Catherine Rutter

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Even taking into account JD Vance's habit of political shit-stirring in the UK, it's not possible to convincingly deny the double-standards on display here.

I'd have more respect for David Lammy if he'd dropped the act and said: "Yeah fair enough, we really fucked this one up."

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

200 years of skill and culture in our heartlands is now gone because of weak politicians who have rubbished our society over 40 years disrespected our society & our culture added high energy prices & cheap inferior foreign imports and industries. None of this progressive.

[Mick McGovern @mickmcgovern191]

I spent 48 year's at Denby pottery, it's so sad watching it close. £120million from the government to help the pottery industry,too little too late. End of a 217 year old I to iconic company .

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

I didn't know this.

It is deeply moving.

❤️🇬🇧

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Michael Pope @OyVeyPope]

I never wanted to be a political account.

I'm a British Jew. A husband. A father of two. An engineer. A man who believed that if you worked hard, treated people decently and kept your head down, the world would mostly leave you alone.

My grandfather survived Auschwitz.

For most of my life, antisemitism felt like history. Something to remember, not something my children would have to face.

Then came October 7th.

Since then I've watched Jewish people told to stay quiet, hide who they are, apologise for who they are, or accept standards that would never be applied to anyone else.

For a long time I said very little. I didn't want to drag my family into politics. I convinced myself someone else would speak.

Eventually I realised that silence comes with its own cost.

Martin Luther King Jr wrote:
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

So I'm speaking.

Against antisemitism.

Against extremism.

Against political intimidation.

For free speech, liberal democracy, integration and honest debate.

You don't have to agree with me on everything.

But if you're willing to have difficult conversations without hatred, you're welcome here.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Did you know that the first women to land on the Normandy beachhead in June 1944 were nurses of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service?

Their task was to establish a field hospital for 600 wounded soldiers.

They succeeded.

Please remember these heroines who saved lives:

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes.

They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Once again we ask:
Why has the UK STILL NOT designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation? It was embarrassing before, it’s off the scale now. Great article by @potkazar https://t.co/quRRGykrfO

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this could only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. https://t.co/0tBWmEbxVf

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Incredible scenes already:

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband has signed the UK up to a legally binding 87% CO2 emissions cut by 2040. Paul Homewood says this can only be achieved by the devastation of industry and sharp cuts in the standard of living. Read his article in the Climate Skeptic. https://t.co/bGOg3zigaP

[Ben Aveling- Radmore Farm @Radmore_farm]

Lab Grown Meat On Supermarket Shelves?

The FSA is fast-tracking approval for lab-grown meat in UK supermarkets — aiming for early 2027. But their own documents reveal consumer acceptance hasn’t increased, there’s no labelling framework, and the nutritional profile is “as yet unclear.” As a primary producer, I’ve read the receipts. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

Want real meat?
Shop now :
https://t.co/OeCNt28O8n

[City A.M. @CityAM]

In 23 months Labour has dragged the UK economy to its knees https://t.co/iS6dvZSrLS

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Identity politics divides our country whoever is doing it.

The Conservative Party rejects it.

We believe in universalism and equality under the law. We must not treat people differently on the basis of skin colour. We have to build faith and trust in our institutions.

If there is one thing that should come from Henry’s death, it is that we make things better, so that this does not happen to any of our boys again.

That is what I am committed to.

I do not want his death to be in vain.

Let’s do this for Henry. Let’s get this right.

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

For years @KemiBadenoch has been clear - the victim culture and labelling of individuals as oppressors simply because they are white has led to serious wrongs done to them and division in our country. It must end.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Britain has rarely been this anti-growth, says M&S chairman

It’s almost unbelievable how economically inept Starmer’s Labour are.

Literally everything they’ve done or threatened to do has hurt growth https://t.co/SLewrnxRrZ

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

This Jewish Londoner’s family has lived in England for hundreds of years.

Now, he is the last one to leave for Israel.

Why? He’s sick of getting threatened in the street.

A society that has given up on protecting Jews is not a healthy society.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

She wasn’t just the wife and leader she was the treasurer! She signed off the sums.

Did he buy her that brass neck as well?!