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[Lars @LarsKrogen]

@Dom_inaAmina Det værste er, der vitterligt er mennesker, der synes, det er en god ide

[Niels Philip Kjeldsen @NielsPhilip1]

»Fogde og Finn Borch har været figurer, regeringen har brugt som forlænget arm. Fogde i mink-sagen og Finn Borch i Findsen-sagen.«
»Nu bliver de behændigt flyttet væk, mens de øverste ansvarlige igen-igen slipper for at stå til regnskab,« siger @QvortrupHenrik #dkpol

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a "hurdle" for minority candidates.

Let that sink in.

The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.

This isn’t diversity.

This is institutional self-sabotage.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

There are economies in the world which basically work: high income, sky-high social capital, world-class education, efficient services, low crime, high happiness, clean streets, functional everything. At least two of them, Hong Kong and Singapore, were British creations, back when we still had sane and competent politicians and bureaucrats instead of a captured civil service that ditched numeracy in the Treasury for diversity quotas.

That was the promise of Brexit: ditch the straitjacket, cut taxes, restore sovereignty, and become the Singapore of the Atlantic. Low tax, high trust, open but orderly, ambitious on the world stage. The so-called smart people sneered it was impossible, stupid, even dangerous. Instead they offered us Manchesterism.

WTF?

As if any sentient person on Earth wakes up thinking, “Yes, Manchester, that’s the glittering future I want for my children.” No one believes this. Not even the most committed Labourites in private. It’s garbage politics: the globalist endgame dressed up as progress, wheeling yet another mid-range, mid-competent, thoroughly biddable satrap onto the stage. It is genuinely humiliating. Brezhnev, for all his senility and stagnation, had more tangible accomplishments than Burnham.

Look at the record. Finances? Not healthy by any serious high-income standard. A £1 billion-plus budget now, yes, after central tweaks, but saddled with £1.6 billion in debt (up sharply), persistent gaps, heavy social care pressures, and reliance on reserves or central props.

Health? Life expectancy and healthy years lag the national average with grotesque deprivation gaps, higher preventable mortality, obesity, and services stretched to breaking.

Crime? Elevated violent and knife rates in known hotspots — Moss Side, Longsight, parts of Salford — creating patchwork safety: fine in the centre by day, avoid certain estates at night.

Youth? Rising NEETs and gang pipelines where opportunity died.

Native housing? Priced-out locals renting into middle age while home ownership slips away.

Happiness and life satisfaction? Dragged down by the lot of it, lower in the North West than in more cohesive places.

We invented better models once. Brexit was the chance to revive that competence and ambition. Instead, the “smart” people gave us Manchesterism: mid-tier outcomes, strained services, visible decay, and lectures on net zero while the basics creak.

It humiliates a nation that once exported order and prosperity. We could have been serious again. We still can if we reject this midwit self-fart sniffing managerialism and remember what we once built.

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

@AnneSAndersen Set i lyset af, hvordan mange borgere bliver mødt af Staten, er det ikke just noget, der giver demokratiet vinger. Samfundskontrakten er decideret flosset i kanterne.

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

@vonderleyen @Statsmin At the same time our electrical grid gets rationed because socialist government wants net zero energy over stabile base energy sources- bravo to us. Many companies have to put expansions on hold because of lack of proper energy grid management. Don’t do like Denmark.

[Right over Left Everytime @RightSide_Uk]

Police officers would have "cop nights" where they were allowed to gang rape grooming gang victims as a "Thankyou" for turning the other way...

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

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[Lars @LarsKrogen]

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[Martin Ågerup @martinagerup1]

Det bør udløse erstatninger til skatteborgerne, når skattemyndighederne lave grove fejl i sagsbehandlingen. Ligesom vi har Patienterstatningen, når patienter lider skade som følge af fejl i sundhedsvæsenet, bør vi have en skatteydererstatning, når myndighederne gennem alvorlige fejl påfører en borger store økonomiske og menneskelige omkostninger.

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

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[Montel Analytics @MontelAnalytics]

⚡ Last week Europe screamed. France stayed calm and exported.

Belgium hit an all time high DA price at 1 038€/MWh. Germany at 700€/MWh. Hungary repeatedly above 650€/MWh.

Tuesday evening, imbalance prices reached 4 000€/MWh in the Netherlands, 1 416€/MWh in Germany. GB hit a one year high at 800£/MWh. And activated around 2 GW across the border above 1 500€/MWh. See Noémie's friday post for all the details.

