Patrick Bury

This thread seems to have resonated with a few people. If you're interested I wrote this book about our platoon's experiences in Sangin... amazon.co.uk/Callsign-Hades… @simonschusterUK

#FRAESP you could hear a pin drop. What a crap atmo

Great to see and a host of other European nations took part too 👇🏽

@AlasdairGold Given what I’ve seen, I’d say the odds are 60-40 he struggles in PL this season at least

Really hope this isn't a trend this summer with the club's top young players, but also £50m for a player who has never played for the club plus 20% sell-on (profit) and matching rights on future bids is the club's third biggest sale in its history. He just wanted to play.

Former NATO analyst @PatrickBury says rogue Pres. Trump's push for a naval blockade on Iran & US extortion of a 20% tariff on cargo in Iran’s #StraitOfHormuz would require a huge military operation, as Iran retains an asymmetric advantage in its Strait.

@JChimirie66677 Since 2020? When Brexit Boris opened the floodgates? Make it make sense

Twenty-Seven Young Migrants Hired For Every One British Worker. No Evidence, Says Milburn. Alan Milburn has published his review into Britain's youth worklessness crisis. Nearly a million young people are not in education, employment or training. 1.25 million NEETs (not in education, employment or training) are projected within five years. One in six under-25s economically inactive. A whole-system failure, Milburn calls it. He blames outdated education, overwhelmed mental health services and welfare systems that have become traps rather than safety nets. All of that is true as far as it goes. Then he was asked whether mass migration had played any role. There is no evidence, he said. It is a blame game. Immigration is not really the problem. On the same day, the Centre for Social Justice published figures drawn from HMRC payroll data that the government itself produced. Since 2020, 27 young non-EU migrants have been hired for every one young British worker. The number of non-EU workers under 25 has risen by 355 percent. The young British workforce grew by 0.3 percent over the same period. Meanwhile young people classified as NEET rose by almost 200,000. Milburn says there is no evidence. The government's own numbers say otherwise. This is not a review that failed to find the truth. It is a review that was structurally incapable of finding it because one of the principal causes of the crisis was politically undiscussable. The same political class that used mass migration to paper over economic failure for two decades commissioned a report into the consequences of that failure and ensured the cause would never be named. The mechanism was straightforward. When austerity hollowed out public services and ministers refused to fix pay, productivity or training, immigration became the workaround. Social care was propped up with low-paid migrant labour instead of being rebuilt. Universities starved of funding became visa factories. Each institutional failure was masked by the same answer: import people, keep the system moving, push the costs into the future. Many of those workers did not remain in the sectors they were recruited for. They moved into retail, hospitality and service industries, precisely the entry-level jobs that once gave British youngsters their first foothold in the labour market. The shelf-stacking, the café work, the bar shifts, the Saturday jobs that teach punctuality, responsibility and the basic discipline of showing up. Those jobs are still there. They are simply no longer going to British young people. And this government made it worse. The employer National Insurance rise announced in last October's budget, combined with a near twenty percent jump in the youth minimum wage rate, made entry-level employment more expensive at the precise moment when the supply of cheaper imported labour was already squeezing British young people out. Both mechanisms operated simultaneously. The combined effect is what the statistics now confirm. Milburn's most revealing finding is buried in the detail. The government currently spends twenty-five times more paying unemployed young people than finding them jobs. That is a system designed to manage failure rather than end it. And it is a system built by successive governments that substituted migration for reform, deferred the costs, and are now affecting surprise at what the bill contains. The betrayal is complete. A generation of young British people has been priced out of the entry-level jobs their parents took for granted, replaced in the labour market by imported workers, and then told by a government reviewer that there is no evidence immigration had anything to do with it. The evidence is in the HMRC data. It is in the payroll figures. It is in the 729,000 young people who woke up this morning with nowhere to go. They knew. They did it anyway. A generation paid the price. "Milburn was asked whether mass migration had played any role. There is no evidence, he said."

@Lilywhite_Rose @Bullet_1986 Shite taste in music and football too

@Bullet_1986 Thank you for your money. We’ll put it towards our next £85m signing. #COYS

Hospitality for System of a Down but I feel horrifically dirty wearing anything with the T word on it

@newryhurler1 @irelandbattles Lols! 😘

@PatrickBury @irelandbattles Why??? But then again according to your bio former member of a sectarian milita that murdered 100s of Nationalists directly and indirectly under the guise of UDR and RIR ....don't think the men and women who beat an empire need advice on anything from your ilk

A map roughly showing the Pro-Treaty/National Army & IRA/Anti-Treaty Divisions in June 1922. Dark Green: Pro-Treaty Light Green: Anti-Treaty PS: The map isn't 100% accurate but is very close. #Ireland #History

@mhmiranusa Those explosions look strangely fuel-based?

Royal Saudi Air Force use of sophisticated, low-observable Storm Shadow cruise missiles, just to hit a runway shoulder at Sana'a Airport is a prime example of wasting expensive military assets, one that belongs in military textbooks.

Big news 👇👊

By my reckoning, on numbers arrested and target, this would make it potentially the most signifcant far right terrorist plot in Britain ever.... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A little bit of analysis for @AJEnglish after Trump’s 20% Strait tax announced mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/mOBLfAhv…

@IanMarcusChapma @irelandbattles was referring to this: In the June 1922 Irish general election, approximately 78% of the electorate voted for candidates who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty

@PatrickBury @irelandbattles It was the parliament that voted for the treaty - by a knifeedge 8 votes ? The counter argument is that no democratic process can legitimise British rule in Ireland.

If they can find £550 million for truck drivers’ diesel they can find the money to put the employees on gardening leave until a viable solution is found .

👇🏽This is an international and national embarrassment. And a dangerous one. Aughinish should have been closed weeks ago. Where’s the protests outside stopping transit?

Declan Power, security analyst, on point in the Indo.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The convicted fraudster George Cottrell had access to Nigel Farage’s emails, and covered party costs without the Electoral Commission knowing thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@John_ForemanCBE @JAH5198 Was surprised there wasn’t more about AD?

@JAH5198 Yes they are and Europe should be shouldering the load. Glad to see this message heeded at Ankara especially about long range missiles.

Colby in February: ‘Thus, for the United States, our responsibility is to be clear, candid, and consistent. We will continue to provide the U.S. extended nuclear deterrent. And we will also continue, in a more limited and focused fashion, to provide conventional capabilities that contribute to NATO's defense’ We’re still going to be reliant on the US whatever Barrons says.

@JAH5198 @John_ForemanCBE You may be interested in this foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/strang…

@John_ForemanCBE Conventional capabilities up to the nuclear threshold are, arguably, of equal importance for deterrence and escalation management.

@John_ForemanCBE Especially as there is a massive asymmetry in nuke numbers