Teddy Golding

All that glitters is not T-Gold. Opinions all yours

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Serious question - how much does Emily Maitlis earn at the Fake News Agents ? Would be good to understand her socialist credentials. Answers as a multiple of a nurse’s salary please.

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Regardless - happy birthday to the USA - best country by a country mile

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It’s important to remember the American war of independence was fought by the British, against the British

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@ZacGoldsmith But how many are eligible through the diaspora like the LinkedIn chap

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@FrancisBoulle @nikitabier @elonmusk I have you on notifications and it never updates me

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Goat is the tastiest mammalian meat IMO. Especially trini curry goat

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: A BBC investigation has found that many takeaway doner kebabs contain goat meat following DNA tests

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@TheBarrenNorth @KathrynPorter26 @lancelachlan Thanks for the good info 🙏

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@KathrynPorter26 @lancelachlan Is there sufficient inertia in this scenario ?

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It’s so simple to fix welfare.

1). Fixed budget for welfare spend

2). Each claimant gets a number of credits depending on assessed need (say 0-100)

3). Each credit valued at (budget) / (total credits)

Then the frauds are fundamentally taking from the needy. And they can all squabble amongst themselves, meanwhile the country stays solvent

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At the end of the day, the state is just the company with a monopoly on violence (to paraphrase Max Weber)

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

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Reading about the history of integers and it strikes me that 0 is like the Portuguese concept of Saudades - the “presence of absence” (Fernando Pessoa)

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Oooooof

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

DISALLOWED!

Cristiano Ronaldo thought he had scored his first ever goal in a World Cup knockout match, but it was ruled offside ❌

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And Cristi’s sensational goal scrubbed from the historical record 🙃 #CR7

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What should have been an epic 3-3 was reduced to 2-1 by three extremely tedious VAR decisions. All very marginal #Portugal #croatia

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Something to look forward to 🌚

The UK is going to have to get worse to get better, very sadly

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

In the past couple of weeks we've seen some worrying trends on the GB power grid with unprecedented summer margin notices and three occasions on which system operator @neso_energy was forced to ask the EU to lift intraday interconnector trading limits

But more worrying is what hasn't been widely reported - on 23 June there was persistent low frequency through the evening which NESO eventually solved by curtailing exports

Not by buying the capacity back, but by requesting "Emergency Assistance" - these aren't really requests - although the other TSO can reject the request it can't stop NESO from turning the flow off at the exit substation

Why is this worrying?

1. NESO didn't issue any warnings to the market that GB margins were tight yet it was unable to keep frequency within the safe operating limit - why not?

2. By cutting off exports to the Netherlands and France, in the absence of any system warnings, NESO has just made cutting off exports part of the normal operational toolkit. As we rely on imports in winter we might regret this move as the other countries will feel far more able to reduce their exports to us after this move

3. Did the absence of any warnings issued by NESO mean it didn't see the tight margins coming ie was it due to forecasting errors?

4. Was the system actually secure during this period? Was NESO compliant with the SQSS (requirement to at all times hold enough reserve to cover the loss of the single largest infeed - I doubt it since at times during the say the demand forecast error was higher than the required reserve holding)? Were any transmission constraints violated?

The fact there has been no discussion of this by NESO is also worrying. NESO seems to think if it keeps quiet about its challenges nobody will notice

But the demand forecasting errors are growing, as the system becomes more complex. The maximum error so far this year is almost 4x the SQSS!!

And that's the average over half an hour - the instantaneous error is likely far higher. And of course NESO balances the grid from instant to instant, not over half hours

So can NESO actually PROVE it can run the grid securely? Everyone assumes it can because we haven't had a blackout. But the absence of a disaster is not the same as safety - running into traffic isn't safe just because you're not run over every time you do it

@ofgem @energygovuk @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @NJ_Timothy @griffitha @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @TiceRichard @Iromg @AllisonPearson @EdConwaySky @afneil @MerrynSW @mattotele @jonathan_leake

https://t.co/w96n6LRCyk

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@elonmusk We are all equal - but some are more equal than others

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Bring on Cole palmer I say

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Still don’t understand why he’s not starting Trent….

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British high street is basically extinct. TG Jones, Coughlan’s Bakery and now Halifax all on the pyre.

We’re becoming a nation of charity-shopkeepers