Alexander Thomson

@Danjsalt Dan I admire your contributions here agree with you often. But you really have crossed the sceptical line and are now full blown cheering on Tehran here and on other posts. This is meant well, I'm not a supporter of this conflict, but you're now tacitly supporting Iran FFS.

If he just destroys the entire electricity grid which is the actual threat then he would likely kill more people than nuking Tehran #justsaying

@MarcherReborn I would suggest that the vast majority of our political and media class is pretty much 100% rooting for the Iranian regime and would be delighted if the US was forced to withdraw with a bloody nose.

Certain parts of our media are gutted that both of the downed F15 aircrew have been found alive and well

@KirstieMAllsopp I have my reservations about the objectives and execution of this conflict. I don't know enough about the political and military situation inside Iran to have a strong view. I do know that the argument it's a terrible idea because "oil price" is a desperately ignorant one.

There seems to be a surprising lack of anger about the fact that the U.S. President is driving us all off an economic cliff, hundred of millions are going to find life much tougher as a direct result of what this man decided to do, and unlike Iran, the U.S. is a democracy!

@MDC12345678 This is an extraordinarily charitable assessment. The costs, trade offs and risks were not neglected; they were denied. The claim was that Net Zero was greener, cheaper and more resilient for the Uk and if you demurred then you were in the pay of the fossil fuel lobby.

One thing this energy crisis has made painfully clear is that we skipped a deeper philosophical debate about energy and climate policy. We answered (1) the empirical question “Is climate change real?” and moved quickly to (2) the formal one: “What target - net zero by 2050?” But we never confronted the questions that actually matter. What vulnerabilities are we willing to accept as a country? Which values - security, affordability, sustainability - take priority when they collide? Do we owe a primary duty to Britain’s security and prosperity or to abstract global commitments? There are many more. Instead, a well-meaning but very dangerous cross-party consensus took hold that treated these deeply ethical questions as if they had been settled. They had not. In a pluralistic society, they cannot be fully harmonised as Miliband, Cameron, May and others pretend. The result was to bypass any serious engagement with trade-offs. We proceeded as though our values were totally aligned and the path forward was merely technical. It isn’t, and never was. And it was only possible because of the post-ideological / “end of history” mindset that was pervasive throughout Westminster. Now we are paying for assumptions that were never properly interrogated in Parliament or the media for more than two decades. It is time to return to first principles and ask those questions properly.

@MerrynSW Science is a process of disputation and experimentation. So let the prospectors drill and if they lose lots of money then those scientists will be correct. If they succeed...

These are not just scientists. These are climate scientists.

@ima_jerry15016 For a story rooted in history, the idea that the mistress of a brother to the ruler would kill that ruling prince and then her and her bastard daughters would rule without serious civil war is nonsense.

The fact that they rule Dorne after kîlling the previous ruler and prince without no one caring about, bothered me in so many levels.

@Danjsalt Odd one Dan. I'm not particularly impressed by Trump, think he's messed up somewhat. But Iran is an appalling regime and its stance is "leave us alone or we will inflict carnage on our own and other people and it will be your fault" and your disposition is to agree with them.

4D chess Apparently Trump meant to shut the strait No he didn't care about the strait Now he is so desperate to open the strait he's willing to threaten potential war crimes Genius So much winning I do wish we were involved in this shamebles - not

@dontbrexitfixit Brexit is a poor idea, badly executed and incoherent in terms of what it hoped to achieve. It has been a rounding error in terms of lost growth, insignificant vs things like welfarism, lockdowns and net zero and your £90-100bn lost tax revenue is utterly absurd.

The Excess is worried a Brexit reset will cost £3bn per year but fails, as usual to address the massive elephant in the room, that Brexit is costing £90bn-£100bn per in tax revenues alone. This useless, shit stirring fucking rag should stick to shouting at marmalade.

@AzPetrich Just look at the fucking state of you.

Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.

@Notwokenow They assume it won't happen to them; and moral vanity.

Why do leftists have more sympathy for criminals than their victims? I don’t get it.

@MerrynSW Imagine an HR system. Let's say one feature is employee feedback, 97% accuracy is fine, so that can be vibe coded for buttons. Another is payroll and tax deductions. 97% accuracy and the directors go to jail.

