Tom

:)

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Jimmy Corry has lived on this Belfast street for 13 years. Now he’s homeless. He’s lost sentimental items forever, including his dad’s possessions.

He told me that he shares the anger many feel about the attack on Monday night but that burning down houses won’t solve anything.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Around the country, a huge tree planting programme of our most important native tree is underway. But no bureaucrat decreed it in a policy paper, & it relies on no government funding. This mass planting is being carried out by nature herself.

2025 was a ‘mast year’ for acorns. In order to have the best chance of reproducing, some trees like oaks all produce a huge amount of acorns in the same year. This sheer abundance overwhelms creatures like squirrels that snack on the nuts, as they simply can’t eat them all.

Now, in woodlands & fields across the country, we see the results of this self-directed tree planting. Huge carpets of baby oaks that in some places are so thick they look like a grassy green lawn. I’ve honestly never seen so many oak saplings in my lifetime & this scene is all the more incredible given the oaks somehow knew to coordinate their reproduction like this.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

People will talk about biases, rightly. But it’s also just inescapable that the calibre of people entering the police is nowhere near good enough. The smug, fatal, incompetence in that video is just a glimpse of it.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

"Within three minutes of arriving, they realised the severity of his condition" is such a tell. That's a ridiculously long time to realise that someone has been stabbed and is dying. The video is going to be devastating.
https://t.co/v9RchVysiH

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Some pictures in this thread

[Liam Dutton @liamdutton]

There’s an isolated thunderstorm that’s formed north of Milton Keynes.

As there’s clear blue sky around it in all directions, it should be visible from 50-100 miles away.

Share a pic if you can see it!

Image: @Windycom

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Always makes me laugh when an unsuspecting stranger because the main pic

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Temperatures across southern England and the Midlands could reach 33C for the first time in May, just in time for the Bank Holiday

Tap to see where the Amber health alerts have been issued 👇
https://t.co/FV1uytKXKW

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Looks naff

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The first Great British Railways train has been spotted

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

I retweet (into the void) too things I find funny and suddenly my timeline is full of accounts like “esoteric starmerite”

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

And to add, revealed preferences clearly contradict what Krishnan says - it’s more like the media estate, coming of age 2016- , don’t know any different

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

I recall reading comments like this in the days after the 2024 election and shaking my head at the naiveté of the embubbled London media classes. They really seemed to have no understanding of what was brewing out there in the neglected provinces of the country. They still don't.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

I recall reading comments like this in the days after the 2024 election and shaking my head at the naiveté of the embubbled London media classes. They really seemed to have no understanding of what was brewing out there in the neglected provinces of the country. They still don't.

[Magical Barry @TheDemonBaz666]

Why should the storm fear the rain

#KeirStormbringer

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

That Starmer looks like he’s digging in and that that actually presents a much bigger problem than was assumed. They never have to interrogate what the words they say mean, eg, “under pressure”.

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Lobby looking so desperate. Hyping up pure B-role, trying to act like things are happening, when the story is that nothing’s happening

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Not even in a “nothing ever happens” way too. They’ve gone into a routine (and it’s painfully obvious they think this is the shit when no one knows/cares) + the actual story rn seems more…

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Is east London the new south east London?

[Tim Chapman @IslingtonChap]

Terrifying footage now coming out of London as Government forces attempt to restore order. Looks like Wes has opened Pandora’s box.

[Tom @tomwhitlo]

Strong horse theory vindicated again!

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

EXCL: Keir Starmer told ministers tonight that Wes can't win because it would "destroy our party and country".

He invited all ministers into his study in the Commons.

Ministers of state in one batch, followed by parliamentary under secretarties.

One tells me the response was overwhelmingly positive re backing Starmer.

"He was there doing the hard yards. There was something in his eyes I haven't seen before. And I liked it."

[Tony Dowson @TonyDowson5]

Goodness me.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs https://t.co/vgI1ROm7zQ