Ralph Ferrett

Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

This obsession with imperial units is mad. Who under 60 understand them at all? I'm mid-40s and have no idea how many ounces are in a yard. Is it 16? Twelvty? No idea. And with pretty much everything, everywhere sold and traded in metric it simply makes the UK less competitive.

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

… I’m going for Antonio Conte to come in after Michael Carrick is sacked and Dwight Yorke to replace him on an interim basis after it inevitably goes wrong. Mood lifted, Yorkey gets the job on a permanent basis and the doom cycle starts all over again.

Took in a parcel for a neighbour recently. I dropped it round later and after I’d handed it over I got my phone out and said “I just need a picture…” Oh how 50% of us laughed!

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Today I came across a clip from Trump’s 2016 primary debates. The cognitive decline since then is astounding, but the fact that his voice has been a constant background noise in our life for ten years has desensitised us to the extent of his drift.

New Bond announced

I'm being sued for $795m. By a fugitive fraudster. In Wyoming. Using an anti-Mafia law. 🧵

Seems a touch brutal.

Goddam I hate EA so much....

Somehow they know when it’s going to rain

This won't go anywhere, obviously, but it's still a useful indication of how they'd act if they ever get into Government. Locking up journalists would just be the start

The UK right got Trump, Truss and Brexit totally wrong. Not a little bit. Totally. Such collosal and catastrophic misjudgements should disqualify them from power for a generation, at least. But it won’t.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Kemi thinks Paddington is the antagonist in a film about Nicole Kidman's righteous quest to capture and skin him.

4 October 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Rika Porcelijn, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

Sure the Free Speech Union will be all over. Someone should page Toby Young stat

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

Danny Tommo, Amodei, Man City fair play Piddington, Macklemore, Dolly ain’t alive no more Netanyahu’s iron dome, Meg and Harry coming home New cat, Clavicular COVID CONSCIOUS LESBIAN BAR 🎶 we didn’t start the fire 🎶

He imposed Shania Law

It's like that Amazon shop all over again!

‘Destiny’ Lives: All Content To Be Unvaulted And Future Games Planned www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

"Enforcing soldier masculinity through mandatory morning-boner checks" is the sort of thing an unsubtle satirist might make up about Russia.

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

If you think closing an RNLI station is done by people with "legitimate concerns" you really need to give your head a wobble. It's an unforgivable act of thuggery.

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

Public service announcements appearing on the Tube (spoof ofc)👌🏼

Most bath times this guy saves the day. Over the years he’s rescued dinosaurs, superheroes and sea creatures. Our kids are pretty clear this is unambiguously and definitively one of the good guys. I think the vast majority of grown ups would agree with them.

Oh no, the house dragon is vomiting again!

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

Nah

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy