Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler performing “Layla” at Royal Albert Hall in 1997. This song is about George Harrison’s wife, Pattie. She and Clapton began living together in 1974 and married in 1979. Clapton and Harrison remained good friends, with George playing at their

🚨NEW NHS ENGLAND STATS 🚨 How many people wait longer than 12 hours on a trolley for an emergency hospital bed? In January 2011, it was 17 people. In January 2024, it was 54,308 people.

If you are worried about Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn. Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn. Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn. You‘re buying their lies.

There are 177 billionaires worth £653bn operating in the UK. 122 pay £0 tax because they aren't even registered in the UK at all, most of the other 55 while pay £0 as well, none will pay more than 20%. If we taxed them all at 45% like everyone else, it would raise £43bn a year.

More relevant now than ever, even though he died in 2013.

Fifteen years. Five prime ministers, seven chancellors, eight foreign secretaries, twelve culture secretaries and sixteen housing ministers. A thread, for #RantyTuesday.

I post this every couple of months because I still think it’s the funniest thing that ever happened and everyone in the world should see it.

Remember when Norwich City FC posted this advert regarding men’s mental health? It still packs a punch doesn’t it?

Something so satisfying about this man’s refusal to take the bait with the usual leading questions on migration. Just calmly & stubbornly fair-minded, straightforward, no nonsense answers in a perfect Wexford accent right in the middle of the town. 10/10

These are the only immigrants I can see that are clearly trying to destroy our country.

Sigh…..😞 Another day, another wildly misleading Daily Mail headline. I mean, it certainly would be headline worthy if police had turned up and accused her of committing a crime by writing innocent FB posts. But that's not what happened… 🧵 1/

Happy Friday everyone.

Nigel Farage has released ReformUK’s “manifesto” via the Daily Mail, and it’s every bit as unhinged and unserious as you’d expect. Let’s break it down—with facts. 🧵

We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of

Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.

A reminder. An oldie but a goodie. Mick Lynch calling out the many lies of Chris Philp. Perfick. #BBCLauraK

Oliver #ChristmasRage