Steve Brandom

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@AyoCaesar And heaven forbid it if you're a football commentator or comedian (unless you're Geoff Norcott). 😂

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@John_Stepek You're not being bold enough. Mars? 👍

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@TerraOrBust Clearly Frost loves erecting trade barriers that increase costs and therefore prices. Remember he's a failed civil servant who went on to market Scottish whiskey, not exactly qualified, for anything.

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@John_Stepek IMF bailout at the end of 1976, subsequent economic concerns?

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@Kevin_Maguire This really isn't our biggest problem. The bigger problem is the incompetence and stupidity of most MPs, of all parties. Halving the number of MPs, PR voting and paying them more would solve that.

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@John_Stepek To be really mean MPs and SPADs would also have to make an annual declaration of their average holding over a year in UK assets with a 10% minimum in UK equities and a mandatory 10% in Gilts. 😂

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@AyoCaesar They'll lose unless they ditch the current policy re energy. Everyone with 1/2 a brain knows it's dumb. It's why our energy cost is the highest in Europe. Why are we giving tax revenue to Norway? Why is our trade balance dire? Why is our borrowing cost so high?

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@johnauthers @afneil has just broadcast/posted an alternate opinion. Does the US market have it's "head in the clouds"?
(Note to US readers, Andrew Neil is broadcasting on a "right wing" channel) https://t.co/ZNNSjllRUB

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

"If this is victory, what would defeat look like?”

Trump is in a “fantasyland”, says Times Radio’s Andrew Neil.

@AFNeil

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@SimonCalder Super taxing private jets would raise ZERO. They'd simply not refuel in the UK. It's one of the more crazy ideas by folk who've not engaged their brains. Maybe one day we'll have politicians with brains? Probably not in my lifetime though 😟

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@SBarrettBar Your tweet is nonsense. If a party is elected with a majority where the manifesto includes rejoining the EU the they can. You're a pretty useless at law! Specially for a barrister!

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS We call this brown nosing. First, you're forgetting POTUS should have obtained approval for his war in congress/the senate. It's not yet a legal war in the USA. He won't seek approval because neither the Senate or Congress will approve his actions.

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@MerrynSW Next she'll be claiming lights out data centres will create lots of "high skilled, high paid" jobs, unless she's made the claim already 😂😂

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@jruddy99 A dumb tweet. Oil production would sure help the UK's dire trade deficit and economic woes. Currently most of the UK's energy is imported, and you think that's smart? We even have to import most of our solar panels and wind turbines. Is that smart too?

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@mrstivvi play dress up? loving those vintage suspenders, what brand are they/ where did you buy them?

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@DanNeidle @John_Stepek @forexflowlive The smart thing to do, which won't happen is: dramatically downsize the number of MPs, pay them properly and require full disclosure (eg trusts, external funding etc). This might even attract competent candidates if it's implemented using PR with regional party lists.

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@benrileysmith That's a lot of folk Farage's recruited who were fired by the population!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The usual Trump sycophants and know-nothings are all piling in claiming he’s a genius, this is the art of the deal in action, he played hardball to get a better Greenland deal than was otherwise available. It’s all nonsense.
In fact, it’s TACO in action, a Trump surrender, a victory for European NATO for refusing to be cowed/bludgeoned.
You will find there is nothing in the framework agreement re Greenland/Arctic region that hasn’t been available to USA/Trump for weeks, months, years.
A much bigger US military presence. More US bases. Use of Greenland for the ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield defence. All available under existing arrangements, with Denmark saying many times it’s happy to go even further, with European NATO backing.
Now NATO and America together will put more military resources into the High North as it grows in strategic significance.
Trump gets nothing that wasn’t on offer before all his absurd threats and bluster about annexation.
European NATO will nevertheless breathe a sigh of relief. But it should rest on its laurels. It urgently needs to reconfigure NATO so it’s a lot less vulnerable to Trump/Vance grandstanding/bullying in the future.
Trump has backed down. But it’s no less of a wake up call for European NATO.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Nigel Farage on Nadhim Zahawi in July 2022:

"I thought Zahawi had principles. Tonight we learn, he's just about climbing that greasy pole."

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@MerrynSW Looks like it's on The Telegraph's problem page 😂😂😂😂. Is the advice is as ridiculous as the problem?

[Steve Brandom @steve_brandom]

@KateAndrs It doesn't. If what you say was true (it isn't) why has Chevron been importing oil from Venezuela and supplying then naphftha to enable them to pipe their oil throughout this period?