Elliot Kane

Behavioral Philosopher & student of times; ever-fascinated by the grand chaotic swirl of human interaction. Political centrist. Lover of music.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

Let's look at Reality. Firstly, please remember that it is both time- and space-bound. That river you see was a small stream long ago and may vanish hereafter. The boiling temperature of water depends on how far you are above sea level. Easy enough start, right?

[Adnan Hussain MP @AdnanHussainMP]

When a person recently granted leave to remain attempts to behead someone in the street, public concern is entirely legitimate. Silencing that concern doesn't make it disappear. It simply stores up anger that will ultimately be directed at innocent refugees/minority communities.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@TheLaurenChen Alec Guinness famously negotiated a 2.25% profit share from the original Star Wars film as part of his contract, proving your point.
Taking a chance on a completely unknown franchise risks loss, but when it pays it, it pays off!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The idea that a government populated by ministers who, combined, have close to zero proper business experience, dribbling out small dollops of cash to companies they favour will play any role in finding ‘the UK’s first trillion-dollar firm’ really is one for the ages. If it ever happens it will be despite the government, not because of it. They really have no clue.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@afneil You're kidding.
You have to be kidding.
That looks like being the best combat aircraft ever built and Starmer wants to drop it?!?
He must be completely insane.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@afneil I quibble 'now.'
I think they've had it for a while, unfortunately, importing some of the least sane ideas from America's far left.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@afneil Indeed.
If we drop our energy prices, we'd be one of the best places for research and innovation in the world.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Has it never occurred to you that one of the main reasons that’s true (largely) is that the UK is no longer subject to the sort of Brussels’ prudential regulatory regimes that have already stymied AI in the European Union and are turning the EU into a mid-tech backwater? No? Never?

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@JohnRentoul Agreed.
As mayor of London, Boris built a very broad coalition who liked and voted for him, but he's disappointed most of them in one way or other.
His leadership on Ukraine was exemplary, but he failed on too much else to be a Tory 'King Over The Water.'

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Remarkable story in Telegraph revealing just how useless recent Tory governments were:
A secret Whitehall report found that more than £28bn in foreign aid and Covid-19 loans was handed to terrorists, hostile states and gangsters!
The misappropriation of taxpayer funds from 2015 to 2021, includes millions sent to the Islamic State and Russia.
Those responsible remain unpunished and the dossier was buried to spare official embarrassment.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I need the government to lock up criminals, defend the nation, build infrastructure, collect the bins, and a few other services - basic research etc. I’m not an anarchist or anything.

What I don’t need from the government is moral instruction. I don’t need them to tell me how to raise my kids. I don’t need them to nudge me into better dietary choices. I certainly don’t need them hamfistedly backdooring my devices to check I’m not doing anything they don’t like.

GTFO of my life, thank you. You’re not smarter than me, you aren’t qualified to manage me, please leave me alone.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@brasiltpr @TPROfficial @taylormomsen That's great!
Congrats TPR!

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

The Islamist threat is real but not taken seriously enough. You can hardly put a cigarette paper between Islamic State's ideology and that of Hamas, and yet we now accept support for Hamas terrorism being voiced in our communities every day.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@GBNEWS Keeping children entirely ignorant of social media only sets them up to have problems as adults. What needs doing is to ban unsupervised use, but give lessons in schools on correct usage and traps to beware of.
A ban without education is folly.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@Eldenofthering @MrTCHarris I know that feeling.
Left and right both have their virtues, but both come with serious issues, too.
Ideally, I'd like to take the best of both and jetison the bad. Dreaming, sure, but it's a nice dream...

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@MrTCHarris Spot on.
All that frustration and anger have been building for a long time. It's leaking in places it shouldn't.
British Sikhs are not a problem community and I hope and expect that will be remembered, ere long.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@Eldenofthering @MrTCHarris I'm not sure the right are any better in Britain, sadly.
Well, the Tories aren't.
Jury is still out on Reform.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I agree. European social democrats have always been more honest than the British Left. The euro left made it clear that if you want cradle-to-the-grave socialism then everybody will have to pay much higher taxes. The British Left claims it can be done just by taxing the rich, which is nonsense. But given the current state of Middle Britain — with real incomes largely stagnant since the GFC of 2008 — good luck with winning an election telling middle-earners they should pay more taxes.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@afneil I presume it's to cover the energy bills, which would otherwise be unaffordable given Britain's pseudo-religious adherence to Net Zero.

[Elliot Kane @ElliotKane]

@MrTCHarris I think it's a valid question to see what they've learned and whether they are willing to admit they made mistakes. Too many politicians give the impression that they'e learned nothing and regret nothing.
That's a thing voters need to know.