Mark Bailey

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterton

@nickdearden75 He utterly failed - by his own account - and impoverished Tanzania.

Remembering Julius Nyerere. Nyerere was a giant in the movement for African socialism. This is a great primer for those who don’t know much about him 👇 tni.org/en/article/bac…

@ret_ward Is the “science” in the room with you now?

If you accepted the science of climate change, you would understand why further development of fossil fuels in the North Sea is not compatible with reaching global net zero.

@fionaharvey Ye Gods! This isn’t ’expertise’, it’s ideological activism.

Is North Sea drilling panacea to oil crisis? Upsides tenuous: won’t lower prices,create lots of jobs or tax revenues; will create CO2+encourage other countries with much gas to burn it. Only makes sense if you ignore climate. Which makes it insane, really. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@xevekiah Your terms are acceptable.

if abortion is ILLEGAL, men abandoning their pregnant partners should be ILLEGAL too. if women can't opt out of PREGNANCY, then men shouldn't be able to opt out of FATHERHOOD either!

@StopCambo Your command of logic, numbers and the law of supply and demand are a shallow as the Dogger Bank.

NEW 🚨: Opening new fields like Rosebank and Jackdaw to make almost NO difference to UK's reliance on gas imports. This is not energy security.

@whitesundesert @baylissbaghdad @TheCriticMag Saw that in Nairobi in ‘86. Not pretty.

@baylissbaghdad @TheCriticMag And yeah, we all heard the stories and saw the videos of the guy who'd been accused of stealing.

Kemi was right to say that the kind of disorder we saw in Clapham does not happen in Africa. My latest for @TheCriticMag thecritic.co.uk/kemi-badenoch-…

@MarxistBunch @whitesundesert @Sarahjdublin The Kapos and Bund are with us always.

@whitesundesert @Sarahjdublin As a Jew I can attest Israel is indeed committing genocide - and zionists - fake Jews - can fuck off

Leaving aside the wisdom of boycotting a customer base, I’m not sure it’s smart to advertise that customers can substitute your branded parts for universal ones.

@jbendery We don’t have a Mass on Good Friday, but that would ruin a good story. However, at least it wouldn’t have exposed you as a tendentious know-nothing.

“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email that went out to employees across the Pentagon. A peeved employee passed it along.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. huffpost.com/entry/news-liv…

@preta_6 D

This is an impossible choice 😭

“You’re absolutely right. I meant left”

@consumerofmonch @technopopulist Don’t want that. No one sensible does. Votingi is a Sisyphean task, but it beats the alternative.

@MarkCFDBailey @technopopulist No ranting is useless, but so is voting. It'll be answered with violence somewhere down the line.

My view of the boomers, as a generation, is that they often hold commonsense positions that younger people have lost, especially on questions of biology, relationships, and discipline. In that respect, I think British boomers are often right to push back against some of the more outlandish ideological trends among the young. But at the same time, the political economy has been tilted in their favour for decades, and against younger people. Boomers have consistently backed parties that helped entrench that imbalance. On immigration, I respect their instinctive patriotism. But those same voters also supported parties that ignored the democratic wishes of large parts of the British public. So take this as a peace offering. On many issues, boomers speak more sense than younger generations, and that’s worth listening to. But there’s no getting around the fact that younger people have been left carrying the cost of decisions made over many decades. Some ground is going to have to be conceded.

@consumerofmonch @technopopulist Who’s “you” in this scenario? Ranting isn’t an effective argument when it comes to the mundane realities.

@MarkCFDBailey @technopopulist Why would there need to be a mythical party? You got what you wanted.

@consumerofmonch @technopopulist As opposed to voting for which mythical party?

@MarkCFDBailey @technopopulist then they reelected them almost every time but one. Many such cases.

@consumerofmonch @technopopulist Oh, thought they were lying, but “lesser of two evils” is the main voting pattern. Unless you can tell me there was a credible alternative vote.

@MarkCFDBailey @technopopulist have to hand it to boomers who think they were deceived into voting for every labour and tory government for the last 26 years except this one

@technopopulist Even the 18-29 group supports the Triple Lock. Unbelievable. Everyone thinks there is someone else to pay for it - “the rich!”

@MarkCFDBailey I’m afraid your reasonableness isn’t going to cut through. I hope I’m wrong, though. The public finances need a massive reckoning.

@azm_org_uk Oh, get in the bin. Say what you mean: you don’t like Jews. That’s it.

Judge was Daniel Sternberg. Sternberg is a board member of the movement for Reform Judaism, which elects Rabbis for the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Reform Judaism’s website shows clear links to ‘Israel’. Sternberg previously dismissed a case against Tommy Robinson.

What? Your argument, such as it is, relies on the fantasy that the UK would have experienced growth rates at a rate totally outside modern patterns. As it is, they’ve pretty much matched the rEU. Brexit forced our rulers to rule. So far they’ve demonstrated they’re not up to much. We need better. We needed - and need - the stress test.

Extremely feeble “argument” - ignoring the massive economic and diplomatic damage Brexit has done to Britain. Covid vaccines are your clincher? Because of course they never got those in Europe. They’re all dead now. Such a tragedy.

@MichaelCon32285 @OdohertyI64991 @Alan__Shatter Learn to spell. Learn to construct an argument. Learn. Too much? Then stay quiet.

@OdohertyI64991 Shut up you Nazi Facist Zoinist supporting scumbag, I bet @Alan__Shatter is playing you well alongside the Israelis to justify the murder of innocent women and children by the Israeli forces

Anyone who refers to Jews or Israel as 'Zios' is literally using a term popularised by David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan. No surprise to see the Irish Left and the KKK finding common ground in Jew hatred. Aftdr all, Antifa are no different to the Klan.

@ELuttwak Stop. You’re reminding me of happier times.

Keir Starmer is preparing the United Kingdom for fuel shortages. Better to do a Thatcher w 3 Commando Brigade & 16 Air Assault Brigade to seize Iran's islands of Kish and Siri w RAF No. 83 EA Group sent to UAE pending RN arrivals. Who keeps Hormuz open owns it