Seriously, I could be tweeting out stories about horrific injuries from fireworks to children and animals all day. The overstretched emergency services, the 100 kids a week taken to A&E screaming with burns, every week for a month.
For those asking: @SainsburysNews has sensibly stopped selling #fireworks. But the likes of @Tesco@asda@AldiUK@Morrisons are still happily selling things that will kill and injure customers, customers' neighbours and friends, and children. Tell them how you feel about it.
Donald Trump has never lost anything in his life. His dad paid for someone to sit his exams, he dodged the draft, he litigated every business failure, and even multi-million dollar debts turn into a gain. /1
He had never even run for city council, never been rejected by the public, before he ran for the most important job on Earth. He is, psychologically, a 2-year-old learning for the first time his will does not form the world, that other people are equally, or more, valid. /2
Most children get over this with a few tantrums. He's facing it for the first time aged 74.
He doesn't need lawyers, or commentators, or a militia. What this guy needs is a really good shrink, and failing that, the naughty step.
In 1958, Eric Denson was ordered into a nuclear blast in order to conduct an experiment on his plane's radiation readings.
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He was sent home, covered in burns, vomiting, and with an altered personality. For 20 years he suffered with undiagnosable mental illness. The MoD said nothing was wrong with him. /2
Eric had crippling headaches and said he was in a suffocating black cloud. Twice his wife Shirley saved him from suicide. Eric killed himself on the third attempt in 1978, saying he couldn't take it any more.
There can be nothing quite so horrific, and quite so likely to convince you there is no God (or at least not a benign one) as cancer in children. /thread
It's mercifully rare, but horrifyingly more common than you'd think. In the 18 years I've been writing about the nuclear test veterans, I've lost count of the number who had grandchildren with rare cancers. /2
There was Gilly Herne, who died at 13 of adrenal cancer, which is more common in horses than humans. It made her grow a beard, and her dad Doug had to shave her twice a day. /3
About a million years ago I got into journalism without family ties, money, private schooling or degree. I just sort of nagged people. /thread
I nagged @MartinOxley2, editor of my local paper. I nagged the MD, who had the misfortune of moving to a house that I walked past on the way to school. I nagged the chief reporter, and everyone I met on work experience. /2
Anyway, I did a NCTJ course via that local paper, and then moved on to other papers. In 25 years, the number of journos I've met who got into Fleet St the same way can be counted on the fingers of one foot. /3
Tomorrow’s Wellygraph is a snapshot on the most extraordinary world. 1/
First, Boris claims the withdrawal agreement HE renegotiated and HE pushed through Parliament twice and HE demanded an election over was, actually, someone else’s. And he didn’t really read it.
Second, all those consequences were literally warned about, by the DUP, Commons, and every newspaper from here to Timbuktu, well before he made sure the withdrawal agreement which he hadn’t read and didn’t negotiate, became law.
Having peeked at tomorrow's papers, I can reveal the twats in govt are talking crap about migrants in boats.
1/ there are no international waters between Dover and Calais. Not enough room. It's British, or French. British vessels cannot enter French waters to 'push back' anyone. That would be an invasion.
2/ sending much larger navy vessels in would increase the risk of a mass drowning which would be politically unfeasible.