Sir Arthur Travers

This must have been their starter machine - from an 2015 TV interview

@BladeoftheS @dowis_mark Bollocks! It isn't a problem; it's called WEATHER!

The record temperature for May was broken by an entire 2C today, and tomorrow it is likely to be even warmer. The Met Office has been recording temperatures all around the UK for 173 years. This is not a blip it is a very serious problem.

@FacundoSavala Like Hamas were!

Do you think Nicola Sturgeon is innocent? 🧐

@benonwine No. Much the same with Paul Weller, sadly.

I can’t deny it… Bruce Springsteen has made some absolutely incredible music that I absolutely love! 🎸 But honestly, I find his politics so distasteful now that it genuinely kind of ruins it for me. Can you separate the artist from their politics?

@kevlondon4 @jemmm85517813 ...and sailor and airman(woman). 🇬🇧

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That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

Crying 'Islamophobia' is a debating trick that seeks to prevent any criticism of Islam In Britain, we are free to criticise religions Remember the "Life of Brian"...

@MattCas04807118 @MOXYDON She'll file a CANP next time! See and avoid: the lowest level of collision avoidance. Dozens of examples explain why she wasn't seen: emergency, cockpit economics or met conditions to name a few. Pilot must answer serious questions on their lookout, but pg has responsibilities.

Kin hell.😳😳 A small plane hits a paraglider’s parachute!😳😳 She survives.👏👏

@Velo_Scotland @JoshuaBarrieRR "Let him go"? He's out of contract.

@JoshuaBarrieRR Shankland on personal terms feels very Rangers. If Hearts let him go after all that, they’ll be getting pelters for weeks.

⬇️ All personal terms agreed between Lawrence Shankland and #Rangers. Medical due to take place across the next 24 hours. rangersreview.co.uk/features/26136…

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg @tractorgirly Jacob, head of COPFS sits in cabinet as 'legal adviser'! Literally, poacher AND gamekeeper! We DESPERATELY need Westminster to demolish the abomination that is Holyrood. It's a cancer eating Scotland alive; we even have delusional foreign students sitting there. Please help us!

How convenient that it comes to court just after the Scottish elections. Is the whole Scottish establishment including the Court system complicit in helping the Nationalists?

Your reminder that when Douglas Chapman was elected SNP Treasurer specifically to investigate what was happening, Sturgeon, Oswald and Murrell blocked the party treasurer from seeing any invoices or other vouchers for the accounts.

@HannahMargBrown To be clear: "to be clear" is Sturgeonish for 'I am about to lie'.

Nicola Sturgeon says she was “deceived” and “let down” by her “former husband” Peter Murrell which has caused her “acute pain”, in a statement. She reiterates in her statement she had “no knowledge or suspicion” that he was using SNP funds for personal purposes.

@afneil @CarolM_CC x.com/i/status/20588…

The SNP and Nicola Sturgeon will be breathing huge sighs of relief. Just think what we might have learned of their dark arts if there had been a trial. I wonder what’s been going on behind closed doors in the run up to this plea. And what’s in it for Murrell?

@afneil @CarolM_CC Our judicial system has a chronic weakness: it fails to insist on elocution. Its absence, effectively, sanctions a method of hiding broader criminality. Scotland 'prides' itself on its legal system. Like many other facets of modern Scotland, that pride is now deeply misplaced.

@CraigMurrayOrg @Bighuggybear3 What a nest of vipers nationalists are showing themselves to be.

Now Peter Murrell pled guilty, I can tell you without contempt of court Alex Salmond told me this: when Murrell ran Alex' office in NE Scotland 20+ years ago, Murrell stole a sum from party funds. Alex replaced it with his own money and protected Murrell who had problems. I told Alex his kindness was admirable and covering for Murrell I understood, but continuing to employ him was nuts. I do not doubt Alex was telling me the truth but obviously I can offer no proof. If memory serves it was £500 - a substantial sum at the time.

@StevenBriggs @murdo_fraser In cases like this, in the USA, criminals are often forced to go through elocution specifically to avoid hiding other criminality and to guarantee that details are placed on record, under oath. It is clear his testimony would have highlighted multiple instances of perjury.

@B0mberHarris @murdo_fraser Clearly taking one for the team and keeping all the gritty details out of the public eye ,and him not being cross exanined ,

Peter Murrell has now admitted to stealing the best part of half a million pounds from the SNP. Is it credible that his wife knew nothing of this? As Party leader, was she not curious? And if the SNP can steal from themselves, what are they capable of doing to the country?

@FAWCoachEd @CoachesVoice 'Theatrical' masterclass, surely?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Our final theory session is Russell Martin's Tactical Masterclass in collaboration with the @CoachesVoice

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Who's ready for Day 2 of our FAW National Coaches Conference? ⚽️ Here's a few shots from yesterday's final practical session with Dane Facey and Tom Hutton, looking at a Cardiff City Case Study on How to Develop the Individual.

@murphyhugh04 @afneil He's pled guilty! He's a thieving criminal! He's SNP!

@afneil So. Point made !! We are all aware that you are anti SNP and won’t miss a chance to highlight it. The majority of Scotland disagree with your oft repeated rhetoric.

The Peter Murrell/SNP embezzlement trial begins in Edinburgh today. It has taken Police Scotland and the Procurator Fiscal Service five years investigation and process — at a cost of >£2m — to get to here. All for a £1/2m embezzlement charge.