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@philipnolan1 @bankofireland Bank of Ireland electronic banking always reminds me of the standard of apps we enjoyed living on a small african island, in 2002.

The @bankofireland mobile app quite possibly already is the stupidest and most frustrating available. With Zippay, it has reached a new level of annoyance. I’ll stick with the simplicity of Revolut, thanks.

Idea Every company wants you to log in to their website to see your bill. Energy. Phone. Insurance. Council tax. Water. Subscriptions. Sixteen passwords just to find out who’s taken your money. Turn it round - One personal account. If a company wants paying, they log in to YOUR site and place the bill there.

@PadraigBelton @JSS779 Oh God the Liffey lounge.

@JSS779 My FlyerTalk handle is Speedbloke. I was inordinately proud of that. (Hullo from the 825 DUB-LHR, en route to Cheltenham and the races! And the Liffey lounge, truly luxury’s lap…)

From one Speedbird to another at JFK 😁✈️🇺🇸

@IrishTimes @grok is this accurate? Is it the whole story?

Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, “not even a parking ticket” irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/…

@declanganley Makes you wonder how on earth they reopened the Palace in 1950 - after fourteen direct hits in the blitz and complete destruction of the Commons chamber.

Or get my 84 year old highly experienced classical building restorer father to do it with the crew of his choosing and it’ll be done before he retires and for under 100m. Who quotes these kind of numbers of so many billions? Immediate disqualification. In the late 70’s and beginning of the 80’s My father wasn’t the name on the banner prime contractor for the pedestrian subways around Tower Bridge and the Tower of London but he and his crew were the ones that actually did the job and uncovered, saved and worked around a lot of important archeology while they did it. In all seriousness, I’d love to have him price the job, he’s scarily accurate on quantities and prices in construction. He’d expose these chancers in a few weeks.

And there is always an Osteopath involved…

@declanganley “Nonsuch” has such a fantastic place in English history - the house on the bridge (probably the world’s first prefab).. the palace and the treaty before it… the little ship that sailed to the Americas… and still has a bay in Antigua named for it.

Here’s a thread I did in 2019 on the idea of bringing back the great ‘London Bridge’.

I’ve said it before but one of the great projects of the near future should be the rebuilding of the ‘old’ London Bridge, a ‘homage’ to the historic bridge with shops, accommodation, the works. With current technology there would be no need to have the piers so close together and to cause cataracts in the river as was the case with the old bridge. Someone running for Mayor of London, or national leadership, should make it a mission.

please God it's a Healy Ray

@declanganley Not forgetting that over-regulation leads to bad banking. Money becomes a dead hand instead of the slap on the arse it should be. As always in Ireland, we exemplify.

In fact saying this, would be considered by many of them as ‘anti-European’, so it’s very hard to find breakout.

The problem is Europe is a hostile place for its own entrepreneurs. It’s easier to raise capital elsewhere, it’s easier to ramp up/down/up etc and make changes to staffing elsewhere. The regulatory shakedown of European entrepreneurs is so bad, no one wants to talk about it due to potential punishing consequences. There is rampant corruption, IP theft from young entrepreneurial companies to large state or de facto state enterprises. The red tape makes risk taking, even if you want to take it, even more prohibitive than it already is. Then there is the matter of taxation, and ‘contributions’, the burden on employers, before they ever make a profit. Finally the taxation on the entrepreneur, if the risk they take on ends up succeeding. Other places just let you keep more of what you make. You can’t build global technology leadership or rapid world beating defence innovation in that environment. It is literally impossible.

@CotswoldLadyB “Two rivers run silently through London tonight, and one is made of people. Dark and quiet as the night-time Thames itself, the other river flowed through Westminster Hall, where Churchill lay in state...”

Sir Winston Churchill passed away 61 years ago today. His fortitude, grit and determination led our country through some of our darkest hours and years. The New York Times quoted: "The great figure who embodied man's will to resist tyranny passed into history this morning.” Sir Winston was a close friend and ally to the President of the USA - and they watched their soldiers fight, and die, shoulder to shoulder during World War II. One wonders what he would have made of the current POTUS and his careless remarks two days ago. I suspect he’d have dealt with him in fairly short order. I hope he’s resting well, and not spinning too much. God bless you Sir Winston. A true leader in every sense of the word.

