Ivan Hewett

Starmer’s tough talk is purely performative. It’s meant to distract us from his constant craven surrenders.

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer

This is my message to housebuilders: get on with it. If you promise homes, you have to build them. As part of our Plan for Change, we’re introducing penalties if you don’t build them fast enough.

I love this image.

Streetli 🍉 @StreetliTweets

Benjamin: "In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in lightning flashes. The text is the long roll of thunder that follows".

"The reason why Brexit has yet to have any visible impact is because….there was never anything to see. The EU’s single market is simply not what it says on the label.” Nice to get a calm sceptical view amidst all Remainer/Brexiter shouting. https://t.co/MSEFHlIIdv

this made me laugh.

Yeoman'sLot @YeomansLot

@AaronBastani My uni sent me on Erasmus thinking I'd come back a Liberal, universalist who thought everyone was just human. Well it did the opposite, all the national stereotypes are true and I came back thinking that every people is separate and distinct.

When I saw the headline ‘strawberry warning’ I thought - a shortage? Deadly mould? Deadly pesticide? No the issue is ‘they’re too big to fit in customers’ mouths’. When did we become such a moronic nation? https://t.co/qTNsQc93Kk

‘the three men all arrived in the UK by irregular (I think the Guardian means ‘illegal’) means, including by small boats and lorry…’ But anyone who suggests it’s insanely risky to nod through thousands of boat people with no papers is a racist bigot! https://t.co/FtmPLfs4DZ

No doubt Spanish lefties will shout at this woman that she’s a fascist xenophobe. The left mind virus is truly an ‘open borders’ phenomenon.

Ada Lluch @ada_lluch

People don’t understand the level of poverty present in Spain. Being completely broke is the new normal. And by completely broke, I mean having €0.00 in the bank account. Socialism is one of the worst viruses to ever happen to humanity. Today, I was in the supermarket, and

Every time AI pops up uninvited to enlighten me on something I am astounded at how bad it is. Here is this morning’s gem; ‘Several Ballet Russes ballets can be described as neo-classical, including Apollo, The Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite of Spring’.

Is Alibhai-Brown really as naive as this suggests? Or is just faux-naiveté?

Yasmin alibhai-brown @y_alibhai

The solemn British paper, @telegraph runs a non-story about a train co painting a train in vivid, joyful colours. Quotes moany right wingers. Yeah. GB will roll over and die if a train is painted bright. How dull and small their world is.

staggering all-Schumann concert last night. So many masterpieces one after another. An immersion in a whole world of feeling. https://t.co/h0gC0edejy

a sobering read from the excellent Ben Cobley. https://t.co/uYSIWrwXXx

RT @StarkNakedBrief: The hysteria around Netflix’s Adolescence has been—let’s be frank—ridiculous. Everyone from government comms teams to…

‘The loaded term (reverts) has roots in the extremist belief that all humans were born Muslim…’ The Daily Express ignorantly repeating the comforting idea that it’s only a few ‘extremists’ who believe this. In fact it’s a perfectly normal Muslim belief. https://t.co/97VwK23gvk

it is extraordinary that this very loaded term has been used by a supposedly neutral broadcaster.

Mr Chipping @chipping_mr

Oh, goodie! This BBC article almost exclusively uses the term "revert" to Islam, for people *converting*. It is clearly not a neutral term, being predicated on Islam being the natural state of all humans. https://t.co/sYKu8JraEf

such a wonderful Dickensian name.

Toby Young @toadmeister

Richer people should be made to fly less so poorer families can holiday without worsening Britain’s carbon footprint, Emma Pinchbeck, the Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee, has said. https://t.co/PA3HjuOi3n

interesting taken on Adolescence.

Andrew Hammel @AndrewHammel1

1/ "Adolescence" is an interesting case study. Growing up in the USA, you quickly become aware that violent crime as depicted in the mainstream media has nothing to do with actual violent crime that happens in the real world and which is your constant low-level concern in cities.

She really is a piece of work. But she’s so perfectly tailored and squeaky-clean and wraps her anti-democratic sentiments in such dull bureaucratese that she gets away with it.

RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa

When Ursula von der Leyen, a few days before the vote in Italy, tried to intimidate, like the mafia does, Giorgia Meloni's voters: “We will see the outcome of the elections in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have the tools, as in the case of Poland and Hungary." https://t.co/V8BPebYoOc