William Gritten

Hoping for thoughtful holders of different opinions

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

"Capitalising on AI will require creative destruction, letting unproductive firms fail and freeing workers to move to more AI-friendly jobs. Mr Burnham seems instinctively opposed to the deregulation needed to achieve this." https://t.co/isW7u5vIfj

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

Has it occurred to people that if every single country is having a housing crisis.

It's probably a reflection on the fact that voters and politicians all over the world own property, and they don't want it to become less valuable

Nobody wants to solve the problem.

[Patrick Porter @PatPorter76]

My latest piece for @TheCriticMag: "Israel Does Not Run U.S. Foreign Policy." It competes with other effective lobbies from the greater middle east, extracts benefits and rents, but wields no veto, and when its patron is aroused, discovers there's a ceiling to its influence.

[Sammy Mac @sammymacuk]

POV you are a Charlie Bingham's lasagne in the freezer at Waitrose

[William Gritten @WDDGritten]

@westernexile Maturity is knowing a vague vapid conspiracy theory when you hear one

[William Gritten @WDDGritten]

@mtracey Wait so a pseudo intellectual who deserves to be jailed writes an essay motivated entirely by his inability to have sex, & you say I should take it seriously? Most realworld communist societies are socially conservative-if that's what unattrctive boring men need to screw, then...

[Curt Mills @CurtMills]

Still absolutely mind-boggling

[Tom Peck @tompeck]

Little bit of history made as Harry Kane, John Stones and Jordan Henderson look set to become the first England internationals to go through a change of prime minister during a major international tournament for a record breaking third time.

[Jake Weston @JakeRWeston]

There's something of a medieval coronation about this. The king who held the south has lost the support of his courtiers and the usurper will ride into London heralded as a saviour by the city.

I suggest northern France for Keir Starmer to recruit mercenaries and prime his heir who's sure to return with Macron's backing.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

In a few weeks time, Giorgia Meloni will meet her fifth British Prime Minister

[Global Statistics @Globalstats11]

Safe Tap Water Around the World 💧

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[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

Un dernier pour la route mais il est magnifique

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

@ruth_deyermond The charges leveled by Healey and Carns are damning because they’re true — and they’re the first departures from Starmer’s government that have more to do with policy than politics.

But I struggle to see how a Burnham/Reeves tandem does better.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Our support for Ukraine is ironclad.

We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes. Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security.

Slava Ukraini.

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

That’s quite something. I’ve never seen decorations like that outside Number 10 Downing Street for a political summit. No Italy, no Meloni, though. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇫🇷

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The news about Sir Alex Younger has hit really hard. I met him just once. In February this year, he was the keynote speaker at our parliamentary away day.

He was superb.

I wished he had been in government when I was in cabinet. Even in retirement he was studiously apolitical. Yet the depth of knowledge, expertise and his sheer love of the United Kingdom and deep commitment to her defence and safety shone through with his remarks and answers to even the most knotty questions.

He gave candid advice on how to use our time in opposition to get ready for defence and national security in this new geopolitical era.

So much of the recent policy work and research we have started and announced was based on his recommendations. There is so much to do and so little time.

It was a real privilege to have a long lunch with him that day. I am grateful for the time he spent with me and deeply sad to know our agreement to have further conversations will now not happen.

It is odd to feel such a loss for someone I only met once but his death is a loss not only of a remarkable man, but of the wisdom, insight and clarity he still had to offer.

He was a great man who loved, fought for and defended our country in ways we will never know.

May he rest in peace.

[Joe Dromey @Joe_Dromey]

“It shows exactly who he is.”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@Austen It's a bet on the model companies ending up owning everything. Which is not inconceivable.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

This animated map shows 196 years worth of passenger rail in Great Britain. They come, they go. Let's just say that these days no Brit would dream up a character like Thomas the Tank Engine.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

god forbid a man enjoys his bank holiday