Peter Steele

Inefficiency through efficiency.

@_jkaplan Trying to expunge his own invidious legacy of the after Sept 11th 2001 more likely. An attack on your citizens doesn’t entitle you to kill and maim many multiples of that number of other countries citizens. Also doing some contemporary UK party politics about the Greens.

Excellent and cleareyed from Tony Blair on why the west is failing to deal with its huge antisemitism problem thefp.com/p/tony-blair-w…

@fuzzyyarns x.com/pc_steele/stat…

That John Williams wrote such an overly elaborate, densely orchestrated score, with dozens of themes & motifs, layered on top of each other in complex harmonies, for ostensibly a "children's" film is astounding. He RESPECTED the audience. You'd likely get cutesy doodling today.

@Econ_Marshall But then you’ve supposedly got trickle down, ignoring that situation tends to be so bad the trickle always stops well before it gets to the bottom.

Incredible admission that the purpose of Yimbyism is to build housing for rich people.

@WHG17 @_Hitodama_ @OliDugmore Then you get fired.

@_Hitodama_ @OliDugmore Ah you mean he was a Tory MP. And voted with the whip. Because if you don't you get fired

“Rory Stewart is the best prime minister we never had.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that sentence, in my texts, in comments sections, after our interviews. Over the last 10 years he’s spoken to me as a Tory leadership contender, Covid canary in the coal mine, independent London mayoral candidate, or, as in this instance, a podcaster and author. His brand of conscientious conservatism beguiles the significant part of our country that is relatively normal and looked on in horror/confusion as the right wing actively attacked Britain and/or descended into explicit bigotry, parochialism, and conspiracy. We spoke about political evil and how it’s often fun to be so, boarding schools, and whether or not we should rewild wolves in Britain. Eclectic and thoughtful. Performative and precise. I think it’s the best episode of The Exchange so far, but it’s Yanis Varoufakis next week and that was pretty good too. Subscribe, listen in bio, text me about alternate realities. xx @RoryStewartUK @NewStatesman

@NicholasTyrone So has pretty much every other widespread ideology even the ones you and I live under today. x.com/pc_steele/stat…

Actually, I hate communism because it killed tens if not hundreds of millions of people.

@bestofstarwar The set pieces were/are almost always very good, it was the interlinking story parts between them that could be weaker. And unfortunately with Lucas, while in the whole able to tell a good story, those weak parts could sometimes be very weak/bad.

“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”

@anon_opin Once bitten, twice shy.

I find it mind-boggling that Keir Starmer is seen as just as unpopular as Liz Truss. I'm no fan of him particularly, but being a bit boring is nowhere near as being as absolutely batshit as Truss was.

@spectator x.com/pc_steele/stat…

Zacked off: Angus Colwell on how the Green party abandoned its roots 🔸 Nick Timothy: I stand by my comments about Islamic public prayer 🔸 Sarah Langford: Why crime gangs are going after food 🔸 Douglas Murray: How to brainwash the British public 🔸 Charles Moore: Does it matter if Prince William believes in God? The Spectator | spectator.com

@BadWilf Well, there is a precedent.

I obviously don’t wish John Lithgow ill. But he’s 80. Has he got 12 years of Dumbledore in him?

@anime_daily @KW7MD8FEWT7lMXx

Don't interrupt Fern's burger time by @KW7MD8FEWT7lMXx

@millie_the_minx Why do Terrys Chocolate Orange Easter Eggs disappear from the shops a week before Easter?

Why don't easter eggs come with mugs anymore? Was that just a 90's thing?

@oldyzach Don’t forget to play it on 19th September.

If you want to Live the Life again 😎 Sid Meier’s Pirates! (2004) for 2.71$ on the GOG gog.com/en/game/sid_me…

@fesshole Do the geoguesser game so at least that knowledge isn’t entirely wasted.

I spent lockdown in 2020 memorizing lots of geography facts like all the counties / council areas / principal areas in the UK or the capitals of Canadian provinces and territories. My fess is that I still imagine someone will be impressed with this enough to want to shag.

@IrisDuane It worked when Labour did it a few years ago during council elections.

Well that’s a bit silly isn’t it?

@nazirafzal It’s a deliberate ploy (sometimes), delay by bureaucracy. So that minister doesn’t have to make a decision. x.com/pc_steele/stat…

I don’t understand why it costs as much to do a feasibility report in the UK as it takes to actually build a bridge, tunnel, road etc elsewhere in Europe Nor why it takes so long to simply navigate the planning system Please explain and what GOVT needs to do to fix this urgently

@bbcnickrobinson @ZackPolanski Your job is to report accurately and if a govt, or supporter of such, is found on numerous occasions to be putting out inaccurate or even false statements, then you should be willing to treat what they say with caution if not contempt until they return to accuracy.

Simple answer Zack. Our job is to report. We interview you & those you quote who use the word genocide. We do the same for those who disagree. We also report that no international court has yet made a judgment. Nor has the UN. That’s not me or the BBC taking sides or downplaying what’s happened in Gaza. It’s doing our job.

Amnesty International say what is happening in Palestine is a genocide. The UN Special Rapporteur say it's a genocide. Countless genocide scholars say it's a genocide. How are we still doing this? And why is the BBC doing this? youtu.be/Es_wxH04bgs?si…

@AMAZlNGNATURE youtu.be/eNEeq5qGh8I?si…

Australia really is the closest thing we have to Jurassic Park

@HackBlackburn I thought the same, but apparently the name predates the economists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton…

Disappointed that we are not continuing with the Milton Keynes model of naming towns by misremembering top academics

@mrianleslie It’s the false economy that private sector doesn’t have to pay money to do things, instead the public sector has to make it cheaper for them to do it (and deal with the inevitable fallout when the private sector messes up) that has led us to our current situation.

Most of the big things Britain needs to do are things that right-wing parties are more comfortable with - cut welfare spending, liberalise regulation, build nuclear, boost defence. But we have a Lab govt moving left and a lame Tory opposition.

@pe_nng Because means testing before giving the money out would need to be created. The govt already has a whole tax system in place to means test after the money is paid out, so why add more bureaucracy?

Means testing the pension like Australia does would save ~£65bn/yr The UKs current defence budget is ~£60bn/yr