Rob Bennett

Seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. Tolerant of pretty much anything but intolerance. History-loving ex-physicist/business person.

[Rob Bennett @RobBennettAscot]

Excellent new video by the Financial Times. The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK ⁦@alexhallhall⁩ https://t.co/kpnW6IyG14

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@elonmusk
Bye bye Twitter.
Had enough of how much right wing feed I'm getting.
Absolute shit-storm.

Elon, do not ever pretend to be a bastion of free speech. You algorithms are skewing hopelessly. Zero balance.

Your advertisers will find a different path to find graduates.

[Rob Bennett @RobBennettAscot]

OK @elonmusk

Why is my feed so dominated by right wing anger?

Is there an algorithm to load so much shit on those who don't agree with you that they give up and leave?

Might be good for you politically, but really rubbish for you commercially.

Advertisers like graduates.

[Rob Bennett @RobBennettAscot]

@elonmusk I think the key word there @elonmusk is 'facts.'

Allowing the spewing of 'alternative facts' is not free speech.

It's allowing insidious propaganda.

See Holocaust deniers and Hitler 'wasn't that bad.'

'Actually, Putin is a decent guy.'

Going to justify Apartheid next?

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@DPJHodges @davidjcayley And I'm not a Labour voter. I just despise the hypocritical press. Go after Tories with the same vengeance and your views would warrant respect.

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@DPJHodges @davidjcayley Cameron refused to deny Ashcroft's attack on him in another biography. Something to do with pigs and Oxford.

There is a school of thought that refusing to deny leads to the death of the story (not sure that's true).

I don't think your attack has effect. Made more me pro-Rayner.

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@DPJHodges https://t.co/uUixK56pvb

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@DPJHodges Maybe you should listen to proper journalists and their take on this. Or raise some outrage on the much bigger 'mistakes' made by Tory MPs.

Tax expert, Dan Niedle analyses it. At most she owes £2.5k, if she made £2.5k of improvements (not unlikely) she owes nothing.
Get a life!

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@gsoh31 And PS, this is not an attack on the Arts. I'd happily see some form of history made compulsory to 18. As a physics student at Exeter (pre-business at Poly), I'd skip physics to attend history lectures. But even back then, the history grads found it tougher to get employment.

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@gsoh31 Hard for employers to differentiate if ~50% have a degree.

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@planet_beatles Help!
After seeing the movie on UK TV aged 6.
Went on to own every one pictured...and every single...and every EP. I lived in record shops looking for Beatles stuff. Regret not buying a rare original of them with Tony Sheridan kept aside for me. 'Thanks, but I've got it on LP!'

[Rob Bennett @RobBennettAscot]

@elonmusk Your autonomous driving better be extremely good. You're alienating a big chunk of the private early adopters. You'll need to grab the next chunk of the market who buy on proven performance. I fall into the latter. You're not making me love Tesla with your comments.

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@PrezLives2022 He's thick as.
Just too thick to know it.

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@PatsyeStevenson Take care. Hope you're back up on your feet feeling a bit better about life. But at whatever pace suits you. You'll get there.

[Tetiana 🇺🇦🇳🇴 @Tetiana_NAFO]

Senator Ted Cruz: Based on the Budapest Memorandum, the USA has an obligation to help 🇺🇦 militarily.

Ukraine gave up the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile (~4155 nuclear warheads), ~100 strategic bombers, 176 missile complexes in exchange for safety.
#ArmUkraineNow

[Rob Bennett @RobBennettAscot]

@CatharineHoey It is a journalistic interrogation, not sycophancy. One of the best things the Beeb does. Ever been on?

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@CatharineHoey Did you listen to what he said on why it is hypocritical to be lectured when Guyana has protected its rainforests vs those who burn far more yet don't sustain the planet?

He is calling out the hypocrisy developed nation's don't like to hear.

PS it's called Hard Talk.
Big clue!