Adrian Ryan

Systems analyst. Parapsychologist. Strong interest in climate change science.
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[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

More @neso_energy whistleblower allegations this time in @thetimes

"Five safety limits on Britain’s electricity grid were breached during last month’s heatwave and “system security was compromised”, according to confidential internal reports seen by The Times that appear to contradict the grid operator’s public account."

"... one report lists five separate constraint breaches across the transmission network, each exceeding the limit by hundreds of megawatts, with the largest breach reaching 700MW. It said they occurred with “no available pre or post-action mitigation options”

"A whistleblower claimed: “We had not 1MW left to instruct, frequency response was depleted due to the prolonged unsafe low frequency and one fault on the transmission network or generation side would then cause a full blackout. It was unprecedented.”"

This is incredible. Clearly NESO engineers have completely had enough and are now revealing internal reports as well as recordings of internal meetings (shared with the @Telegraph earlier today)

On this basis my analysis that the grid was insecure on 23 June is confirmed. I said I didn't see how there could be reserve left given the extent of the low frequency event and I suspected transmission constraints had been violated

Thrse disclosures are specific and ring true. This doesn't look like someone making it up, and NESO has confirmed some of the this is found in official NESO reports although it claims they were "preliminary" and didn't reflect the final assessment

So let's see this final assessment. @ofgem has already said it's going to publish the result of its security investigation so why not publish all these reports now? Have some transparency

Last week NESO offered to meet me "analyst to analyst" to go through all this. But they haven't followed up. Why not?

The whistleblower who first approached @ClaireCoutinho opened the floodgates. We can only wonder what else is going to come out

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

https://t.co/9VqqetX2uQ

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Boom

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

This becomes ever more troubling. The NESO, a taxpayer funded public body, is now openly lying to the press.

They have told the Times that no NESO employee will be updated on the investigation. However it is written into the *public* Terms of Reference that the CEO will receive ‘regular updates.’ Is the CEO not an employee of NESO?

A straightforward provable lie.

Staff will know as well that if they were not handpicked to contribute (not everyone on shift that day was asked), then they were told to make themselves known to the NESO Head of Legal, thereby blowing their anonymity. Is the Head of Legal not an employee of NESO?

They will also know that senior management said on an all-staff call that the whistleblowers had let them down, even though the NESO are now denying that too.

The investigation as set up by NESO management will not even look at the main allegation of whether or not the NESO breached its grid security standards. There have been no Terms of References set out for any investigation or inquiry by any body into this most serious allegation to date.

Surely this is the key concern which affects us all.

However, it is now undeniable that the required culture of transparency that all our public bodies should have is lacking, the below proves as much.

This makes it all the more urgent that all control room operators are given the chance to be anonymously interviewed with full protections in a truly independent investigation.

It is no longer tenable for the NESO management to run their own investigation which has failed to meet the requirements of independence, impartiality and transparency.

[allen farrington @allenf32]

the emerging consensus on England and Tuchel, that he made horribly defensive substitutions and threw away the game, is completely wrong. I honestly think it's because most (maybe all) English/British pundits want to blame Tuchel as an outsider rather than face up to how the game actually played out.

the entirety of the game after Gordon's goal was dominated by Argentina. but note the first substitution was 17 minutes later on 72 minutes and the *really* defensive ones were on 82 minutes.

in the 17 minutes before the first sub, Argentina could and arguably should have scored 3 times. in the 10 minutes before the next, they could and should have scored twice more. in that interval, England did absolutely nothing. they had already given up. they strung virtually zero passes together and I don't think touched the ball in the opposition half (never mind box).

