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Chairman Al

@ChairmanAl

The thoughts of Chairman Al. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor toolmakers son, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

The bored room. Katılım Haziran 2009
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Chairman Al@ChairmanAl·
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Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
I was in the Middle East this week. Here’s why.
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Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick·
If the Chagos surrender is dead, this is a great victory. One day there should be an inquiry into this shabby saga: the Ministers and officials, under Labour and the Tories, who tried to sell Britain out. Shameful.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford

EXCLUSIVE Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to drop legislation which would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a further deterioration of relations with Donald Trump The Times has been told that a bill underpinning the controversial deal will not be included in the King's Speech next month after the US president branded it an "act of great stupidity" and withdrew his support The government stands by the deal and will attempt to persuade Trump to change his mind but has acknowledged that it cannot proceed without his backing Ministers are "deeply frustrated" with Trump, who initially supported the deal after extensive discussions between intelligence agencies but changed his mind during a dispute with Nato over plans to seize Greenland The government believes that it puts the future of Diego Garcia, the UK-US base in the islands which has been used during the Iran war, at risk It is concerned that Mauritius will mount a legal challenge granting it access to the waters around Diego Garcia, making it harder for the base to host nuclear submarines and patrol surrounding waters The deal was highly contentious. It would have seen Britain hand over the islands to Mauritius before immediately entering into a 99-year lease for Diego Garcia. The government claimed it would cost £3.5billion, although the Tories disputed this and said it would cost £35billion his over its lifetime. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Chairman Al@ChairmanAl·
@DPJHodges @DagenhamMKIII With net zero deindustrialisation and the legacy of 40 years of added EU bureaucracy we have lost the ability to make stuff quickly and competitively. We need 20 years of the right policies starting immediately. Only then might we be capable of building back our defensive prowess
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Chairman Al@ChairmanAl·
@Keir_Starmer Cosplaying statesman. Irrelevant posturer with no ideas, no spine, detached loner, and the wrong policies.
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Allison Pearson
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson·
Almost two thirds of voters want Starmer out. Can’t stand him. Including almost 50% who voted Labour. Most want a General election NOW! We can’t limp on with this zombie government. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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Electroverse
Electroverse@Electroversenet·
In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century. More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise. The Maldives haven't sunk, they've exploded with growth: 12 new airports, expanded international terminals, record tourism of over 2 million visitors a year, and more than 170 resorts, with 7 added in 2024. Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data. Here we have another 'climate catastrophe' headline completely undone by time.
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Skint Eastwood
Skint Eastwood@Skint_Eastwood1·
🚨 Konstantin Kisin DESTROYS Labour’s Net Zero Fantasy On BBC Question Time “If we reduce carbon emissions to zero and destroy our economy even more than we already have, we will reduce global carbon emissions by 1%.” “We have the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world.” “Net Zero is industrial suicide.”
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Chairman Al@ChairmanAl·
Yup @WilliamSitwell. We can trace Britain's decline right back to Blair and the start of delegating, virtue signalling, detail light, technocratic, PR politicians and ideological public servants and institutions. The #UniParty was born and we lost gravitas, leadership and vision.
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Chris Bolton
Chris Bolton@CcibChris·
UK Defence? Oh yes. I remember that.
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(((Dan Hodges)))
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
The reality of what happened is now clear. Trump ramped up the rhetoric to hysterical levels (again). Iran called his bluff (again). He needed an off-ramp. He asked Pakistan to negotiate it, agreed to Iran's terms, then completely invented different terms to try and save face.
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Marcus
Marcus@Marcus___007·
"John, John! He's been underwater for a while and now he's going for our cables, what should I do?" "Tell him you see him and ask him to stop"
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Ben Pile
Ben Pile@clim8resistance·
Imagine you are a wonk at some green organisation -- some young person, a recent graduate, early on a new career to save the planet. You've been there a while doing basic research. You've made lots of friends and met some important people. Many of your peers from university are in similar roles. Life is sweet. Now, imagine that you are tasked with producing a short report on some aspect of the green economy. This is your opportunity to step up to the next level. Your new contacts in the news media have already been told what to expect. You've got a week. You get given the brief. You find the source data. You open Excel. You run the sums. Oh dear. The numbers do not add up. Well, they do. But just not in the way you expect. The economic data doesn't make the case. The green economy is terrible. You check the figures. And you check your calculations. But everything you've known for sure for years, all through your degree and masters, told you that green is good -- good for the planet, good for the economy, good for us -- is not what your spreadsheet is showing you. It's showing you that green is bad. What do you think happens next? Your entire future as you'd planned it rests on the outcome of this week of work. Your social life has been built on your beliefs. Your partner, who you've just moved in with, and who you've been with since 2nd year at uni, is in a similar role. Your entire family, proud of you, believes what you've always believed. You've never even met a 'denier' -- not socially anyway. But there is a solution. You could just delete column D -- a series of observational data. And then you could create in its place a counterfactual, using a recent paper based on IPCC RCP8.5. The green economy is great again! What do you think happens?
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Chairman Al@ChairmanAl·
Starmer at military summit in Helsinki 26 March: “We’re going after the shadow fleet, starving Putin’s war machine of the dirty profits that fund his barbaric campaign in Ukraine.” He is just a lying wimp, full of piss and bluster. An utter embarrassment of a PM.
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