Tony Braisby

Urban Dictionary says: Annoying but in a good way. Really funny.adorable in a really childish way. Will block spammers, phishers and conspiracy loons.

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

I’ve not done this before, but as the ‘debate’ continues…

I was at university at the turn of ‘70s and ‘80s: bachelors degree in history and political science – ’78, ’79, ’80; honours degree in politics – ’81 (different country, different HE system). I can testify that …/1

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

@Rod_Studd oh dear

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

🤞#COYF

[Andy Hearn @AndyHearn09]

The UK has the only privatised water in Europe and the UK has the dirtiest, filthiest most polluted water in Europe.

I wonder. Could there be a link between the two?

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

@Pleyndamour @THERUGBYLEAGUE2 @M_Shaw1 ta: discharged last Thursday, after being admitted on the 4th of August. Not my favourite way to spend a summer :)

[Mark F @Pleyndamour]

Most Beachgoers do Swim In Tory-enabled Sewage though.

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

@Pleyndamour @THERUGBYLEAGUE2 @M_Shaw1 Play the comp with one hand tied behind their back? why?

Should Cas and Wakey have first teams made up of only West Riding player?

FC and KR only of Humbersiders?

Should Cumbrians only play in the semi-pro leagues?

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

hi Gillian

I think I know why no-one’s told you you’re doing “a fucking good job”.

Give it a bit of thought and you might work it out, too.

Yrs&c

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Don’t forget at 8pm tonight to bang pots and pans for the bloody hard work done by our Education Secretary. #ClapForKeegan

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

How many school buildings we chose the rebuild/renovate recently is the symptom - the disease is we underinvest and get bad value for the public investment that does happen because cutting it is the path of least resistance

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

Meanwhile … Millwall

[THANDISWA MAZWAI @thandiswamazwai]

No baby..:) it’s the highest quality. I’m sorry but we won’t accept your lies on here today. Phendula umbuzo lo uyeke ukuxoka. Hawu! What a bho😂

[Tony Braisby @TonyBraisby]

@edwinhayward I assume these are the people
Keegan was saying “sat on their
arse”?

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

An unsent letter from Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg, ca. 1957 ✍️

Dear Heisenberg,

I have seen a book, “Stærkere end tusind sole” (Brighter than a thousand suns) by Robert Jungk, recently published in Danish, and I think that I owe it to you to tell you that I am greatly amazed to see how much your memory has deceived you in your letter to the author of the book, excerpts of which are printed in the Danish edition.

Personally, I remember every word of our conversations, which took place on a background of extreme sorrow and tension for us here in Denmark. In particular, it made a strong impression both on Margrethe and me, and on everyone at the Institute that the two of you spoke to, that you and Weizsäcker expressed your definite conviction that Germany would win and that it was therefore quite foolish for us to maintain the hope of a different outcome of the war and to be reticent as regards all German offers of cooperation. I also remember quite clearly our conversation in my room at the Institute, where in vague terms you spoke in a manner that could only give me the firm impression that, under your leadership, everything was being done in Germany to develop atomic weapons and that you said that there was no need to talk about details since you were completely familiar with them and had spent the past two years working more or less exclusively on such preparations. I listened to this without speaking since [a] great matter for mankind was at issue in which, despite our personal friendship, we had to be regarded as representatives of two sides engaged in mortal combat. That my silence and gravity, as you write in the letter, could be taken as an expression of shock at your reports that it was possible to make an atomic bomb is a quite peculiar misunderstanding, which must be due to the great tension in your own mind. From the day three years earlier when I realized that slow neutrons could only cause fission in Uranium 235 and not 238, it was of course obvious to me that a bomb with certain effect could be produced by separating the uraniums. In June 1939 I had even given a public lecture in Birmingham about uranium fission, where I talked about the effects of such a bomb but of course added that the technical preparations would be so large that one did not know how soon they could be overcome. If anything in my behaviour could be interpreted as shock, it did not derive from such reports but rather from the news, as I had to understand it, that Germany was participating vigorously in a race to be the first with atomic weapons.

Besides, at the time I knew nothing about how far one had already come in England and America, which I learned only the following year when I was able to go to England after being informed that the German occupation force in Denmark had made preparations for my arrest.

All this is of course just a rendition of what I remember clearly from our conversations, which subsequently were naturally the subject of thorough discussions at the Institute and with other trusted friends in Denmark. It is quite another matter that, at that time and ever since, I have always had the definite impression that you and Weizsäcker had arranged the symposium at the German Institute, in which I did not take part myself as a matter of principle, and the visit to us in order to assure yourselves that we suffered no harm and to try in every way to help us in our dangerous situation.

This letter is essentially just between the two of us, but because of the stir the book has already caused in Danish newspapers, I have thought it appropriate to relate the contents of the letter in confidence to the head of the Danish Foreign Office and to Ambassador Duckwitz.

📷 Niels Bohr Archives
Full translation: https://t.co/gb01Udywmu

[alan mills @alanmills405]

2010. The year that Britain died

[Paul Wiggins 🍺 @paulwiggins]

Mmmmmmm, mistake.

[Jon Smalldon @jonsmalldon]

I am actually speechless

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

Reminder: a list of the Tory MPs who, as Secretary of State for Education, failed to get a grip on the Raac crumbly concrete scandal.

10 of them during the 13-year Tory reign of error is quite something!

(To be fair, Michelle Donelan should probably be excused responsibility.)

[Dr Phil Hammond 💙 @drphilhammond]

Why is the GDP per capita so much greater in Ireland than the UK? What happened in 2016 to decimate wealth per person in the UK compared to Ireland? We share an island so it must be something we did differently despite our geographical proximity. Could it be something we ate?

[Ewan G @GoodNewsHackney]

This simmering local mess looks to be hitting the boil right now! #heatwaveuk

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Rishi Sunak cut taxes on champagne the same day he cut funding to rebuild schools.

That tells you all about his priorities.