David Williams

Elephants Get Their Revenge Months ago, a mother elephant and her calf were killed by a train near a rural rail line. At the time, it was written off as a tragic accident. Now, something strange is happening.Rail workers have captured footage of a herd of elephants entering a train yard not wandering, but targeting specific train cars. They push, ram, and try to flip them. At first, it seemed random.Until officials checked the records. The train being targeted is the exact same one involved in the fatal incident. Not a similar train. The same one. Even more chilling the elephants ignore every other train nearby. Experts say elephants have incredible memory and strong emotional bonds, but this behavior feels different. “ It’s not random,” one researcher said. “It’s deliberate.”

This chart illustrates the problem with weather-based renewables and why @Ed_Miliband is wrong to suggest we should base our energy policy around them Over the past week we barely generated half the potential we have installed - only 3% of the time was output above 16 GW (we have about 32 GW installed) However for a third of the time (32%) output was below 10% ie of the 32 GW installed we were actually generating less than 3.2 GW Clearly we relied on gas to fill in the gaps. There is no storage technology that could fill such a large hole for such an extended period Now consider the £billions we're spending on renewables. This chart shows just what a bad deal we're getting: expensive and insecure energy Time for a new plan (and a new Energy Secretary) @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @afneil @EdConwaySky @MerrynSW @mattotele

@LordElpus3 No. 781 pages in English. I kid you not.

@FellBound I'll bet that it runs to just 30 pages tops, and all the rest are the same stuff in German, French, Swedish, Serbo-Croat etc. 😉

Changed my car today. The second paragraph of the manual says "You are strongly recommended to read the manual in full". Yes! And even better, the manual is 781 pages long. I'm in heaven. So I will be able to try driving the car within the next 6 months. Can't wait.

@LordElpus3 No. Paper thankfully. Although I need a wheelbarrow to lug it around it's so heavy.

@FellBound It's not one of those manuals that exists only on the car's display, is it? How will you read it in bed?

Listen to the video. The question and the response.

An old Turkish idiom: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus”. Just saying.

@LordElpus3 I wrote the first to practise; I'm now 70,000 words into my opus magnum. I have decided to work slowly so that it will be unfinished at my death. The literati will be wailing in the streets - "if only he'd lived longer. The Nobel Prize for literature was his for the taking".

@FellBound Saw this and your unpublished novel came to mind. 📖 Miss W opined that it is probably in the Thackeray vein, spiced with a touch of ascerbic Austen. But will we ever know? Publish and be damned, sir!

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You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

@EdwardJDavey, let us be clear about what you have just said. Thousands of people gathered on the Embankment in central London yesterday and chanted death to America and death to Israel. A speaker from a charity named in a Lords report on Iranian influence in Britain led the crowd in chants of death to America and death to Israel in Arabic. Bobby Vylan led chants of death, death, death to the IDF. Banners celebrated the bombing of Tel Aviv. Khamenei's autobiography was on sale for seventeen pounds. And your considered assessment is that the greatest threat to Britain comes from Nigel Farage. Zarah Sultana has been referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for posting language described as a modern iteration of the medieval blood libel. Vote Palestine 2026 activists are going door to door in May's local elections making lists of people who fail to denounce Israel. The Walney report documents ten charities with links to the Iranian regime operating under British charitable status, four of them in receipt of Gift Aid, subsidised by the British taxpayer. The Foreign Office attended an Iranian embassy party days after the regime massacred thousands of its own citizens and called it normal diplomacy. And your considered assessment is that the greatest threat to Britain comes from Reform. The Union Jack, which you invoke so tenderly, has been described as a tool of hate in a leaked government social cohesion document produced under your political allies. Concern about mass immigration has been classified alongside white supremacism in official Prevent training materials published on gov.uk. Churchill has been removed from the currency without a vote, without a debate, without asking anyone. And your considered assessment is that the greatest threat to Britain comes from the people objecting to all of the above. This is not naivety, Ed. A naive man stumbles into error. You have walked into this position with your eyes open, wrapped it in the language of patriotism, and pointed the finger of blame at the people trying to defend the country you claim to love. That is not a mistake. That is a choice. And it tells us everything we need to know about why Britain is in the condition it is in. The greatest danger to Britain does not come from Tehran or Moscow. You are right about that. It comes from politicians who can look at everything happening in this country and conclude that the real enemy is the people refusing to look away.

He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.

Ed Miliband realising he’s the villain in the story. #BBCLauraK

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Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project: Growth in November 2025: 0.2% Growth in December 2025: 0.1% Growth in January 2026: 0.0%

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Mandelson files. *If* Starmer hasn't lied, and his claims that Mandelson lied during the appointment process about the extent of his relationship with Epstein are accurate, then there was no need whatsoever to pay any compensation or pay in lieu of notice.

@afneil Mandelson files. *If* Starmer hasn't lied, and his claims that Mandelson lied during the appointment process about the extent of his relationship with Epstein are correct, then there was no need whatsoever to pay any compensation or pay in lieu of notice.

Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson posed a ‘reputational risk’ before appointing him as ambassador to the US in an official ‘due diligence’ document drawn up in Dec 2024. The dossier includes a link to a Telegraph story from Jan 2024 that detailed the links ‘extensively’. It notes that Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein was a ‘general reputational risk’. Even Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser and a Blairite who might have been thought sympathetic to Mandelson, saw it as a ‘weirdly rushed’ process for appointing Mandelson. There were objections from Philip Barton, the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office. Yet Starmer appointed Mandelson as US ambassador at the end of 2024 despite knowing that he had maintained numerous ties with Epstein after the financier was convicted of child sex offences. The PM has nobody to blame but himself.