Adrian Barnard

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[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

Speaking on BBC TV News re @MPIainDS + senior Conservatives letter to @BorisJohnson calling for removal of @Huawei or review of @10DowningStreet decision to allow @Huawei in UK 5G networks!! #5G #Trump #technology
https://t.co/UrXT1KS6er

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Pretty astonishing fresh evidence of research misconduct and fraud in Jason Arday's work, courtesy of @thetimes which has done splendid work. Free link. https://t.co/7tHnlgBm9B

[Graphite Czech 🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸 @CzechArtGirl]

Liverpool’s St George’s Hall was hiding a secret: Minton Tiles 🤎

Watch as the beauty is revealed!!

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

#WellSaid Rosie.
We must wonder how PPC selection processes at @UKLabour allow such an absence of character to be selected.
@RosieDuffield1

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

There are some wonderful, hard-working, serious, experienced backbench MPs who watch this kind of vacuous performance crap in total despair.
MPs whose years of work is never even acknowledged while the latest, (and usual old crowd) of fave nepo families get all the jobs and take all the credit...

And this, the endless shallow TikTok fluff that makes a mockery of Parliament, and legislation, and shows the total lack of comprehension and twisting of a law passed by the Labour Party, years ago, to protect everyone's rights...

Roll on the next General Election!

‘Summer of sex’ Labour MP criticises trans guidance from sun lounger

https://t.co/dqYBSigbch

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@JacquiMckenzie6 As an officer of the law, a solicitor's first duty is to integrity & public trust, not selective solidarity. Being "taken in" by a charlatan should logically prompt an admission of error, humility, and accountability. Instead, this statement is nonsense—a multi-paragraph deflection into alleged 'systemic' issues to actively avoid condemning documented data fraud, biography fabrications, and academic deception. Shifting the spotlight to a person's "talent" does not erase the fact that dishonesty is being defended. If the rule of law matters, legal professionals must condemn fraud unconditionally, rather than making excuses when the perpetrator serves their own bias or personal agenda. Ethical standards matter & your fellow partners must make their own minds up as to whether you have maintained them.

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

Smug being a subject long mastered by @DAaronovitch

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Humour is highly subjective of course. But the best kind should take you somewhere, even make you feel uncomfortable. But this just makes its readers even more smug than they already are

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@wallaceme @metpoliceuk Thanks Mark. We agree on this save the fact re reports specify racist motivation/fear of racial abuse from the (unanmed) complainant. Yes, senior officers should be called to account for at best obvious disinterest at worst a lack of courage to grasp the nettle & act swiftly.

[D A I S Y • A Y L I F F E @daisyayliffe]

@rcolvile @GoodLawProject Dal Babu is an interesting signatory, he was until recently Safeguarding Lead at Middlesex CCC where Carter Ruck were also used to threaten journalists exposing controversial practices.

Dal Babu has a proud history of standing with orgs who use Carter Ruck to threaten journos.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

It has taken Gatwick Airport almost 10 years to move a runway that it already owns 12 metres.

It's part of a scheme to shift the existing standby northern strip 12 metres north so that 2 aircraft can use the airfield at once instead of 1. The land is Gatwick's. The tarmac is already down. The £2.2bn is private.

Almost 10 years.

On Tuesday the Court of Appeal threw out the last challenge. Lord Justice Holgate and Lord Justice Dove found the grounds unarguable, with no real prospect of success, which is judicial for get the eff-n-jeff out of my court. That failed appeal was itself the final stage of a process that began before the pandemic, before Brexit had been implemented, before 4 of the 7 prime ministers we have had in a decade had taken office.

The project has moved at the rate of a metre and a half a year. A tortoise does a metre and a half in an afternoon and does not usually require senior counsel to do so.

Heathrow Terminal 5 took 8 years to get planning permission. That delay was regarded as a national embarrassment so acute that Parliament built an entire new regime to prevent it happening again: the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects system, designed to produce a decision within 12 to 17 months.

As you'd expect from a department with a name that'd make a penguin cringe, it hasn't worked. Gatwick has just taken 8 years under the system created to stop projects taking 8 years. The machinery designed to fix the problem reproduced the problem exactly, to the year, and nobody in Whitehall appears to have noticed or minded.

