Simon Bunce

@WCalame71449 @mikegardner_wb @SteveBakerFRSA Ad hominem. Address the arguments he made.

Absolute rubbish — and that’s exactly why this country never moves forward. We’re stuck because we keep ending up with these outdated, worn‑out figures clinging to power, blocking any real progress. With people like Michael Gove still hanging around the system, it’s no wonder everything feels frozen in time.

“Disastrous for our politics with no economic benefit”. Michael Gove schools a pro-EU questioner and audience on #bbcqt as to why Labour’s pre-election lies about respecting Brexit and their actions since, threaten to undermine, rather than help our economy.

Maybe we don't want politicians with 'inspirational' backstories, we want people who won't lie to us and constantly make our lives and finances worse?

@AndrewOrlowski Me too. The Wilko Johnson connection was a surprise.

@SimonBunce63 It really is. Most of that obit is news to me, her line about Paul Simon is very funny.

Beverley Martyn’s Auntie Aviator is a big hit with small children, I discovered. It might be the greatest child’s record that isn’t a children’s record. RIP: Beverley Martyn, singer and songwriter who became a senior figure on the UK folk scene telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

@WestwaterDaniel @WolfgangRichtEU @RupertLowe10 It is.

@WolfgangRichtEU @RupertLowe10 This has to be satire

Muslims electing Muslims exactly because they’re Muslims - they then govern as Muslims, for Muslims. Demographic changes, birth rates and mass immigration mean that this is going to accelerate, rapidly. What is our country going to look like in fifty years? Twenty years? Ten years? Honestly, think about that. On current projections, Britain has an Islamic future. That is just a fact. I don’t like it, in fact it terrifies me, but it’s true. I do not want my grandchildren’s children to grow up in a Muslim Britain. Tower Hamlets. Rochdale. Birmingham. Luton. Blackburn. Large parts of London. I could go on. A sectarian nightmare. Deep divisions across the community in parts of those towns, in others it’s entirely united - united by Islam. That is our future. Unless we act, unless we organise, unless we vote. There is still time. Restore Britain is the only serious political party that has the courage to stand up for a Christian Britain. We are the only political party with the courage to do what is necessary. Mass immigration from Islamic countries will end, day one. Banning halal slaughter, cousin marriage, the burqa/niqab. Dominating Islamic prayer will be outlawed, along with any form of Sharia Law. We will not tolerate the call to prayer being blared out across British towns. The colonisation of our cities by foreign enclaves practising medieval practices will end. The islamification of Britain will be halted and reversed. That is what Restore Britain will do. If you agree, then join us. Join the party, attend your local meetings, volunteer. Help us. Because we need it, and nobody else is going to do it. Not Farage, not the Tories, certainly not Labour. This is up to us now. And there is one answer. Restore Britain.

@quay_dr No it doesn't. It's a confined environment. Obviously the same rat infecting 6 humans is far more likely.

May 12, 2026 Update: We now have six 2026 Andes Hantavirus sequences The M gene, the most variable, is identical for all six A single rodent-to-human Index Case, followed by repeat Human-to-Human transmission continues as the highest probable scenario pathoplexus.org/andv/search

@medicaccountant @timfarron Because all our problems are caused by an insufficient number of well paid jobs for politicians.

@timfarron Can someone explain why we need a mayor . I am genuinely confused as to the purpose

The election results last week show that Reform UK are on the rise - while Labour and the Conservatives are finished. The only party who can beat Reform UK at the Cumbria Mayoral elections next May are the Liberal Democrats. My interview with BBC Radio Cumbria this morning 👇

180,000 of you now. I satirize from the perspective of insiders who will never say these things out loud. Pentagon auditors. Hedge fund compliance officers. Health insurance denial architects. Congressional ethics staffers. Oil traders with 21-minute windows. HR directors who renamed layoffs. Surveillance vendors. Opioid settlement lawyers. Deportation logistics coordinators. AI safety researchers who watched the guardrails come off. To every subscriber who reads the quiet parts with me. To everyone who's left a comment, shared a post, or tagged someone with "this is literally my industry." You're the reason this work reaches the people it's about. I write confessions. You make them travel. The community interaction is genuinely the best part of this — not the numbers, but the replies where someone says "I thought I was the only one who noticed this." You weren't. You just didn't have a narrator yet. Thank you. The work continues because you keep showing up for it.

@BBC_Cumbria For some reason half of this story is about one person's specific journey, a particularly awkward one to take by train at the best of times, & hardly representative. What kind of car repair takes months? All rather curious. Does she know someone at the BBC?

Hopes joint ticket will boost car-free tourism bbc.in/4ujLwx7

@MerrynSW Not just Scotland...

Much of Scotland's problem in a nutshell. Mean spirited suggestion that somehow living in a flat on a taxpayer funded salary is superior to being the kind of person who gets up every day to make the real money and pays the taxes. And can then afford the things you can't....

@ClareCraigPath How is anyone still pushing this? It's bizarre.

Is it too much to hope that scientists learn to recognise that coloured lines on a graph are only of meaning if they are plotting measurements from the real world. Modelled studies are fantasies based on assumptions.

@PaulfrYorkshire @StarkClimate This is just handwaving and fear mongering. Your kids and your grandkids will have worse things to contend with than a little extra CO2 in the atmosphere.

@SimonBunce63 @StarkClimate Of course there are challenges with renewables but they are well known and solutions are continually emerging. The technology is advancing so quickly we’ll probably have it all sorted soon. And we have to try. I want my kids and (if ever) grandkids to have a habitable planet.

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@PaulfrYorkshire @StarkClimate Really? That's your response to perfectly reasonable & justifiable concerns? en.wiktionary.org/wiki/every_acc…

@SimonBunce63 @StarkClimate Imagine how either dishonest or just plain miserable you have to be not to celebrate these technological advances!

@StarkClimate Grid scale wind+solar require full backup by nuclear+gas or the lights will go out when weather conditions aren't suitable. Enormous extra costs, ultimately paid by consumers. All for no measurable impact on the climate. Maybe other parts of the world can see that already.

@SimonBunce63 Not sure why we’d expect renewables to do it all. Maybe we need a mix of things (like today). And maybe other parts of the world will gain the confidence to do that too. And maybe that might make a difference to this climate change thing after all. It won’t happen any other way.

@NickDixon He talks about "our flag" but will not define or even admit the existence of the group whose flag it actually is.

What on earth has the flag of England got to do with ‘unity’? You may as well say ‘cheese stands for justice’. As for plastic patriotism, you are the ultimate plastic patriot. You despise the English, but attempt to hijack our symbols whenever convenient.

@Keir_Starmer You say "our flag". Exactly who is the group whose flag this is?

St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division. Those are the values I will always fight for. Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@Francis_Hoar @_curnonsky__ @thecoastguy Oh well

@SimonBunce63 @_curnonsky__ @thecoastguy There are so many fools who buy into this confected mixture of myth and invention.

True enough.

@_curnonsky__ @Francis_Hoar @thecoastguy No he doesn't.

@Francis_Hoar @thecoastguy King Charles needs its permission to visit it

@rorysutherland Probably also quite a lot of this factor x.com/i/status/20437…

@SimonBunce63 It's on every flight.

What the hell explains this price discrepancy? It cannot be informed preference alone. What informational asymmetry is causing this?