David Ward

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

Those who preach peace through capitulation won't tell you what russian occupation means. russians occupied Izyum for less than 6m. After liberation, we found mass graves of 447 ppl, most of whom were civilians, incl 215 women and 5 children. Bodies had multiple signs of torture.

It doesn't matter what your view of Brexit is. Even if the interference proved decisive, it wouldn't take away from the fact that millions of Brits felt discontented enough to demand change. But to close your ears to it is to prioritise your ideology over your sense of national responsibility.

Small business isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Big companies are the engines of economic growth. The more an economy is dominated by small businesses, the more likely it is to be a weak one.

Politically, the best option would be to keep the name of the 'triple lock' but change the formula - say, to the middle of the three components rather than the top one. Too many people will confuse 'scrapping the triple lock' with 'scrapping increases' or even 'scrapping the pension'.

IRN BRU, I admire you as our proud national drink, but in the present atmosphere, don’t you think you timed this REALLY badly with the balaclavas?

Frankly amazed that despite wall-to-wall Bayeux Tapestry coverage nobody has mentioned the Playmobil version I made back in 2016.

Please excuse my total silence on the events in Middlesbrough, but as there are no immigrants involved it is of no interest to me whatsoever.

I know it ended badly before, but it’s so good to see Rashford playing well in. United shirt again #mufc

Most young people describe themselves as almost always online, and they're also the age group most likely to describe themselves as lonely ⤵️ buff.ly/v7pfxOa

🏘️ NEW - As we spend another day overheating in our homes, we look at the simple changes needed to the planning system to allow installation of passive cooling options (things like external blinds, awnings etc) common in many other European countries - www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

Note to England: you are not obliged, in fact, to let the French attempt to rescue their reputation

Had to put the sad 13 yr old to bed with words ‘you’ve got plenty of tournaments left in your life to see England win one’. Get downstairs and im thinking “Christ how many have I got left at this rate!”

New post, on why people shouldn't 'never-skill' themselves with AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/dont-never...

are we closed because of the game? or are we closed because we're never open on Mondays? the answer to one of these questions is yes, and you must look inside your heart to learn which

No way we win that game in extra time given 10 men and players exhausted. Taking Kane off literally bets the whole World Cup on winning it in 90. Not convinced Rogers was the right sub on, but that’s big management chutzpah. No way Southgate does that.

Henderson reaching John Terry levels here. Doesn’t play but manages to get booked and get stretchered off in front the media

Pickford should be knighted after this game

Pickford is turning into Gordon Banks here

So glad I have Shearer here to tell me it’s a good idea not to concede another goal.

But great men tremble when the lion roars

The BBC could steal a march on that pompous-looking Christopher Nolan film by putting this up on the IPlayer.

The team writing the strategy are going to have a lot of corporate lobbyists selling them Kool Ideaz™️ just now, but a good strategy for a PM who wants to be liked is to start by talking about skills and jobs for young people, who are quite literally the future of the tech industry

England could have won this by playing normal Test cricket against a bowling attack held together by elastaplast and bandages. Stokes should have been prevented from opening the batting and playing like there were three overs left. #ENGNZ

Reminder of Great British Patriot!! Nigel Farage, laughing his socks off as the pound crashed on the night of the EU Ref 10 years ago Making the rest of us poorer

Who wants to see a job listing with several escalating jump scares www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...

I hope Hull History Centre won't mind me sharing this lovely letter from Roy Hattersley's papers, on the sad news of his passing aged 93. RIP.

Andy Mitten is so much better to listen to than Goldbridge. Andy talks facts & has links with United including 20 years knowing Michael Carrick. He goes to watch United every week Goldbridge's views are based on promoting his own image and simply guesswork that any of us could offer

We’ve seen it all, we’ve won the lot!!! OT rocking #mufc

What a goal from Mainoo! #mufc

Nightmare second half for united this

'Ooo remembers Macclesfield v Man City?'

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Pouring one out for Jimmy Hill tonight.

Today in THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, we always assumed that the dickhead in this meme was Heston. We apologise to Heston, but not to Gregggggg. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. #Mastertwat

Finally a bit of good news for the UK economy