Terry Barnes

@martinjude1929 @daveainsworth63 An officer on the Carpathia.

@TerryBarnes5 @daveainsworth63 Was Adam playing Prince Charming 🤔

In the cast of A Night to Remember (1958) we had actors who became Father Brown, a Man from UNCLE, Catweazle and an Amazing Mr Blunden. #Titanic #ANightToRemember

@PumlaMajali @spectator @TerryBarnes This woman married for influence and status derived from her husband's family, cut off her children from their extended families on both sides, and cruelly abandoned her father. It's not unreasonable to point this out.

@spectator @TerryBarnes5 You look like a loser @terryBarnes your face says loser. Which Australians are you talking about, these ones ⬇️ Oh you mean the "unnamed" and "unseen" or the "I'll speak on their behalf". Sir your hate filled post and evil wishes are a disgrace to 🌍 journalism, not UK of course

But if the pair felt a touch of love today and assume that Australians generally share that affection, they are mistaken. A petition entitled ‘No taxpayer-funded or official support for Harry and Meghan’s private visit to Australia’, garnered 45,000 signatures, and a very defensive response from the Sussex camp before they arrived. The trip is all privately-funded, they insist; but tell that to Australian taxpayers stuck with the cost of a police presence, and the costs of the arrangements for hosting the Sussexes at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the other quasi-royal events during their Australian visit. And it hasn’t been lost on the Australian public that the Sussexes are here for several lucrative commercial events, with price tags for attendees that can only be afforded by commercial and social elites – photos with the couple extra, of course. ✍️ Terry Barnes Article | spectator.com/article/harry-…

@GrahamY Note to Libs: Don't negotiate with political terrorists.

Great article by Paul Kelly. "The SA result reflects the opinion poll trend across the nation: there is a massive vote transfer within the centre-right. It confirmed what we knew: that One Nation can ruin the Liberals, but it cannot win enough preferences to stop Labor being the net winner against a broken Liberal Party." I've written much the same in The Spectator with more figures and less flourish.

@guyadams We should all dread what happens next. The women who boarded the plane are even braver than those who didn't.

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@afneil And, on numbers of frigates and destroyers, the Royal Navy is only slightly ahead of the Royal Australian Navy, which has more of these in readiness than the RN.

Happy to be corrected by naval experts. But by my calculations the entire Royal Navy surface fleet of warships consists of: Two aircraft carriers Six Type 45 destroyers Seven aging Type 23s And of these 15 warships only three are currently active (soon to be four if HMS Dragon leaves port tomorrow. In any sensible estimation of deployable capability we don’t really have a Navy, do we?

Spare a thought for these brave women and their families. #auspol

@holland_tom Delighted for you!

Bede Librarian!!!

This video deserves the widest possible viewership across the Anglosphere. Canada is fortunate to have @PierrePoilievre in her public life and contest of ideas. So very impressive.

@LordAshcroft Congratulations and best wishes!

I’ve made it. I’ve made it! Today I’m the first day into my 9th decade as I hit 80! To all the lefties. Be nice today. Resume hostilities tomorrow! To all those who follow me I have no intention of slowing down…

Albanese is right about Andrew and his vile character. But he wrote to Starmer, committing Australia on a serious constitutional issue without first doing the courtesy of advising the Leader of the Opposition and state premiers. That was high-handed and arrogant. #auspol

@Classicbritcom And he was christened with Private Pike's dad's name!

The final resting place of Ian Lavender now boasts a beautifully adorned gravestone, inscribed with the endearing name of his character in Dad's Army, "Private Pike." What a charming addition to his memorial 😇🙏

@freddiesayers @spectator As a contributor to both @spectator and @SpectatorOz, can I add that the Australian end does its part too?

Something remarkable is happening at world’s oldest — and greatest — magazine. While many publications are struggling, the @spectator now has more subscribers than at any point in its 200 year history.

Valentine's Day. Bah, humbug.

@elonmuskPBG Two.

This Age/SMH piece is a lazy trawl of One Nation's website. But then One Nation's website is just a lazy collection of thought bubbles, with no real policies attached. Laughable. #auspol theage.com.au/politics/feder…

The fourth attack was actually inside Sydney Harbour, where shark attacks are very rare. A 12-year-old boy was swimming not far off a beach in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse when he was attacked and severely mauled around his arms and torso. ✍️ Terry Barnes spectator.com/article/sharks…

I've written this for the AFR. Both polls today tell the same story for the Liberals, although the Newspoll putting performative populists One Nation just ahead of the Coalition is probably a rogue or one-off result. But we'll see.

@ellymelly Be kind. Rewind.

I had a black and white TV in my room as a child. Listened to music on a cassette player. Saw movies at the cinema. Never rewound video tapes. Remember perforated printer paper. Saw floppy disks but never used them. Had a landline and nothing else. ANYONE ELSE FROM MY GENERATION?