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@Dbrown_beer @Telegraph Do not be a SillyHelen, Helen. Spend a moment with AI to understand the taxation benefit of private north sea production before posting. It is REALLY significant

@Telegraph Norway didn't shoot themselves in the foot by privatising their energy. We did. So any oil produced by North sea drilling would be priced at the same rate as that from Norway anyway.

Britain is paying Norway around £20bn a year for oil and gas, and that dependence is only expected to grow. Energy Editor Jonathan Leake explores how declining North Sea production, Labour’s stance on new drilling, and rising imports are fuelling concerns over the UK’s long-term energy security ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@Telegraph Bugger, this sort of common sense along with your sport, great investment advice and better Ukraine coverage will have me resubscribing to your paper. Please keep on venting about BREXIT so that my revulsion for this stupidity will keep me from making this expenditure

@DefenceES Yes I do. Pensions however? No,

@alex_chenkov Please rename your company Ukrainian Housewives Inc ... And may I wish you smiles all the way to victory

Hey everyone, I finally landed properly on X — right after my response to Rheinmetall’s СЕО. Perfect timing to introduce myself. I’m Oleksandr Yakovenko, founder of TAF Industries — one of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers. In 2022, right after the full-scale invasion, money was never my goal. I founded the charity foundation to deliver critical supplies to over 200 military units. It was pure volunteer work. But charity wasn’t enough. The front needed effective and affordable ways to strike the enemy. So in late 2023 I launched TAF. What started as a wartime volunteer project has grown into industrial-scale production: strike drones, reconns UAVs, EW systems, interceptors and over 30 combat-proven solutions. We run our own R&D center, iterate weekly from real battlefield feedback, and operate a distributed network that survives under missile strikes. The future of warfare is cost-effectiveness. Not the most expensive platform, but the one that delivers maximum effect for minimum cost. The recent Iran conflict proved it again: cheap Shahed drones ($20k–50k) force billion-dollar air defenses to burn through multimillion-dollar interceptors. The math is merciless. We understand the concern of traditional monopolists earning billions on ineffective legacy platforms. Change is uncomfortable — Nokia and Kodak felt the same. Yet while they worry, we’re already moving forward: we’ve established a joint venture in Germany with local partner and are receiving the first orders, turning Ukrainian combat experience into European industrial capacity. I’m here not for profit margins, but to strengthen Ukraine’s defense, bring more soldiers home alive, and share real-war expertise through honest partnerships. Open to connecting with military professionals, defence experts, and serious international partners. Let’s talk — even with those who still believe it’s 1979.

@global_diplomat @frongi67763 @TheStudyofWar Fair point. But that is what you have democracy for. Don't you?

@frongi67763 @TheStudyofWar Is that a Constitutional obligation? Separate the what is the Constitution mandates and what some people would like the government to do.

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly requested that Russia’s top businessmen provide funding for the Russian government, indicating that the Kremlin may be growing desperate for economic relief and may be setting conditions to nationalize their assets to support the war effort. Other Key Takeaways: Putin’s reported request for Russian top businessmen to donate money to the Russian state threatens to break a promise he made to Russian oligarchs not to nationalize their assets soon after seizing power. Ukraine and Saudi Arabia concluded a defense cooperation agreement on March 27. Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure near the Baltic Sea on the night of March 26 to 27, marking the fourth strike in five days against Russian oil infrastructure in Leningrad Oblast. Latvia warned on March 27 that Russia launched a cognitive warfare campaign falsely accusing the Baltic states of allowing Ukraine to launch strikes against Russia from the Baltic states’ territories. Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces advanced on March 27. Ukrainian forces conducted long-range strikes against the Russian defense industrial base (DIB). Russian forces launched 102 drones against Ukraine.

@Ukraine So proud of how well and ... Right .. the Brits got this. And so ashamed of how this is progressing. More painfully for the Olympics, i will not watch this. You may say so what, but this is lost revenue

By allowing Russian and Belarusian flags to be displayed at the Paralympic Games, the International Paralympic Committee has already turned a celebration of dignity into a false-flag operation for aggressor regimes. We are grateful to all countries that have taken a principled position not to attend the Opening Ceremony. This is what solidarity in defending dignity looks like.

@RWApodcast Wow, time does go slowly when you are miserable does it not? Who would have thought that 4 weeks would seem SO long?

Realistic timeframe is 4-8 weeks I believe. Depends on a lot of factors

The shortest time frame I've heard from serious people was 2 weeks but that would have included a significantly more ruthless approach to shelling cities and strikes against barracks and other large gatherings of Ukrainian soldiers, all of which was avoided to minimize casualties

@thinkdefence Listen to YouTube Perun. Next question?

Do you think it is fair to say the British Army, MoD, and General Dynamics, underestimated the complexity and challenge of bringing Ajax into service? If so, how do we stop the next programme suffering the same?

@HousewifePolish @JonathanPieNews That is correct. The irony of Liz is that what she wanted to do (growth) was correct. It is the stupidity and negligence with how she tried to do it that got her kicked out.

