Adam Barnes

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Adam Barnes

Adam Barnes

@ambarnes68

Cotswolds, UK Katılım Mart 2011
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Adam Barnes
Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
This is a fair line of argument, as long as you are and have always been against even cautious speculation about anything before the facts have been determined. Like, say, climate. Because otherwise it looks like you’re giving Katherine special treatment. And I can’t think of many good reasons for that.
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Bob Ward@ret_ward·
@KathrynPorter26 You wrote in the Telegraph: “Experts including myself have suggested that a lack of inertia may have been linked to the problems in the region.” Why not admit it?
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Adam Barnes
Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@allnewtomorrow @KathrynPorter26 @ret_ward @spectator @X I disagree. She’s an expert in the physics of power generation and distribution and deserves respect. I say that as a chartered electrical engineer and Fellow of the IET. What informs your rude and dismissive perspective, if not misogyny?
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Adam Barnes
Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@deancthorpe @nationaltrust Agreed. But with little to no mobile signal in the house, we are hard to contact in a family emergency, can’t watch Netflix in the evening etc. It would have been dead easy to notify me by phone. I’d have brought books!
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
Hi @nationaltrust I’ve just checked in to one of your charming holiday cottages. Unfortunately I’ve found a note saying the WiFi is down and - since we’re in the middle of nowhere - there’s almost no mobile signal in the house. The note also says that BT are aware and “may” attend. If you’d called me when you discovered this, I would have brought a Starlink mini or at least some DVDs and books. Why did you leave me to find out on arrival? And am I supposed to stay in for the BT engineer - and cancel my day trips?
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
So I’ve been told that the small print states that broadband is not to be relied on, that this is because it’s a business not domestic service, and that the changeover team who left the note “don’t have the facilities” to notify problems by phone, which is why a note was left. Apparently the engineer can gain access via the key safe.
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@nationaltrust Thanks for the quick response. Since BT are the critical path I will call your team tomorrow.
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@Albertprince75 @nationaltrust Walking down the end of the garden. With my coat on. I get 1 bar of 4G here. I’m well aware that this is a first world problem and is some sort of karmic payback. So wind your neck in.
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@eevblog Let’s open another front in the friendly rivalry between the UK and Australia … see if you can spend more per km on high speed rail than we are on HS2!
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@KathrynPorter26 They must not have phone/tablet/console addicted kids. It’ll be like The Purge!
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Kathryn Porter
Kathryn Porter@KathrynPorter26·
Who on earth are the 15% of people who think even occasional blackouts are OK? I suspect they are confusing blackouts that affect everything in the country with localised power cuts In a blackout only people or organisations with onsite generation have power Everything else stops... Trains, mobile phone and internet, traffic lights, supermarkets, petrol stations... Literally everything In Iberia in the 18 hour blackout the police were on the streets to control traffic and prevent looting and the army was used to ensure diesel deliveries to hospitals 11 people died and subsequent studies showed there were 165 excess deaths primarily among women in Spain over the age of 80
Kathryn Porter@KathrynPorter26

Apparently @g__j thinks people would accept blackouts if bills were lower ie no longer full resilience Do you agree... Would you accept the odd blackout (ie full system outage not local power cut) if it meant lower bills? utilityweek.co.uk/greg-jackson-c…

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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@clim8resistance @Ella_M_Whelan @Ed_Miliband They don’t understand efficiency at all. The EU cap on domestic vacuum cleaner motor power being an example. Using less power for longer is no better in terms of energy and wasteful of time. Regressive as you say.
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Ben Pile@clim8resistance·
@Ella_M_Whelan @Ed_Miliband "But the heat pump tumble drier is more efficient!!!! It uses less energy!!!" The efficiency of an appliance is not equivalent to its performance. The green dream of "efficiency" is a medieval lifestyle fantasy of windmills, manual labour, and unquestioning obedience.
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Ben Pile@clim8resistance·
Ed Milband says: "Make Drudgery Great Again". Mother of infants @Ella_M_Whelan disagrees, and tells @Ed_Miliband where he can stick his drier ban. Environmentalism is a regressive ideology. The Milibands of this world would completely ban the tumble dryer if they could.
The Telegraph@Telegraph

🗣️ Why else would Labour’s green dictator go to war on a mother’s most prized possession: her tumble dryer? Ella Whelan reacts to Ed Miliband's plan to limit new sales of tumble dryers ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/3…

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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@afneil Diet Coke was a smart move. It cancels out the calories of the rest of it.
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Andrew Neil@afneil·
Yes. I remember that night too. Though I believe I had the HP Sauce rather than the gravy. Give my regards to Brenda.
SPQL 🇬🇧@SPQLondinium

@afneil I remember you coming in our chippy in Wigan. Steak Pie, Chips and Gravy, with a Saveloy, accompanied by a cheeky Diet Coke, I recall, Big Brenda said you were a true gentleman. A she knows blokes !

