wayne flanagan

Geordie in Oz, love NUFC, inclined to ignore self serving & publicity seeking profiles, & tweets (ill-informed pundits & journalists alike).

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

😂😂😂

[arf @arf84648947]

Robin Williams once said, "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers, then we know who owns them."

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@SarahMillican75 Swan or

[🍀Louie Kerr 🇮🇪💚 @LouieKerr8]

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[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@ToonUnderPod @David_Ornstein @SkySports_Keith It used to be when I see it on https://t.co/2Ht0voOxeo or club photo in front of east stand. Games gone.

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@MichaelRosenYes That's you, that is...

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@monstroso Are you going to be Mister Charlie?? Boom boom..

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@Theleaguemag Xhaka Bilk?

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@KieranMaguire @alanshearer Sir Les 🫡

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

Sir Les afforded his correct title here..
#nufc

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Who would be the most expensive player in Premier League history adjusting for football inflation (increase in total revenue for the PL per season)? It has to be the greatest goalscorer...the one and only @alanshearer at an inflation adjusted £223.3m when signing for Newcastle. He also appears at £100.2m when signing for Blackburn. @rioferdy5 appears twice in the top dozen signings

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@cyp_toon Yeah, it's alright.

[Ginga Bonito 🇧🇷 @GingaBonitoHub]

Residents of the Luiz Villar street in Brazil painted 38 Brazil flags with about 270 litres of paint ahead of the World Cup! 🤯

Nobody takes the World Cup more serious than Brazil.

[Babble @Babble____]

Can't stop laughing at this 😂

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@swinburne_mark 70's.

Me brothers in borstal,
Me sisters got the pox,
Me mother's a whore on the Liverpool docks,
Me I'm a geordie I'm mental and mad,
And Jack the rippers me dad!!!

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@SupportersNufc NO!

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@swinburne_mark Sir David Kelly. Night out with Tino would be class too.

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@nickdemarco_ Get these from a local guy in Perth Aus, they're very good!

[wayne flanagan @wf_9]

@JHCPAL @lesleyeagan Hot milk, turmeric, black pepper and honey all blended into a nice anti inflammatory tumeric latte.

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

This guy was at the top of his game sucking off strangers in the park. Taylor Swift would never do something like this for her fans.