Ian Nelson 💎

@GMB telling people to wait on an incoming call if there is a silence, is great IF the caller has a stammer, but most pauses are scam calls auto connecting when you answer. Also we are now told not to speak first as ai is farming your voices... Balance

@firstdirect you are a great bank but closing first directory is not great at all. Especially when Lloyds, prob one of the worst banks out there, is offering a similar product and not ending theirs - oh but why?

@GMB well done to the Housing Minister (I am no fan of the government) who for once said something intelligent, rent controls being a bad idea , citing Scotland and how rent controls has resulted in highest hikes in rents in UK

@tec_sany Gemini

Google Gemini is the smartest AI right now. But 90% of people prompt it like ChatGPT. That's why I made the Gemini Mastery Guide: → How Gemini thinks differently → Prompts built for Gemini → 2000+ AI Prompts Comment "Gemini" and I'll DM it free.

@GMB TBF a good MP and you are rude and overtalk him

@MikeCha28904532 @reformparty_uk I worry about the intelligence of our society nowadays. Can't understand legal Vs illegal

@reformparty_uk after demanding that Rayner resign. Tice would be a massive hypocrite if he doesn't resign.

@Edrigg18T @michaelwhite Am I a fan of hers - no. But your comment is silly . Tax breaks are legal. Tax breaks are used by chancellors to drive behaviour and control the economy. The issue comes when you don't follow the rules

@michaelwhite You think Angela Rayner accrued a net worth of £4.7M by not exploiting every tax break available?

There are degrees of tax avoidance , as Dan Neidle explained . This is the aggressive kind. Decent rich people don’t do it

@zawenaeb Ha ha

I went to Manchester once in 2019 and I never went back cus everyone seemed slow and talked slow. Like they're living life on 0.5x speed #Brits2026

5 3D Printing Projects That Can Save You Money share.google/WaDoyjgheIyzTH… this one

@andrewmorrisey you wrote an article on 3D prints that can save you money and 1 was kitchen items. You do know that 3D items are not safe as bacteria can grow in between the microscopic layers the print creates?

My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from @TimesRadio today: For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister charts a seminal change in world politics. But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has.  This is the key passage: “Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions—that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.” Coming from a fully-paid up member of the liberal global elite, this is dynamite. Carney says the era of global integration is over and that what he calls ‘middle powers’, like Canada and the UK, who benefitted from it and got used to working through global institutions — like the WTO, the UN, COP, NATO, the EU — need to realise the game is up.  If you can’t feed, fuel and defend yourself in this new world of rupture you’re finished. So these are his priorities for Canada. He’s junked a lot of his net zero baggage to increase Canada’s energy security. He’s moving from multilateral to bilateral deals he thinks will benefit Canada, most recently with China. And he’s doubling spending on defence.  The British government should take stock. Carney’s world of rupture has been brought about by Donald Trump’s wrecking ball approach to the rules-based world order that has served us so well these past 80 years.  It’s played into the hands of the autocrats of Moscow, Beijing and elsewhere who want to replace that world order with a system far more attuned to their interests. Trump is obliging them.    Food. Fuel. Defence. These are Carney’s watchwords for a scary new world in which middle powers need to seek strategic autonomy when old alliances and multinational institutions no longer work. They should guide British policy too.  We need to be able to feed ourselves better. To be able to count on cheap, secure sources of energy. And to be able to defend ourselves from multiple and growing threats. At the moment the Starmer government is doing none of the above.  Instead it is lumbering business with the most expensive energy costs in the world and households with the second or third most expensive domestic energy in the world.  It is pursuing a multi-billion pound dash to net zero while adding only a few crumbs to the defence budget.  And it’s covering good farming land with solar panels.  It would be hard to think of a set of policies less designed to give us the strategic autonomy Carney thinks middle powers must strive for.  Britain needs a step change in its energy, food and defence policies. The billions earmarked for net zero need to be diverted to rearming the nation.  We need an energy policy that couples secure supplies with lower prices so that we can start to rebuild some of our heavy industry, essential to defence.  And we need a farm policy that champions growing food once more rather than prioritising various fashionable environmental wheezes.  None of this is likely to happen under the Starmer government. The PM has no vision or aptitude for such a strategy. His party is a prisoner to old 20th century ways of thinking, as is much of British politics on the left and right.  But unless the Carney challenge is recognised and policy changed in radical ways to meet it, we risk not only further economic decline in the rest of this decade but growing vulnerability to the evil intent of our enemies. And without America at our back to protect us.

@ChrisAntoniou6 @realDonaldTrump They haven't... It's live on BBC news now

#BBC is actually disgusting, cutting off his speech, calling him Mr Trump, you traitorous, paid up scum. Due to travelling I had unfortunately to listen to @realDonaldTrump On the thieving, Fraudsters #BBC To listen to the #WEF Scum bags. #Davos AntiHumanists.

@endloancharge Same

Forgot Faraaz was there. #TraitorsUK #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors #Traitors

@alexr_241 Not for nothing. Loads of publicity, = book sales

Harriet right now after sacrificing herself for nothing #TheTraitors

@Tee1184963 Oh she is. She didn't win this but did win notoriety. More book sales!

#TheTraitors Harriet,totally played this wrong with her outburst at breakfast ,not as clever as she thinks she is. Rachel is well liked and so harriet should have played along until the end.

@ashmcgregor Yes

Let’s face it. Harriet didn’t need the win or the money 💰 This’ll do her book sales no end of good though #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

@jacksloaneee ^this

@miss_traceydav No it wasn't. She's gained loads of fame publicly and needs to sell her books

#TheTraitors Harriet made so many mistakes but why she decided to start throwing out other names right at the end was a big error

Harriet has done this for publicity to sell her books. Make much more than the winner money. She's all over socials. #TheTraitors

So The Floor need to do some research. She wasn't "Princess Diana" she was "Lady Diana, Princess of Wales" @TheFloorTV #thefloor #theflooruk