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Anton Rippon

@antonrippon

Award-winning newspaper columnist, author, journalist. Believes in pragmatism rather than ideology. Would have been Yorkshireman but for Hitler bombing Hull.

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So instead of tackling the problem of thousands of illegal immigrants, many of them military-age young men, Labour take aim at care workers who are desperately needed and who come here legally. Again, creating a new problem rather than solving an existing one.

Mark Eklid (@markeklid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Disregard the picture of the handsome young brute. It's not about me. It's an article in today's Derbyshire Live about the forthcoming Derby Book Festival project with the Society of Authors to organise talks by writers in Derbyshire Libraries. Full details at gigantic.com/meet-your-loca…

Disregard the picture of the handsome young brute. It's not about me. It's an article in today's <a href="/derbyshire_live/">Derbyshire Live</a> about the forthcoming <a href="/DerbyBookFest/">Derby Book Festival</a> project with the Society of Authors to organise talks by writers in Derbyshire Libraries. Full details at gigantic.com/meet-your-loca…
PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@protect_wldlife) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brad Severs posing with a sickening grin with a #Leopard draped across his shoulders. This is only one of three or four more that he has slaughtered to satisfy his sociopathic needs! #TrophyHunters put the CON in conservation! RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on #trophyhunting NOW!

Brad Severs posing with a sickening grin with a #Leopard draped across his shoulders. This is only one of three or four more that he has slaughtered to satisfy his sociopathic needs!

#TrophyHunters put the CON in conservation!

RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on #trophyhunting NOW!
PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@protect_wldlife) 's Twitter Profile Photo

M'Tanu's Death: A Call to End Trophy Hunting of Critically Endangered Forest Elephants! M'Tanu was one of the last of his kind — a critically endangered African Forest Elephant living in the rainforests of Cameroon. His death is not only a tragedy for conservation, but a stark

M'Tanu's Death: A Call to End Trophy Hunting of Critically Endangered Forest Elephants!

M'Tanu was one of the last of his kind — a critically endangered African Forest Elephant living in the rainforests of Cameroon. His death is not only a tragedy for conservation, but a stark
Rupert Lowe MP (@rupertlowe10) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Perhaps this is a controversial position to take in Westminster, but here goes... Let's send the drug-addled Ugandan criminal back to Uganda. I do not care about his mental health, and nor should you. Let's kick him out.

Perhaps this is a controversial position to take in Westminster, but here goes...

Let's send the drug-addled Ugandan criminal back to Uganda.

I do not care about his mental health, and nor should you. 

Let's kick him out.
PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@protect_wldlife) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#ThoughtForTheDay “When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it "sport." ~ Seth MacFarlane. SHARE if you want a GLOBAL ban on #TrophyHunting NOW!

#ThoughtForTheDay

“When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it "sport." ~ Seth MacFarlane.

SHARE if you want a GLOBAL ban on #TrophyHunting NOW!
Stanchion - the football bookshop 📚 (@stanchionbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | GAS MASKS FOR GOAL POSTS by Anton Rippon Telling the unique history of football in Britain during the Second World War. 🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/gas-m…

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | GAS MASKS FOR GOAL POSTS by <a href="/AntonRippon/">Anton Rippon</a>
 
Telling the unique history of football in Britain during the Second World War.

🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/gas-m…
Jack Russell MBE (@jackrussellart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Administrators/accountants take note if you had your way 3 great last day finish test matches would never have happened There should never be a discussion ever again on 4 day #TestCricket Put a line through it in your note pads, forget it! Hope you enjoyed the drama like we did

Andy Coates (@andywoodturner) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On the phone, and caller said, "well, it's not rocket silence". Not what? "rocket silence" The phrase is, "rocket science". <actually laughs!>"No, it's rocket silence. Rockets are loud, and it'd be very difficult to silence them. That's what it means." So...is it *me* that's mad

SAVE MORECAMBE FC (@savemorecambefc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you for 100 followers when we opened this page a couple of hours ago 🚀 Keep sharing the page as far and wide as possible 🎯 No better sight than football fans coming together, magic 🏅

Claudette Forrester (@forresterbird) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Band of the Coldstream Guards perform "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at Changing of the Guard today. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, the "Prince of Darkness" #guard #kingsguard #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #paranoid #heavymetal #rockband #london #buckinghampalace 💂🤘🏽

Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tulip Siddiq, Labour anti-corruption minister, resigned after being accused of corruption. Rushanara Ali, Labour homelessness minister, resigned after being accused of making people homeless. You literally couldn't make it up. Keir Starmer is a really poor judge of character.

Tulip Siddiq, Labour anti-corruption minister, resigned after being accused of corruption.

Rushanara Ali, Labour homelessness minister, resigned after being accused of making people homeless.

You literally couldn't make it up.

Keir Starmer is a really poor judge of character.
Mark Eklid (@markeklid) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The weather forecast is good, Belper is lovely and there's a book fair on! Three good reasons to come to the Dormouse Books, Belper Belper Book Fair at the Market Place on Sunday (11am-4pm). I'll be there, too - but don't let that put you off! Come to meet all the other lovely authors!

The weather forecast is good, Belper is lovely and there's a book fair on!
Three good reasons to come to the <a href="/dormousebelper/">Dormouse Books, Belper</a> Belper Book Fair at the Market Place on Sunday (11am-4pm). 
I'll be there, too - but don't let that put you off! Come to meet all the other lovely authors!
Charlie Mullins OBE (@charliem_obe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every August, we get the same feel-good TV shots of beaming teenagers waving their A-level results, teachers clapping, proud parents filling their phones with happy memories that are instantly posted on Facebook.   In the UK, plumbers, electricians, carpenters and heating

Every August, we get the same feel-good TV shots of beaming teenagers waving their A-level results, teachers clapping, proud parents filling their phones with happy memories that are instantly posted on Facebook.
 
In the UK, plumbers, electricians, carpenters and heating
Stanchion - the football bookshop 📚 (@stanchionbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | SOCCER SCANDALS by Anton Rippon The stuff of pulp fiction rather than of just games and goals and Saturday heroes, this is the ugly side of the game that Pelé found so beautiful. White Owl Books Pen & Sword Books 🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/socce…

𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | SOCCER SCANDALS by <a href="/AntonRippon/">Anton Rippon</a>

The stuff of pulp fiction rather than of just games and goals and Saturday heroes, this is the ugly side of the game that Pelé found so beautiful. 

<a href="/WhiteOwlBooks/">White Owl Books</a> <a href="/penswordbooks/">Pen & Sword Books</a> 

🛒 stanchionbooks.com/products/socce…