Alex Hughes

Dog Lover | Sport Fan | 1998 DPS Junior Girls Sack Race Champion.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

So impressed by Cape Verde. Hugely positive, no sitting back and hoping for the best. Excellent movement around the pitch too, and the finish for the 2nd goal 👏 👏👏

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Still amazes me that Steve Bray can still find enough suckers to donate to him so he can do nothing except be as irritating as he can. Absolute grifter.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

@Lucy_Worsley Westminster- one of my favourite places in the world. 900+ years of history, think of all the people whose footsteps we a literally treading in.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Now Peter Snow has just described her as ‘this amazing woman, audaciously trying to hijack this plane” Really, @channel5? When I started watching Hijack, I assumed the terrorists hijacking the planes would be the bad guys

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Watching first ep of Hijacked on @channel5_tv - had to pause and rewind to check they had actually lionised Leila Khaled, prominent terrorist, as ‘glamorous’, ‘dedicated operative’ and ‘a tough character’. Pretty nauseating, tbh

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Watching first ep of Hijacked on @channel5_tv - had to pause and rewind to check they had actually lionised Leila Khaled, prominent terrorist, as ‘glamorous’, ‘dedicated operative’ and ‘a tough character’. Pretty nauseating, tbh

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

The thing that is really impressive about Kemi at the moment is she’s not just having cut through in the UK, she’s developing a profile around the world.

It’s just Jeb, but it’s an example of her profile outside the UK, and that profile adds to the image of a PM in waiting

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Hope Mancunians remember that they will be footing the bill for the £million mayoral by-election Andy Burnham’s ambition is going to cause.

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Treating voters as fodder to satisfy the ambition of a carpet bagger. Is it any wonder so many people hold politicians in such contempt?
I hope Burnham gets the result he deserves and falls flat on his face.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Does Starmer honestly think he can get out of the current situation and remain PM? It’s over.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Success is relative, take Swindon local elections:

Reform gained 14 and We (Tories) ‘only’ gained 7 - BUT, enough to hold off Reform and be the largest group on the Council.

Reform 3rd group on the council with 9 fewer Councillors than us.

It’s clear who had the better day

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

I supported Kemi from the start when she 1st ran for leader. She gave a speech to my local Tory association a couple of years ago. A lot of people said they were underwhelmed. Not me, I heard her and believed her when she talked about conviction and knowing what you stand for

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

You may not agree with me, but you will always know where you stand with me.

Today in Billericay, a heckler tried to shout me down as I spoke about the normalisation of hatred towards Jews. I did not back down, because it needs to be said. British Jews are being targeted and too many people are pretending this is the same experience of other minorities. This lady implied Muslims are being similarly targeted. This is simply not true.

Let's be honest about what is happening. Certain groups (in particular but not solely Islamic Extremists) are creating a climate of fear and intimidation that is normalising Jew hatred. I will never stand for that. Governments have spent too long hand-wringing, making excuses and hoping it would go away. It is time to call this what it is: a national emergency in our attitude, our urgency and our response.

I will always engage with people who disagree with me. That is politics. But there is a difference between argument and intimidation. Shouting does not make a bad case good. It's done to silence others. And it certainly does not change the truth.

The truth is that British Jews have been made to feel less safe in their own country. Our country. They are being singled out, threatened and harassed in ways that should shame everyone in public life. If we do not stand up now and stop this rise in antisemitism, then why bother saying "Never Again" at Holocaust Memorial Day? Because this is how it starts.

I am not prepared to play along with the pretence that this is normal, or manageable, or just another example of tension between groups. It really is not. It is targeted hatred and it is getting worse.

So my message is simple. Not here. Not in Britain. And not on our watch. We need to stop the hand-wringing and start doing the right thing. That means standing with British Jews openly, unapologetically and without fear.

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

This latest terrible attack on Jews has made me so angry I dont know what to do. All those who have helped create the conditions for murderous antisemitism in this country should ask themselves a few questions. They wont , they will just abuse me here of course.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

I see, in response to the Golders Green attack, Starmer has escalated his stance from “deeply shocked” to “deeply concerned”

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I am deeply concerned about the terrorist attack that took place today.

This is not an isolated incident. It is the latest in a spate of utterly vile attacks on the Jewish community.

I’ve just chaired an emergency COBR meeting and tomorrow I’ll be bringing together criminal justice agencies to ensure we have effective and swift justice.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

Nico Gonzalez is a baller, just needs to be patient and play the long game #MCISOU

[Middle Temple @middletemple]

Being Called to the Bar is a moving experience for many newly launched barristers. Leonie Hughes describes what it feels like to achieve her goal.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

I get Rodri has to do what he feels is best for his career, we can’t expect blind loyalty.

Talking like this *publicly* and so freely a week after RM knocked is out the CL is thoughtless and unprofessional. A kick in the teeth to us City fans.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

@ZoeJardiniere @UKTogetherAll @JewishSocialist @DawnButlerBrent @ZackPolanski How dare you use this attack against Jews to promote your event. Do you honestly think Jews will be reassured by an event featuring Knee Cap, supported and promoted by the PSC?

[Charlotte Salomon @SalomonSoup]

The “F*** the Jews… rape their daughters” convoy were released without charge.

The hate marches with antisemitic imagery and chants were not halted.

We have antisemitic artwork in galleries.

Those who could’ve stopped it, didn’t.
And it was a choice.

[Alex Hughes @floppet_]

I love Khusanov, he’s going to be a cracking player - but, I don’t think I have seen anyone look less like they enjoy playing football. He always looks like he’s about to burst in to tears.