Jane Knave

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Did Donald Trump start a war with Iran to cover up his relationship with Epstein?

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Donald Trump is the worst president we've ever had.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

A small ask for @elonmusk, from a small English family business.

There's a handle, @MadeInEngland, dormant for ~14 years. It would mean the world for what we're building, a home for English makers.

The official route is priced for companies rather larger than ours.

Any chance?

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.

This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.

Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.

What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.

Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.

I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

[Dr Mariana Claire Marinovic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇲 @DrMarianaClaire]

How embarrassing for all those who claimed Hannah Spencer was wearing a £1800 Gucci silk blouse. 🤣🤣🤣

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

A British drone industry would not be a cost. It would be a renaissance.

British kit, designed here, built here, used by our forces and sold to our allies.

War has already changed. Britain needs to as well.

https://t.co/Zcmy96zBnV

[Covie @covie_93]

The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

🤡

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Defence spending needs to be increased.

Agreed.

How about getting some of these millionaires to pay their f*cking taxes. Instead of sniping from the sidelines.

Lord Bamford.
Richard Tice
Nigel Farage
Nadhim Zahawi.

All tax dodgers

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Referring to trump's threat to leave the trashy UFC cage up on the White House lawn, Marco Rubio says "Maybe we'll just host weekly fights between people in politics."

We don't have a Secretary of State, folks. We have a sad, sycophantic clown. 🤡

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

The government says nationalising water would cost £100 billion. @Feargal_Sharkey dug into where that number came from and found it came from a think tank report that was paid for by the water companies themselves, including @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater , and @unitedutilities .

So the water industry essentially funded a report to inflate the cost of taking them back into public ownership, and the government then used that number to argue against nationalisation. Sharkey is saying the number is nonsense because the source is the industry that benefits from staying private.

He also points out that these same companies have racked up £64 billion in debt and paid out £78 billion in dividends to shareholders since privatisation in 1989, while bills went up 40% and rivers filled with sewage.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep.

The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements.

For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep.

A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own.

The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing.

Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin.

So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good.

A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off.

You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Clean up Britain.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Really Retro. Who did I sell access too? Show me one legitimate shred of evidence I sold access. But even if you believe all the BS about me, how is it your okay with this:
Don Jr. is a partner in a venture firm whose companies pulled more than $735 million in federal contracts in a single year. One, a tiny magnet startup, landed a $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest that office had ever made, months after his firm bought in. Its valuation went from $200 million to $2 billion.
Eric is a strategic investor in an Israeli drone maker going public at $1.5 billion. Drones the Pentagon buys. For the war their father runs.
And Don Jr. opened a private club in Washington. To join: $500,000.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Military historian Phillips O’Brien: There have been no U.S. peace efforts in Ukraine.

There have been efforts to get Putin a very good deal, forcing Ukrainians to give up more territory and people. That is not peace. That is Washington trying to deliver Putin a success. 1/

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Brutal Al Carns’ resignation letter:

“…the NI Legacy Bill. I have worked to fix the Bill from the inside, but it remains unfit for purpose. It risks failing the very veterans it claims to protect.”

Nobody in good conscience can support a PM who prosecutes British war heroes.

[UEFA @UEFA]

🏆 Referee announced for 2026 #SuperCup!

We're pleased to share that Somali referee Omar Artan will officiate the highly anticipated match between PSG and Aston Villa in Salzburg.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Donald Slump

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Flying under the radar due to other news, but two of the UK's highest-ranking defence officials, the Armed Forces Minister and Defence Secretary, quit today over the chronic underfunding of the British military.