58% of decisions under that regime are now judicially reviewed. The success rate of those reviews is 3.9% for ordinary developments and 10.2% for significant ones. They add 1.4 years to a project on average and up to £121 million in costs on a major road scheme.

Roughly 9 in 10 challenges fail, and they work anyway, because delay is the point and defeat costs the challenger almost nothing. An objection does not have to be right. It only has to be filed.

We built a legal system in which anybody can impose years of delay and 8-figure costs on a national asset, lose, and walk away whistling. A peculiarly contemporary form of looting.

Progress will end it inside the first year. Under our planning programme there is a binding statutory maximum of 12 months from acceptance of an application to the Secretary of State's decision on any nationally significant project, with no exceptions: 4 months for examination, 3 months for the minister, and deemed consent if the state misses its own deadline. Judicial review of planning decisions gets restricted to genuine points of law, with hard cost consequences for those who bring hopeless challenges and hard timetables for the courts that hear them.

On the other side of those 8 years: 100,000 additional flights a year. Passenger capacity rising from 43 million to 80 million. 14,000 jobs across Sussex and Surrey. Every penny of it privately financed, requiring nothing from the Treasury but permission.

All of it available in 2019.

A country that cannot move a runway 12 metres in less than 8 years is not going to build the reservoirs, the reactors, the labs or the houses. Everything else we argue about downstream of this is conditional on fixing it.

And we intend to fix it. If you would rather live in a country that can move 12 metres in under a decade, come and join us. It's time to get to work.

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

To all the "haters" out there, read this and weep. You might have to sign up to the @spectator - which will be a good thing for the rest of society & your goodselves of course.
https://t.co/rpJ4TDkQoZ

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

Gender really is a c9nstruct, I mean, look at what's happened to @LozzaFox ......
Seriously, I remember when @UKLabour used to shout #UpTheWorkers - they spell it differently now.

[Venice Allan @roseveniceallan]

An actual UK MP, lounging in her bikini in a Mediterranean garden, telling British survivors that they’re arseholes for wanting single sex support services, rapists should be in women’s prisons and that your daughter should get changed in front of men. Mad

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@glynbmil @roseveniceallan Didn't we all!

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@AlexMLowe #WellSaid Alex. But lets be frank, this is another inconsistent sanction, dithered over. @WorldRugby must stop the back slapping expense account entertainment, travel & accommodation & novelty causes, returning to being an independent Panel of serious people in charge.

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

#PardonMe M'Lord!?

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

With green subsidies now accounting for three quarters of the price of electricity, the cost of Net Zero to the public is much higher than politicians are willing to admit, say Professor Gordon Hughes and Dr Lee Moroney.
https://t.co/3E7WPCCJP9

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@PaulEmbery knows this, as does any student of economics or history. I wonder what point he is trying to make or with whom he wants to curry favour? #Disappointing

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Paul’s economics are correct. A government with a printing press can’t go bust like a household (with no printing press). But a government that is cavalier with its printing press will condemn a country to inflation and currency devaluation, which feed off each other and ends in squalor. Examples are numerous from the Weimar republic to more recently Argentina.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Jonathan Sacerdoti was reported by a Green Party councillor to the police for 'harassment' because he argued with her when she turned up on his doorstep to canvas for his vote. Incredibly, the police investigated, but @speechunion was able to help. https://t.co/hGw7l1OBME

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@DXW_KC Mmm, broadly yes. However the reporting indicates that the complaint alleged racist motives or intentions. @metpoliceuk if they comment to questions raised in the press will surely reply from that position, and who will or could blame them for that?

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

#WellSaid Trev.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

Why Rod Liddle mattered, and why true journalists admired him, even if they disagreed and disliked him.

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@EvanKirstel Breezy.

[Adrian Barnard @AdrianBarnard]

@LukeJohnsonRCP Thats the figure mocked on @bbcquestiontime by @LiddleRod after @jeremycorbyn raised it in his @UKLabour Conference speech in 2018. @Miatsf is on autopilot insulting the intelligence of the UK Public.