Jeremy Nicholson

Lapsed civil engineer masquerading as an economist - specialist in energy markets, utility regulation and environmental economics. Opinions are my own.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@clim8resistance @AlokSharma_RDG We could 'create jobs' by breaking every window in the country and repairing them, over and over again. We could increase agricultural employment by abolishing the use of tractors and harvesters. This would not be progress - it's raising job productivity that makes us richer.

[Baa Ram Ewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🐷🦃🚜 @ShepherdWales]

Keir Starmer during the riots (1st August) in Southport:

‘A gang of thugs got on trains and buses, went to a community not their own… and proceeded to throw bricks…’

The findings of the inquiry:

‘We found NO conclusive or compelling evidence that the 2024 disorder was…coordinated…Most people who took part…lived locally’

I trust Keir Starmer would have Keir Starmer sanctioned, arrested and jailed for spreading misinformation during a period of public unrest?

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

In what sense is being accurately described as a bloke 'stigma'?

[Marianne Oakes @OakesMarianne]

I’m a trans woman. Not a “biological male who identifies as female.” That language isn’t neutral — it reduces my whole life to one political argument and makes it easier to frame me as a threat instead of a person. That isn’t objectivity. It’s stigma.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

David Hockney responds to a tedious Australian anti-smoking zealot (Simon Chapman) in the pages of the Guardian, 2012.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@HelenWebberley A 'trans woman' is a MAN

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This should be a wake-up call for the UK…

(Note that this is a per-capita chart)

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@MDC12345678 Sorry to see him go - one of the better ministers - and clearly an honourable one too.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

What an odd thing to say - how can rules determine whether people 'deserve love'?
As for equality, men pretending to be women have the same rights as men who don't - and women have the right to single sex spaces without men in them (of whatever variety). What's wrong with that?

[Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry]

I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice.

Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that.

We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Politicians are at their most dangerous when they're shopping around for a legacy.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@CarrotApple123 @jan_murray @QcWynter @unherd No.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

Vote once - vote twice - vote BINFACE !!

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

So this just happened. Binface burns Burnham on the BBC. #Makerfield #ShotsFired

[Christopher Lupine @LupineLives]

Saxon yeoman explains to the Norman Lords fishwife that if the Lord takes more of his grain as tithe he will have less to feed his family this winter

Fishwife pretends not to understand basic maths

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@ShloppyThirds @Telegraph Yes, I read that post with interest - I can't claim egg production is my area of expertise, so who knows - but either way, the Telegraph headline is more than a little misleading!

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

Choice is a wonderful thing. I'm all for cheap eggs - and if cheaper to produce white ones turn out to have a marginally lower environmental footprint, so much the better. Let the customer decide, I say.

[Sam Hall @samuelhall0]

I have no view on whether brown or white eggs are better, but the outrage over this story, especially from some professed free marketeers, is bizarre.

If Sainsbury's wants to change the type of own-brand eggs they sell, because they believe consumers favour greener, more animal welfare-friendly products, then that's their decision. They are under no obligation as a supermarket to stock every kind of egg.

Consumers who dislike white eggs can either buy brown eggs from a different shop (thanks to the free market), or indeed buy the branded brown eggs that Sainsbury's will continue to sell.

Maybe Sainsbury's decision will be unpopular with their customers, and they will be forced to switch back to selling brown eggs to maintain market share. Maybe customers will be fine with white eggs, if they taste and cost the same.

Let's leave it to the free market to determine, not anti-woke cultural warriors.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@Rossva1189 @MichelleDewbs Literally Hitler 🤣

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@MDC12345678 @samuelhall0 @kittyraethomp Great bit of free marketing by Sainsbury's. They get Brownie points from the Green Blob for selling cheap own brand white supremacist eggs to cash strapped proles, whilst continuing to flog overpriced premium brand Burford Browns to well heeled food snobs. What's not to like?

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@cjsnowdon About time too - proper white supermarket eggs like some of us grew up with! Hopefully they'll bring back white dog poo too for that authentic 1970s experience.
Give customers a choice, I say - shame they're being brought back for a silly reason, but there you go.
#alleggsmatter

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

@clim8resistance @DianaHarding7 @sainsburys Decades ago most UK eggs were white as efficient/ruthless battery production used white hens. When free range became fashionable the mad idea brown eggs were better was born, so now you barely see a white egg in a UK supermarket. Glad that's changing, albeit for a silly reason.

[Jeremy Nicholson @JeremyNic666]

Sad news indeed. Alan Haselhurst was genuinely well liked in his Saffron Walden constituency (I grew up there) and in Westminster too, on both sides of the House. A true gent. RIP.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Sir Alan Haselhurst.

Sir Alan served the Saffron Walden constituency for 40 years. He held senior roles in Parliament, including Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and later Father of the House, and was widely respected for his integrity, experience and calm authority.

As his successor, I have the privilege of representing the same constituency, and I know how deeply he cared about North West Essex. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge of its villages, its people and its issues, and a genuine affection for those who live here.

My thoughts are with Lady Haselhurst and his family at this very sad time. Sir Alan will be remembered across North West Essex with great fondness, as well as respect for all he gave to public life.