Alex Tustin

@wwfcofficial OMG! What is that!

Introducing our brand-new electric home kit for 2026/27 🔥💙

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@SBarrettBar Bo Boom! Very good! 😂😂😂

John sends his apologies - apparently he's having a Currie.

UPDATE 🚨 It is all go now down The Red Lion as all the former PMs celebrate Keir being the official worst Boris has got a round in, Gordon looks relieved. Liz is still dancing. Rishi is asking for tap water. Dave is calming Theresa And Tony has asked for an appearance fee

I went to a state school. I used to be against private schools. I used to think they were toffs & people who thought they were better than us. Then I matured. I now realise that in the main, the people who send their kids to one are just normal folk who have decided to prioritise best education for their children and often make significant sacrifice to do so. Alongside this, they also help fund the state education system, which they don’t use. Whatever problems state schools face, it certainly isn’t as a result of private schools. If anything, kids going private eases pressure on the state system. The closure of these schools are utterly tragic for the kids affected. The policy attempts to damage the private system are an act of societal self-harm. Anyone who celebrates it, is frankly, a fool. edp24.co.uk/news/26058426.…

@wwfcofficial In Duff we trust!

Michael Duff's Lincoln City reaction

@bootlegger1974 Come on, tell the truth. You got that from a restaurant! 😂😂😂👍👍👍

Chicken caprese and some crispy parmesan potatoes 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹gunna watch telly in bed lads go well

@Kristinartz Our set made much talk of “ The Great War”. Turned out the encyclopaedias were so old the Second World War hadn’t happened yet!

Did anyone in your family ever own a full set of encyclopedias? Those heavy books sat on the shelf like treasure - we'd actually flip pages to look stuff up. Who remembers Britannica or World Book?

@BellaBaddie__ Petrol

Name a scent that's good, but isn't perfume

@HRH_SHP The best tip I ever got was to never return to USA.

Last night I ordered takeout, drove to the restaurant and picked it up. I signed the receipt and didn’t tip on the tip line. I feel guilty and judged every time I do this. No tips on takeout, right?

@SBarrettBar For what it is worth I am sure that there is a brighter future ahead. You will have my vote when needed.

I was disciplined by my barristers chamber for sending a tweet that while the authorities cared only about the narrative, I cared about the little girls They ruined my holiday with my child to do it, forcing me out, losing the career I had fought so hard for I feel vindicated

I’d say this is a fair example of how most small business owners feel at the moment,we are literally at the end,something HAS to change….

@kingkapoor72 @Deedy2201 @metpoliceuk This happened to me. Easiest way to fix is just put the reg back on retention.

Urgent action required @metpoliceuk. My vehicle registration has been cloned and is currently being used on a BMW SUV that is not mine. This is a serious issue. I could be wrongly held responsible for crimes or offences committed by whoever is using these fake plates, as the Met Police is looking for any reason to arrest me, as done previously. I request urgent investigation and action before this situation escalates.

Excellent thread, this. Something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about… The British state is run by people who have never been fired, never missed a number, never had a client scream at them, never stayed up until 3am working on a deal, or repricing a book because Tokyo opened badly. They have never experienced CONSEQUENCE. Ever. THAT is the single most important fact in British public life. The pipeline is so uniform and mediocre it scarcely needs describing: - School - PPE or adjacent - Civil Service fast stream or a Think Tank research role - Spell as local councillor to appear “grounded,” - Then a safe seat and a red box before 40 At no point has the market ever called them a moron. At no point has a P&L told them their idea was shit. The feedback loop that every private sector professional takes for granted simply does not exist in their world. This matters because policy is NOT an essay. It IS a trade. Every regulation has a cost, every tax has a behavioural response, every intervention has second and third order consequences. In markets, if you misread convexity you get carried out. In government, you get reshuffled to a different department. The incentive structure could not be more perfectly designed to retain the incompetent and repel the capable. Anyone with genuine commercial talent is earning multiples of a ministerial salary by their early thirties. So the applicant pool self selects for people for whom the title is the reward because they could never command that status where performance is measured. The think tank ecosystem makes it worse. IPPR, the Resolution Foundation, JRF and the rest function as ideological finishing schools and revolving doors. They produce people fluent in the language of policy who have never implemented anything. They can model a distributional impact assessment in their sleep but could not run a corner shop at profit. This is NOT intelligence. It is pattern matching within a closed system that never tests its own assumptions because everyone in it shares the same priors. The civil service compounds it further. The fast stream rewards generalism, rotating you through departments every 18 to 24 months to develop “breadth,” which in practice means you never develop depth. A Treasury official who helped design a tax policy in 2019 is working on transport by the time it starts distorting behaviour in 2022. Nobody owns the outcome. The private sector has one thing the state fundamentally lacks: a kill switch. Bad companies go bust. Bad traders get sacked. The state just absorbs failure, reclassifies it as “lessons learned,” and promotes the people responsible. The compound effect of thirty years of this is a permanent class institutionally incapable of delivering growth or even understanding why the private sector they depend on for revenue keeps shrinking under their stewardship. This is what we have, right now. You cannot fix this with better people inside the same system. The system selects against competence, insulates against feedback, and rewards survival over performance. Every parliament is just a fresh rotation of the same profile through the same machine expressing the same surprise when nothing improves. We need parallel institutions to be built by the guy or gal staying up til 3am repricing the book. The risk taker. The entrepreneur. Then we gradually phase the existing sclerotic failed structures out. That’s how we win. Make Britain Great Again 🇬🇧 💪

Hey @grok, how much does an armoured Range Rover Sentinel weigh? And how many is Sadiq Khan known to be chauffeured around in?

Shocking!

Yeah I suddenly walked into a TV presenting job with the click of a finger… I worked in Sainsbury’s, for EDF Energy, the water board, call centres, all from age 17, just to get money. I didn’t care what job I did, I just needed to support myself. I said yes to everything, trusting that I’d one day get there and everything would work itself out. I didn’t turn down jobs because it wasn’t my field or what I wanted or dreamed of right that minute or think I was above anything or anyone. I had no money. I never went to uni. I saved hard for a £5,000 journalism course, I then worked like a dog at local newspapers (still on minimum wage) and at a bookmaker at the same time doing 20 hour days for years just to keep grinding. I spent more hard years commuting to London and back, doing graveyard shifts at papers then waiting at Blackfriars station at 3 in the morning to get home to Sussex and start my other job at 9am. It nearly killed me. For years. 16 years it took me to get here. And you know what? I loved it all. I loved the journey, I loved the dark moments asking myself if it was all worth it. I loved the wins. I loved the hard lessons. And I love what I’m doing now. Yes I have the best job in the world (for me) and I’m incredibly grateful. And I’m still grinding. I’ve just done 14 days straight, travelling to Texas, Florida, then DC. Doing a three hour show every night. But I recognise how fortunate I am. I always have, even when I was stacking shelves. I didn’t just turn up at a studio and start presenting. Most importantly I never played the victim.

I'm generally a peaceable man, but whoever came up with Making Tax Digital For Income Tax needs to die in a fire.

Whenever I am at Nice airport, this story springs to mind. What a Fabulous man Roger Moore was.

@bootlegger1974 You are on another level with those hasselbacks. 🥔🥔🥔🍴🍴🍴

Deeeeww a mighty fine rib eye for tea in the villa 👌washed down with an italian red lads

Best episode yet of Voices for a free Future with Steve Baker. Featuring @policylaila Laila Cunningham @stevebakerfrsa/note/c-234550661?utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@stevebakerfrs…