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Tech, AI, HPC.

[Messi World @M10GOAT]

الاسطورة يقوم بنشر هذا الفيديو 🥹

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

I’d like to pay tribute to all my Shadow Cabinet colleagues, past and present.

We have a first class team and I have never seen our party, in Parliament and beyond, more united and focused on the task of getting Britain back on track under Kemi’s inspiring leadership.

[Graeme Archer @graemearcher]

Most of my anger at the state of the country, I assure you, is levelled at those responsible for the Boriswave and the backbench MPs who made it impossible for Tories to govern as Tories, and the weak-as-ditchwater ministers who went along with it.

But I have a bolus of anger left over for Tory *voters* who thought "my anger is more important than the future of the country so I'm going to let Labour be elected by not voting or by choosing Reform." I do judge you. You combined to form the resultant vector which determined the disastrous state we are in. No puffing of Nigel or angry videos from Zia will change that, no matter how often they talk of things that matter. It is possible to be necessary without being sufficent, and this is Reform's role in our historical drama.

Neither Zia nor Nigel Farage will ever hold ministerial office. There is good evidence that their party's mere presence on a ballot paper convulses the idiot but determined Left into a tactical, winning bloc. Neither of them will lead a party that can command the 40% support required in a FPTP system to gain a majority in Westminster.

All your anger achieves is eternal socialist government, by the sort of people unfit to clean Rishi's shoes. I am *begging* you: see beyond your anger. The only thing that matters is to rid ourselves of Labour rule. Everything else is marginal. *Everything* else.

There is a reason that the Conservative Party entity persists while the Liberal one does not (I disregard the twitching corpse led by the ridiculous Ed Something). It is that it responds to the mood of the nation it loves. Never quickly enough, but it does.

Rishi is a good man who led an impossible backbench of LibDem wannabe wretches (I don't disagree with the Reform-approved diagnosis much at all.) But Kemi *knew that at the time*, and as leader is effecting the changes that will prevent its re-occurence by expelling the Barwells and preventing their ilk from standing for Parliament.

If you hate Labour, please support the party that changes itself when it's vital to change Britain: support the Conservatives.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

In a sign Burnham has totally lost the plot after only 6 weeks as PM , the Guardian says he will tell the Commons the only way for the UK to grow the economy is for more state control.
Appalling that our skint nation has this Northern nutcase carrying out a Socialist experiment which, as he will already know from history, is doomed to failure.
The good news is that his state grab guarantees he will be thrown out in ‘29.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitude is endless, and I’m excited for the next chapter!

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

This is what happens to nice people: you start to believe that being good means being agreeable, available, and endlessly accommodating. You say “yes” to keep the peace, you explain yourself too much, and you absorb other people’s moods and expectations as if they are your responsibility.

But kindness isn’t self-erasure. You can be gentle and still be clear. You can be compassionate and still be direct. You can care about someone and still refuse what drains you.

If you are kind, you can still hold firm boundaries, because boundaries are not punishment; they are protection. They protect your time, your energy, your values, and your capacity to show up with sincerity. The right people won’t be offended by your limits; they’ll understand them. And the people who rely on you having none are exactly the reason you need them.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Like Priti, Mel came into the job at an exceptionally difficult point for the Conservative Party. He brought experience, seriousness and stability when those things were badly needed. He helped us steady the ship, rebuild economic credibility and become an effective opposition, and I am genuinely grateful for his contribution.

The Conservative Party would not have got where we are without his work and his very effective skewering of Rachel Reeves and her disastrous time as Chancellor. Mel has been very supportive of the new economic team and the Party, and been exceptionally loyal, and I will always be grateful to him for the work he has done.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

It is a huge honour to become Shadow Chancellor for the party I joined as a teenager under Margaret Thatcher.

Working as a team, we Conservatives will deliver an economic revolution.

We will deliver lower, simpler taxes, get Britain drilling again to bring down energy costs, slash the red tape holding Britain back, and scrap the job-killing measures in Labour’s (Un)Employment Rights Act.

A strong country needs a strong economy.

