Arthur Dent

I also believe that your lived experience is as valid as any other single data point. ( Stolen from Icenian@icenianV7 )

[Tim Worstall @worstall]

@GaryLineker If you desire to pay more tax then why not just pay more tax? "Cheques, by the way, should be made out to “The Accountant, HM Treasury”, and sent to 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ." Simples. The information's been out there since 2006 so why not? https://t.co/9iD59uUsxd Note that the year I checked only 5 people - 4 of them already dead - had actually done so. So, you know, show us your cheques and then we'll listen.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@AllisonPearson No new reservoirs have been built because every proposal has been howled down by green objectors.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

Defend ourselves or invest in our scientists?

Er, how about we do both?

[WFC @wheatfrom]

@matthew_elliott @Francis_Hoar Turing - subsidies to UK students to study in overseas universities.

Erasmus - subsidies to EU students to study at UK universities.

Obviously this “cash strapped” government prefers the far more expensive Erasmus scheme to the Turing scheme.

Why?

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@mehdirhasan If there was "genocide" in Gaza it would be readily demonstrable in the prewar/postwar population figures. However nobody is shouting about these figures probably because they tell the wrong story.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For decades, IARC has played a powerful role in shaping public perceptions of cancer risk.

The problem?

IARC identifies hazards.
Regulators assess risk.

Those are not the same thing.

A shark is a hazard.
A shark in your swimming pool is a risk.

Yet much of the public discussion treated IARC classifications as if they were predictions of real-world harm.

That distinction matters.

Because modern toxicology is not just about whether something can cause harm.

It’s about whether people are actually exposed to enough of it to matter.

This confusion helped fuel some of the largest product-liability lawsuits in history.

Glyphosate. Talc. And potentially many more to come.

Now, some policymakers are beginning to push back.

Not because cancer prevention is unimportant.

But because hazard alone is a poor guide for public policy.

Almost everything is hazardous under the wrong conditions.

Sunlight.
Alcohol.
Hot coffee.
Even oxygen.

The question that matters is not:
“Can it cause harm?”

The question is:

“At real-world exposure levels, does it cause harm?”

That is the difference between toxicology and fear.
Between risk assessment and headline generation.

And perhaps between science and litigation.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@ret_ward @aDissentient What size battery is required to prevent this happening?

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Sir Malcolm Walker, founder of Iceland supermarket, has come out to say "two-tier policing exists," revealing police arrived instantly to one of his stores after a fake accusation of racism, but didn't attend when staff were seriously hurt by shoplifters

Shocking.

[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

'I don't think you have, mate.' MATE. The world of contemptuous DEI-fuelled smugness in that word. The whole ruling regime is rotten - the #BeKind police force, who treat a dying young man like a lying nuisance in the name of being anti-racist, perhaps worst of all.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@thesundaysport They will also have to compete for all their capital for infrastructure investment with every other demand to the Treasury

[Mel 🕊️ @meljomur]

I swear I did not make this up from AI. Look at this Nicola Sturgeon event being hosted by a well known Edinburgh bookstore.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Of course the Japanese did not do anything between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@PeterSweden7 What's irrational about it?

[FalklandsinUK @FalklandsinUK]

On this day in 1982, South Georgia was recaptured by British Forces.

Task Group Commander Capt. Brian Young sent back the following message to the UK: "Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia". 🇫🇰🇬🇧

#Falklands44

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@afneil I wonder where all those sidewinder missiles fired by our aircraft came from?

[Steve Loftus @LoftusSteve]

@campbellclaret It's a Private members bill. They have every right to block a terrible bill whose backers have lied and misled people repeatedly.

I started as a general supporter of the idea, but I said this Government would royally fuck it up, and I was right. It's terrible legislation.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@ret_ward Can you point to any evidence that other countries are following our example?

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@Barristerblog It cuts off Irans only significant source of income. It cuts off the major source of oil to Russia and China.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@HarryLotusEater Step back: Trump threated to bomb Iranian infrastructure unless Hormuz was re-opened
This morning the bombing campaign is paused and Hormuz is open. The US and Iran have been negotiating an end to hostilities in Pakistan for several days. None of the e details are public.

[Arthur Dent @RealArthurDent]

@MDC12345678 @clim8resistance The very large fertiliser plant at Severnside closed in 2008 a direct consequence of the CCA