Frank Kilgour

Data Science MSc. MBA. The dog is Shoobee, a smart, gorgeous, rescue Lurcher.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is AFD’s Maximilian Krah who met Labour’s Lord Glasman last week with Oleh Voloshyn - the Kremlin agent who bribed Nathan Gill - & his wife Nadia Sass.

Cd a lobby journalist pls ask @keirstarmer about UK govt’s refusal to investigate Russian interference in UK politics?

[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@DJSnM @Salient_s @SciGuySpace Very bad if that stuff is Space!😳

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Read this from @signalapp, one of leaders in tech privacy to understand the implications of Starmer’s announcement. This is going to hand even more surveillance powers to the very companies that already know way too much about us.

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

Wow- so it seems that Farage made the decision to stand down Brexit party candidates in 2019, completely by himself, potentially due a £1m gift from Harborne

He could call the shots because he had the controlling shareholding of the Brexit party.

He still does now it's called Reform, and always had, even when he supposedly stepped away from politics.

He may not take a dividend from Reform ltd, but there are other ways to profit.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

[James Love @james__love]

@TripeHunter2025 @DanNeidle Ireland is a good example on that list as it’s a recent cut.

https://t.co/S7frUut3N6

They found, in a shock to no one, businesses in the hospitality sector are more likely to pass on VAT increases to consumers while keeping a higher proportion of VAT reductions.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn

Who benefits?

❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing.
❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall.
✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m.

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[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@CalumDouglas1 Trains in japan were a revelation comfortable, clean and very quiet.

[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@davepl1968 No. Not unless they were a factory option.

[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@SportmphMark Mark, How is the years' ICE allocation affected by the introduction of new, ADUO-redeveloped ICE units during the year?

[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@adamcooperF1 @F1 @fia @Max33Verstappen Let Max go and do something he thinks is fun and let F1 get on with its own racing. Much tail wagging dog going on!

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I have cleaned-up this fascinating Autochrome portrait of the author Mark Twain (1835-1910). He is shown in bed with his book and pipe at the age of 73, and the shot was taken in colour 118 years ago at his home in Redding, Connecticut, by American photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is famous for such literary works as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), 'The Prince and the Pauper' (1881), 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884), and 'A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1889).
The photo was taken in 1908 using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Oh please. If Nick Clegg wanted to expose the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley he could breach his NDA & dish the dirt.

Instead he pocketed an alleged $100m & is laundering his reputation with assistance from UK media

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The real two-tier scandal in the UK is the relentless double standard approach of a media which lets one party leader get away with financial dodgery that would drive them into a frenzy if it involved someone their billionaire owners didn’t want in power because they believed in things like fairness and equality

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word.

Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness.

[hauntedmachine1817 @hauntedmchn1817]

It's time to take the contract for Question Time away from the company that produces it for the BBC. A company that has persistently overrepresented right wing ideology, has been actively enabling creeping Fascism and is now shilling for the Tony Blair Institute and its funders.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute.

My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

[Frank Kilgour @thebestbrew]

@CalumDouglas1 1921

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.