I think that Tuchel realized this (because he is an excellent coach) and *correctly* concluded they needed to shore up or Argentina would indeed score 3 or more before long.

one idea I've seen is Tuchel should have thrown on the likes of Rashford and Watkins (who are fast, basically) to better press from the front and give England a route to play out. but imagine he had done this, England became *even more pathetically open* and Argentina had won 4-1. the criticism would have been even worse than now, and would have called for *exactly what he did*.

so, no, he did what he had to do as he watched his team completely collapse for no reason.

and *it could have worked*! after the second set of subs, Argentina had one very long-distance shot and the two goals. but the two goals were a result of astoundingly lazy lack of pressing, not tactics. the chances before were getting sliced apart in open play. the chances after were pathetic individual discipline.

so, no, the substitutions did not throw away the game and Tuchel did not get it wrong. England epically shat the bed, should have ended up losing 4-1, and Tuchel attempted the only viable route to holding on and still winning. it is no way his fault that Bellingham couldn't be bothered closing down Fernandez and Spence couldn't be bothered closing down Messi, amongst the other 5 goals they could have conceded after giving up.

English pundits want somebody to blame, so they blame Tuchel (who conveniently isn't English). what they ought to do is face up to this being one of the most astonishing psychological capitulations in World Cup history.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty UK was already smearing feminists as 'anti-rights' back in May, according to @thetimes. It appears that, far from being an accidental slip up or an editorial error, the latest defamatory report accurately represents Amnesty UK's deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real and important in contexts such as same sex attraction and healing after sexual violence and trauma.

Those who've been defamed are owed an explanation of why Amnesty claimed to have withdrawn the report because of its 'language' when, per @thetimes article, it had already expressed exactly the same beliefs, in the same language, months previously.

Many of the organisations Amnesty has attacked are grassroots campaigners with a tiny fraction of a gigantic, well-funded international NGO's resources. The defamatory report has already had serious consequences for a service supporting women at the most vulnerable time of their lives, as detailed by Beira's Place lawyers in the legal letter sent two days ago. The withdrawing of the report cannot undo the harm it has already done and is continuing to do.

If Amnesty is under the illusion that the women's, children's and gay rights organisations it has attacked will be unwilling to go to court, they have made yet another massive error of judgement. They underestimate both the solidarity that exists between the targeted organisations and my willingness to support legal action, not just on behalf of Beira's Place, but for all women's and LGB organisations falsely branded 'anti-rights.'

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Another letter to add to @AmnestyUK's overflowing mail box, this one from women-only rape support service, Beira's Place. 1/3

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

The grid operator @neso_energy has launched an inquiry into allegations that it is playing fast and loose with grid security. In the Commons today, @ClaireCoutinho revealed that it is a sham. Surprise, surprise.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

🧵 I have spent days going back through old Labour governments, Labour manifestos, speeches and Hansard, because I wanted to know when it apparently became "far-right" to suggest that rapid population growth and mass immigration can put pressure on housing, wages, jobs and public services.

Unfortunately for modern Labour, old Labour left an enormous paper trail.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFER UNRESERVED APOLOGY TO GRAHAM LINEHAN AND PAY HIM £25,000

The Metropolitan Police have at long last offered an unreserved apology to Graham Linehan and paid him £25,000.

Last September, the Irish comedian and co-creator of Father Ted was arrested by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow Airport.

His crime? Three gender-critical posts on X.

He was arrested, taken to a police station and questioned for several hours. In the early hours of the following morning, he was rushed to hospital after his blood pressure rose to dangerously high levels.

The Free Speech Union is proud to have supported Graham in taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest and breaches of his free speech rights.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, has said: “I’m beginning to lose count of the number of cases we’ve fought in which the police have arrested someone for a tweet, decided to take no further action and then had to pay them substantial compensation for wrongful arrest.

“At some point you’d think the penny would drop: police our streets, not our tweets.”

While we welcome the Metropolitan Police’s apology and compensation payout to @Glinner, this should never have happened in the first place.

It is high time the police focused on our streets, not our tweets.

Watch Graham’s reaction below 👇

[Stephen Duncan Nutrition @sduncanhealth]

From late 2026, synthetic folic acid will be added to almost every loaf of bread, every pack of flour, every pizza base in the UK.

