Rod Humphris

Publican. Novelist. Makes things. At peace with Neitzsche.

[Rod Humphris @HumphrisRod]

@jeffreytucker Yet ironically, though it is an accomplished lingual trickster, the things it can’t do are the human things. No creativity, no reasoning, no morality, no aesthetic sense. It is a dead thing, a machine merely.

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@ClarkeMicah @PictishOne I liked Blair. In hindsight, I was an idiot.

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@martianwyrdlord Not that I don’t agree with every word he says, but there are still a few of us who don’t mind the challenge.

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@PerBylund From where I’m sitting, the phrase entrepreneurial state, is an oxymoron.

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@jeffreytucker I believe this too. Everywhere I look, nothing makes sense. We've run out over the edge of the cliff and haven't yet noticed.

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@LozzaFox fewer

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Yes, this is what the country I want to be part of will do.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.

Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.

Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.

I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.

I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.

Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.

Another, raped by 700 men over three years.

Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.

This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.

I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.

The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?

They can piss off.

I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.

Our report will be out very soon.

When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.

I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.

Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.

Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.

I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.

I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.

Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.

Another, raped by 700 men over three years.

Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.

This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.

I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.

The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?

They can piss off.

I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.

Our report will be out very soon.

When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.

I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.

[Rod Humphris @HumphrisRod]

I miss the novelist Ian Banks. Each passing day makes me feel that his Culture novels were less flights of fancy and more intuitive prediction.

Our fate is increasingly in the hands of things we may be creating, but do not understand. I hope our world is as rich and human as the one he created. I wish he was here to comment on it.

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@LozzaFox Swift, effective, cost-effective, hempen….

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@daveatherton @CCHQPress That’s pragmatic. There’s a whole bunch of us who want principle now, and you know what that means.

Enough going along to get along, let’s get our country back.

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What I long for, is a world in which all the people with isms and clip-boards are too busy dealing with their own lives to interfere in mine.

If that turns out to be a zombie apocalypse, or a plague of giant rats… maybe it’s still worth it…

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

This small-brained ideology pouring forth from the mouths of people who don't know any better is as tiresome as anything else.

I'm not for "capitalism" or "libertarianism" or any other such nonsense, and the only reason this person is saying that anything is "dead on arrival" is because they are married to another "ism" that they realise won't get any further because it is the ideological commitment to something abstract, rather than really looking at the world and improving it based on what you find, that is dead.

It isn't good to make people state dependents. I don't approve of simply making X free for Y because the Labour government has suggested it. Trivialities such as bus fares are things people can and should pay for themselves.

I realise that this is scary to "nationalists", but that's too bad. The quality and character of the people also matters to me, in addition to our demographics.

It isn't good to make people state dependents, and where possible we ought to minimise it. I don't approve of simply making X free for Y because the Labour government has suggested it. Trivialities such as bus fares are things people can and should pay for themselves. This is a calculation about what is actually good for us rather than based in some abstract fantasy.

There are plenty of things that the state ought to take care of, however. For example, a national steel industry is a good idea. The water, power, and railways ought to be national services. The NHS is a good idea. These are common goods that we cannot individually, or on a small-scale, manage ourselves.

Extending this principle to "people should get free bus rides if they're X" is just absurd. Why? Why should someone else pay for your bus pass? You can pay for it, it's your bus pass. I don't see how that's "Scrooge" anything, it's just common sense to minimise the amount of taxes the state extorts from its citizens.

Take responsibility for yourself.

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And the stupid thing is, anyone who ever looked at spending their own money on it, came to that conclusion , and didn’t. Ideologues spending our money on shit. As usual.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Conventional thinking treats wind and solar as permanent infrastructure. They aren't.

These are a form of short life-cycle, industrial gadgetry with roughly 15-to-25-year lifespans. They are all in various stages of permanent decay and replacement - hydrocarbon and nuclear plants last generations. We see this in the mounting graveyards of unsalvageable wreckage. Yes, much of it can be recycled in theory. But in reality, the economic and energy costs usually outweigh the benefits.

They are now decomposing faster than we can replace them and this is the Treadmill Effect. If a nation installs 5 GW of wind power every year, by Year 20, they aren't expanding the grid anymore. They are being forced to build 5 GW just to replace the rusted, fatigued and degraded turbines built in Year 1. Growth flatlines, swallowed up in pure maintenance.

Look at the scale of this dilemma: despite millions of massive turbines and solar arrays deployed over 40 years, hydrocarbon fuels still dominate at roughly 81% of global primary energy. Solar and wind deliver only a tiny fraction of total primary energy. We've reached the limit.

Almost every turbine and panel built over the last two decades is now in the late stages of decomposition. We're struggling just to keep up; and soon we will fall behind. The mines will become hollowed-out and these 'green' rust collectors will fall apart where they stand.

To feed this replacement treadmill will need an astronomical volume of minerals: like copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earths. But we have already devoured the high-grade ores. A century ago, copper ore was 5% metal. Today, major mines are crushing ore that is less than 0.5% copper.

To get the same tonne of metal, you must blast, haul and crush ten times more rock. This requires more massive, diesel-guzzling mining fleets and heavy industrial smelting. We are cannibalising dense, reliable fossil energy just to chase low-density, short-lived weather collectors.

Here is the Einsteinian paradox. In physics, the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more massive it becomes, requiring exponentially more energy to move it a fraction further. The energy transition is its own relativistic wall.

The closer a grid gets to 100% renewable penetration, the greater its structural costs will become. You don't just need more panels; you need a parallel universe of over-building, synchronous condensers, and continent-spanning transmission lines just to handle the asynchronous volatility.

We are hitting that Inversion Point. The fossil fuel energy required to mine the rare earths, manufacture the turbines and endlessly replace the dying infrastructure will eventually outpace the net energy the system delivers. You cannot reach the limit of light.

Albert Einstein - the ultimate observer of universal limits - would smile at the irony. Net Zero is being driven by an ideological bureaucracy that reads financial blueprints but ignores the periodic table and the laws of thermodynamics.

Entropy is universal. Nothing can bypass it.

Imagery of rust, mechanical exhaustion and the accumulation of unmanaged composite materials.

[Rod Humphris @HumphrisRod]

@Artemisfornow We urgently need to reinvent ourselves as a combination of the Amish and a low-tax enterprise zone. Pump our own oil, grow our own food; develop a tough , multi layered economy and give those who have the desire and ability to innovate good reasons to do so.

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@DevinGoure That is a straight answer, you just aren’t getting it.

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@CatoThistlewood Can’t argue with that.

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@CatoThistlewood Doesn’t matter; the point of Restore is to act on principle. This is the right thing to do, and the outcome will be fine, whatever happens.

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@BurnsideWasTosh Or a Restore candidate wins and the change that many of can see coming, gets a lot more obvious to the media and political classes.

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@CatoThistlewood Shame.

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@HowardCoxFFUK @TRobinsonNewEra I’m one of that lot too, and proud to be.