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All things Clevedon, Calgary & Alcossebre. Padel. Pickleball & Sea Shanties. Intend to live to 100 or die trying.

UK, Spain & Canada
Joined August 2011
Andrew Neil Just Called Andy Burnham’s Economic Plan Fairy Dust - Veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil has declared the Prime Minister’s big-state, high-tax, more-nationalisation vision of growth pure fantasy, telling Triggernometry that Burnham is “away with the fairies.” While the rest of the country stares at soaring debt, rising interest rates and a winter cost-of-living crunch, King of the North is still peddling the idea that more government control will magically deliver Scandinavian-level welfare on Mid-Atlantic taxes. If this is the plan, the fairies better start printing money.
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This is very good, both because I agree with an awful lot of it and because it’s great when politicians argue in depth, from first principles, in public.
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I really like this….
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Here's the reality of UK's energy supply in 2025. Forget the hype from the green grifters...look at the actual data Solar and wind (circled in red) provided about 6% of our total energy Oil and gas and coal (in green) about 79%. That's 12 times as much. And given that this profile isn't going to change much anytime soon, is restricting access to locally sourced North Sea oil and gas really such a great idea?
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This is how people talked about Pablo Escobar in the 80s.
Sheikh Mansour’s impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football: 🏦 Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis 🏠 Thousands of new homes in Manchester 🏗️ Major regeneration of East Manchester 🎵 Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live arena 🏨 New hotels and commercial developments 👷 Thousands of jobs created 🏆 Bought City’s first FA Cup trophy and donated it to the National Football Museum ⚽ Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse A legacy far bigger than football. 🩵
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Same result every time when Govt play at “shops”.
Great British Energy spent £14.1M of taxpayers' money and generated just £62k in income, a loss of £200 for every £1 earned! 0 local jobs created. Millions to consultants & lawyers. Prime farmland lost Reform UK Wales demands full transparency and an end to this waste. @ReformDaily_ @RUKWales
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Shop ➡️ vuxuba.com/skycraft They fold the plane themselves, then take the controls — this RC paper airplane kit turns a simple sheet of A4 paper into a hands-on flying adventure without needing a phone or app
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I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.
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Privatisation didn't make our power dear. Gas pricing, green levies on bills and decades of not building did. GB Grid is a welcome £4bn nudge to a £70bn problem. Fix the price mechanism @andyburnham Prime Minister, not the ownership chart.
I want to be honest about how we’ve got to a place where British billpayers are paying some of the highest energy costs in Europe. Over the past 40 years, we’ve given up control of our necessities, outsourced our essentials and privatised the basics. Water, transport, housing. And of course, energy. Now the public are paying the price. We haven’t invested in the infrastructure we need. Conflict overseas has pushed up energy costs and it’s hurting our businesses and families. That’s why we need to take back greater control of our energy system. This week, I announced Great British Grid, which will speed up connections and push down bills. We’re also giving mayors, local leaders and communities a stronger role. With funding for People’s Power projects, communities will be able to build solar panels on libraries and town halls, hydro schemes in rivers or publicly owned windfarms on local land. But it’s not just energy we need stronger public control over. It’s also water, housing, transport and care. So we’re repealing the ban on public ownership of water companies. We’re building more council homes than this country has seen since the end of World War Two. We’re reforming the leasehold system so families aren’t squeezed for every penny. And we’re opening up home ownership for first time buyers who can’t rely on the bank of mum and dad. This week I also announced my determination to introduce a National Care Service, to put people above profit and to give pensioners peace of mind. Together, we’ll rewire the country from top to bottom so that it works for all people in all places. That is the only way to put Britain back on the right path. It’s the only way to put power back in people’s hands. And it’s the only way we will bring hope again.
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Magnificent. Man is great at adapting.
The internet never disappoints.
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I think Sir Jim has made his views pretty clear and most reasonably minded people will probably agree.
🚨🔵🛑Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Manchester City financial breaches allegations.👀 🗣️Ratcliffe:​ "Let’s call a spade a spade, shall we? You look across town and you see this glittering empire, but the foundation is built on absolute financial fiction. We at Manchester United, for all our recent faults and boardroom incompetence over the last decade, generate our revenue because half the globe genuinely cares about the badge." 🗣️"City claim to have out-earned Real Madrid and United commercially, yet they play in a stadium they can barely fill for a Champions League knockout tie. It’s an insult to the intelligence of every football fan in the country." 🗣️"​If you run a petrochemical company and cook the books to artificially bankrupt your competitors, the government steps in and people go to prison. In football, apparently, you just get to hire a fleet of lawyers and parade around on an open-top bus for ten years." 🗣️"The Premier League has to stop tiptoeing around this issue like a frightened child facing a state-backed bully." 🗣️"​If those 115 charges are proven and frankly, the sheer volume of smoke tells you exactly where the fire is a Nine Hundred-million-pounds fine or a temporary points deduction is a sick joke." 🗣️"You don't dock points. You strip the titles, you wipe the records, and you send them down to the National League where they can learn to balance a legitimate ledger against Halifax Town. Anything less is a permanent, terminal stain on the integrity of English football." 🗣️"I, for one, am entirely finished pretending their 'treble' wasn't bought on credit they never legally possessed."
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There is no evidence Sir Jim Ratcliffe said this. No credible interview, video, transcript or reputable report attributes these quotes to him, including the claims about relegating City to the National League. Source: Reuters reuters.com/sports/soccer/…
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Gus Fring’s impact on Albuquerque: Providing employment to local workers. Supported local charities and community causes. Made substantial donations to DEA charitable events. Donated to Walter White’s cancer treatment fund. Shall we ignore his drug operation?
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We are getting there! Coming to our senses one by one...
Excl: Labour’s energy policy is “batshit crazy” and the department overseeing net zero is “basically the ministry for P45s”, one of Britain’s most powerful union leaders has said. In an interview with The Times, Gary Smith accused the government of relying on “sticking-plaster politics” while companies struggled with high energy costs and warned that rising energy bills would create a raft of fresh strikes across the public and private sector. On Jackdaw and Rosebank he said: “If they do not do this, it will damage hugely the government’s credibility, and it will massively damage investment because that infrastructure, as I understand it, is ready to go — billions of investment. And if it does not now happen, who in their right mind is going to put money into this country?” thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Interesting escalation: Treasury Select Committee chair Labour MP Meg Hillier writes to the head of HMRC querying whether they have asked for the full unredacted Premier League judgment on Man City and asked if tax authorities are “seized of the importance” and public interest in the case
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I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon's generals that had gone unread for 217 years. What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal. 1/6🧵
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86p a week saved. Enough to buy a mediocre packet of crisps.
From today we’re removing tax from your electricity bills. We are acting to give people some breathing space where we can, while we make the long-term changes needed to strengthen Britain’s resilience against global economic shocks.
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I will make a very important announcement tomorrow at 18:00 UTC.
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