Andrei Muntean

Interested in 🇬🇧 growth, past, future, machine intelligence, high-performance game engines, sound + imagery and optimising everything. @google #lfg

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

I recently saw a debate at the Oxford Union on whether Churchill was a hero and the opposition sounded so bonkers that I transcribed the video, generated a list of their claims and made a website to address them: https://t.co/3Im3S67WLZ

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@FraserNelson @tomwhx It’s still unacceptably far too high, it should have entirely ceased, see what happened in the US in February 2025 with the previously-porous Mexican border

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Today we’re launching RADICAL HONESTY – our all new Substack about what has gone wrong, and what is needed to put it right.

We want your thoughts, and your ideas.

We will be running articles and essays written by founders, entrepreneurs, officials, campaigners, researchers, people that have just tried to build something – big or small.

We want historical reflections, policy proposals, political and policy analysis, and personal accounts of people who have been helping to reverse decline.

We want to examine what has gone wrong, highlight efforts to rebuild and renew, and explore serious ideas for how we can turn our nation around – and more.

We want radical ideas – that means we will publish things we don’t necessarily agree with. We want to stoke a debate that will challenge the status quo.

In short, we will be publishing interesting work on areas concerned with personal, social, national, and economic growth.

If you want to contribute, please get in touch by emailing [email protected]

[Sujay. @Sujay__Raj]

@AnthropicAI It was expected

[Tom @tomwhx]

"He is the Prime Minister that is fit FOR THE MOMENT"

Straight out of The Thick of It!

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Tom @tomwhx]

It is completely false to describe Grieve as a "senior Conservative".

He was stripped of the whip seven years ago for his attempt to hand control of Parliament to Jeremy Corbyn. He then quit the party to stand against it.

He'll never be welcomed back.

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@isnit0 @RokoMijic It's much better than nothing

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@AndrewChapman50 @LoftusSteve False memory

[Alex Dale @typofoto]

There is no such thing as an "English" breakfast. Sausages are made of atoms, formed a few millionths of a second after the big bang from quarks, 13.7 billion years ago.

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@lawrencenewport @FraserNelson Is data on theft even accurately recorded?

[Harry Rushworth @Hrushworth]

I’m wondering what the most extreme application of this law could be… Bankrupting the Premier League by finding women’s football ‘equal value’ to men’s football?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

"You should be able to walk around with your phone out."

Every 7 minutes, a phone is stolen in London.

Should people be more vigilant with their mobile phones in London, or should the police just do their jobs?

Lawrence Newport, CEO of LFG on BBC Newsnight. ⬇️

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

Excellent work by @LaurencePostrv

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@cremieuxrecueil “Remains wise”? It was never wise to press blue

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

For his vomit-inducing persecution of innocent British troops, Hermer should join Starmer in being kicked out of the most unpatriotic government in our island's history

https://t.co/y6kQ3SoSEN

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@BorisJohnson https://t.co/agwsaKhmOr

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

“The Labour government of 2024 essentially prostrated itself before Whitehall. There would be no more “gaslighting” of the civil service. Now, finally, “the adults were back in the room”, and officials would be free to work their magic. (…)

By early December the same year, Labour had begun briefing that Dominic Cummings’ criticisms of the system were correct. A timeline many wouldn’t have expected.”

by @lawrencenewport, read the rest below (no paywall; press X but consider subscribing!)

[UnHerd @unherd]

Starmer versus the Blob, by Lawrence Newport (@lawrencenewport)

We hear the same stories over and over again from ex-ministers. The Blob can delay ministerial priorities until the point they’re shuffled out; it can direct policy by briefing in particular directions; and it can slow or kill off priorities it wants to. What’s worse is that some senior officials are extremely happy for this to happen (such as those who leak to journalists their praise or condemnation of a particular government).

In the end, though, blame for its existence lies firmly with our politicians. They choose the re-shuffles, they choose to shy away from fundamental changes to the system, they form governments without any plan or direction, they build quango after quango, and appoint unelected officials to positions of power.

Read more below ⬇️ https://t.co/umNQruD7yH

[John Stepek @John_Stepek]

@timfarron @Jebadoo2 Might be worth considering that the Lords works much better in practice than it does on theory, and so maybe it's better left alone, given all the other things that most definitely do not work in this country?

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

@LaurencePostrv #huckfermer

[Andrei Muntean @_andreimuntean]

Huck Fermer 👇

[Laurence @LaurencePostrv]

The Attorney General hunted British soldiers on known lies. The Telegraph investigation proves it. He must resign. Read the facts: https://t.co/hutfKbi3yd