Paul Spackman

Recovered golf addict, lover of good wine & food and Hudad to @DalmatianPebble

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@toadmeister @CeeMacBee Nothing about Milivolt or his economy-destroying policies is credible

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Britain doesn’t need the state to take shares in business, it needs to let those businesses actually bloody operate - eg building factories, labs, housing, not having crippling energy bills, not seeing workers and profits taxed into oblivion. (Not seeing profit as a bad thing!)

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If science were never to be questioned, your doctor would still be recommending a particular brand of cigarette to settle the nerves.

You'd be dosing the baby with heroin cough syrup, because Bayer sold it over the counter.

You'd be rubbing cocaine on its gums for teething, and the chemist would recommend the stronger tube.

The DDT lorry would still come round to fog the street while the children carried on playing in the spray.

Your surgeon would be reaching for the icepick, because the man who pioneered the lobotomy was given a Nobel Prize for it.

Pregnant women would be handed thalidomide for their morning sickness, with a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

You'd be drinking radium tonic for your energy and brushing with radioactive toothpaste for the glow.

Stomach ulcers would still be filed under "stress," and the man who proved they were bacterial would still be a laughing stock.

Butter would be the villain and margarine the heart-healthy hero, on the firmest medical advice going.

Lead would still be in your petrol, your paint and your water pipes, certified harmless by the people selling it.

All of it, in its day, was the consensus. Settled. Beyond polite debate.

"Settled science" is the phrase people reach for when they would quite like you to stop asking questions.

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@harriepw @Wickes There is no genocide

Thanks for the product recommendation

[Hannah @ehannah0]

Keir Starmer in 2020, after George Floyd, urging Boris to convey “the UK’s abhorrence to Trump’s response”

He has no right to complain that JD Vance is now expressing his own abhorrence after Henry Nowak.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

You don't like depending on the bond markets, Zack, and neither do I. There is only one way to end that dependency: stop borrowing.
Can we agree on finding an immediate £150 billion in annual savings so that our budget is back in balance? Starting with the biggest item: welfare.

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@catdeans @denbypottery ‘Where’s the government in this??’

Putting up business rates, national insurance, minimum wage, energy costs, raw material costs etc

Businesses are not a magic trick; keep putting up costs & eventually they go bust

All employees lose their jobs; hence rising unemployment

[OhioRob @TheOhioRob]

Weird how Israel and Egypt signed peace almost 50 years ago and haven’t had a single military conflict since then. Jordan in 1993, no conflicts since, either.

It’s almost like you don’t want peace in the region as long as one country with 8 million Jews remains in existence.

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@bluesunquake @Shrink_at_Large Not convinced the huge numbers now in that category are anything like you describe

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Rachel Reeves has put taxes *up*, and ended up actually raising *less* money.

How has she managed that?!

It turns out that when you punish people for taking risks, hiring people, or working hard, they're less likely to do those things. Who could have guessed?

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@arusbridger Didn’t you used to be fairly intelligent?

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@The_Durham_Paul @SangitaMyska @MrTCHarris @5Pillarsuk @SadiqKhan We have 26 bishops sitting in the House of Lords - this is the established church as part of the legislature for the UK, not just England

Which parts of the UK are secular?

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that one day my children will not be judged by the colour of their skin.”

British police: “I don’t think so, mate.”

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@GordonFielden 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox It’s so sweet that you think DEI training stops at that duty…but very naive

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@jimmytwhu Can we at least call that poisonous organisation what it really is ‘Hate not Hope’

[Paul Spackman @PaulSpackman]

@mokhanhim You must truly hate your child…social services should take an interest