Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

25. Misery guts. British Gaullist.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid for half a decade and have destroyed our capacity to generate reliable electricity.

[Roy @royllovians]

Embarrassing to do this bitter door-slamming "harrumphing at bigots" act over people finding value in Borges' perspective on the expressiveness of the English lexicon, which is a matter of subjective taste that can't be "disproven" by linguistics.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

I have never understood how the fact that some European countries cannot run their border checks efficiently (looks at the Royal Marechaussee at Schiphol) is an argument for a political union with them.

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

Whereas Brejoin is an idea of which I am already softly skeptical, Britain relinquishing the pound will make me don a balaclava

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Britain’s PM Andy Burnham won’t rule out rejoining the EU after the next election — and taking the euro with it

[Jonas @Swedefromtwitt]

Holy shit it's real

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

This should be repealed at first opportunity. Why on Earth should a non-Anglican have the power to advise on Church of England appointments?

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

Of all the problems facing Britain, behold Andy Burnham's first Bill:

[Alexander Fitzgerald @AFitzgerald1992]

Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)

[Max Ircobo @NAFOfrumzl]

Il va se détendre le gros fdp. Les anglais n'ont qu'un seul ennemi éternel, et c'est nous.

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

Okay but who’s the most clapped?

[James Heale @JAHeale]

A plugged in parliament source flags that the ‘Sexy MP’ website is back up and running… here is the current top 10 MPs on it:

https://t.co/hkGOX6XzJh

[James Rogers @james_rogers]

This has nothing to do with empires. A country with the world’s fifth largest economy, a global financial centre, 14 overseas territories, and international interests that extend across the Euro-Atlantic cannot afford the luxury of being a middle power...

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

“Hi, my party is mental, please don’t judge us by all the mental things we keep trying to pass as official party policy” is one hell of a PR strategy

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

“Sorry, I know you have fresh evidence on Epstein but you’ve hit your quota and we can’t mention him ever again”

[evan @xenfoyel]

😭😭

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Drop everything. The FT has done it. It’s outdone the Guardian.

Two of their finest have discovered that an NHS official once owned under £100 of Palantir shares.

Let that sink in. One hundred pounds. The FT charges its readers more than that just to read about it.

It gets worse. the NHS official sold the shares in 2021, two years before Palantir won its £330m NHS contract. The FT has exposed a conflict of interest that ended before the interest began.

The forensic journalism behind this triumph? Reading a public register of interests. Next week: the FT infiltrates Companies House.

But the best bit: the FT article debunks itself: paragraph three admits every declaration was "in line with NHS England's rules."

Even their own subscribers are struggling to take this one seriously…

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

If it had taken me at least ten years to become leader of my party and country, the very last thing on my mind would be a holiday.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Burnham goes on holiday after two weeks in the job

https://t.co/N6wTq814Xu

[Grey @sadbokkie]

burnham trying to follow starmer’s instructions on how to work the weather machine

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

Very worrying.

Sugar factories have been repurposed during wars before. Ended up producing chemicals and explosives during WW1 when our supply chains were cut off.

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

£1100 of saving over the year might as well be absolutely nothing.

And as it will be given in April in the next budget, even the tiny gain will be cancelled out by the inevitable accompanying minimum wage increase.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Pubs, clubs and live music venues in England to get 20% business rates cut from April, UK PM Andy Burnham announces https://t.co/0jOT8KPlK3

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

We are over halfway to getting to net zero from our position in the 90s. We’ve cut ourselves from 1.5% of global emissions to 1%.

In the meantime China is 30% of global emissions and pumped more CO2 into the atmosphere between 2014 and 2021 than the UK has since 1750!

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

we’ve had no rain for months, three (!) heatwaves, temperature records shattered, wildfires, thousands dead and we’re only halfway through summer. of course we should be hitting net zero within 10 years you maniacs

[Teddy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @TSBeeston]

Referring to anything and everything like this as northslop from now on

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will host next year's G20 summit for world leaders in Manchester