Steven Barnes

AM Process & Capability Lead at @BAESystemsAir. MSc Aircraft Engineering from @CranfieldUni. Fan of @BurnleyOfficial. All views my own.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

This is precisely the problem of the British disease of changing PMs all the time: everyone else changes. No one learns

What organisation could succeed if the boss & every head of dept is routinely purged?

Mahmood is proving the most effective Home Sec for years. Why move her?

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Nigel’s poster is going viral

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

🇺🇸 Trump — We are fighting to protect the Iranian women

🇪🇸 Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez — “If you really care about Iranian women, STOP BOMBING THEM” 🔥

This man has become a HERO for billions. What a man, what a country 🫡

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Why be a red state when you could be a blue state?

Vote blue 2026, save your state.

States with highest Murder Rates
🔴 Louisiana : 16.8
🔴 Mississippi : 15.4
🔴 Alabama : 12.2
🔴 Missouri : 11.8
🔴 South Carolina : 10.5

States with the lowest Murder Rates
🔴 Utah : 2.2
🔵 Rhode Island : 2.0
🔵 Maine : 1.7
🔵 Vermont : 1.5
🔵 New Hampshire : 1.1

Bottom 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔴 Alaska
🔴 Louisiana
🔴 Arizona
🔴 Oklahoma
🔵 New Mexico

Top 5 public school systems (based on test scores)
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Minnesota

States with the lowest life expectancy in years
🔴 Mississippi : 70.9
🔴 West Virginia 71.0
🔴 Alabama 72.0
🔴 Louisiana 72.2
🔴 Kentucky 73.5

States with the longest life expectancy in years
🔵 Hawaii : 79.9
🔵 Massachusetts : 79.6
🔵 Connecticut : 79.2
🔵 New Jersey : 79.0
🔵 New York : 79

States with the highest infant mortality rates
🔴 Mississippi : 9.11
🔴 Arkansas : 8.59
🔵 Delaware : 8.07
🔴 Lousiana 7.65
🔴 West Virginia : 7.47

States with the lowest infant mortality rates
🔴 North Dakota: 3.29
🔵 Massachusetts : 3.31
🔵 New Jersey : 3.61
🔵 New Hampshire : 3.66
🔵 California : 3.95

States most reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔴 Alaska : $2.36 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Kentucky: $3.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 West Virginia : $2.72 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 Mississippi : $2.34 per $1 in taxes paid
🔴 South Carolina : $3.42 per $1 in taxes paid

States least reliant on the federal government (per dollar)
🔵 New Jersey : $0.35 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 California : $0.50 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Minnesota : $0.58 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Massachusetts : $0.41 per $1 in taxes paid
🔵 Illinois : $0.60 per $1 in taxes paid

States with the most domestic violence arrests
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Missouri
🔴 Kentucky
🔴 Florida

States with the lowest domestic violence arrests per capita
🔴 North Dakota
🔵 New York
🔵 Rhode Island
🔵 Vermont
🔵 Massachusetts

Lowest GDP per capita
🔴 Mississippi : $53,061
🔴 Arkansas $60,276
🔴 West Virginia $60,783
🔴 South Carolina $61,616
🔴 Alabama $65,889

Highest GDP per capita
🔵 New York : $117,332
🔵 Massachusetts : $110,551
🔵 Washington : $108,468
🔵 California : $104,481
🔵 Connecticut : $99,035

States with the highest incarceration rates
🔴 Louisiana : 775
🔴 Mississippi : 717
🔴 Arkansas : 614
🔴 Oklahoma : 598
🔴 Texas : 563

States with the lowest incarceration rates
🔵 Massachusetts : 116
🔵 Maine : 130
🔵 Rhode Island : 152
🔵 Vermont : 153
🔵 New Hampshire : 165

highest obesity rates
🔴 West Virginia : 41.2%
🔴 Mississippi : 40.1%
🔴 Arkansas : 40.0%
🔴 Lousiana : 39.9%
🔴 Alabama : 39.3%

lowest obesity rates
🔵 District of Columbia : 23.5%
🔵 Colorado : 24.9%
🔵 Hawaii : 26.1%
🔵 Massachusetts : 27.4%
🔵 California : 27.4%

States with the worst public transportation:
🔴 Mississippi
🔴 Nebraska
🔴 Wyoming
🔴 North Dakota
🔴 Alaska

States with the best public transportation
🔵 New York
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 Washington
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Illinois

States with the lowest college graduation rates
🔵 New Mexico
🔴 Nevada
🔴 Idaho
🔴 Oklahoma
🔴 Alaska

States with the highest college graduation rates
🔵 Massachusetts
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Connecticut
🔵 New Hampshire
🔴 Virginia

highest sex crime rate
🔴 Alaska : 118.4 per 100k
🔴 South Dakota : 72.6 per 100k
🔴 Nevada : 70.2 per 100k
🔴 Arkansas : 52.0 per 100k
🔵 Michigan 72.4 per 100k

lowest sex crime rate
🔵 New Jersey : 15.1 per 100k
🔵 Connecticut: 18.2 per 100k
🔵 New Hampshire : 19 per 100k
🔵 Maine : 21.3 per 100k
🔵 New York : 22.7

most teen pregnancy
🔴 Mississippi : 26.4
🔴 Arkansas : 24.5
🔴 Louisiana : 23.8
🔴 Oklahoma : 22.9
🔴 Alabama : 22.0

lowest amount of teen pregnancy
🔵 Massachusetts : 6.1
🔵 New Hampshire : 6.6
🔵 Connecticut : 7.6
🔵 Vermont : 7.8
🔵 New Jersey : 8.3

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

World's best cities to live in.

1. 🇬🇧 London
2. 🇯🇵 Tokyo
3. 🇨🇳 Shanghai
4. 🇸🇬 Singapore
5. 🇦🇺 Melbourne
6. 🇦🇺 Sydney
7. 🇫🇷 Paris
8. 🇨🇳 Beijing
9. 🇺🇸 New York
10. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam

(Global Finance Magazine)

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

[Dan Rafael @DanRafael1]

Official #BeterbievBivol2 scorecards. #boxing

[Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind]

Only Trump could turn a speech about a terrible plane crash into a petulant political attack while they're still literally pulling bodies out of a river. We shouldn't still be amazed. But I am.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Rather striking, what’s happened since the 2016 Brexit referendum…

[Neil Henderson @hendopolis]

INDEPENDENT: Five years on, the true cost of Brexit #TomorrowsPapersToday

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

East Lancashire Derby limbs🤩🤩🤩

Limbs of the weekend from Burnley👏😮‍💨🤯

#clarets

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

This team goal by Burnley 😮‍💨🤌

[Phil Bird @PhilBirdBFC]

Goodnight Clarets 🌙💤

[Bec @RebeccaCait04]

@sharrond62 Yep. let's see your tweets about all this bad stuff, or didn't you speak up?

[LBC @LBC]

It's rare that James O'Brien and Nigel Farage are in the same room.

So when the Reform UK leader was leaving the LBC studios after his phone-in with Nick Ferrari, @mrjamesob delivered a one-of-a-kind handover.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

A simple truth, either wilfully ignored or still not grasped by swathes of Tory journalists & politicians.

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Tony Blair:

“I remember a conversation in the Brexit debate
He said to me ‘you're this typical elite, trying to say you know more about it than I do’
But do you know what I said to them?
I DO know more because I've been prime minister for 10yrs”

[Burnley FC @BurnleyOfficial]

An outrageous finish 🤌