Geoff Williams

Travel blogger. Love all things travel, history, food, music, culture, sights, beaches and sunshine. 🛳️✈️🌴🌎☀️ 🇬🇧✝️ 🇺🇸

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The hosepipe ban is a disgrace. It rained every day in January. We surely pay enough for a few reservoirs to be built.

Or are all those millions for water company exec salaries only?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"We're about the only country in the world that charges for drop off at airports.. none of the 10 busiest airports in the EU charge, neither do major intl hubs.. [or] most airports in America"

Just one more example of how we're all being ripped off.

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

What? Really, is this guy for real?

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@LizKershawDJ Happened to us last week in MK power off on the retail park for 1.5 hours.

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@somersetlevel You do have a way with words. 😂😂

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just spent seventeen billion dollars to make every cell tower on Earth a relic.

Musk: “It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones.”

Not through towers. Not through cables. Not through any infrastructure on the ground.

Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket.

For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time.

Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment.

Everywhere else got silence.

Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet.

Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live.

Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one.

Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”

Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space.

No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal.

The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure.

Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption.

Starlink just bypassed it from orbit.

From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant.

The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up.

From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other.

The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are.

The sky doesn’t know the difference.

Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was.

The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history.

We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born.

Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer.

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@JohnHann04 Landman was and is a series. Funny and hugely entertaining.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

The latest human rights madness: a single person apparently now has the human right to ship in 18 extended family members from Gaza - none of whom speak English and all of whom will be on benefits and free housing

This has to end. We need to leave the ECHR

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@MatthewCruises @cunardline Congratulations, should be awesome.

[Make Britain Great Again @UK_Needs_Reform]

Labour Threatening to increase tax again so let’s look at £one method they take our taxes using 100 worth of petrol for your car.

You will earn £100 & then you pay £30 income tax and NI.
You're left with £70

Then you buy £70 of fuel...
And you pay 59% fuel duty & 20% VAT
(Tax paid 41.46 of the your £70)

So the government has just taxed you 3 times and got £71.46 tax from your hard earned €100.00 wage and you’ve only received £28,54 worth of fuel the rest is tax.

That’s a tax rate of 71.45%

No wonder people can't afford to live in the U.K

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@somersetlevel Grok says sea bream, great catch. 👍

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@AllisonPearson @CPSThinkTank @LiamHalligan Great appointment.

[Dave @DaveKent101]

An Asian guy who describes himself as a Lib Dem, has today been arrested after making multiple death threats here on X against Nigel Farage.

Probably radicalised by the likes of Ed Davey and his non stop vile attacks on Farage and Reform?🤔🤨

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

A senior Reform spokeswoman died last week, and is subject to a murder investigation. I don’t recall the entire Commons laughing at and shouting down Labour MPs a week after Cox’s murder like they’ve just done with Kruger. Disgraceful scenes. Disgusting behaviour. #PMQs

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

What is the rationale for a public service broadcaster like the BBC paying a DJ (Scott Mills) £750,000 a year to present the breakfast show on Radio 2 playing soft rock music which commercial radio already provides in abundance?

[James Thorburn 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇭🇰🇸🇻 @James_Thorburn]

Ann Widdicombe's name must be put on the wall in the House of Parliement alongside the other two MPs Joe Cox and David Amess who were also murdered.

Repost this if you agree.

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@KevinASchofield Seems the gift was personal and not secret and the fraud conviction was years ago. And people have and are asking questions. It’s appears they just don’t like the answers.

[Geoff Williams @GeoffWilliams54]

@Paul_da_Rita @British_Airways Sadly @British_Airways is not the airline it was. Been a member of the Exec Club for years. Customer service no longer seems a priority. We still fly with them but it’s not the experience it was.

[Paul da Rita @Paul_da_Rita]

What is going on with UK airlines? @British_Airways want to charge me over £300 to choose seats in Business Class after I've already paid just short of £5k for the flights? Time to hand back my Club account after 25 years and head elsewhere!

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

So, Dan Hodges, Ann’s closest surviving relative, vicar Roger Widdecombe and his wife, took part in the tribute you claim Ann’s family didn’t want weaponised.
Which family members are your highly placed sources?
“Appalling,” as Ann herself would have said!
@DPJHodges