Tom Davidson

@afneil I think its quite simple why..The government asseses that the UK will not participate in any major military conflict during this parliament or the next - unfortunately we may not have a choice in the matter if it comes to it.

The current state of the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers — neither operational. 6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus). 7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational 5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?). Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged. Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy. Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.

@the_zb_ @thef1diplomat Interesting! I'm really surprised RUS couldn't make a move stick with that pace. I think Merc is the car to beat but feel like FER could fight with them in Aus and should of tried with the 2nd car. The chances of a 2nd VSC (and cheap 2nd stop) were high given new car reliability

In order to follow as closely as Russell followed Leclerc, he would typically have to have 4-ish tenths of pace advantage. He tried a couple of exploratory moves, and honestly, Charles just had excellent race craft. It was then clear all he had to do was wait for a pitstop, and it didn’t matter whether it was an undercut or an overcut, he was easily by.

There was a lot of talk about the strategy once the first VSC popped in Australia. Ferrari obviously didn't pit either driver, and Mercedes pitted both drivers. I know Ferrari get "memed" for being basically useless when it comes to strategy, so I went back to the onboards: - Charles Leclerc: once VSC pops, the usual engineer stuff comes through to him (maintain delta, keep tires temps in window). Charles has back & forth with his engineer b/c apparently there is a disparity between what his screen is telling him re: tire temps and what he is being asked to maintain on the radio. No discussion whatsoever about pitting or strategy, from him or his engineer. - George Russell: same as above, engineer lets him know where Hadjar will be (left side) in the double-waved yellow zone. Asks whether car is clear when he passes. George replies "not yet, it will be a long one [VSC]". Engineer then asks about balance (indicating that a pitstop is coming, so any changes in flap etc would be input as well). George told to box as they round the penultimate corner. - Lewis Hamilton: same as above, except toward the end of the first VSC lap, after passing Hadjar, Lewis asks "what's the plan?" and his engineer tells him to stay out. He sees George pop into the pits, and as he also sees Kimi pop into the pits, it already hits him that the team got caught out, he replies with "we should've pitted at least one car", this radio message also gets put into the broadcast of the race. - Kimi Antonelli: same as above, discussions about pace & balance. Once decision is made to bring George in, Kimi is immediately told "box opposite Lewis". Kimi complies, and asks engineer to reassure him on the call. Engineer replies "this is the right call". Double stack at Mercedes was at the mercy of whether Ferrari elected to pit one of the cars. Ferrari had no pre-emptive discussion from the pitwall to either driver regarding pitting under the VSC. Lewis was the only Ferrari driver to initiate a call on strategy decision and then also give them feedback after he saw that Mercedes pitted both cars. The truth is, Ferrari should've pitted at least one of the cars. Ideally, it should've been Lewis because Charles had track position and was ahead. At the second VSC, with Bottas, Lewis also expressed frustration because he was on the final corners before the pit lane when VSC popped, implying Ferrari could've reacted quicker/in-the-moment. I can understand MAYBE some hesitation on Ferrari's part because Bottas was at the pit lane entrance, and they maybe feared it would be closed (which it was, once the car was being rescued), but a handful of drivers from other teams took the opportunity to pit themselves before the entry was closed. This is the sort of criticism that Ferrari gets, it's almost like analysis paralysis and they end up not acting on anything and losing out. Potentially lost out on a P2 as a result, but we may never know due to Mercedes' pace in hand/back pocket. Would've definitely not allowed Merc to run in clean air to the end, though!

@the_zb_ @thef1diplomat I've got to disagree. FER should of pitted. There wasn't anything in the first 11 laps that would of led them to think that Merc were sig faster. Ant had closed down the gap but most of that happened in laps 6-11. HAM closed up equally quick in laps 8-11 due to the fighting.

@thef1diplomat I think what they saw from Kimi in the recovery drive showed the cards a bit.

@MoneyTelegraph I think the point everyone seems to be missing here, regardless of your personal situation, is that childcare costs are only for 4 years per child (assuming nursery starts at 1 until school at 4-5). This isn't a cost forever, in a few years they will be banking that £20k again.

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@PWestoff I don't agree with it but I suggest you get your facts completely straight before doom mongering everyone. A) If multigenerational then just transfer ownership early. B) See the below real impact if you include the allowances before IHT kicks in x.com/DanNeidle/stat…

We are witnessing a Communist coup in Britain. A farm valued at £4 million (land, buildings and machinery) might return a profit of only 50-100k per annum. Some years, it will make a loss. The Labour government has just announced a 20% inheritance on the value of farms, which amounts to £800,000 payable (on a £4M farm) after the death of the farmer. His children will be unable to pay this astronomical sum of money, so they will have to sell the farm. But no one will want to buy the farm because of the future inheritance tax issue. What will happen? Friends of the government will buy it cheaply and convert it into a solar farm. After a couple of decades of useless energy production the land will be contaminated and can be re-zoned as a brownfield site and sold as building land. The government will be very happy. Lots of politicians will become very rich. Farmers will no longer exist and the average person will be unable to buy the expensive imported food British farmers once provided cheaply. I'm not sure people fully understand what is actually happening in England. If they did, there would be a million sturdy yeoman armed with pitchforks surrounding parliament next week.

@WarintheFuture Question - will China have sanctioned any NK deployment?

It has become increasingly likely that North Korean combat troops will appear in #Ukraine soon. While there remain many unknowns on this subject, the deployment of North Korean troops raises many different potential issues for Russia, Ukraine and NATO. 1/10 🧵🇺🇦

@t_blom @mattdrussell I also think there is a general culture of risk aversion in companies too..start ups struggle to scale because buyers (mainly B2B) are afraid of new concepts, they change suppliers/products but UK industry is rarely a leader in adaptation to innovation, usually a follower.

