Harry Briggs
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Harry Briggs
@H4ryB
Founder turned AgriFood investor. Previously an early investor in @RevolutApp @TheHut_com @PaddleHQ @GoCardless etc. Pianist. Psychologist. Optimist.
London, UK Katılım Aralık 2010
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Crass, unimaginative and, in the case of “Seacole”, desperate. English towns are not named after historical figures - this isn’t America.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]
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10% of ALL Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods. $16 BILLION a year.
Zuckerberg has known about this for a long time. But he has *deliberately* decided to do nothing about it.
Why is Mark Zuckerberg not in prison?
Rob Wiblin@robertwiblin
This tweet got over 1M views so we made it a video: How much money does Meta make by enabling crimes? "Internal docs leaked to Reuters show: • 10% of all Meta revenue comes from ads for scams & banned goods ($16B/year) • Meta estimates it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the US • That suggests they drive $50B in scam losses for US consumers alone each year • Meta earns ~$3B annually from scam/banned goods ads run by Chinese operations alone..."
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"I can't think of another PM in matters of war or peace who couldn't get what they wanted through cabinet"
Tim Shipman@ShippersUnbound
No 10 seems to be denying something I didn't write, that Starmer wanted Trump to have the bases for its initial raids. But the PM wanted to get to the position we are in now (where they could be used to hit the missile sites in self defence), and reached on Sunday evening, on Friday evening. I have multiple sources for this. Here's the timeline: 1) Feb 11 - US requests the use of Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford for offensive strikes on Iran 2) Hermer says this would be a breach of international law and Britain cannot facilitate let alone participate. No one in the system seems to have seriously challenged this 3) Trump and Starmer have a series of 'angry' conversations 4) At the NSC on Friday the likely implications were discussed which included Iranian retaliatory raids on allies, as happened last June. 5) Starmer suggested we should let the Americans use the bases for 'defensive' strikes at the missile sites. Healey backed him. 6) This was opposed by Reeves, Cooper, Mahmood and, most aggressively, Miliband. Cooper's argument was that nuclear talks in Oman were making progress. She, Reeves and Mahmood seem to have wanted to wait until retaliatory attacks were happening before the basing request was granted. 7) Attacks begin 0630 Saturday morning 8) Meanwhile the chief of the defence staff, Air Marshal Sir Richard Knighton was in touch with the US joint chiefs and Healey had a series of calls with Pete Hegseth. Knighton's message was (paraphrasing) 'if you frame your formal request this way it ought to be granted once things get going'. 9) Saturday: The US makes its formal ask for the bases to target the missile sites (effectiveky drafted by the MoD) 10) Sunday afternoon: The NSC approves the request and the US begins flying missions from Diego Garcia The interesting things here are: i) Hermer's legal advice WAS central to govt thinking, but Starmer still wanted to get ahead of the game and do more to support the US and he was not strong enough or determined enough to persuade his inner cabinet ii) Just as the PM now struggles to get anything the PLP dislikes through parliament, I can't think of another PM in matters of war or peace who couldn't get what they wanted through cabinet iii) Dislike of Trump seems to have motivated Miliband in particular and the PLP seems delighted, but the procrastination and failure even to match the rhetoric of Canada, Australia has badly damaged the UK with Gulf allies and Cyprus. This ought to matter to Labour MPs who always want a multilateral solution iv) The UK had 16 days from Feb 11th to prepare knowing that attacks on Iran were likely. Some kit, interceptors etc, was sent to the region but the first Type 45 destroyer will not even leave until next week READ THE WHOLE THING HERE spectator.com/article/whose-…
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More than 99% of all new US electricity generating capacity in 2026 will be solar, wind and storage, equivalent to adding 70 nuclear plants.
via @azeem
environmentamerica.org/maine/center/u…
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So true.
The Spectator@spectator
It's difficult to verbally capture this weird, stupid and meaningless collision of styles, materials, dimensions. The closest visual analogy, to my mind, is one of those plates piled high at a hotel buffet by an idiot: with a splodge of curry, some sauerkraut, five potatoes, some lemon pie, a lamb cutlet, smoked herring, and several cheesy crackers, and everything banal and tasteless even before you smush them together. ✍️ Sean Thomas Article | spectator.com/article/we-nee…
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Harry Briggs retweetledi
The red dots show Chinese fishing vessels swarming Peru’s EEZ in 2024
525 Chinese boats in Peruvian waters, while Peru itself barely had 239
China’s greedy pirates emptied their own seas and are now hijacking the livelihoods of other nations’ fishermen.
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Harry Briggs retweetledi
Parliament has been misled. So have our American allies. There never was a legal threat to the operability of the Diego Garcia base. The entire handover - the betrayal of the Chagossians, the £34 billion bill, the eco-vandalism, the win for China - was premised on a falsehood.
Robert Midgley@RobertMidgley07
🚨 Huge news: The FCDO admits a crucial detail that destroys the government’s basis of their Chagos Islands deal
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PS excellent write-up of the whole muppet-show by @boys_nicholas here - cityam.com/inside-hackney…
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So many growth-killing decisions in Britain are made by unelected "worthies" who suffer zero consequences for the damage they cause - but who gain status from blocking progress. Because as an "elite" architect who belongs to a "panel", of course the "high-status" thing to do is to reject the "popular, attractive" development - because obviously if 78% of the hoi-polloi like something, they don't have our superior taste and discernment, we must teach them how inferior they are (and justify our role on this prestigious panel) by rejecting; then we can all congratulate each other in our smug elite bubble...
But these emperors have no clothes.
PS this is a panel with THIRTY-FOUR members - a few below - I wonder how many of the 34 choose to live in "cohesive" Georgian / Victorian terrace houses - yet deny similar classical forms to future generations.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Why have Hackney Council's planning officers recommended that the council reject the Shoreditch Works scheme, which would add 80,500 square meters of new commercial, lab and office space right next to the City? This piece is a good run-down, but the stuff on design in particular caught my eye. Even though the project is popular with normal people and basically looks pretty good, the Design Review Panel (chaired by an architect from Cazenove Architects) rejected it on taste-based grounds, including because the design was *too* cohesive and they wanted something more eclectic. Here is an example of how the tastes of architectural elites are forced on the world through the planning system. This is one reason new buildings look so bad and are so unpopular: they're the architectural equivalent of being forced to listen to Captain Beefheart against your will, every day.
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This is the same man whose main policy is to "tax the rich more" and yet on The Rest is Politics he didn't even know what the top income tax rate is.
He thought it was 40%.
It hasn't been 40% since 2010, when Blair/Brown increased it to 50% (which actually reduced the total tax-take).
But he doesn't even know that. I guess if you've never had to pay tax, you just think "let's make it higher". Obvs
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Zach Polanski's life basically began last year when he became leader of the Green Party at 42.
Before that his entire life has been an extended gap year.
He's had two jobs : failed actor, failed hypnotist.
Industry experience: 0
Leadership experience: 0
Things built : 0
People hired : 0
But don't worry.. he's a "good communicator" and he's ready to tell us his policies spanning finance, tech, agriculture, energy, commerce and geopolitics - all of which he has no real world experience of.
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Incredible to me that this is happening and the traditional newspapers don't even think it's worth mentioning... Bots are forming their own social networks, with over a million joining in a few days.
via @azeem and @tylercowen
Links below
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