Jonathan Ford

Media maven. Likes trouble, cycling and regional crime drama. Doing @altifpodcast & also Business Adventures Substack

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@John_Stepek The St Augustine Budget.. (make me good but not yet)

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@chrisdeerin It's a reflex..

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@NilsPratley @Frencheconomics Agree it's terrible, but some of these high costs are self imposed, eg carbon taxes on gas fired electricity. It makes no sense to subsidise expensive green sources by taxing gas (which we need) and then fling subsidies around to compensate businesses and households. Nuts!

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@blagden_david I'm sure Wes is on top of this..

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

It looks worryingly like one of Roman Abramovich's yachts

[UK Forces Tracker @UKForcesTracker]

The UK is now looking at increasing the order of Vanguard vessels procured from 3 to 6 to replace the Batch 1 OPVs due to retire next year.

"Ocean going variant" could begin entering service by 2030, with interest from Norway, UK and Lithuania.

(Src: https://t.co/TGTrhHSYyQ)

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@RideoutTim @casapinos @SeaandSand0 No, they will.

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@FennellJW This sounds sensible from a capacity/offset perspective. More sensible to build in experienced yards with capacity than do UK builds when the Type 26 is taking a decade to get hull no1 in commission. What would Lord Fisher have said??

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

Well at least he probably knew how to spell pseud

[John Duncan @Johntheduncan]

I remember reading this "intellectual giant" of conservatism and was genuinely shocked by just how low the quality of thought was. Pathetic, vile little psued who deserves to be promptly forgotten

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

This seems fairly accurate summary of where we are..
‘Reopening the Brexit debate would be a mistake’ – via @LabourList https://t.co/IUARi7d6cd

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The conclusion to my column in today’s Mail. Not designed to make friends!!

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

Some sanity at last from @edballs after a whole lot of nonsense from the PM and others . I don't know when it is exactly but happy Ed Balls day!

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Ed Balls not holding back on Europe (podcast with George Osborne)

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@guywalters @wallaceme I think you will find it's Florence, not Lawrence

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@daisychristo No I get that, and I take the naval point. But isn't it a bit like comparing a driving test to a degree?

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@FennellJW N Sea about security not price

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@staylorish I worked for newspapers - and real ones are nothing like this shower. It's telling that no one serious can be arsed to take them to the press regulator..

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@staylorish It's not odd when you consider the source. It's not a newspaper.

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@Zaphod2042 Is it a through deck? Not clear.

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@CitySamuel Disagree. This is a half baked, not properly worked through proposal done purely to highlight the difference with Burnham. She shouldn't endorse it. Cartlidge should do his homework properly. Perfectly fair for Ferrari to expose this.

[Jonathan Ford @Grepsul]

@ewangibbs Well I agree we are doing it wrong, but they are at least building something down south. I'm philosophically in favour of a state-led building programme picking 1/2 designs and building large numbers of them.