Owen Thomson

Rangers 🇬🇧 Engineer ⚙️ Type 1 Diabetic & HCL via Control iQ 💉 All views my own.

[Owen Thomson @ozzzzaa]

State pensions should be means tested. End of.

[Owen Thomson @ozzzzaa]

Exactly the problem- not an ounce of competence within the civilian side of the MoD and they are in abundance.

Majority work from home and rarely onsite or in office… no accountability to anything or anyone.

[Cupra @MylesGaret64559]

@PolitlcsUK There are more civil servants in the Miniatry of Defence than there are active duty personnel in the armed forces. The treatment of the armed forces by successive governments has been disgraceful. End net zero, slash foreign aid, cut benefits. We need to be defended.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

This is a political failure of the current & last govt, and a regulatory one. The solution is simple... BAN (ABOVE INFLATION) MID CONTRACT PRICE HIKES.

- They took too long to tackle mid-contract above inflation price rises
- When Ofcom did, it just said 'mid contract rises are ok, if you say in £s at sign-up what it'll be'. This has resulted in even bigger % above inflation hikes.

[Aviation News UK @AviationNews_UK]

‼️Glasgow and Edinburgh airports are currently experiencing fuel supply issues for unknown reasons, causing delays and operational changes across multiple airlines.

✈️Several airlines are uplifting extra fuel at other destinations

Impacts so far:
• TUI flights from Glasgow are routing via Prestwick (PIK) for refuelling
• Emirates' Edinburgh → Dubai service will stop in Manchester this evening
• Air France Edinburgh-Paris will stop in Manchester

Further delays are possible across both airports.

[Department for Energy Security and Net Zero @energygovuk]

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Britain is breaking clean power records☀️

269,000 solar installations completed in 2025 - the highest ever recorded and 37% larger than the year before.

Families are choosing homegrown energy, lower bills and greater energy security.

[Robin Murray @robinthemint]

I am a Labour party member and am not going to vote for Andy Burnham Wes StreetIng or anyone else. I am going to vote for PM Starmer because he won a landslide victory under two years ago & needs at least another two years to demonstrate economic and political success.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is set to approve an £18bn increase in defence spending as soon as next week

[@thetimes]

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

@SophyRidgeSky can you tell us in NHS leadership roles whether we will have our 8th SoS of health in last decade or will it stay at 7.

It’s quite difficult to plan much tbh 🙂

[Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥 @parthaskar]

#T1Diabetes & #T2Diabetes are not the same overarching 'thing'

Pulling them together into one place-at a policy level- does only one thing

Make people choose priorities-and based on sheer volume and finances?

#T1D will always lose out

Stop doing silly stuff

With thanks

PSK

[Owen Thomson @ozzzzaa]

@gb_dorset @paulmasonnews Never heard of battery storage? 😅🤣

[ACuser38677🇬🇧🇪🇺 @acuset857]

If the UK was US state it would rank

1st in life expectancy
1st in state with lowest Homicide rate
1st in avg years in school
2nd in lowest drugs deaths
3rd in minimum wage
9th in HDI
10th in lowest obesity
But..
51st in GDP PC

Yet again GDP per capita doesn't equal qol.

[Rolls-Royce Press @RollsRoycePress]

Rolls-Royce welcomes landmark contract with UK Government for delivery of Small Modular Reactors https://t.co/6y480QUPhj

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 BREAKING:Macron is TROLLING Trump at epic level 🔥

Macron: "When we are serious, we do not say the opposite of what we said the day before. Perhaps we should not speak every day."

😂 https://t.co/TX4BHmXMxr

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : This is Belt Treatment 🔥

Journalist –– Trump targeted you again with personal remarks. Do you have anything to say?

🇫🇷 Macron –– 🔥"We are talking about war, civilians dying, economies suffering. What I heard is neither serious nor worthy of response. A world leader can't use language he is speaking"

Much needed call out

[Owen Thomson @ozzzzaa]

Not often I agree with stumbler but he’s bang on the money 💰 14 years of Tory sell out have left the nations defences hollowed out and Jenkins has the cheek to say he’s had 18 months to sort it out 😅

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer snaps at Tory MP Bernard Jenkin for suggesting his approach to defence "smacks of enormous complacency"

"This smacks of the fact that for years there was underinvestment by the last Government... honestly, 14 years of underinvestment"

[Anonymous @YourAnonOne]

BREAKING: Close up footage of Iranian strike on Dubai hotel.

[Babcock International @Babcockplc]

Two major milestones on one landmark day in Rosyth.

Yesterday, we celebrated the Steel Cut of HMS Bulldog and the Rollout of HMS Active, marking significant progress across the Type 31 programme.

Watch the highlights from the day:

[Kevin McKenna @kmckenna63]

This is quite something to witness. HMS Active, the second of the Inspiration Class Type 31 Frigates, ventures out to meet the public for the first time from Babcock's Rosyth facility. It's the pinnacle of Scottish shipbuilding, marine engineering and craftsmanship

[Fr Paul @revpaulwhite]

In the UK the PM who is not mentioned in the Epstein files is fighting for his future because he appointed someone who is mentioned.

Meanwhile, in the US, the person who is mentioned 38,000 times, and who sends out racist memes, is still President...