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[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

"Mr Powell, we've lost the News Agents podcast"
"There'll be no act of treason then, I'll tell the Chinese"

[Andrew Man @TegoArcanaDei]

“The single decision Bridget Philipson made that has been most revealing.
“Eton and Star Academies wanted to open a great new free school in Middlesbrough to help more talented young people access the best universities - backed by funding from Eton.”
“When Bridget became Education Secretary she killed the project.”
Prejudice trumped social mobility.

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

You need planning permission to install air conditioning in Britain??????

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

This kind of senior Labour hypocrisy is so automatic & natural for them that I don't believe they are even aware they do it. To them it's just obvious that their opponents are evil scum, so it's fine to call them that, & obvious they aren't evil scum, so unacceptable to say that.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's Welfare Secretary admitted to Peter Mandelson what he won’t tell you.

Labour raised your taxes to pay for more benefits.

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies.

A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required.

But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism.

[Jack Rankin MP 🇬🇧 @jackmrankin]

Over the last thirty years, conservatives have been far too relaxed about the revolutionary constitutional changes made in our country.

Conservatives should understand that we are merely custodians. We should govern not just for the present, but the past and future.

Whilst it is true for now, today need not be the last day hereditary peers sit in the House of Lords.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

I will never understand this sneering resentment towards people who have made something of themselves.

It's not the Britain I've known. It's not the country I want to live in. If your attitude is to sneer at rather than celebrate success, you're living a miserable little life.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

@RhonddaBryant Where’s the economic shock? Here’s GDP compared to Germany. Can you point to the shock?

[Richard North @ollieparrot]

It is quite remarkable that Starmer is providing the Gulf States with missiles which cost the British taxpayers hundreds of millions, to shoot down Iranian drones which cost mere thousands, while co-financing a project for Ukraine, to provide high-tech radar controlled guns to shoot down drones at a fraction of the cost.

And nobody in the media or politics seems to have noticed, even though the information is open source.

[Tom Jones @93vintagejones]

The Special Relationship is not dead, it never existed. Since Suez the alliance's interests have been defined and met by America. It was only ever invoked by British politicians to soften the reality of Britain's decline in importance, and Americans when they wanted something.

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

Jimmy Carr on LBC this evening: "It's insane that we had a budget that poor. It's insane that we have a midwit in charge. It's crazy.
"What we need to do is deal in young people. Yeah, we have a society where we need a redistribution of wealth. And I don't think it necessarily needs to be from rich to poor. I think it needs to be from old to young.
"I'm not concerned with inequality. I'm concerned with poverty in absolute terms, because that's fixable. Inequality isn’t. Different people have different motivations and abilities. There will always be hierarchies, but you want them to be natural hierarchies. You want them to be justified in some way. "And I think the redistribution from old to poor is all I would do. If I was running for office, you know what I'd run on - no taxes in your 20s - because you would incentivise young people to go and say, I'm actually not going to go to university. I'm going to go and get a trade. I'm going to stack cash till I'm 30, and then I'm going to buy a house and I marry her. I’m going have a kid. If the society doesn't reward that, then what's going on?"

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The answer: France 9%, UK 7.5%, Italy 6.2%, Germany 2.1%. UK growth hardly stellar since Brexit, which I don’t consider a success. But none of Europe’s four biggest economies has done well this decade.
But these figures do undermine all these claims/studies that, but for Brexit, the UK economy would be 4/6/8% bigger. Add that to the actual 7.5% and you’d get an unprecedented UK performance v the other three. Simply not credible.
The sad fact about Europe in the 2020s is that, in or out of the EU, its four biggest economies are not doing well.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Alternative reading. We had a plan, worked out in cooler-headed times, which was junked following a hysterical media campaign led by Piers Morgan. Sweden, which stuck to Britain's original plan, emerged with a lower excess death rate - to say nothing of a healthy economy.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Nuclear power has been set back decades because brain-dead hippies like Jane Fonda weren’t smart enough to tell a nuclear power plant apart from a nuclear bomb. People her age think Three Mile Island killed thousands of people when the actual death count was zero.

[AnglofuturistParty @FuturistPartyGB]

It’s not the land either. Territory can be given up. The Chagos, The Falklands, Gibraltar, Northern Island mere accidents of history. The Union itself a contingent political settlement. If Scotland goes its own way so be it. The countryside a resource to be reallocated.

No the only thing that truely makes these people proud to be British is a half remembered BBC sketch from a particular moment in time.

Probably : Blackadder or Monte Python. Preferably shown to the applause of an American audience. “See I’m English this is what it means, this is what we mustn’t lose…. wibble”

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

Three Mile Island and Chernobyl convinced the entire planet nuclear fission was catastrophically unsafe. Despite the fact Three Mile island's containment system worked exactly as designed, preventing a genuine catastrophe. And Chernobyl was a catastrophe because the Soviets were cutting corners and built their plants without proper containment. Thus, nuke accidents became the shark attacks of the energy discussion. And our best, cleanest, most abundant power source remains ignored.

[James @TypeForVictory]

The volunteer elevated the work into a literal reflection on the gulf between middle-class self-absorption and popular aesthetics & pragmatism.

[James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mr_james_c]

The UK has been undergoing a creeping Socialism for the past 20 years with bipartisan contributions.

The consequence has been the same as any socialist experiment, but because it's been ratcheted up slowly, everyone has blamed "Capitalism" because they mistakenly think that's what the UK still is.

[Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos]

According to *his own book on the matter*, the architect of the Chagos deal, Philippe Sands, literally coordinated with Russia to ensure that Russia’s claim to Crimea— not recognised by the UK— would not be harmed