Andy Elvers

Music IT, ex DJ, views my own

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage."

Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK?

https://t.co/GlJMCNEt72

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

"We've made ourselves irrelevent..." the now late Alex Younger on the effect of Brexit. We are living through a time when the smart people are away from public space. He was an exception.

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

Black men are twice as likely to get prostate cancer. It is good policy to screen those at higher risk

What we have in this country is two tier politics: people who, whatever their faults, are trying to make things better; and people like Zia who are trying to sow division

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger on Brexit: “Putin would have been absolutely delighted by our decision.”

“So would Xi. France has effectively eclipsed us. Brexit has marginalised us.” Most striking of all: “Just nobody mentions the UK.”

Very sad that Sir Alex Younger, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, born on July 4, 1963, died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 2026, aged 62

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Because it was vile and divisive?

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

"I really hope the British public learns the lesson of Donald Trump, when it comes to Nigel Farage."

Congressman Brendan Boyle says the Reform leader is a "fraud", but is it too late for the UK?

https://t.co/GlJMCNDVhu

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@danielmgmoylan LOLOLOL

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Great piece here. What’s happening in Soho is repeated across the country, bringing together many of Britain’s economic problems. Burdensome planning/licensing regimes, an ageing society with too much power placed with asset/time rich and presumption in favour of no.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

1990s scientists:
We cloned sheep.
We landed robots on Mars.

Scientists today:
For the thousandth time:
The Earth is round.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.

The joke isn’t that science stopped advancing.

It’s that society started believing propaganda bots on X.

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@KRoelandschap @ETSC_EU Because the approvals literally make them irrelevant.

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@SomeUKTeslaGuy @WarrenWhyteUK @wayve_ai That’s is L4 not L2 - that’s quite an issue. Even if FSDS is more advanced.

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@WarrenWhyteUK When will Tesla apply?

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

[Stefano Masci 🧡 @MasciTini]

C’è anche la versione da casa.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Ferrari Luce, explained

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@TheAppleDesign 1

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@SimplyGregster Why would Ferrari want to copy Porsche as Xiaomi has done?

[EVCircles @EVCircles]

Does the motoring media have the balls to declare that the emperor has no clothes?

Ferrari is famous for controlling the media (and its customers). A bad review will get you banned. But this can’t be glossed over.

Let’s see who has a backbone here.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

The attempts by the world's richest man to use this platform to boost Rupert Lowe at the expense of Nigel Farage (107k 'likes' for his latest) begin to raise the question of how democracies deal with this kind of interference

[Andy Elvers @andyelvers]

@OutofSpecDetail That’s where I knew it from….