Brian Leather (@brian_leather) 's Twitter Profile
Brian Leather

@brian_leather

arsenal, movie, music loving nerd and an enjoyer of shenanigans

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calendar_today16-03-2017 20:36:18

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🎸 Rock History 🎸 (@historyrock_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Georgina Lee (@lee_georgina) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨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.

BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

Samuel West 💙💛 (@exitthelemming) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Andrew Fox (@mr_andrew_fox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.

Conor O'Neill (@conoraon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@monkemma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/

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…

🧵

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Paul paul9115.bsky.social (@paulmay9115) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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. 🧵

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.
🧵
Saganism 📚 (@saganismm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

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
David__Osland (@david__osland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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.