The Conservatives will always back the risk-takers and wealth creators who deliver growth, investment and jobs.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

Nigeria will be great in our lifetime!!!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Parliament returns next week, and we'll see if Andy Burnham is a man of action or just vibes. Either way, I'll be there to hold him to account.

He can start on Tuesday by stopping Labour’s early-release programme. The horrific A66 crash shows what happens when criminals believe they'll get away with crimes.

My piece in the Mail 👇

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

John Healey resigned over Starmer’s refusal to properly fund defence.

We said he was an honourable man and at a time of European war and global uncertainty a step change in defence spending was needed.

Now it is Healey refusing to properly fund defence.

Unforgivable.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

https://t.co/eBfifrl6FZ

[Sam @dekoy_]

All the best, Sir. You'd make a fine mayor.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

London needs more than an administrator. It needs a champion, someone who understands its potential and is prepared to fight for its future.

That’s why I’m running to be the Conservative Candidate for London Mayor.

https://t.co/JAuu0Ueb0h

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

London needs more than an administrator. It needs a champion, someone who understands its potential and is prepared to fight for its future.

That’s why I’m running to be the Conservative Candidate for London Mayor.

https://t.co/JAuu0Ueb0h

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

This FBI has brought back two high-value targets from Nigeria to the United States to face justice for alleged sextortion crimes targeting minors.

🔺 Adebola Festus Adekunle and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale were arrested in Nigeria in 2023 and are now on U.S. soil.

🔺 The charges include sexual exploitation of minors, coercion and enticement, extortion, distribution and production of child sexual abuse material, and other offenses.

🔺 One of these alleged schemes resulted in the death of a child.

They were overseas for three years. Now they’re back on U.S. soil to answer for the charges against them.

-DKP🇺🇸

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Sweden has undergone a remarkable fiscal transformation.

It has no stamp duty, abolished its wealth tax, and scrapped inheritance tax after recognising the damage they cause.

We can learn from them. 👇

The lesson for the left? Sweden is less socialist than they think!

[Graeme Archer @graemearcher]

We went to a Conservative Association function near where we live this evening. It felt like a recommitment to my essential essence: I'm a Tory. This can't and won't change. I've been a member for more than 40 years now. However angry I got at the omnishambles of 2017-24, I still want a Tory govt over any other less appealing option.

I know that there are some very determined Reform supporters with whom I interact on here, and I hope I don't lose that pleasure because I've written that down. It was a sort of "moment" for me today. I absolutely loathe Reform<->Tory attacks (in either direction) because both parties are supported by almost identical sets of voters. It's absurd. I think our worldviews are overlapping to a degree that makes the waste of energy on attacking one another, rather than socialism, almost a moral failing.

And I'm glad Reform exists, because a reaction to the omnishambles was necessary. I think it's a vector for the reinfection of the Conservative Party with "The facts of life" which, as Mrs Thatcher so memorably put it "...are invariably Tory."

But to defeat the enemies of The Good, not to say the good life, who've take hold of almost every institution, needs more than just a willingness to speak bluntly. Parties are themselves institutions, and one that both defended then repealed the Corn Laws, that both resisted them extended changes to the franchise [etc etc; insert everything Peel-Disraeli-Thatcher here]: I believe such an institution is more likely to flex effectively to take on today's enemies.

[Matthew @Lux1090]

I know we're going to disagree on this specific point, but I actually find her perspective as someone who spent much of her childhood in Nigeria quite interesting. It's obvious she has a real love for Britain. She's said a number of times that one of the reasons she's worried about Britain is she sees it as going down a similar road to that Nigeria did, and that the solution is the opposite: for Britain to embody more of our own traditions, attitudes, etc. I think it can be useful to sometimes have someone with an 'outsider' perspective to point these things out, at least to a public who mostly don't pay attention to these things.

(Also, this might sound minor, but she's the only party leader in my living memory to have passed the crucial test of stating, explicitly, that culture is not about just about abstract 'values' but habits, behaviours, norms, expectations, traditions, and that decades of multiculturalists seem to have not understood this really basic point which if you get wrong will doom your approach to politics)

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

It is striking how many women are surging to the top of the Conservative Party - without the poisoned hand up of an all women shortlist.