No opt-out. No label warning. No conversation about who it might harm.

Here's what the headlines aren't telling you. 🧵

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

This ‘Proud of Us’ video on slavery is well worth your time.

They have many other videos telling historical truths that are often kept from us

This is not just for kids!

All of us should watch them! 👍

[Griff @Gav_Griffiths]

Blimey, Alastair ( @London_W4 ) is leading on the Daily Mail !

https://t.co/r9wI6K0oW1

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Interested Chiswick locals at The City Barge right now, posing for The Telegraph about the Green Party councillor Rick Rowe forcing the pub to take their outside seating away. Seating that’s been there at least seventy years. I stood out of the photo because as you know, I’m shy.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This astonishing story by the Spectator’s @johngconnolly should be seen as a national scandal. After the George Floyd protests, the Treasury – yes, the *Treasury* - ditched its numerical reasoning test for prospective employees because it created an adverse impact on candidate diversity. Utterly staggering.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ROBIN COOK QUIT OVER A WAR DIED ON A SCOTTISH HILL AND THE CASE CLOSED BEFORE TEA TIME

Robin Cook spent his career being right at the worst possible time for his career.

In March 2003 he resigned as Leader of the Commons rather than back the Iraq War. His resignation speech got a standing ovation from MPs on all sides, something that had never happened in the chamber before.

He spent the next two years telling anyone who would listen that Tony Blair had marched Britain into a war built on nothing.

Two years later he was dead.

6 August 2005. Ben Stack, a remote mountain in Sutherland. Cook collapsed of a heart attack while hillwalking with his wife Gaynor, fell down a ridge, and was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he was pronounced dead within the hour.

The post mortem two days later gave the cause as hypertensive heart disease. Police on the scene treated it as a medical matter and that was the end of their involvement.

No inquest reopening. No criminal inquiry. Just a senior politician who had publicly humiliated the government over an illegal war, dropping dead in one of the most remote spots in the country, with the official file shut almost as fast as it was opened.

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP and later Home Office minister who spent years digging into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly, said in 2007 that Cook had been on Ministry of Defence linked land when he died and that he had real doubts about the official account.

He got called a conspiracy theorist for asking the question. Funny how that label only gets handed out to the people asking questions, never to the people refusing to answer them.

Then there is the bit nobody mentions enough. Starting in 2020, someone filed Freedom of Information requests with Police Scotland asking for the basic details of that day.

What time officers were alerted. Whether witnesses were interviewed. Whether the people who came to help Gaynor Cook were ever identified. Police Scotland refused. The case went to the Scottish Information Commissioner, who in 2021 and again in 2022 sided with the police and let them keep it sealed under a legal exemption.

So twenty years on, the basic facts of how a former Foreign Secretary actually died on a hillside are still officially none of your business.

That is not evidence of a murder BUT it is evidence of an institution that would rather you stop asking than ever have to answer.

Britain does not need conspiracy theories when the real story is this embarrassing on its own.

SOURCES
@HeraldScotland - Norman Baker doubts over Robin Cook's death
@FOIScotland - Decision 074/2021 and Decision 011/2022, Police Scotland FOI refusals on Robin Cook case file
@policescotland - original statement treating death as a medical matter
@BBC - Robin Cook resignation speech

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

The Rape Gang Inquiry report.

https://t.co/hzfhjjJSLM

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

How to manufacture a crisis

A WHO commission wants to declare climate change a “global health emergency.” Their big evidence? Rising heat deaths in Europe. But once you adjust for an aging society, the “crisis” essentially disappears.

Even more dishonestly, the report conceals that cold deaths have declined by approximately 250 times as much as heat deaths have risen.

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[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Well this is odd isn’t it? … one minute the government is saying the safety of women and girls is a “national emergency “ and the next minute …

Killers, rapist and sexual abusers are to be released from prison early!

Wonderful … we all feel so much safer 🤡