David Paxton

“Bless your heart”, Professor Joe Butcher

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

A short rail bridge over a two-lane road in Oxford took longer to build and cost more (inflation-adjusted) than some of the most famous construction projects in history

[Paul Fanning @trivet1806]

They always pretend it's about preventing offence, but it's really about pretending the absurd mores of today were always in place.

You aren't allowed to remember that it wasn't always like this.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@KennethFitzsi15 Just bought the audio

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Been giving Deadwood another go round. Some of my favourite dialogue ever written, and even despite all the acclaim for Ian McShane and plentiful work subsequent, it’s still shocking how brilliant his turn is.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

This is what they took from us.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@robinmonotti @PWestoff 'Actual history'. Not even Russia recognised those farcical 2014 non-votes. And only bots and suck-ups would be shameful enough to call the 2022 votes 'democracy'.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@AngIo_Saxon_ That's retarded

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@WTMAtkinson Yes, of course. Bonkers Q.

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@SarahDuggers Forewarned is….

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Rugby season starts this week. Enjoy my indecipherable and excitable random tweets for the next 9 months

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@KennethFitzsi15 Thanks. Hadn’t considered that.

[Philip Cunliffe @thephilippics]

Hahaha 🎯

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@smileplusdaily Why not have both?

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@yuanyi_z Wasn’t the point that they could write cheques bigger than the entire PTA budget and transform the situation with their money and attention?

[Clément Molin @clement_molin]

For weeks, Russia 🇷🇺 has been attempting to push between Drujkivka and Dobropilla, two key cities protecting the southern flank of Donbas 🇺🇦

This time, they concentrate massive forces and attempt to breach the 1st defensive line.

🧵THREAD🧵1/10 ⬇️

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

@DeltaSierra4 @RidyardMike Not if they are concerned with total tax take and growth.

[Tom Jones @93vintagejones]

The justifications keep shifting; now growth, now welfare, now the benefit to the host society, now the benefit to the immigrants themselves, now as a result of colonialism. Immigration is a fait accompli for which people are forever scrambling to find a rationale.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

They call it carpet bombing because the slogan is easier than watching the opening seconds of the tape.

This is declassified aerial footage from the first days of the war. In the first few seconds the drones catch Hamas rockets leaving a residential block.

The white streaks are outgoing fire, not incoming. Then the aircraft hit the ground those rockets just left. The impacts are discrete. The neighborhood is still there around the smoke. That is not an area weapon walking street by street until nothing remains. That is a launch site being answered in the same grid it was fired from.

Hamas put the tubes between houses on purpose. The accusation that follows is always the same. Israel is leveling a city at random. The tape says the opposite. The fire started from those roofs and courtyards, and the strike went back to the place the fire came from.

If you want to keep the carpet-bombing line after this clip, you are not arguing about targeting. You are arguing against the picture.

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

Putting aside the fact that this broadside is aimed at someone who was defending Rishi Sunak...

I don't think that (effectively) calling someone "racist" has the knockdown, conversation/career ending power it once did in public discourse.

Instead, it's now simply ignored by many as a smear that doesn't work, and, for the rest, the context is examined to see if it's justified.

Which, here, it plainly isn't.

[William Meijer @williameijer]

Germany's PISA score rises 41 points if you exclude immigrant kids. Switzerland: +30. The UAE's score drops 45 points without immigrants.

Singapore, Macao, the UAE, and Qatar recruit immigrants smarter than their native populations; Europe, the opposite

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

The Boriswave/ILR debate has been extremely clarifying. Confronted with the absence of economic or cultural benefits, the left wing argument for low-skilled migration has slowly but surely converged on the moral need to uplift people from third world welfare systems to first.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Madness. Complete madness.