Patrick Harkness

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Patrick Harkness

@PGHarkness

Engineer and academic, working on rockets and exploration technology. Director @scotlandinunion. Vice-chair Mid-Ulster @uuponline. 🚀 🌒 🇬🇧 ☘️ 🇦🇶 🇺🇦 🇮🇱

Katılım Kasım 2024

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·1d

This reminds me of that time on the Late Late show, when Chris de Burgh sang his ‘Song for Enniskillen’ to a Republic of Ireland audience.

Daniel@VoteLewko

Extraordinary interview with @BoyGeorge on Irish TV. The host, @PatricKielty disgracefully tried to connect the stabbing of British Jews in in Golders Green to Gaza - thousands of kilometers away. Boy George was having none of it. He asked the Irish studio audience if they knew any Jews and their awkward silence was damning. None of them would dare admit knowing a Jew. And their tepid applause when he called them out for it....

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·2d

@NotThatBigIan I think that immediate forever jail, at the first attempted life-threatening violence, would design out an awful lot of it though.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️@NotThatBigIan·2d

2. We can never design out every awful event. But is what we have now the 'acceptable level' of mass murder? What I observe is the benchmark for outrageous violence inexorably rising without the state meeting and reversing that trend. We can, we should, we must do better. 2/2

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️@NotThatBigIan·2d

Free from paywall. People who shuttle between ideology, extreme violence and mental illness are exceptionally dangerous and we are exceptionally bad at controlling them. We need a different answer. My latest: telegraph.co.uk/gift/27a082b42…

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Arsen Ostrovsky@Ostrov_A·3d

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

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Graham Linehan@Glinner·3d

This is the way. Get them to be specific and they fall apart.

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·3d

@peterrhague Plus you need to pay him 45m in tax refunds on the profits he never made, and sack everyone he ever employed.

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Peter Hague@peterrhague·4d

Confiscating his six boats entirely, let’s say they sell for £1 million each which is good for a second hand yacht, how long would that fund the £68 billion/year Scottish government for? 46 minutes. I’m always here to teach leftists a bit of maths!

Ross Greer@Ross_Greer

I hadn't thought of a yacht tax before now, but it seems Lord Offord's fleet would raise enough to plug that hole in Scotland's finances.

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·3d

I remember Seamus Mallon being clear on this point. It was, in fairness, the minimum acceptable standard, but it was still worthy of respect. I would have preferred @SDLPlive to vote against the glorification of terror, but I accept neutrality. It is the Southern Irish way.

Joshua Lowry@JoshLowry13

For the entirety of the troubles the SDLP stood firm & said murder was wrong, there was a different way to achieve change. Nearly 30 years after the murder stopped (without constitutional change) they have to support glorification of terror? Sometimes leadership is saying no.

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Merryn Somerset Webb@MerrynSW·4d

Half of all conveni stores and 25% of all takeaways in the UK are linked to organised crime in some areas say trading standards. Add in revolting candy shops nail bars and barbers. All in plain sight. Usual assumption is that black econ is around 10% of GDP. Maybe a lot higher?

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·4d

I would not vote Reform. But the idea that the world could be improved if: 1. The state gave Malcolm £45m 2. He sacked everyone he employs 3. He set fire to his property portfolio is *nuts*. Yet that is effectively the straight-up translation of Green policy.

Malcolm Offord@Malcolm_Offord

They can bring it on. I’ll not stop standing up for ambitious, grafting Scots until the impoverishing ideology of the SNP and Greens is gone for good.

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Israel Foreign Ministry@IsraelMFA·4d

After attacks on synagogues, Jewish institutions, community ambulances and now Jews targeted in Golders Green, the UK government can no longer claim this is under control. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statements are no substitute for confronting the roots of antisemitism festering across United Kingdom. British Jews should not need security patrols and emergency volunteers to live openly as Jews. Enough words. The UK must act decisively and urgently.

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·4d

I’m not sure either. But given that constitutional monarchies have overwhelmingly led to successful, stable, and peaceful societies, I’m not about to chance some sort of *republic*.

Prof Alice Roberts💙@theAliceRoberts

I’m not sure why we still have a monarch. It seems like a medieval anachronism to me; a demonstration of inherited status and the the pinnacle of an entrenched aristocracy. And I’m really not sure why our monarch has gone to the US to stand next to another man with too much power, land and money.

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·5d

I don’t see why? It’s literally the whole business model of ‘insurance’. If you had the foresight to prepare for a crisis, and you carried the cost and risk of those preparations, why would you *not* be rewarded in the long run?

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Tim Byatt@Tim_the_Pilot·6d

Great registration, G-GBNI. I’d never really clocked that before. (For those not of these shores, the UK’s official name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·26 Nis

Hmm. The *entire world* underestimated us in 1982, and we pulled it off with car ferries and container ships. We shouldn’t make the same mistake.

Andrew Neil@afneil

Argentina doesn’t have Navy capable of mounting an invasion of the Falklands and any airborne invasion would be taken out by UK’s formidable Sky Sabre missile defences. Argentina spends under 1% of GDP on military and has no plans to spend the billions required to modernise its forces, which in many areas are even weaker than they were in 1982.

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Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en·25 Nis

Wow. Several years ago, it would be hard to imagine a story like this. Now, it's not routine, but not anyhing out of the ordinary. A ground robot evacuated a 77 year old Ukrainian lady from Lyman. Her home of 53 years was destroyed by Russians. She was walking along a shelled road when pilots of the 60th Separate Mechanized Brigade spotted her. They sent a ground robot to her rescue, covered with a blanket saying "Grandma, get in!" Three other civilians who were also walking were escorted by drones to the evacuation point where an armored vehicle took them to safety. The operation lasted four hours. 📹 Third Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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Patrick Harkness@PGHarkness·26 Nis

@theiaincameron How does this differ from a bergschrund?

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Iain Cameron@theiaincameron·26 Nis

When cliff faces or large rocks warm up in spring weather, the heat generated makes adjacent deep snow melt away from it. The resulting space has no English word (because the phenomenon is almost unknown in England). The Germans, though, do have a name for it. Randkluft. I came across one today at 3,800 ft on Ben Lawers.

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Think Defence@thinkdefence·25 Nis

Has foreseen by everyone with two brain cells to rub together, the Chagos thing was a direct pipeline to the Cyprus thing and Falklands thing.

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Friends of the British Overseas Territories@BritishOverseas·24 Nis

On the 44th anniversary of the Falklands War, it’s unthinkable that our closest ally would even consider shifting on the right to self‑determination The Falklands have been British longer than Argentina has existed - and the islanders’ democratic choice must be respected

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Techniques Spatiales@TechSpatiales·24 Nis

Aujourd'hui, le pas de tir Soyouz à Kourou a été détruit. 27 lancements ont eu lieu entre 2011 et 2022, jusqu'à l'invasion de l'Ukraine qui a entrainé la fin des activités. C'est Maiaspace (une startup d'ArianeGroup) qui a depuis récupéré le site pour son lanceur au méthane Maia.