Adam Flanagan

Here is a perfect example of the type of talent we are losing. This guy is probably in the top 0.01% in terms of intelligence and agency. Born in Guildford, founder of 2 tech companies, one being a billion $ satellite AI data centre company. This is catastrophic for Britain.

This will have huge (negative) ramifications on the UK economy @KanishkaNarayan. You have wealth flight (although not to Dubai anymore) eroding the tax base, and potentially the professional services jobs being automated away far more quickly than people though. What happens to UK GDP?

@belfastairport why have you got 2/6 security lanes open on one of the busiest travel days of the year? Going back to your old ways of being a miserable and unreliable experience for travellers

The BIGGEST change to nuclear regulation in the history of this country. Government was set to bottle it. YOU pushed for it, you tweeted, you shared videos, you signed letters and you didn't let up. Govt gave in. They accepted these RADICAL CHANGES. Now we hold them to it.

I am disappointed by today’s recommendation on prostate cancer screening from the National Committee. Targeted screening is a natural first step - but the recommendation today is far too targeted, not including black men or men with a family history, both high-risk groups. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among British men. We are letting down too many men if we don’t push for a wider screening programme that includes all high-risk groups - and not just the men involved, but their families too, who risk losing a loved one unnecessarily. As I know all too well, prostate cancer can be symptomless early on. That’s why screening is so essential - catching the cancers early when they can be more effectively and successfully treated, like in my own case. I urge @wesstreeting and the government to be brave and bold on this crucial issue. Make the first step more significant than what’s being recommended. Put in place a proper, targeted screening programme that involves all those at higher-risk. Without it, more men will die, more families will lose a loved one. This is avoidable and can be done.

@levelsio Except @levelsio I couldn’t get them to work with a non-Chinese bank card? My experience of travelling in China was a lot of good/convenient ideas were off limits for those travelling from abroad.

🇨🇳 I found the rentable powerbanks in China One scan to pay with Alipay and then you take the battery and you return it later This would never work in US or Europe because people would just steal the powerbanks

@jeff_weinstein @marqo_ai

every search bar will soon be powered by ai. (if you're a startup making a dead simple ai replacement for elastic search-y style use cases, i'd love to play with a demo + help in any way => jweinstein@gmail.com)

What is wrong with us?!

This is what good government looks like in the modern era. Fast. Efficient. Adaptable. Accountable. I have no party allegiance in the UK as I don’t feel like any party represents me. But I do support amazing talent in politics - regardless of party affiliation. How do we get more people like Kanishka into public service?

Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was staying; he clarified that he was also going to leave, just not in the next three years. Mobility is a wonderful thing, but it feels worrisome if everyone in such a group concludes that they ought to emigrate. This desire seems to generalize. A 2023 study suggested that more young people want to leave Ireland than any other EU country.

Of all the great people I’ve worked with across the globe, none are finer than those I had the honour to serve with in the #RoyalUlsterConstabulary and the @PoliceServiceNI. While some may attempt to rewrite history, those of us who served know the truth and the sacrifice made by far too many of our colleagues. RIP #LestWeForget

The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing. Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀

.@leecronin is the real deal. This is fantastic news and well deserved👇

Everyone’s debating whether AI will take call centre jobs. We’re missing the real story. AI won’t just displace customer service – it’s coming for lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals. The careers that drive UK GDP. The “safe” graduate jobs. We won’t need anywhere near today’s numbers. The billable hour is dying. So where does all that economic value go? Increasingly to a small group of US tech giants – today’s Magnificent Seven becoming tomorrow’s fourteen, maybe twenty-one. The concentration of wealth in a handful of platforms while entire UK sectors restructure. This doesn’t have to be our future. We need two things, urgently: • Education rebuilt for the AI age • UK AI companies that can scale and list in London, not California When companies list abroad, so do the jobs, tax revenues, and wealth creation. The UK needs to decide: do we want to own part of the AI economy, or just work for it?

We’ve added former @MethodyBelfast pupil @PaulTaylorCEO from Thought Machine to our inaugural Collegians Business Event on 5 Sept. Paul & Robert Ferguson from @four_gears will discuss ‘AI in Business’. Are you a Collegian & interested in AI? Book now: methodycollegians.org/events/collegi…

Two men aged 45 and 25 have been arrested by detectives investigating the attempted murder of former police officer, John Caldwell, in Omagh in February 2023. Read more here : orlo.uk/sj1AN

@AFitzgerald1992 @IsembardGroup Congrats @AFitzgerald1992 - the special relationship is alive and well!

“Yet such is often the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” @IsembardGroup's first US factory now live. 🇺🇸🇬🇧

The next decade will be one of the most dangerous yet transformational periods ever. Democratic market states must unite to seize this moment. If they don't, authoritarian powers will. Writing in the @WSJ today, I outline what a new kind of partnership must look like 🧵

Let there be air con. Energy policy should fit what Brits need, not the other way around. Sign up to Britain Remade’s campaign to make Britain cool again. 🇬🇧