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@Ameer_Kotecha Yes of course - because the US State Department is the pinnacle of good manners…. 🤦🏾‍♂️

I’d like to see this imposed in the Foreign Office. And for that matter across the civil service. Dressing smartly is a form of good manners

GCAP opportunity?

@BenObeseJecty Get a grip Ben, don’t you want Pepe to constantly reassess the situation and make course corrections or are you determined to just be pig headed? Question 4 moment much?

Yet another u-turn after yet another Labour policy collides with reality. Approving the new Jackdaw gasfield is the right decision, so why couldn’t Ed Miliband see that in the first place? This should have been approved months ago to improve our domestic energy security. This type of ideological zealotry simply cannot survive in the face of current world events. We cannot afford to have politicians who hold luxury beliefs. With the Government unwilling to acknowledge the long-term impact of the Iranian missile attack on Ras Laffan in Qatar, and with us significantly reliant upon foreign gas imports, its high time Ed Miliband faced up to the reality of his brief.

@PeterMeijer Brave words from an anonymous source. Either put on your big girl pants or STFU. How about Russia actually poisoning people in the UK and Trump welcoming Putin on the red carpet in Alaska?

It would behoove our NATO allies to appreciate that this sentiment is *very* widely shared, including amongst erstwhile boosters of trans-Atlantic relations.

@nimsdai Mate, come on.

I think it’s time for Europe to talk with Russia for better goods of Europe .

@sophgaston Unforced error? You’ve got to be joking. Bowing to pressure from an administrator who have no plan and no strategy is not an error. It’s sage and considered leadership. Look how well Iraq and Libya have worked out.

Clear that President Trump may seek to pull out of the Iran conflict with Hormuz unresolved, and blame allies' inaction. Not admirable. Equally, the choice to dither on granting US access to our bases up-front (without joining initial offensive strikes) was an unforced error.

@lewis_goodall @szabina_kozma Can’t wait for the ant-establishment wallahs like @Ameer_Kotecha to pipe up now.

Quite the contrast with the UK government’s message.

Get this man to lecture at @icsc_l

@BO3673 @FennellJW Would you (or anyone else) know how long it takes to manufacture a replacement for the different types of radars? And is this tech all US, or do UK companies have viable alternatives?

Lot of US radars of various flavours have gone bang in this war.

@thinkdefence @Proud_Sappers ….?

What is stopping the RAF asking those nice gentleman Sappers to build some basic physical protection for their scarce and hyper expensive aircraft?

"But Gabriele, why do you bitch all the time about Lossiemouth?" "Because having not one but two defence-critical fleets (P-8 and E-7) parked wing to wing in a beautiful open apron, no revetments, no nothing, in an airfield with 0 resident ground based air defence is mental".

@Gabriel64869839 @DefenceGeek Keep bitching my good man.

@Ziya_Meral Don’t forget Libya….

They will never learn.. will they.. After tremendous successes of finising jobs in Afghanistan.. Iraq.. Syria…

@FennellJW This is going to age very well: Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Donald Trump that while the U.S. felt insulated from the war, "you will feel it in the future," regarding the conflict's impacts. Trump retorted, "Don't tell us what we're going to feel”….

I wonder how much Russian technology was used to kill Americans today?

@RadhaStirling Please provide evidence of this development.

Dubai: Layoffs have commenced in the UAE education sector. Non-essential teaching staff, particularly in sports and extracurricular roles, are having their contracts terminated. For many expats, this risks immediate financial default and long-term travel bans.

@HRedpigs @PeterBleksley @Brick_Cop @metpoliceuk Seesh! You’re so needy! Anyone would think you were making up the point that there is a well established route for people to be dined out and a plethora of staff who could do spell checks etc.

@PeterBleksley @Brick_Cop @metpoliceuk I’m not as amazed as I should be that the police experience matched my own exit from the RN, 26 years regular service, name misspelled on my valedictory “parchment” and envelope with the bar to my long service medal thrown over the desk to me by a LCpl mail clerk.

Dear @Brick_Cop, please talk us through your @metpoliceuk exit interview… Thank you for your service, and all the very best for the future.

I think I recently saw your post recently about sharing army moments. I was never in the army but wanted to share a moment anyways - but this job might not look kindly on me mentioning the story with my own name. Even if you didn't want to share this, hope it gives you a good moment. I used to work as a ticket agent at the Tower of London, before, during, and for about 3 years after the pandemic. It wasn't a bad place to work at for a while. The beefeaters were pretty good, and usually helped keep everything together. Some of them used to step out to check in on us, which helped make us feel like we were part of the crew, rather than outsiders. One of them, I think he'd been an RSM before, had clearly at some point during his 30 years been misplaced by the army and left out in the sun too long. He was standing outside in 40c weather in his wool uniform, looking perfectly fine while we were all melting in our light shirts, telling us about his time in the Sahara, and in the middle of it he stops, turns towards me, and asks me if I wear briefs or boxers. He had the kind of tone where you just automatically answer, so I say I don't like briefs. He sniffs, announces that he doesn't trust men who wear boxers, doesn't elaborate, and goes on with talking about the right head gear to wear in the desert as though that's a normal way for a conversation to go. I was working there when Queen Elizabeth died. Just before we'd been given a new print of the old plan for what to do In the Event, and asked to rehearse it. On the day of, for some reason, everyone started improvising and ignoring the plan, which made things pretty interesting. We get told to put on our nicer uniforms and look smart and everything, and then spent the day helping direct people, turn away tourists, man the gates, that sort of stuff. The artillery arrives for the salute, and some important looking people in expensive clothes and weird hats turn up and get led to the very VIP area right near the guns at the gatehouse, and then a few more VIPs by the gates, and behind the gates all of the tourists and crowds. On the bridge, the families of the beefeaters, and the staff who man the inner buildings. And a dozen of us in a mob on the outside not sure where we should be. A Personnage wearing about a swan and a half's worth of feathers in their hat turns purple when they see us, and walks up, almost shaking with rage at the idea of proles standing so close to the mighty, and starts getting us to move up and up and up. To the gates, past the gates, up the hill, behind the tourists, not quite to the tube station, but preferably somewhere far, far away. RSM sunstroke sees us wandering up the hill, and in a calm murmur that could clearly be heard in Westminster, asks us what we think we're doing walking away from the salute, to stop pissing around like we're random tourists, and get on the bridge, right at the front with the rest of the Tower folks. It was nice to have someone looking out for us.

@Ziya_Meral It does put us to shame a little considering the amount of red tape we seem to need to muddle through.

Comparing how swiftly deals can be done unlike in UK and Europe which can drag on months and months and years..

Oh FFS USA 🇺🇸. What the actual fu*k?!

@OvePM @carlatkinhouse @christiancalgie Slavery wasn’t a problem for hundreds of years, still worth doing something about it.

@carlatkinhouse @christiancalgie There are dozens of pubs and cafes nearby with toilets. Hasn’t been a problem for the last 80 years - it’s very popular!

This is precisely the sort of nightmarish, anti-enterprise, anti-joy, stakeholder state red tape the government should be scrapping. Save the Regency cafe! thetimes.com/article/6d2789…