Would you pay for/rely on a calculator that was accurate 97% of the time? No? So why would you pay for/rely on publicly available LLMs? Maybe the whole AI/data centre thing is a false start... bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

@chloroquinecake @TheGriftReport Switzerland isn't part of the EU and doesn't experience this. But it's fine, if 2nd class status is how European nations now regard the UK we should reciprocate.

@TheGriftReport The fingerprinting regulations apply to all non-EU national entrants. If you don’t like being treated as second class on your own continent, you should have not voted to become second class.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has slammed four-hour passport queues for UK holidaymakers as deliberate EU punishment for Brexit. The new Entry/Exit System now demands fingerprints and photos from every Brit entering the Schengen zone, turning smaller airports in Spain, Portugal, Greece and beyond into total chaos. O’Leary: “You voted for Brexit, f***ing join the queue.” Summer travel season already collapsing.

@TheGriftReport You want your visitors to have a good experience on arriving and very quickly smooth exit to spend money. I would be embarrassed if this was Heathrow. However the FCDO should politely explain that the EU has 1 month to sort this or every UK airport will create a special EU queue

@NashEquiDeliria @Babygravy9 It's not about elevating other people. It's dragging down others so that inadequates can either steal their achievements or frustrate them from happening to make themselves feel better about their own inadequacies.

@Babygravy9 This retard thinks all non white people will resonate with a negro for some reason? The 'POC alliance' educated western drivel needs to be flayed alive

A British Sky News reporter with undetectable levels of testosterone in his blood says the Apollo moon landings didn't represent humanity because they were "all white men."

@Babygravy9 If you eliminate all the discoveries and achievements of white men throughout history then humanity looks pretty unimpressive.

@models_by_Russ Not quite. Your not the enemy of the state but if you raise your voice in protest the state will very quickly notice you and then you're very much a problem it will have zero hesitation about cracking down on hard.

In modern Britain, the most dangerous thing you can be… is normal. You get up, go to work, pay your taxes, don’t rob anyone, don’t smash anything, don’t glue yourself to a motorway… and for your efforts? Congratulations—you’ve unlocked Hard Mode. No perks. No fast-track lane. No “priority support.” Just a direct debit and a polite reminder that you’re funding absolutely everything. Work hard? Taxed. Try to get ahead? Taxed again. Finally breathe out? Careful—someone’s probably drafting a levy for that too. Meanwhile, if you’re loud enough, disruptive enough, or fall into the right category of “needs attention this week,” suddenly the doors swing open, the language softens, and the system bends over backwards like it’s auditioning for Cirque du Soleil. And you’re sat there thinking—hang on… I did everything right. Was that the mistake? Because the quiet, law-abiding, tax-paying majority aren’t celebrated… they’re assumed. Relied on. Squeezed. You’re not the priority—you’re the funding model. And the better you behave, the less anyone notices… until the bill lands. So no—you’re not the enemy of the state. But if you ever stop playing along, you might suddenly realise just how much of it was built on you quietly saying nothing.

@jimblesnarks @UltrawokeMK So if a bloke in a pub stood up and said "my mate here is a soldier and it's his last night before he is posted overseas" you'd just sneer into your pint and call him a "gimp" rather than raise your glass and say "cheers, good luck". You think that is weird do you?

@AlexanderT35008 @UltrawokeMK We are not American you little weirdo

In the pub and some absolute gimp from a group of absolute gimps stood up to try and give a speech about how his mate was getting shipped out tomorrow to “fight for queen and country” so they were here celebrating his last night. Met with absolute dead stoney silence.

@seledka_vodka Same principle that the UK is simultaneously an irrelevant, rainy, dreary archipelago off the edge of a serious continent who no one gives a toss about; and a vital leader on climate change setting an example to the world to follow...

The UK contributes less than 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Nothing we do on Net Zero will make the slightest difference to climate change.

@7Kiwi Slightly baffling that supposedly smart people simultaneously argue that production will be costly, uneconomic and inadequate which is why it needs the Government to step in and ban it... Almost as if that's not their real concerns...

65 leading scientists are panicking that their funding is going to be cancelled because they've been wrong about everything for 3 decades

@ZackPolanski The UK will use oil & gas for decades. Instead of importing that volume from Norway we will produce the same domestically. Which reduces transportation costs and emissions. The UK also benefits from the control of supply, jobs, revenues, taxes etc. You're talking bollocks.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.