@mattdrussell 100% agree with both of these points

Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas mostly fine, university IP problems seem like they’re getting fixed. Free healthcare and social security net in the UK is a huge advantage that should make it dramatically easier to start companies vs US. There’s probably still a lack of scale-up leadership/exec hires. But, by far, the biggest barrier is cultural. Our national psyche doesn’t celebrate entrepreneurs and we have an extreme culture of risk-aversion. A huge majority of smart technical young people in the UK aspire to be lawyers or consultants or work in finance. These are safe careers with prestigious brands that guarantee people a safe, middle class lifestyle. We need our brightest young people to aspire to take risk and create world changing companies and generate billions of pounds of wealth. We need to help them believe it’s possible.

@Unit_9900 @outsidetheboxNL @OPTester_Chris @ashtonforbes might be interested in this..

@outsidetheboxNL @OPTester_Chris Yeah, I remember too. Something about one of the passengers taking a black photo and sending it to a family member, with the message's location originating from the island. Only local SIM cards work there, so in my opinion, that theory was fake.

Since the British Indian Ocean Territory (aka Chagos Archipelago) and US Navy’s installation on one of the islands, called Diego Garcia, is in the news, I thought I would share some of the photos I took while I was stationed on the island for 18 months.

@ianmSC @ben_gramfitness

Joe Biden climbed back up the stairs of an airplane that had just arrived and he wasn’t flying on, as Kamala watched in amazement I mean, he legitimately has no idea where he is or what he’s doing

@JaredFPS @WillDawson1 Interesting one buddy

Interstellar is my favorite movie all time and never once thought of this theory. Seriously mind blown.

@ashtonforbes An observation on the debris found..if the DG theory is correct then breaking off pieces of an abducted aircraft and setting them adrift from the Eastern waters round DG (from disguised fishing boats etc) would of been relatively easy and would of led to them landing in Africa.

Where did Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Crash? MH370 is the most mysterious disappearance in modern history. 239 people vanished without a trace on March 8th, 2014 while headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The prevailing narrative has been that it crashed in some unknown part of the ocean, because the ocean is 'really big.' But where exactly? U.S. Intelligence sources on March 13th floated the idea to the media that the plane took a hard turn into the South Indian Ocean and flew for 5+ hours until it ran out of fuel. This was later supported by Inmarsat satellite pings. 'Experts' used a novel analysis to determine the exact arcs at each time and this is what led to the "7th Arc" where the flight supposedly ended. However, we searched all along the 7th arc above and below water and didn't find a single piece of the plane or any sign of black boxes. The satellite ping data has an obvious anomaly at the exact time the plane was in the Nicobar Islands for the turn into the South Indian Ocean and the 5 hours after amount to ten rows on an excel spreadsheet. Over a year after the disappearance, random civilians found a few tiny pieces of the plane washed up in Africa, 2000-3000 miles away from the alleged crash site. It's practically impossible for the debris to have drifted here in the time period. The ocean currents flow East from the crash site, not West. The debris should have washed up in Australia. The tiny amounts of debris (three confirmed pieces) don't nearly account for a missing plane. It's not even clear if there's enough debris to prove a crash happened. More damning evidence is that the acoustic hydrophone data in the area was analyzed in a scientific paper published in Nature and there are no detections consistent with a plane crashing into the ocean. Scientists confirmed the hydrophones would have easily heard the impact. The only logical inference that can be made is that MH370 didn't crash into the South Indian Ocean. No other conclusion fits the facts. #MH370

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@MikeClarke2020s I disagree with a fully mobilised force - 300k at least are conscripts who were told 6 months and are now 14 months in. Another significant proportion is contract soldiers with a financial/prison incentive. If we see post election mobilisation then it may become a large force

@Nevermore_cyber @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV So coming back to the purpose of @PhilipIngMBE podcast - with so many not knowing what the next move is from Rus, what do we prepare for and what do we prioritise? If we don't think it's direct confrontation then freeing Ukr must be the priority.

@TD8891 @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV Well I think shouting loudly is in their own national interest, op Cabrit, EFP, increased support. I also don't think many govs fully understand Russia and a lot of the decisions are about taking some sort of action for political agendas or for deterrence.

“On the Brink: Is Britain ready for World War 3?” A new PODCAST on @TalkTV hosted by me - do you want to participate? Do you have ideas to discuss? Or do you just fancy #bacon ?? Drop me a message !!

@Nevermore_cyber @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV Interesting - what do you think is the rationale for a number of EU Gvmts/Int agencies openly saying that it is an objective? Surely greater EU defence spending is unhelpful to Rus aims as they have more to give to Ukr?

@TD8891 @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV I don't follow the argument for Putin wanting to capture the Baltics countries. Comparing the situation with Ukraine is hugely different. Russia views Ukraine as a fundamental part of its imperial identity.

@Nevermore_cyber @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV lesson) and then sabre rattle to test nato response/resolve - hence what do we need to do to deter that action if Ukr falls/freezes? Either way they need more manpower than they have deployed and is mobilisation a leading indicator of intent?

@Nevermore_cyber @PhilipIngMBE @TalkTV I think there are a lot of variables in Ukr first (Trump, EU support, Ukr manpower) but a big chunk of Rus force is contract/conscript so they either need re-deploying or rotating. If Ukr lines are frozen then I believe Rus may want to land grab Baltics (Putin history