thirty-three hours left on the clock, and Tehran didn’t blink. It escalated.

Trump threatened to obliterate Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t open for business within 48 hours. A reasonable person might have expected some back-channel signal, a quiet diplomatic murmur, maybe a phone call through Oman. Instead, Iran’s senior military command walked up to the microphone and announced that its entire strategic posture has shifted. Not defensive. Offensive.

The country has enough reserves to last a year. The Strait is closing completely. Every vital piece of infrastructure in the Middle East, energy, water desalination, IT, is now a declared target. This is not a country signalling that it wants a way out. This is a country that has decided the cost of backing down exceeds the cost of the wall it’s about to hit. Which puts Trump in the kind of position he has never actually been in before: a deadline he set, in public, that the other side just laughed at.
He can obliterate the power plants. In which case Iran closes the Strait, hits the desalination plants that keep Saudi Arabia and the UAE alive, and about a fifth of the world’s oil supply disappears overnight.

Markets open Monday to scenes that make 2008 look like a minor correction. Or he doesn’t. In which case every adversary on earth just watched the President of the United States issue an ultimatum and absorb a public humiliation in real time.
There is no clean exit here. There is no art to this deal.

Thirty-three hours.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Fr Paul @revpaulwhite]

As a priest, who has celebrated Holy Communion twice today and is departing for a Cistercian monastery tomorrow, can I just say that this 'Easter Egg rage' is nonsense.

If you care that much, get yourself to church, and then perhaps you will realise that our faith is not based on confectionary or its packaging.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi's reaction as Trump says "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour?"

Undoubtedly the worst American diplomatic gaffe in post-war US-Japan history.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump just said this:

“I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book.”

Five minutes ago he said his administration was “shocked” that Iran struck Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

Nobody expected that.

Now he predicted all of it.

In the same press conference.

This is the man managing the most severe geopolitical crisis since 2003.

He predicted Osama bin Laden.

He was shocked by Iran.

He declared victory 5 times in 13 seconds.

He said you could say both when asked if the war was beginning or ending.

He said Tomahawks are very generic.

He said Iran bombed its own school.

$21 billion spent. 14 Americans dead. Oil at $102. Zero allied warships. Taiwan surrounded. The Strait mined.

He predicted all of it.

He was shocked by all of it.

Both.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump spent months calling NATO obsolete.

Threatening Canada with the 51st state. Slapping tariffs on allies.

Demanding Europe pay up or lose protection.

Insulting world leaders to their faces.

Abandoning Ukraine.

Calling Germany weak and France irrelevant.

Now he needs them.

France: no.

Germany: no.

Norway: no.

Canada: never.

Japan: officially no.

Switzerland: airspace closed.

You don’t spend a year burning every bridge and then call for backup when the building is on fire.

$21 billion spent. 14 Americans dead. Oil at $102. The Strait mined. Taiwan surrounded. Baghdad evacuated. NATO threatened with a “very bad future.”

The allies didn’t abandon America.
America spent a year telling them to leave.

They listened.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This woman is in the White House officially advising Donald Trump and deciding who can and can't see him.

She is completely insane, and totally unbearable.

I couldn't spend 20 seconds with her, could you?

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

"Interim Ayatollah until the end of the season? I'll do it."

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

Okay, 30p Lee,

Let’s be straight about this.

Are you sending your own kids to fight this war? How much skin have you actually got in the game?

Because it’s always the same story, isn’t it? Men in suits beating the drums, while working-class lads and lasses pay the price. It’s easy to talk tough from a TV studio. It’s easy to posture online. It’s a bit harder when it’s your child in uniform getting on that plane.

British soldiers are not cannon fodder. We lost 457 service personnel in Afghanistan. 457 families changed forever. And for what? So years later, Trump can shrug and say we “stayed a little back”?

Don’t you dare treat British lives like expendable props in some macho fantasy.

You and Trump can both sod off with that nonsense. This country is in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis one cooked up by the very party you proudly stood with. The same crowd who hiked bills, tanked the economy, and told struggling families they could whip up dinner for 30p while claiming a small fortune in expenses at Westminster.

Spare us the lectures.

You talk about patriotism, yet your own party had a leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, exposed for doing the Kremlin’s bidding. Patriots? Don’t make me laugh.

Your morality shifts with the political wind, spinning toward whoever’s paying or polling highest.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

HELLFIRE | Trump’s illegal war | Israel joins in | Khamenei killed | Iran responds | Tehran live! https://t.co/WJT71zNKwt

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Poor little darling!
How on earth is she going to cope? 😱
If things get any worse, I’m praying she has access to some sort of boat where she might be able to flee to a safer country and seek refuge. 🙏🏻

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[Baba Banaras™ @RealBababanaras]

Tajikistan : A country with 96-98% muslim population.

Banned Burqa
Banned Hijab
Banned Prayer (Namaz) at public places
Banned Azan on loudspeaker.
Banned Child Merriage

They love their Tajik culture. They hate radical Islamists. Still they are Muslim. Learn from them.

[Paul Collis @superfuzz63]

@London_W4 Used to love living in Limehouse.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup

[Cats That Make You Go Awww @CuteAdorableCat]

This cat curls up to a full circle