PeterW

Follows transport; energy; space; technology; science and cats. Tries to learn something new every day. Favourite word: sub-optimal

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@asentance Pound has been falling against the dollar for over 150 years, $1.10 at some point is probably a good bet too

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@DavidHorne @LNER Always great to see the efforts your team puts in to improve things

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

Good new for #NorthEast & #Hartlepool. Hope UK gov sticks to commitment to remove blockers to new nuclear. Industry needs reliable power

[X-energy @xenergynuclear]

Today, X-energy submitted an application to enter the United Kingdom’s Generic Design Assessment process for the Xe-100. Subject to acceptance, this submission marks a significant milestone in X-energy and @centricaplc's efforts to deploy up to 6 GW of new nuclear in the United Kingdom. Learn more: https://t.co/LAJpGFhmCN

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@MichaelDnes1 @DuncanStott I keep wondering why train drivers are left without the equivalent of satnav: see overspeeding incidents when directed to unexpected track at junctions, no in cab notification of reduced speed

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

This you?

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@TheBritLad Bit of a problem in London, we don't have local police stations any more! and the remainder are going part time https://t.co/vvmkzeLjBg

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@Gabriel64869839 I felt MoD short contracts (2 yrs + 1 yr option) made this inevitable. Gave limited investment options

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

Well, there's always a tweet

[Tim Bailey 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧🇮🇱🇭🇰 @DeepHouseBear]

@AndrewHWestern You utter racist.

Don’t blame me. I don’t make the rules.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In October 2024, the Free Speech Union came to the aid of Rick Prior, the elected Chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, after he was suspended for saying that rank-and-file officers had become so fearful of complaints of racism — and potentially losing their jobs — that they no longer dared challenge allegations of racism, particularly when made by people of colour.

According to Prior, some officers were reluctant to intervene when they suspected a crime was being committed if the perpetrator was a black or brown person for fear of being accused of racism.

Fortunately, with our support, Rick Prior won his

Given the circumstance of Henry Nowak's death, it's clear that Rick Prior was right to raise these concerns.

The police have overcorrected in response to the perception that the force is institutionally racist, and that needs to be addressed.

People like Rick Prior — and other elected federation chairs — must be free to speak out about what they believe has gone wrong and propose common-sense solutions without risking suspension or dismissal.

The lack of free speech within policing on these issues has contributed to the current state of affairs in which officers appear to be more concerned about not following up accusations of racism than protecting people from violent criminals.

Watch the Free Speech Union’s General Secretary, Lord Young, below 👇

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

Ignited fury.

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@kdkdkd1974 @chg3899 @munirawilson "The company’s new Managing Director, Lawrence Bowman, has been steadily working hard since to create an integrated SWR and Network Rail team, responsible for both train operations and infrastructure." https://t.co/F9gtTszZTQ

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@chg3899 @munirawilson SWR has just been nationalised, aren't they now part of the Governments "joined up" proto-GBR?

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

I’m starting to worry that the Labour Energy team can’t read.

This is not a report about jobs that only exist because of Net Zero.

A sizeable chunk of the jobs included are ‘waste and recycling’ and nuclear power. To state the obvious, we had those before Net Zero.

They aren’t explicit, but they appear to also include burning trees at Drax, which nobody thinks is green but which our Net Zero legislation forces us to do.

It also includes water monitoring and soil restoration - again, nothing to do with Net Zero.

It includes jobs which are not strictly a result of Net Zero, but ‘are not in conflict with it’ - for example, solar panels on roofs, or engineering consultancies. But again, there is no evidence that these jobs would not exist regardless. China, the world’s largest polluter, and the US, which doesn’t have a net zero target, have an abundance of clean tech jobs.

The problem is not clean tech, it is legislation which forces you to pick decarbonisation *when it does not work for the economy or living standards*.

If industries are paid through extremely expensive subsidies on everyone’s energy bills, of course they will be raising private capital - it’s a rent seekers’ paradise - but is that positive for the economy overall?

This is almost as bad as their ‘independent evidence’ that Clean Power 2030 would cut bills, which also turned out to be pure garbage.

For all of those repeating the Labour lines, please at least do the basics of reading the report.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

@ShabanaMahmood Here's your 2 page statement backing the rioters who burned down cities in the US over the death of a drugged up career criminal.

https://t.co/vM5uJAaCoK

[brendon (foo/bar) 🪫 @0xFFDDEE]

@ShabanaMahmood But it’s fine to get angry for a black felon in a different country. Right

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@HenryPryor @TwentyCi Ah, yes I remember the bad old days when there was no technology to speed things up 😄

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Nicola’s just decided she knows what a man and a woman are, after all.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Several have asked about this chart from David Smith's (@dsmitheconomics) column in the Sunday Times today.

Doesn't it lay bare the costs of Brexit?

In short, no.

But here's a slightly longer answer... 🧵(1/n)

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

You spent several painful hours in the witness box bloviating on the issue while trying to have a lesbian run charity shut down. Mercifully you were such an appalling witness your evidence unwittingly helped them win the case.

[PeterW @PeterW4tw]

@obioneyouknowme @GazTheJourno Taxpayer subsidy to rail 2024-25 £11.9billion

https://t.co/aW34QuCJAx

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I'm thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV as she tried to avoid admitting he was a man; of the five survivors of male violence who were ready to give evidence to Sturgeon's committee on gender self-ID, but were told to put their concerns in writing while seventeen trans-identified people appeared in person; of the mother of a young girl with a learning disability who campaigned against self-ID because she wanted her daughter to be guaranteed same sex intimate care, should she need it (the mother was presumably one of those female opponents Sturgeon calls 'shrill' and 'hysterical' in her memoir); of the ten-year-old girl sexually assaulted in a public bathroom by a 6'5" paedophile who served his jail sentence in a women's prison because he called himself 'Katie'; of Sandie Peggie, forced to discuss her own menstrual history in public to justify not wanting to undress in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.

When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'

Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.