Tim Stanbridge

A fan of a lot of things a hater of some others. Fitness and sports enthusiast.

[Donna McLean @Donna__McLean]

Throw paint at a plane and you're looking at 20 years on terrorism charges. Close down a lifeboat station and what?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"

"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."

"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"

"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"

"Every day"

"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."

My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

RNLI is a good barometer to show that brit culture and politics has actually gotten very right wing and it isnt just 'common sense' politics fuelling this.

The RNLI are doing the job they have always done, like picking up enemy airmen in WW2. Its the right that has changed

[David Banks @DBanksy]

Worth sharing…

[Tex-Mex Patriot @rojawi]

Dolly Parton was super rich. Yet no one hated her because of her wealth. Because she didn't use her wealth to bend rules and buy politicians to get more wealth. No one hates rich people. They hate greedy people.

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

The brilliant Paul Whitehouse promoting the water referendum petition - this one - please sign and share https://t.co/p7dZoNJONr

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

Hear me out - Keir Starmer for FIFA president.

Loves the game, loves flags, loves rules, loves jetting around the world.

[Tim Stanbridge @TimStanbridge]

@HighwaysSEAST what is the delay anti clockwise towards cobham? Been sat here a while now but no updates?

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

It’s not just that England are going to be shit when Joe Root retires.

More’s to the point, cricket is going to be shit when Joe Root retires.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

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[Alf @auf]

Obrigado, Sam Neill, por olhar pra uma paisagem vazia com tanta emoção que me fez acreditar, naquela sala escura de cinema em 1993, que dinossauros eram reais

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The Hobbit is a children’s book, and the fact that so many grown people find the syntax and language difficult just further shows how far we’ve fallen from a cliff intellectually since it was first published in 1937.

[Oliver Kay @OliverKay]

“You’d better remember where you were watching this tonight because in 30 years’ time, somebody will probably ask you” 🥹

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[Jonny Cooper @JRCooper26]

James Milner retiring means 2026-27 will be the first English top-flight season since 1956-57 that will not feature a single player who played under Sir Bobby Robson.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.

Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.

They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.

People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.

Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.

Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.

Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

[Stewart Wood @StewartWood]

I'm delighted for Nigel Farage. According to @nberpubs, Brexit gave our country a 6-8% reduction in GDP per capita, a 12-18% reduction in Investment & a 3-4% reduction in productivity. But it gave Nigel Farage a gift of £5millon. So that's alright.

[Dominic McGregor @DominicMcGregor]

I’m 32 years old and I want to change the state pension.

With the triple lock, based on historical growth (4.5%) when I reach my pension age.

The state pension will be £30,100 a year.

This would account for £512bn a year.

The current government budget is 1.2Trn.

This would be 3x the current NHS budget.

The triple lock is unsustainable.

Now the debate, no one is saying that pensioners shouldn’t recieve support. That goes without saying.

But there shouldn’t be a non-means tested, non contribution based pension which gives everyone blanket support.

Especially when you consider 1 in 4 of over 60 years are asset millionaires.

My view is, we need to have a means tested only state pension.

Which is reassessed every 3 years.

There is no “pot” people pay into, national insurance is just a tax - there is no ring fenced fund for a state pension. It comes directly from taxation ever annum.

Without changes like this, young people will suffer while older people - who receive their pension and political protection because they actively vote - will continue to have a glorious quality of life.

[Austin Healey @IamAustinHealey]

Sorry that’s unforgivable from your captain

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.