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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@jackbuckby Agreed. And given even the possibility of Ed Miliband replacing him, it would be out of the frying pan…
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@KingBobIIV It is hard but there are occasional light moments. My late mother in law promoted me to second husband, briefly, before deciding I was a fellow resident in her care home. She was 94. I’m 57.
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Queen Bee
Queen Bee@KingBobIIV·
I had my first real, first hand, experience of dementia today, when the old lady I take shopping, whom I've grown to care for very much, was absolutely furious with me because she was insisting I'd thrown the duck (she didn't buy) out of the car window. It didn't matter what evidence I showed her that she hadn't bought a duck, or logic I tried to use to explain why on earth I would want to throw her duck out of the window, in that moment, she was adamant and spiteful and angry. 10 minutes later, she was back to her usual self, and knew nothing about the duck. It gave me an insight in to what it must be like to see someone you love going through this - enough of them still in there that you love them, and occasionally taken over by an irrational angry person, or someone that doesn't even remember you. So, all my love to those with, and living with, someone with dementia. If you have a spare fiver this month, there are many charities that help with respite and support xx Donate to Alzheimer's Society | Alzheimer's Society share.google/X97kbiR1ui82my…
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Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1·
Here's the thing: They know they're lying. We know they're lying. We know they know they're lying. They know we know they know they're lying. And they still think they'll get away with it. But we know better. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@rcolvile @Helen_Whately @CapX It’s a bit much for someone on a DB pension to take the reins of the DC pensions of normal mortals. Or am I missing something?
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@peter_sarris It’s been over 10 years since I interviewed graduate electronic engineers but back then I was at my wits end - had to ask q’s about basic electrical theory to sort wheat from chaff; candidates with BEng 1st and MEng distinction unable to cope, upset and bewildered.
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Peter Sarris@peter_sarris·
1/2 Over thirty years teaching in academia in Oxbridge I have observed massive degree grade inflation. I have observed three main reasons: 1) Students do genuinely work harder than they used to. The world beyond graduation is genuinely much tougher.
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Anna Ridgway
Anna Ridgway@annaroseridgway·
25% of pensioners are millionaires. 55% of welfare spending goes on pensioners. Why don’t we: 1) means test the state pension, millionaires don’t need benefits. 2) increase the amount we give to the pensioners who need it the most. 3) stop the unsustainable triple lock.
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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
@DominicMcGregor I'm nearly 58 and accept that something has to give. But there will be side effects of an entitlement cliff edge at (say) £1M assets. People will adjust their behaviour to avoid being put on the wealth offender's register - as they already do to avoid the £100k income cliff edge.
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Dominic McGregor
Dominic McGregor@DominicMcGregor·
I’m 32 years old and I want to change the state pension. With the triple lock, based on historical growth (4.5%) when I reach my pension age. The state pension will be £30,100 a year. This would account for £512bn a year. The current government budget is 1.2Trn. This would be 3x the current NHS budget. The triple lock is unsustainable. Now the debate, no one is saying that pensioners shouldn’t recieve support. That goes without saying. But there shouldn’t be a non-means tested, non contribution based pension which gives everyone blanket support. Especially when you consider 1 in 4 of over 60 years are asset millionaires. My view is, we need to have a means tested only state pension. Which is reassessed every 3 years. There is no “pot” people pay into, national insurance is just a tax - there is no ring fenced fund for a state pension. It comes directly from taxation ever annum. Without changes like this, young people will suffer while older people - who receive their pension and political protection because they actively vote - will continue to have a glorious quality of life.
Good Morning Britain@GMB

More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock. But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?

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Adam Barnes@ambarnes68·
I accept that the headwinds facing 40 somethings and younger are unacceptable. At the same time, think of elderly people with walkable friendship networks and amenities, and perhaps a late loved one resting nearby…. There can be and are good reasons to stay put. Loneliness, depression and even suicide are already big problems for the elderly.
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TechToby
TechToby@techtoby__·
Majority of all the 4, 5 and 6 bedroom homes in my area are all occupied by boomers. They spend all day from Spring to Autumn gardening. Some of them can barely bend down. I’ve no idea why they wouldn’t just sell up. Instead they complain about being unable to heat the property. Any time a home comes up for sale, it’s because someone has died. Then a lot of people don’t even want to buy them because they’ve not been decorated since 1985 and have no bath.
Lin Mei@linmeitalks

There are boomers sitting in large houses who don’t even want to free up equity or sell their house to help their own children get on the ladder. This is the level of selfishness we are dealing with. Thank god for parents like my mother She would sell her house in Tottenham tomorrow if it meant helping me…. And I would do anything to make her life comfortable- that’s what family is about. An eco system of giving. These days many boomers don’t want to help with grandchildren or finacial assistance and children don’t want to help their parents - so much selfishness between recent generations and it will get worse.

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@KathrynPorter26 @allnewtomorrow @ret_ward @spectator @X @deancthorpe @nationaltrust @Albertprince75