Big Cheese 🐓🔊🌮

Spurs, Speakers, Foodie, Dog owner, European, Liberal, Polyvalent. Jack of all trades, master of non 🤷‍♂️ "Half of everything is luck, James" 🇳🇴🇬🇧🇪🇺

[Bad Baltic @BadBalticTakes]

The world’s wrongest man, John Mearsheimer, says he was effectively penniless during his recent visit to Russia because the “Russia expert” didn’t know his US credit card wouldn’t work there.

Mearsheimer was in Russia to lecture Russians about Russia, leaving local audiences confused by pro-Russia talking points that he seems unaware are only meant for Western consumption.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"

"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."

"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"

"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"

"Every day"

"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."

My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

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[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Polish PM: "In May 1939, a certain French politician -a future Nazi collaborator - asked in the French press: 'Why die for Gdańsk?'

A few months later, all of Europe was dying. To those who today say this is not our war, I offer that lesson of history."

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"A map of all the discharges by Thames Water has revealed untreated sewage travelled 80 miles earlier this week."

One of the great untold stories of the sewage scandal, cumulative impact. The more downstream you are the worse it gets.

https://t.co/X67A7vJqvn

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you…

Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way

…as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

The UK Test and Trace app cost £billions, whereas Germany created one for a couple of € million.
£ billions of pounds were stolen from the British taxpayers.
Presumably the politicians got massive secret bungs.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸 Trump: "I was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11."

🇮🇷 Iran: "That day, He was 1,641 miles away from the tower. He was on Epstein Island. We have video evidence."

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Hunter Biden: "Remember that thing with John Barron? Donald Trump would call as John Barron talking about how rich Donald Trump is. He's been doing it since his dad handed him a $400M check. He lost most of it and said I'm a self-made man. He's a con artist. He's a carnival barker. He's a huckster. He's a NYC conman."

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

That’s not news.

The news is he was caught red handed doing wrong doing.

Your BBC news for goodness sake. Not Reform UK’s crisis management PR firm.

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

This you?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’."

A tale of how Thames Water, its customers and now govt got screwed. By someone who was there...

https://t.co/ZqqEVjnDOn

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Beachgoers warned against swimming after pollution alert."

The "bathing season" finishes at the end of the month, after that you're on your own, none of our beaches will be tested again until next May.

You have been warned.

https://t.co/vZ2yc09l8K

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

This remains one of the funniest tweets of all time:

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just dropped a bombshell on the House floor.

He named 14 Epstein co-conspirators.

And he’s demanding immediate prosecutions.

“Jes Staley.”

“Leon Black.”

“Les Wexner.”

“David Copperfield.”

“Lapo Elkann.”

“Tom Pritzker.”

“Glenn Dubin.”

“Frédéric Fekkai.”

“Edoardo Teodorani.”

“Jean-Luc Brunel, conveniently dead by suicide in prison.”

“Daniel Siad, recently discovered dead in Paris.”

“Ramsey Elkholy.”

“And Prince Andrew, who committed sex crimes in the United States too.”

“And women like Lesley Groff, not a victim, who conspired with Epstein to traffic other women.”

“We’ve introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II to bring the fight to the state courts, accountability to the Department of Justice, and closure for survivors.”

“We want perpetrators of these crimes to be investigated and prosecuted.”

@RepThomasMassie

[Big Cheese 🐓🔊🌮 @Cheeseular]

@Timcast From Norway with Love 🤷‍♂️

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It rained....

And as predicted on @LBC with @HenryRiley1 not 48 hours ago.

Anything in brown is sewage being dumping into the environment right now, in real time, anything in red is sewage dumped over the last 24 hours.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC News, "The Green Party is calling on the government to slam the brakes, on the building of new AI data centres in England, because of the amount of energy and water they use"

"The Green Party leader Zack Polanski says stricter environmental standards should be introduced"

Zack Polanksi, "We need to slam the brakes on these energy guzzling, water guzzling data centres"

"At a time when 3/4 of the country are in drought it's outrageous that these are being considered critical infrastructure"

"To most people critical infrastructure is hospitals, water, electricity, it doesn't mean AI"

Important to note that Australia's solution is making AI data centres provide green renewable energy as a precondition for AI data centres. The UK should be doing the same.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water could be nationalised under Burnham tenure without spending a penny’."

Now there's a very good idea and there are plenty of ways to do it all that's needed is vision, determination and ambition.

https://t.co/xFDO3XYxTt