Mat Barrie

Views are my own. Into my tech, skiing & cycling.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Helen Whately Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, IQ of a blunt pencil, says "the country faces some really serious problems"

Yes, we know Helen. Mostly caused by Tory incompetence. For example £100 billion spaffed away by the Tories.
#PoliticsLive

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

👏 Sir Bill Browder just said what no UK minister has dared to say:

A Reform politician took money from a Kremlin-linked agent to advance Russian interests inside Britain.
Browder calls it treason, says the sentence is too short, and warns this is “the tip of the iceberg”.

He’s right tick ✅

🔥 The Russia Report was buried.
🔥 The Foreign Affairs Committee was blocked.

And anyone asking questions - including those challenging the Brexit vote in court - was smeared!@JMPSimor

Gill isn’t the whole story.
He’s the proof the story is real.

How much Russian interference have we not been allowed to see?

[Mat Barrie @MRB41]

@Xversionofme1 Who has cctv in the loo?

[Mat Barrie @MRB41]

@Airaasayss No 16

[Mat Barrie @MRB41]

@Airaasayss 10

[Soozy Woozy @SoozyWoozy3]

I strongly oppose Dido Harding being appointed as Chief Executive of NHS England. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/aRTVDUvwat via @UKChange

[Playingitagain @AmeliaRocket1]

I remember listening to this show on my daily walk and I’ll never forget the long standing NHS PPE providing contractors phoning in and telling the country they were being ignored in favour of lobbied Tory mates. Criminal charges should be sought.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Reform UK's candidate for Clacton:

[Mat Barrie @MRB41]

@BGatesIsaPyscho It’s not a dog, it’s a Doberman😎If you know, you know

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Another young satellite-tagged Golden Eagle from south Scotland translocation project found injured with 17 shotgun pellets embedded in wings & body.

Police Scotland press release + commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/IkEK14AQUv

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

The BBC may have forgotten Farage's £5m grift, but if you remember it, please repost! Thanks.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

In one tweet the MAGA on Russia’s side in Ukraine exposed

[Fran 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 @FranS199]

Pretty good for a *checks notes* “failed PM”, “worst PM in my lifetime”, etc., etc. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

Any Labour PM would expect a hard time from the overwhelmingly right wing media but now we know about the orchestrated terrorist attacks by Russia on Starmer, surely we should ask who is behind the unprecedented levels of hostility to him online?

[Mat Barrie @MRB41]

@AndyFitchet We must get rid according to the foreign owned media.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

And another one: asylum seekers in hotels falls from 31k to 21k in first three months of the year... https://t.co/xCpMrRc2SM

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Zeteo UK @zeteouk]

👏 🇬🇧 Zeteo UK is here to disrupt Britain’s broken media! We’ll be bringing fearless, independent journalism to the UK - no bowing to political pressure, no corporate interests, just fearless journalism.

[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.

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle 'disappeared' on Snilesworth Estate, in the North York Moors National Park.

Link to a feature article in The Guardian & some additional commentary from me ⬇️

https://t.co/KrdZsKRMCG