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[Roddy @roddy_sw]

@PythiaR Odd bot pickup here. Seems all AI power infra but would have thought turbines the least fundamentally impacted

[Roddy @roddy_sw]

@NewmoonCap Surprised they didn't say more.. like to throw out big numbers

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.

This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Labour have looked at an oil shock, had a little think, and decided the correct response is to MAKE YOUR ELECTRICITY MORE EXPENSIVE.

As a form of protest.

Against oil.

Are you fucking hearing this!?

Britain. Island. Made. Of. Fucking. Coal. Floating on a bathtub of North Sea gas, ringed by one of the most developed offshore basins on the entire bloody planet that - in many instances we share with the Norwegians - and that we buy from the Norwegians at a sodding premium, and once upon a time we were the Ozempic of civil nuclear, the thing everyone in the world wanted a prescription for.

And the plan, the actual plan these window-licking noncery-merchant ass-hats have settled on, is to phase out the domestic stuff faster during an import price spike. That’s by definition NOT an energy policy, far from it, it’s more like a sort of febrile ransom note the hostage has written to himself, in crayon, with a little smiley face at the bottom.

“Some say we’ve gone too far, too fast. We disagree.” Oh do you. Do you really.

Well, dickheads, the National Grid disagrees with you disagreeing. So do the chemicals plants you’ve already turned into wildlife sanctuaries, the steelworks you’ve FedExed to Jiangsu, and every industrial electricity bill in this country which is now running at roughly four times the American rate, which, just so we’re clear, is the economic equivalent of trying to win Formula One on a fucking Boris bike.

And the big reveal, the headline policy, the thing they’ve stuck on a placard? Cover the brownfield sites, the literal tombstones of British industry, in solar panels. Bury the corpse. Plant a windmill on the grave. Put up a little QR code linking to the Guardian. Call it a recovery. Mind bending stupidity.

Meanwhile the capacity market is paying gas plants to stand around like substitute goalkeepers on a Sunday league bench, constraint payments are running into the billions because nobody can work out how to get Scottish wind down to a Surrey kettle, and every single pound of that gets smuggled onto the standing charge because these fuckwits haven’t got the minerals to put it on the unit rate where the public would actually clock it.

“It’s time to go further.” Further? Christ alive, you brainless shitheels have already landed us with the most expensive major economy in the G7 to run a factory in, your answer to an oil shock is to accelerate the thing that made you import-dependent, and you’re announcing it on a Tuesday afternoon like it’s a fucking bake sale. This isn’t net zero. This is net zero brain cells. This is the policy equivalent of setting fire to your house to own the arsonist.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You terminal weapons-grade cretins, the structural kneecapping you deal out to the country on a daily basis is performance art levels retarded. It’s, genuinely, tantamount to sabotage. Our enemies couldn’t dream of such damage. Mike Tapp and Blue Labour are alright, but the rest of you can get all the way in the fucking sea. 🚮

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

The British government has asked army chiefs to find 3.5 billion in cost cutting despite a 24 billion spending hole.

This is a joke...

[Sir Kenny Dalglish @kennethdalglish]

Another great day at Aintree. Couldnae pick a winner between us! 🐎

[Roddy @roddy_sw]

@lukerobertblack UK solar capacity factors are 10-15% so the average output in reality will be 80-120MW. That is equivalent to around 60k homes.

[Joseph Gellman - it’s coming home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @joseph_gellman]

I can’t wait to claim I never saw this in 40 years time then demand thousands of pounds in compensation

[Matt Stark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @MattStark1991]

If the Treasury fucks up GCAP, I'm going to make it my life goal to get it broken up. HMT has far too much power, the Chancellor arguably has more power than even the PM over domestic policy and its penny pinching short termism is killing us.

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

UK electricity generation has fallen 25% from its peak in 2004. Per capita electricity consumption is a third the level of the United States. The UK has the most costly electricity in the world. Half the gas we consume comes from the Norwegian side of the North Sea basin. The residual imported LNG has 4x the carbon footprint of supplying our own. And most depressingly of all the result is a deteriorating UK Balance of Payments, a weaker pound, and a bigger hit to the cost of living. And still the useful idiots want to further constrain UK energy production through high taxes, banning new licences, and gold-plating new energy infrastructure. Their luxury beliefs are behind the awful household disposable income growth of recent years. 🤡.

[Iain Martin @iainmartin1]

Reminder, the defence budget is £62bn.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

OBR projecting an extra £18bn in welfare spending. We are spinning up an entire NASA (annual budget $24.4bn) worth of welfare this year, bringing our annual spend to around 18 NASAs. By end of the decade it is set to reach 22 NASAs per year.

We could have had the stars.

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Thanks to Ed Davey, Nick Clegg and Liberal Democrats:

1) In 2010, opposition to new nuclear was justified on the grounds it would not be online until the early 2020s.

2) The Contracts for Difference regime was created, embedding a subsidy structure that has contributed to structurally high electricity prices.

3) Fracking was politically strangled in the 2010s, closing off domestic gas supply as global volatility increased.

Who needs Putin or the mullahs in Tehran when the Lib Dems have been doing their best to shut down Britain’s own energy supply for the past two decades?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Important news. The first opinion poll conducted since I announced yesterday that Restore Britain would become a national political party has us on 10%.

In this poll, we are ahead of the Lib Dems.

10%. In 24 hours.

I call that a bloody good start.

We have to work hard, get lucky and be entirely honest with the British people. We need the support of millions of patriots, and there will be difficult days ahead.

But seeing the incredible reaction over the last 24 hours, I am increasingly of this view...

We can absolutely win the next election.

We can Restore Britain.

I hope you consider supporting us in that journey.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

This is eye-opening. I knew the planning system was broken, but it is worse than even I thought.

When I heard that planners had recommended Hackney councillors block the extremely popular Shoreditch Works development I asked @Michael_J_Hil to read the planners' report and look through hundreds of documents submitted by the developer.

It is really bad.

- Developers submitted NINE THOUSAND PAGES of paperwork, planners said it wasn't detailed enough.

- Planners said it should be rejected because some flats would lack enough natural light due to shadows cast by other parts of the development.

- Planners simultaneously argued there weren't enough homes, didn't provide enough office space, and it was too tall.

- Developers had to comply with 42 separate Hackney policies, 75 separate London Plan policies, the Hackney Borough Site Allocations Plan, five other separate sets of standards and policy frameworks, two sets of ‘emerging’ unfinalised policies, plus all relevant national legislation and guidance.

- The design review panel criticised the project because every building was of the same architectural style. Planners ignored the surveys showing huge public support for the designs.

- New homes must provide outdoor space so residents have access to a green roof, but planners said that might disturb nature. (This is on an exclusively brownfield site)

Councillors have an opportunity tonight to overrule the planners. I sincerely hope they do!

https://t.co/VGyg6v0E6S

[Roddy @roddy_sw]

@valiovalentino Open Evidence taking share is the threat no?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let’s spend £4.5trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by falsely claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

I spoke up for farmers in Parliament yesterday. 

Labour Ministers sat there laughing - all whilst farmers watched on from the public gallery.

This is the level of disrespect our farmers have come to expect 👇