Will Brooks 💙

TV Producer @Eurosport all opinions are my own

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS IS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE ‼️

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

He’s dead on.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While his client, Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Palestine is also one of humanity’s oldest toponyms, and records of a people named after it are as old as literacy itself.
On the temple of Medinet Habu near Thebes there is inscribed in hieroglyphs the name of the people who had invaded from the North who the Egyptians knew as the ‘Peleset’. The inscription dates from the time of Pharaoh Ramses III, and was carved in 1186 BC. The cuneiform inscriptions of the Assyrians mention the ‘Palashtu’ who lived on the southeastern Mediterranean coast from about 800BCE. The Book of Genesis in 21:34 says clearly that after migrating from the city of Ur, that the Patriarch Abraham lived “in the land of the Philistines.” Herodotus, the Father of History, describes the same area as “Syria Palestina” (Παλαιστίνη) around 480BCE.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch

"In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union"

"Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired"

"We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate"

"After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement"

"It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen"

"National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver"

"The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet"

"The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary"

"While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent"

"The nation saw project fear become project reality"

"It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled"

"In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union"

"None have"

"All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages"

"Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU"

"Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave"

"The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower"

"Today we know we are neither and so does the world"

"As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are"

"And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million"

"The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant"

"So we have much to offer any partner"

"Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us"

"Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China"

"The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that"

"I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years"

"But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers"

"I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside"

"There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome"

"That said, there are areas we can make a start"

"And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process"

"The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU"

"And less than 1/3 support having done so"

"Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%"

"That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions"

"Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote"

"They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain"

"They simply hide in a hole and do nothing"

"Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards"

"Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest"

"Brexit is a flop"

"It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver"

"Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances"

"The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget"

"Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035"

"Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU"

"As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture"

"Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe"

"It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy"

"New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so"

"Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me"

"The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future"

"We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained"

"Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

IN A LATE NIGHT POST, TRUMP DOES NOT REMEMBER WHO WAS PRESIDENT ON JAN 6, 2021 (HE WAS), WEIRDLY SHOUTS “DO SOMETHING” (LIKELY AT CLOUDS). HIS MENTAL ISSUES ARE VERY BAD!

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa wrote the following letter to Donald Trump:

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[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵

[TNT Sports Bikes @bikesontnt]

We've got some very exciting news to share!! 😁

We've officially renewed our contract with Dorna and will continue to be the home of #MotoGP here in the UK and Ireland!! 🙌

[TNT Sports Bikes @bikesontnt]

Signed, sealed and ready to deliver for many more years!! 🙌

Dorna Sports CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta shares his delight to continue working with TNT Sports to provide #MotoGP Coverage 🤝

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The MotoGP season finale is HERE 📺

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[Will Brooks 💙 @wgbrooks]

@matt77roberts @SUFCOfficial They are lucky to have you Matt. Congratulations!

[TNT Sports Bikes @bikesontnt]

The mind games are in full force 🤫

Time for #TheRematch to go up a gear 🔥

#MotoGP | #MalaysianGP | Live on TNT Sports and Discovery+

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

When asked how fascism starts, Bertrand Russell replied: "First they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent."

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Elon Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022 https://t.co/GPxS9vZmZ9 https://t.co/GPxS9vZmZ9

[The New York Times @nytimes]

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected. https://t.co/neI4bkLGNk

[Cycling on TNT Sports @cyclingontnt]

This is WILD! 🔥

Less than 2 laps to go... 😮

@OfficialBSB #BSBShowdown #BrandsBSB

[Cycling on TNT Sports @cyclingontnt]

KYLE RYDE TAKES IT ALL! HE IS YOUR 2024 BSB Champion! 🤯🔥

What did we just watch 😳 Take a bow boys 👏

@OfficialBSB #BSBShowdown #BrandsBSB