Gary Stevenson

What Matt Hancock fails to grasp in his quest fir us to see him as a nice 'human' guy, is that we don't like him because he failed us and expected great sacrifice from us whilst he didn't follow his own rules.

'I fell in love' isn't an excuse that's going to make us forgive him.

1/ Here’s everything we know about the mass Twitter advertising exodus in plain language.

So, Elno acquires Twitter and advertisers are FREAKED. Would be a good time to reassure them, right?

Except Twitter’s Chief Revenue officer Sarah Personette quits on Friday. Literally walks out.

Rishi Sunak at lunchtime: 'This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level'

Rishi Sunak in afternoon: *re-appoints Suella Braverman as Home Sec, after breaching official ministerial rules & 'dreaming' of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda*

You've probably already done this, but if not...

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In 1922, neighbours heard screams coming from a house in the affluent LA area of Layfette Park. When the police arrived, they found Fred Oesterreich dead & his wife Dolly locked inside in a closet. They were certain Dolly had done it, but they had no idea how.

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Could the King, within his powers of course, FIRMLY ENCOURAGE the calling of a General Election, for the good of the country?

“What’s it like living in the UK?”

The lettuce now has disco lights on the live stream and is celebrating.

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Mahoor Mehdikhani playing a lullaby for his infant son, Mehr.

Some thoughts from me on what JK Rowling and John Cleese get wrong about cancel culture: a belief in accountability does not involve condoning threats or violence – and freedom of expression does not mean freedom from consequence.

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Remember when the Met Police Federation told us 74 police officers were injured at Notting Hill Carnival?

I thought it might be worth asking the Met via FOI if that was true &, if so, what injuries had occurred

They replied today. Turns out the numbers weren’t quite right…

Obvious we live in an age of narcissistic extremes where performative display and public winning are prized above all expressions of ordinary humanity but this is still unbelievably depressing.

What an enormous smack down this is!:

Today's Mail headlines are yelling about 'campus wokery', but I've just been blocked from talking to a UK government dept (about women in STEM) because I was critical about UK government policy (unrelated to women in STEM): a thread 🧵 [1/7]

Randall Northam Liz Truss Dear Liz Truss, The Conservatives have been in power for about 30 years out of the last 42. I don't think the Labour party, green activists, poor people, immigrants, refugees, unions or environmentalists, teachers, nurses, doctors, train drivers, rail staff etc are the problem.

Here is the actual news independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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