@JonathanPieNews ‘They’ didn’t ‘try’, they succeeded in getting a PM out of office without an election before she had a chance to implement policies to reduce the size of the state and reduce the tax burden. Now the state and taxes are even bigger than they were then

They didn't try to silence you, they just tried to get you out of office as soon as possible coz you were quite clearly utterly mental.

@N1Trodr1 @DarthPutinKGB Amen, I think you will find that it is either you are or you're in it's colloquial from. I despair for poor Putin. These refinery attacks really are causing him to reduce costs and hire lower quality trolls. 3 years ago in his 10 day special ops, he'd never have let this slip

@DarthPutinKGB And you think its something to be proud of. It's Sick and Evil. Your Not even Human Your an animal..

By way of thanking Donald for not escalating with Tomahawks, I just killed a bunch of children at a Kharkiv kindergarten.

@thinkdefence And why not, for the simple joy and financial appropriateness of it, make a business out of it? In today's environment got to love a 'self funding' employment creating business opportunity

By the time existing commitments, long term contracts, inflation, and the big ticket items like deterrent are taken into consideration, the MoD has surprisingly little room for change, despite what defence budget increases may or may not happen

@DefMon3 @alon_mizrahi Bless you @DefMon3 perfect reply

@alon_mizrahi Basis:

Can anyone please explain to me why Russia would want to attack Europe? What is the basis for this lunatic theory?

@mickthegiant @sharrond62 No, but the Indian people would be much better off of we did. I feel sorry for them,

@sharrond62 Do you think we should still “own” India as well?

Played for fools again let’s add!

@berlin_bridge @W_Schmidt_ @DomNicholls cannot but help think this quote should replace your Starmer quote that the start of your very wonderful podcast

@berlin_bridge @W_Schmidt_ "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory". He continued, "Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival".

I remember sitting in a room listening to @W_Schmidt_ blather that Germany couldn’t possibly send Ukraine tanks because there’d be German iron crosses painted on them & then Russia would say Germany was at war with Russia. We’ve come a long way. We can and must go further. 🇺🇦🇩🇪💪

@ThePosieParker Go private. It is what you'd have to do if you were in the USA

After spending the night in hospital with my daughter, who is very unwell but not life threatening, I don’t want to hear another word about how great the nhs is. The nurses have not looked after her at all. Loud unnecessary conversations throughout the night, lazy can’t be arsed attitudes, no explanation of what’s happening, at all, no desire to offer reassurance or comfort, not one question about whether she wants to sit up or lie down. We are being made to feel like everything is too much and we should be grateful for less than the absolute minimum. She asked for more pain killers, as it’s been six hours. “We will come at six, as it must be six hours unless you’re in pain” (it can actually be four) we explained the doctor says to make it regular, she’s also had morphine and that she is in a lot of pain. “If you dont wait until six the next lot will be hours and hours and hours” I ask what time the last lot was as we think it’s been a really long time. “11:13, so she can wait until six, unless she’s in pain” I say that that’s six hours ago. “Yes so at six we will come round” I have to say “no, at six it’ll be nearly seven hours, she’s in pain now, please can you go and get the pain relief now” She goes. When she returns, rather than coming round to the side of her bed to give a patient medicine, on a drip, she leans from the bottom of the bed and motions for my daughter to get up and take it from her. I have to remind the nurse that she’s in hospital because she’s unwell and in agony. “Oh I didn’t know, I’m new to this ward” this ward is uneventful, nothing is happening. She must have read my daughter’s chart to give her the tablets. What sort of nurse gives tablets from the bottom of a bed?!?! Imagine I wasn’t here? How many patients would have felt despite the pain they should take it from her? Imagine my daughter was a frail or vulnerable patient? The entire experience has been god awful. The hospital is very empty, with wards full lit with no patients in them. It’s utterly utterly shit.

@OAlexanderDK How bad must Biden have been that I now think trump - may - turn out to be 'better'? May the god that I do not believe in preserve us all,

Russia’s refining capacity is collapsing at an unprecedented rate, deepening its soaring government deficit and making the war in Ukraine increasingly unsustainable. This pressure could have been applied years ago if not for one person and his fear of “escalation”.

@WarMonitor3 Norway

Name me one successful communist society.

@HectorMarimo @tweet4Anna_NAFO I do. But if this trend continues any longer, they will not be hitting back with anything that relies on peyrol

@tweet4Anna_NAFO You know they will hit back soon, right?

@LinkofSunshine Sure, as long as you are happy to put aside her orchestration (orchestration is too active a word but let's go with it) of the Ukraine russian war and the millions of dead that this will produce, I'm fine with tjis as well,

Very hot take but I think people have over corrected on Merkel I get how annoying all the “leader of Europe” stuff was in 2015, and she badly miscalculated on Russia, but she was mostly fine, better than the majority of right wing leaders, and wasn’t the main villain of the 00s