Guy Herbert

First described (2004) #databasestate. ex-GenSec @NO2ID. MD @MarjacqScripts. @FIPR_infopol board. Cassandra. Memorious. Irony in the soul. Purity-test failure.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@AndrewOrlowski @ADalrymple There's a queue to hate me. Take a ticket.

[Joe Allen @Joe___Allen]

Good news for anyone concerned that electricity was getting a bit too cheap.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

RT @PhillipsPOBrien: Trump and Musk are just stringing Ukraine along and letting Russia attack it with impunity. And the American press is…

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

Since we can't have working fireplaces, or wood-burning stoves, how are we going to heat up our stores of tinned food when you switch off the electricity, dear government?

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@alexmassie @DSanderson_85 Have to worry what the Scots Greens think they might be the political wing of.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@s8mb I had insane questionnaires, similarly, when I moved this summer. If I didn't have some cash on hand, I'd never have got a place, because all the agents are using credit reference systems that can't understand you if you don't work for a large corporation.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@AlecMuffett Or anything at all written by me, presumably. Depressive realism is a thing, and it is a threat to the state.

[Mike Oxard @mike_oxard84258]

@cjsnowdon I may have took Councillor Burnham’s suggestion more seriously if I hadn’t been text alerted last year about BBQ sausages.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

My timeline is full of right-wing Americans angrily not understanding that names can work differently in different places.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@alexmassie She'll be on Question Time next week I imagine, and have a book deal shortly.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@wallaceme The less people rely on "the government" as if they were small children and it their parents, the better. Maybe that's what's being tested here. How totally passive and reliant is the public? Lockdown didn't give enough information maybe.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@wallaceme That would be ideal for many bureaucracies.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@MisanthropeGirl Probably means they are ramping it up. All that wasteful use of accountants and formal calculations according to the law, when people should just trust HMRC and pay whatever arbitrary number it first thinks of.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@Polymarket Caution: I can't see any coverage of this story from a UK news outlet.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

Well that answers my raised eyebrow here:
https://t.co/NrJZvmqELy

[Andrew Gilligan @mragilligan]

Jonathan Powell was not vetted before being appointed National Security Adviser, we can report.
https://t.co/LgfyXajROJ

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'We'll tax our way to prosperity'

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On this day—October 23, 1942

An SS Einsatzkommando unit was waiting in Athens for the order to bring the Holocaust to Mandate Palestine’s Jews when British forces under Montgomery opened the Second Battle of El Alamein.

By the summer of 1942, Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had driven deep into Egypt. British forces held a defensive line at El Alamein, 60 miles west of Alexandria. From there, the road to the Suez Canal and to Mandate Palestine with nearly 600,000 Jews was open. Another 75,000 lived in Egypt, and both communities understood the danger. Reports of mass killings of Jews in Europe had already reached them.

In Berlin, an Einsatzkommando under Walther Rauff was assembled and positioned in Athens. Its orders were to carry out “special operations” against the Jewish population once Axis forces advanced beyond Egypt. Local Arabs in Mandate Palestine, anticipating a German arrival, marked Jewish houses for seizure. Grandi Mufti Amin al-Husseini had already met with Hitler and sought Arab units to fight alongside German forces against the Jews and the British.

On the night of October 23, Montgomery’s Eighth Army launched a massive artillery barrage and infantry assault. Over the following days, the Axis lines broke. Rommel’s forces began a long retreat to the west. The Einsatzkommando never deployed to Mandate Palestine, but it later operated in Tunisia.

The battle is usually remembered as a turning point in the North African campaign. For the Jews of Mandate Palestine and Egypt, it was the point at which a planned extension of the Holocaust was halted.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

From the ‘Department of I’ve Been Trying to Tell You’:
New Harris Interactive poll taken in France after last weekend’s riots puts Le Pen on 33–35% in the first round and Mélenchon on 17–19%. Le Pen wins every second-round contest, including beating Mélenchon by 70% to 30%.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Why is everyone being so po faced about this? Angie spoke for the nation here.

[Bakhti Nishanov @b_nishanov]

40T is 300k barrels. Which is 2 (yes, just two, no zeros here) hours of US consumption. Russia will get at least $30m, but likely closer to $50m for that. That will go, among other things, to supporting Iran. If this is not self own, I don’t know what is.

[Guy Herbert @guy_herbert]

@SimonMagus Would be nice.