Prof J Watkins

Former intelligence analyst, retired civil servant. Visiting professor and political adviser.

Personal (rarely used) account. Message for telephone details.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@AlainLe89396509 @AHertfordLibDem @JoshBabarinde Because you're not culturally compatible with Britain.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@toshlinez @JoshBabarinde @Lagud100 Why do you think my great-grandfather was a stonemason? If he was, good for him, but I'm far more interested in the living.

Why do you think black nurses are asylum seekers? Did you suffer a severe blow to the head or is your brain just genetically deformed?

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@AlainLe89396509 @sammysangel @JoshBabarinde You don't belong here, it seems. We'll deport you to a barge in the North Sea with the rest of the racists.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@AlainLe89396509 @AHertfordLibDem @JoshBabarinde I agree that it's the most important word of our time. We should be deporting people like you to some barge in the North Sea.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@markbishopuk @edwest The Greens expose their extremism in public every day of the week, and Reform contain more crooks and extremists than Labour, the Lib Dems and Conservatives combined.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@enochhowl @JoshBabarinde Why should the electorate have a say on the hiring decisions of public services and companies?

Should Londoners be allowed to restrict job opportunities to people who live in the capital city?

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@Lagud100 @JoshBabarinde It's certainly not yours.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@RedWallPleb @lukerobertblack @_SalmanAnwar Who is denying the existence of the English ethnicity? It’s amusing but not surprising that ethnonationalists have an absolutely terrible grasp of the English language.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@esuoHwoC @DaveTravis54661 @soniasodha Instead of spending all day obsessing about the presence of strangers who are slightly more genetically distinct from you than other strangers, I suggest that young ethnonationalists go on a walk, listen to some music, read some English novels and enjoy their lives.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@esuoHwoC @DaveTravis54661 @soniasodha We are far more than a "potential economic zone for foreign investors". You only have to go to packed opera houses or the Shakespeare Globe or the British Museum to see that. Naturally, ethno-nationalists are the least cultured among us.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@DaveTravis54661 @soniasodha I support deporting illegal immigrants. Deportations aren’t equivalent to ethnonationalism.

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@DaveTravis54661 @soniasodha In Britain, the proportion of people who are ethnonationalists is in the single digits.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@konshtok @wil_da_beast630 That wasn’t the question you posed, though, was it? Ancient Greece produced a huge number of geniuses and the Roman Republic and Empire produced close to zero (and they were almost always of Greek extraction). Large, centralised empires inhibit free inquiry and creativity.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@konshtok @wil_da_beast630 You asked for equivalents from the last 500-1000 years, in order to avoid the Dark Ages in the West (when Indians were developing the numeral and arithmetical system we use everyday). I gave you some. I could also have mentioned Madhava of Sangamagrama, from the 14th Century.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@mr_mechis @wil_da_beast630 No, but we adopt Middle Eastern (Islam, Christianity) and South Asian religions (Buddhism). And do yoga and meditation. And travel to India, like the Beatles.

And use the Indian numeral system and arithmetic every single day, which Fibonacci called superior to every other form.

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@WestsideLAGuy @wil_da_beast630 Srinivasa Ramanujan was possibly the most gifted mathematician in history. Yang Chen-Ning gives his name to Yang-Mills, which forms the basis of the Standard Model. The polymath Satyendra Nath Bose gives his name to bosons and Bose-Einstein condensates.

You know nothing.

[Prof J Watkins @J_Watkins42]

@konshtok @wil_da_beast630 Yes, obviously. Srinivasa Ramanujan may have been the most gifted mathematician in human history. Yang Chen-Ning, after whom Yang-Mills theory is named, forming the basis of the Standard Model.

Satyendra Nath Bose, after whom bosons and Bose-Einstein condensates, are named.