Rob Lyons

science and technology director at @acadofideas. I also write stuff and occasionally tell jokes.

[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

Henry Nowak: we must demand accountability - @JakeRWeston

Accountability is not hatred. Perhaps Farage is correct and on this – ‘we should be angry’. Because if a young man’s death, a catalogue of institutional failures, and a political ideology that repeatedly seems to blind public bodies to reality, cannot justify our anger, then what can?

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https://t.co/bBKPFq1cDn

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@DrNeilStone "Can't keep track" is the strapline of Network Rail.

[Jacob Reynolds @jacobreynolds]

The Nowak case really sums up what you might call the malicious incompetence of the British state.

You will be handcuffed while dying because it matches the anti-racism training a copper received.

[Academy of Ideas @acadofideas]

The pope, AI and ‘magnificent humanity’ - @Robspiked

First, the title: Magnifica Humanitas: of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence. At a time when humanity is definitely not widely regarded as ‘magnificent’, this is a welcome cheer for the human race. Only a couple of weeks ago, we were celebrating the hundredth birthday of Sir David Attenborough. It is a sign of the times that a ‘national treasure’ can also believe humanity is a ‘plague on the Earth’...

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https://t.co/IntMzzzehd

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@patrickxwest Thanks, Patrick.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

I'm sure all of North London will be cheering on the Gooners and their plucky Spanish manager, Georgios Graham.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@Danjsalt @DominicFrisby I had the pleasure of talking to Dominic about it at the Battle of Ideas https://t.co/DOh5eOUKnS

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@TimandraHarknes What's the R number?

I foresee a book, adjacent to broken windows theory, in which we propose a scheme for visible gentlemanly behaviour, which we argue spreads because non-gentlemanly types copy it. Said book then becomes brief but intense talking point for newspaper columns.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@TheSimonEvansX Just short of a maiden century for the Human Race First XI, but sounds like an entertaining and stoic innings. Sorry for your loss.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@acadofideas @JakeRWeston Good piece, echoes my own thoughts on the exhibition.

[Jacob Reynolds @jacobreynolds]

Blair attempts to reboot centrism by finally offering “good policies”.

But he fails to see that the political class are fundamentally incapable of “good policies” because of their total disconnect from reality.

Me in @spikedonline

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

This could be massive for Palace. Just look at the way West Ham used a Conference League triumph as a stepping stone to, er, relegation.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@simonmaechling I thought salt chemistry could be a rich vein for humour and this Cl's the deal.

[Living Freedom @LivingFreedomUK]

We took a group of 35 people to visit the brilliant @novaexhibition last night. Thanks to fantastic Nova team - and good to link up with @OurFightUk & @StopTheHate_UK
A bracing but necesary experience. **EVERYONE** should go.
Nova https://t.co/83x6CoV7NW

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@mwt2008 That's northern Scotland with 3% of the UK population but wind rich at a time when heating and lighting usage is low. It's a terrible idea for an economically sustainable grid. Nuclear, yes. Wind, no.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@JustineBrian Holyrood vote, I think. It's still nonsense.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@Sherelle_E_J Well, they've compared sitting, loneliness, sugar and much more to smoking. It's a tradition.

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

This is why we need air conditioning: to stop old eejits like this overheating.

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

After a day like this, only fools think burning fossil fuels for any longer than is necessary makes sense. The much derided Ed Miliband is right: his critics ultimately enemies of life on earth. https://t.co/QCnHuTOqm4

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@KathrynPorter26 Also, very good speech. Living near Edinburgh, I've thought about getting a 10kwh battery for the house. But that doesn't solve the problem of communicating with the world if the whole grid goes down!

[Rob Lyons @Robspiked]

@KathrynPorter26 Sorry to hear that, hope you are fully mended soon