Now apply that logic to the death sentence.

@rorysutherland There was a lovely story of a family office in jersey who, when asked back in the day for a utility bill, provided evidence of ownership of a gas company.

Banking regulations!

@grok @netadror @oasishealthapp @grok tell me more about the disclosure rule changes in 2026

Yes, multiple studies support associations: phthalates like DEP in fragrances linked to hormonal disruption and reduced sperm quality (e.g., moderate evidence in PMC review PMC10825890). Other ingredients like linalool are known allergens. However, FDA states no safety risks from low exposures (as of 2022). New EU disclosure rules start 2026; US proposed for 2026.

Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince people to spray thousands of toxic chemicals on their bodies. For years, the FDA allowed toxic chemicals to hide under "fragrance" or "parfum" to protect trade secrets. A single fragrance formula can contain 20–80 ingredients, including: • Phthalates – solvent & fixative • Synthetic musks – scent fixatives • BHT – preservative • Linalool, Limonene, Citral, Geraniol – scent allergens • Coumarin, Hexyl cinnamal – scent allergens • Benzyl alcohol – solvent/preservative • Benzyl benzoate – fixative • Alpha-isomethyl ionone – allergen Brands like Dior, Aesop and Tom Ford use these mystery cocktails of volatile solvents and allergens, revealing little about the contents. In 2025, new U.S. and EU transparency laws require fragrance brands to disclose ingredients, revealing many disrupt hormones. Many colognes use Diethyl Phthalate (DEP), linked to sperm damage and hormonal issues. Top offenders include: • Calvin Klein Eternity • Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Wish • Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio • Chanel Coco To protect your health, we independently test and rate fragrances on Oasis app, so you know what's safe.

@R7Goodman @afneil @VirginAtlantic My wife and I have both switched to @VirginAtlantic from BA Gold. No complaints at all, fantastic staff who seem to enjoy what they are doing - makes a big difference especially as we often travel the same route separately.

@afneil I've been very happy using @VirginAtlantic for my UK > US travel

Sure. It won’t make any difference. I don’t have the time to make up for your inadequacies. You have launched a fatwa on your loyal high paying customers for reasons best known to yourselves. I will have done six first class returns to NYC in the past year plus first class return to Sydney and numerous Nice-London business class. Yet I still won’t be able to renew my GGL Group O status. If I don’t qualify who does? No matter. I have gold for life which means I can always use your lounges. But instead of always travelling BA I will look for better more convenient deals with other airlines eg Nice to NYC direct, forget BA out of London. Why you would treat someone like me like that baffles common sense. But BA, not me, will be the loser, especially if I decide to broadcast my experience to my 1.2m X followers and on Times Radio and Mail columns. At the moment you’re a case study in an historic British brand gone badly long. I might make it my business to explain and expose why. You’re interesting as a business case study in stupidity. @britishairways

@grok @declanganley @PatLeahyIT @IrishTimes There you go! We’ve a little way to go with joined up platforms yet..

@cassiustweets @declanganley @PatLeahyIT @IrishTimes Declan Ganley was born on July 23, 1968, making him 57 years old as of today.

How odd, the thing that’s being restricted here is a news story from @PatLeahyIT of @IrishTimes, there is nothing ‘PG rated’ about the story:

@LadyHaywire Congratulations Karen!

There's a teensy tiny little secret I've been hiding from everyone on here for a while. Safe to say I think Nova was always meant to be mine 🥰

@PadraigBelton @soupyferns I found the colon a bit aggressive.

@soupyferns Oxford students of my generation would have somehow managed to work it in somewhat earlier in the sentence.

@wereontheditch @grok does this sort of thing only happen in Ireland? Or in other countries as well?

The judge who this week said cyclists had “become a nightmare” had a judgment quashed by the High Court because he interrupted a barrister more than 2,000 times. A senior judge also barred justice James O’Donohoe from any further involvement in the case. ontheditch.com/judge-criticis…

@grok @dingdongalong1 @real_lord_miles @grok what are the nature of the ties?