Dynamis Ger O'Dea

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[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.

[Oliver Pridmore @OliverPridmore]

A mother “very close” to her son - who saw him a handful of times in the years before the Nottingham attacks and didn’t know where he was.

A strange day of evidence from Calocane’s mum at the Nottingham Inquiry. Families now want to hear from his dad.
https://t.co/prOfWOjESD

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Day 2 of week 12.

God I look tired!

My reflections on Calocane.
It’s not exhaustive.
It’s my opinion and observations.
And it’s also all that I can really share atm pending further developments.

But it’s timely given tomorrow we publicly hear from Elias Calocane and on Thursday Celeste Calocane.
Father tbc!

I will listen with an open mind to all they say.
To their observations and fears rationale and reasoning.

But it must be the honest truth.
If they deflect from that I will challenge with every ounce of energy I have left.

#nottinghaminquiry 💛💚

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

Even the BBC have rarely witnessed what was said at the Inquiry - A care coordinator saying a consultant in a car park told him , “we must all sing from the same hymn sheet”. “I had to resign as I couldn’t be part of the lie they wanted to say”, a cover up - “perhaps”, a dereliction of duty - “perhaps”
@ashac_patel @BBCNews @BBCBreaking @EmilyMayTV @Alison1mackITV @wesstreeting

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

This should be reported across the nation
@bbc ⁦@EmilyMayTV⁩

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

📽️ From Donald Trump to Britain's wind power trade body, there's a growing coalition calling for more drilling in the North Sea.
Raising the question: if we DID encourage more exploration, how much oil & gas could we actually get?
Our MEGA primer on the North Sea👇
Ps it's longer than usual, but it turns out this topic has SO MANY misconceptions. Time to put some of them right.
Let me know what you think

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

Super progress being made with this important project, which will have a long-lasting effect on officer safety and policing outcomes for communities for years to come. Well done to everyone involved.

[College of Policing @CollegeofPolice]

We recently delivered a 2 week ‘train the trainer’ pilot with @northumbriapol, preparing trainers to roll out the updated public & personal safety training (PPST) curriculum. 1/3

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

@LessCrime …..the necessary, or honestly believed to be necessary, test is applied to the officer’s decision in the moment. The ‘absolutely’ bit is for the ECHR versus the government or the force.

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

@LessCrime @Geoff_Pearson Yes, a quick summary would I think be that ‘absolutely necessary’ is a Human Rights test, for the force to answer under a specific Article 2 challenge if it happened (a test of operational command)…

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

"Our trainer was incredibly knowledgeable and skilled in the field. He was supportive where we were unsure and approachable with questions...a great (and well needed) refresher of 'go-to' strategies" - thanks for the review, Class Teacher @StonebowSch #positivehandling

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

Check out my latest article: Transforming Crisis Intervention in Trinidad and Tobago: A Journey of Learning and Growth https://t.co/0qRvor3puA via @LinkedIn

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

At Dynamis we're delighted to be growing our training team. Our newest trainer is already delivering to the highest standard, with course attendees describing their experience this week: "Excellent knowledge"; "Professional and on point." #positivehandling #excellence

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

https://t.co/TYzvbULjFk

Well done Team Dynamis - a cracking start to the school year!

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

The new school year is well and truly underway! Dynamis trainers are out and about all over the UK and Ireland - meanwhile, I'm in Abu Dhabi training with the Taleem group's Charter Schools team. #positivehandling #conflictresolution #conflictmanagement

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

@____Foxtrot____ Ineffective force *looks like* excessive force. These guys are working far too hard on someone who isn't even assaultive (merely resisting). The new scenario-based training will help with this, but the tactics will need major upgrade to a contemporary standard

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

ICM Roundtable about #culture inspired by the most recent #Panorama on the #bbc about #abuse in #schools https://t.co/FbRs4nQ1kZ

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Next Sunday the All-Ireland hurling final will be on the BBC for the first time. It’s Cork vs Clare, a cracker of match in front of 82,400 screaming fans at Croke Park, for the highlight of the Irish sporting year. If you’ve never seen Hurling, here is a quick explainer…

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

This week's group making great progress with the Prevention and Management of Agression and Violence programme here in Trinidad and Tobago #pmvatraining #keepingpeoplesafe #conflictresolution #conflictmanagement

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

We're in Trinidad and Tobago to deliver the Ministry of Health's Prevention and Management of Aggression and Violence programme. Committed learners and a fabulous environment - looking forward to week 2 of the training! #pmva #conflictmanagement @MOH_TT

[Dynamis Ger O'Dea @DynamisInsight]

Enjoying this feedback from a satisfied learner today: "Bloody brilliant." 😀