Paul Nardone

Coffee, Food & Tech

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Government has confirmed that its so called 'independent' Digital ID Advisory watchdog, will not have its minutes published.

We are expected to carry out parliamentary scrutiny on one of the most significant erosions of our civil liberties for decades, and yet we are not told the group budget, member selection process, or given the minutes from their meetings. Journalists have also been excluded from advisory panels.

The Government must give us answers on this sinister policy, and rethink its current course.

https://t.co/lFNq3lcyeV

[Higgy @higgyboson]

America- "We're building rockets that can take people to Mars".

UK - "We're going to make people turn off their towel rails".

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Have we already got to two-tier social media bans?

[Jonathon Kitson @KitsonJ1]

Under these proposals at 17 you’ll be able to vote, join the army and drive a car but not allowed to watch premier league highlights on YouTube on a Saturday night. What an absurd idea.

[Paul Nardone @paul41979]

France and Britain are great powers brought low by little men https://t.co/FekTU6zEaz

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain is 110% self-sufficient in lamb.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Not "pretty good." Not "mostly fine." One hundred and ten percent. We grow more than we eat and export the rest. We have done this on permanent upland pasture that cannot be used for anything else, managed by farmers whose families have worked the same ground for generations, using animals that have been optimised for these conditions over centuries.

85% self-sufficient in beef. 100% in milk. 90% in eggs.

The animal products on your plate, if you're eating in Britain, are almost certainly British. The supply chain is: farm, abattoir, butcher or supermarket. Measured in miles. Sometimes in tens of miles.

Now.

Your January strawberries are from Egypt. Your year-round peppers are from Spain or Morocco. Your salad leaves are from Israel in winter. Your green beans come from Kenya. Your blueberries are from Peru or Chile. They travel by refrigerated air freight, which is roughly fifty times more carbon-intensive per kilogram than road transport, to sit in a plastic clam shell next to a small flag and the word "fresh."

The environmental argument against British animal products is not an environmental argument.

It is a geography argument made by people who have not checked where their food comes from.

Check where your food comes from.

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

We need your help to #SaveDenby!
We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost.

We need your help:
1. Share this post
2. Sign the government petition
3. Buy Denby
4. Visit us at the Pottery Village

Read more: https://t.co/g17lHz2ETx

[Paul Nardone @paul41979]

Exposed: The plan to use smart meters to deter ‘immoral’ use of heating https://t.co/7mQMVpXKNq

[Paul Nardone @paul41979]

Ed Miliband’s hands are all over the decline of Denby pottery https://t.co/xCw6a5RCw2

[British Stand @britishstandd]

🚨Speaker LIVID as Labour deliberately ’BLOCK door’ To STOP MPs VOTING!

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Reform are unique, because we don't want to control you

It is time that adults were free again 😁

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

This from @Geoffrey_Cox was titanic - a truly beautiful speech.

He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh.

This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Only right to wait til Monday. Nobody likes working at the weekend — especially in the EU. Remember not to convene before 0900 — or you will be in breach of the working time directive. I know there are major geopolitical events afoot. But the EU must never forget to live up to its self-styled moniker as a ‘regulatory superpower’.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

‘We are a Government whose central purpose is to stand up for the powerless and not the powerful,’ says Red Ed Miliband, as he stuffs the pockets of rich and powerful providers of wind farms with yet more public gold. The hypocrisy is astounding.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Bank of England's admission on forecasting failures highlights the foolishness of fiscal rules based on forecasts.

The Bank, the Treasury and the OBR all have a dreadful record on forecasting (none are ever right!) which means that the policies are always wrong.

https://t.co/XA9Wpmwfgf

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Starmer is now coming after your end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Whatsapp and iMessage.

Things you say in your private conversations are about to become fair game for the government to arrest you over.

It’s coming “within months”.

Section 121 of the Orwellian  "Online Safety Act' that the Tories passed hands Ofcom the powers to compel any messaging platform to do 'client-side scanning' - meaning the tech firm must use "accredited technology" to scan your messages for content the government deems “harmful”.

To start with it's child abuse and terrorism (of course - who could argue with that?), but make no mistake, before you know it all the things the police use as an excuse to turn up at people's doors for things they say on public platforms will be used to persecute citizens for things they say in private.

ALL your messages will be scanned in real time as you send them.

Not just suspicious ones, or flagged ones.

Starmer is turning your phone into a real-time government informant.

The government has been working to make encryption irrelevant for years, it's why Apple withdrew their Advanced Data Protection service from the UK - because they refused government demands 

This is unprecedented territory for this country.

Lord Hanson of Flint - who is leading this awful mission - has "set a date of April 2026" for Ofcom to enforce these powers.

The era of private messages being private is about to come to an end.

Reform will repeal this dystopian surveillance Act.

My op ed in the Telegraph 👇

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

💣£95/MWh in 2025 prices locked in for offshore wind. Until 2045.

💥The market price for gas power is ~£55/MWh. Markets expect this to come down further.

It’s just not credible to claim gas is what’s making our power expensive. Not credible at all.

[Paul Nardone @paul41979]

Drug-driving causes more road deaths than alcohol https://t.co/sF7dUNckxh

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

The UK growth rate was slower for the first 20 years in the European Community than in the post war years before we joined. The growth rate fell again 1992-2020 when we were in the “ completed” EU single market and Customs Union. Going back in would slow us down again.