And France?

You probably heard about the "nuclear crisis". 5 to 6 GW of outages due to environmental constraints. And let's be precise. Not a safety issue. Not a cooling issue. Fish protection. The lack of water and thermal constraints are probably 10 to 20 years away.

Yes, CCGTs ran. Oil ran at evening peak. Everything ran. Oil in the money at around 200€/MWh. Starting well before we see the 500€/MWh experienced daily in Germany.

Despite all that, DA average price for evening peaks was between 260 and 280€/MWh with one peak at 433€/MWh.

France remained the cheapest country in Europe after Spain.
- France DA average over the week: 115.76€/MWh
- Germany: 137.13€/MWh
- GB: 130.39€/MWh
- Belgium: 148.34€/MWh

Focus on the five working days and the France-Germany spread widens further to around 26€/MWh.

France remained a net exporter all week with the exception of Tuesday evening. 5 to 10 GW of exports. Every day. Despite nuclear outages. Despite high temperatures. Despite everything.

Balancing told exactly the same story. Nothing exceptional.
A large use of cross-border activations with a peak of 2.3 GW of imports on Tuesday evening for margin. Cross-border flexibility did its job. I was expecting Demand Side Response on evening peaks. Nothing. The grid was not tight at all.

The notable event: oil activated during off-peak on Thursday morning, keeping imbalance prices above 250€/MWh. Not a surprise. On such days pumps are not available for upward balancing, their activity too important for morning and evening peaks.

A crisis last week across Europe. France watched from a distance.

👀💰 Now you know. Headlines said "crisis". Europe had a crisis last week. France had a warm week and supplied Europe. 👍 ^CB

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

@S_B_Larsen Her gik jeg, og troede alle Storbritanniens problemer er pga Brexit….🤪

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

I’m currently in Europe, where I constantly hear questions about whether the US would come to Europe’s defense in a crisis. Reading the stats below, I would like to ask a different question: Would Europeans be willing to defend themselves?

[Jochen Bittner @JochenBittner]

Der China-Schock 2.0, gut beschrieben. Das Land, an dem die deutsche Industrie lange gut verdient hat, hat sich — mithilfe von Ideenklau, Subventionsschwemmen und Währungsmanipulation — in einen unschlagbaren Konkurrenten verwandelt.
Schuld daran ist nicht nur die Industrie selbst, sondern auch eine kurzsichtige und selbstzufriedene EU-Industriepolitik, die es zugelassen hat, dass China zum Alleinherrscher über komplette Produktionsketten aufsteigen konnte, von der Seltene-Erden-Förderung bis zur Robotik. Zu hohe Energiekosten on top.
Wir bekommen jetzt das Ergebnis eines strategischen Großversagens zu spüren.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

A shop owner in my constituency was ignored by the police when he reported shoplifting.

But when he displayed pictures of the thieves, the police showed up - to tell him that those pictures violated GDPR.

Madness. A free run for criminals, while normal people get crushed.

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

Respekt for de mennesker, der kæmper kampen for at bevare de normer og værdier, der er bakket op af historien og videnskaben, men som på en eller anden mærkværdig vis er gået tabt i idioti, følelser og sysninger.

[The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship @ARC_Conference]

“I went to court to argue what a woman is and lost to a man. Twice.”

When @salltweets created a women-only app, she never imagined it would lead to one of the world's first legal battles over sex and gender identity.

Her warning is bigger than one court case:

“If the state can force you to accept men as women, they can force you to accept anything.”

Watch Sall Grover’s full speech from ARC 2026.

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

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[STAYupbeat/StayFREE #FtheWEF @HarrowIlf]

good speech @KonstantinKisin

Konstantin Kisin's Opening Speech at ARC https://t.co/HTbPMkZwjE via @YouTube

[WELT @welt]

„Sexuelle Übergriffe bis hin zu Vergewaltigungen“ – Nürnberg kämpft gegen Grooming Gangs https://t.co/A7HvmqDWRV

[Lars @LarsKrogen]

RT @SociologenHD: The Norwegian online magazine Human Rights Service has just published a major interview with me about "The Lost Peace".…

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

If we agree that this man’s ‘culture’ predisposes him to rape children, then why is he here? Why is anybody from that culture here? Why don’t we take child safeguarding seriously?

And one more question: why aren’t those responsible for letting him in also standing trial?