Patric Turowski

Professor at UCL; passionate about research, Europe, cooking, equality, Arsenal, rocknroll; father of twins (you might know what that means)

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@DAgalliu @Columbia @AgalliuLab Congratulations!!!

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@BeatlesEarth First Beatles album I owned

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@annettedittert @NickCohen4 To talk publicly of “NATO’s war against Russia” should automatically result in exclusion from the party. She is a incorrigible zealot whose record is stuck in last century

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@owenjonesjourno @owenjonesjourno for PM: he'll sort out everyone's problems in a jiffy

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why is anyone still listening and giving airtime to David Frost?

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@annettedittert I think being able to communicate a vision is essential and in that regard Starmer has hit a ceiling

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Labour MPs primarily focusing on defeating Farage at the next GE. However, the focus should be on delivering good policy, which people want to see being continued when the next GE comes around.

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@AdamPollock @PolitlcsUK @Telegraph strong words from someone who drinks 20y+ wine on delivery day

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@KayBurley I don’t think that is relevant to the point he wants to make but you probably know that.

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@GermanEmbassy @BBCSport @DFB_Team_EN Too symmetrical and thus not enough maverick energy.

[Louis Dunford @LouisDunford]

The Story of The Angel ❤️

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@RichardHanania Whilst the data is clear, how is your ostracising and belittling people going to help?

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@stats_feed This is such a lazy comparison as e.g. in the UK (for which I do not think this number is correct) you have healthcare included, whilst in CH you pay that extra (plus local taxes).

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😂

[Matt Lucas HQ @RealMattLucas]

good morning

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Completely irresponsible. I despair.

[@PoliticallyHomeless @nowayjomo]

@bmay Do you have a Reform Councillor? Make sure they work for their money

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

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@EBL2017 Yes. Diabolical defending

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@EdwardJDavey And you would have done exactly the same if you had been PM. But then you are not and never going to be in that position.

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@jonlis1 It is also so going to work: the owner of the corner shop asking for ID if someone looks 48 rather than 49, I. A country where no one wants to carry ID…