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@kevinhollinrake Well done @KemiBadenoch

Kemi’s media interview today was interrupted by the kind of people that shout loudest at the Hate Marches. You know, the ones that aren’t polite enough to wait ‘til the end, then ask a question, then to actually listen to the answer. This is what happened.

Oh look someone with a brain.

@MarioNawfal Are we sure AI will surpass human abilities? That was beyond incredible

This man is juggling 3 Rubik's cubes, solving all of them at the same time, in 4 minutes and 31 seconds. Then there’s the rest of us who can't do one sitting still 😂

This needs to highlighted in every news programme every day until it reverses. It is outrageous that the total amount EVERYONE in the UK pays in income tax still doesn't even pay for the ballooning Govt welfare expenditure.

Wow! Impressive speaker and lots of integrity.

@afneil Totally justified @afneil

This true story has generated a lot of untrue responses from the usual know-nothing Twitter pontificators. So here’s the full story. It’s 2013, I hosted a dinner for US contacts and journos in NYC in a rather fancy, expensive restaurant owned by a friend. It was a thank you. Not on expenses. I’m forking out — happily. Good people. A great fun dinner but the bill came to circa $1,000. Gulp. I paid by card and slipped the waiter, a young aspiring actor (as they tend to be in NY), $150 cash. I thought that was quite generous. Especially $150 in 2013 prices. More like $200+ today. Anyway he quickly returned and asked loudly and aggressively if there was a problem. No, I said. All good. Well, he said the tip was ‘bit light’. By now the whole table was looking at me and him. I panicked and bunged him more dollars. He departed without a word of thanks. On the way home my partner saw I was fuming with the embarrassment, almost humiliation. Call the owner, she said. I did. I didn’t ask him to fire the waiter but said it was an embarrassing/humiliating experience in front of colleagues and I doubt I’d go back to his restaurant. Perhaps he could have a word. I learned later he fired him because he had something of a trackrecord in this matter. I lost no sleep over that even if it wasn’t my aim. Ever since I’ve taken no nonsense from aggressive NY waiters. I’m from Paisley and can give as good if not better than I get. One waiter who subsequently complained about his 20%(!) tip found it cut to 10%. Tips are war in NY restaurants. Stand up for yourself. Don’t be mean but don’t fall over in embarrassent when they behave badly. And please don’t import this culture from USA to dear old Blighty. End of.

@MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 Oh please! You're doing the same as those blaming immigrants, just because it's easy. People are finding it hard because we sold our gold at a cheap price, then we borrowed too much to bail out banks & then for covid. Then came the Russian/Ukraine war & now war in Iran

I’m so despairing of this country sometimes… Frothing at the mouth for all the wrong reasons Wake up and smell the BS FFS!

Take a bow @MichaelLCrick 👏🏽

VAT on private school fees was pitched as a way to raise money for public services. New report: it's projected to cost the public £181m by 2038.

The enthusiasm and relentlessness with which the political-media-establishment discuss scandals like Boris' birthday cake, Mandelson's vetting and taking the knee etc... while defence cuts, family breakdown and our workforce's poor technical skillas have never got anything like the same intensity of attention and as sure as night follows day we end up with no real military, exploding welfare bills and a low productivity economy. Now, that is scandalous.

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny: 1. It is a video. 2. You are wearing a jacket. 3. Then you aren’t. 4. Then you are again. Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends. A few corrections for you: Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.) We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing). We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing. There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event. Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale. We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now. We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story. I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now: ->110,000 additional operations ->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges ->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

@MatthewStadlen @DPJHodges You fixate too much on him being referred to him as Boris. It just happens sometimes. He doesn't look like a Johnson but when you hear the name Boris, many think of him first & perhaps the tennis player. Talking of tennis, you might as well ask why it's McEnroe but then Serena?

There you go again, Dan. Why do you refer to Boris Johnson as Boris? Are you friends? Do you think Liz Truss’s premiership was good for national stability? Do you think Boris Johnson’s premiership was good for national stability? I thought Sunak and Hunt did a reasonable job in steadying the ship of state.

Since the Brexit referendum 10 years ago, we’ve had six Prime Ministers (including Cameron). The sixth, Starmer, is wobbling. It’s been a decade of immense instability, and the idea that the chief architect of Brexit, Nigel Farage, would improve things is one of the most audacious claims in British politics.

@DeborahMeaden Sounds like you're just trying to sweep this under the carpet. I'm sorry it's not good enough and this is serious. It is exposing how inept this government is.

Right… important to get to the bottom of this, important to keep all Politicians honest just need to check the line between witch hunting and scrutiny…. I really want my Govt focusing on the important stuff that makes the UK a better place to live, work and be proud of…

👀 Yvette Cooper says she is 'extremely concerned' about the claim by Olly Robbins that Starmer tried to appoint Matthew Doyle, his then comms director, as an ambassador without informing her predecessor 'I was the home secretary at the time that I understand this has taken place, so I was not involved and don’t know the circumstances. 'I am, of course, extremely concerned at any suggestion that the permanent secretary or permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office would be told not to inform the foreign secretary. 'I can also confirm that the case that he raised, it would not have been an appropriate appointment'

This is a fantastic video

Wow. Robbins reveals it wasn’t just Mandelson. Number 10 put “uncomfortable” pressure on Robbins to secretly find a golden diplomatic job for another man, Matthew Doyle. Doyle later was suspended from the Labour Party over friendship with Sean Morton, who Doyle campaigned for after Morton was charged with possessing and distributing indecent images of children in December 2016.

@KateEMcCann strange you ask @KemiBadenoch whether she's worried about asking Keir Starmer to resign because of the potential damage to the reputation of the UK. Did you ask that when everyone was asking @BorisJohnson to resign? @TimesRadio

@JeremyVineOn5 @narindertweets @mikeparry8 @theJeremyVine Explain how he turns this?

@JeremyVineOn5 @narindertweets @mikeparry8 @theJeremyVine Haha! Classic. She hates the Starmer bashing but I wonder if she would have hated the Boris bashing when that was going on while he was PM or if one day it will be Farage as PM

"I'm sick of the Starmer bashing." @narindertweets says the right-wing media won't be happy until the PM is forced out of office, and there are more important things going on than the Mandelson scandal. @mikeparry8 | @theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine

@jadutwit @julianHjessop I hope not. AI is the one area where we could excel past the stagnant EU

@CS6543 @julianHjessop That’s the point. Labour would like to reverse these before we sign more.The biggest problem with reentry into the EU orbit is the UK government (all parties) efforts to build on the huge AI talent and innovation pools we have, will stop to align with the restrictive EU policy.

Not good... 🙄 This would extend "rule taking" to all goods producers, whether they sell to the EU or not, plus the UK would have to pay even more into the EU Budget. The UK government should not even be *considering* this.