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@Johnmcternan Wake up John, the world as it once was is gone! Al Carns is 💯 correct, preparedness is essential, weakness will only encourage war. Thucydides rightly noted 'The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.' If we are not strong our future will be chosen for us.

We need to get away from this war mindset. Avoiding wars - as when we correctly refused to join the Iran War - is better than fighting them.

@JamesHCarson @ClimateWarrior7 Yeah I realised a little later, made me laugh!

@esweeti2 @ClimateWarrior7 He's trolling you, Ed. Stop falling for it.

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Median wealth per adult globally is about $8,000. That means Elon has 125 million times as much stuff as the median person. Let that sink in. He is consuming 125 million times as much food as the median person. He owns 125 million times the amount of housing. He has 125 miilion times the amount of clothes. Meanwhile children even in the UK are starving, and yet he refuses to hand over food and clothes to them.

@Jaswanarth @TotalSpursTV @premierleague Historical turning point? Spurs have spent 1 season, out of the top division in the last 75 years and you're still salty about missing promotion in 1978, because Saints played out a mutual beneficial draw. You had your chance again in the early 80s and you guys were sh***!

@TotalSpursTV Current. Most of the last 20 years in the @premierleague . How might history have played out, but for your rigged game at The Dell in the late 70's?

This #thfc meltdown over Vuskovic is the most fun I have had on here in years. All you have to do is tell them to do as they are told and accept their position in football's pecking order and the veins in their foreheads explode!... #bhafc

@liamhodges_ @PwnzAll @ZiaYusufUK Prioritise AI in speeches! Like the £500m committed to the sovereign AI fund😢. This govt is squandering what they have inherited in terms of the Tech industry we will just fall further behind. No way Starmer would seriously back the industry.

@esweeti2 @PwnzAll @ZiaYusufUK Firstly if it’s built in the UK the US government can’t ban brits. Secondly as much as I’m not a fan of Starmer or Labour or any government we’ve had. One thing that they’ve done is prioritise AI.

I’ve warned for months that America would soon restrict access to state of the art frontier AI models for national security reasons. THIS HAS NOW HAPPENED. Thanks to the catastrophic energy policies pursued by the Tories and Labour, Britain has virtually ZERO sovereign AI capability. Now we will be cut off from the most powerful AI models, and will soon end up being TOTALLY AT THE MERCY of China America and others who will be able bring to bear intelligence capable of defeating all our security systems in short order. WE MUST CHANGE COURSE NOW

@afneil Exactly, Musk has encouraged dissent and removed the shadow banning under Twitter. Unlike the old days of newspaper barons, people have the right to reply on X. Literally the opposite of restricting political freedom.

I abhor Musk’s support for Robinson and most of what he’s said about Britain recently, since most of it is plain wrong. But you don’t have to the trillionaire owner of X to spread garbage. Folks on the hard left and right do it every minute of the day — reflecting and amplifying each other — and most probably have barely two beans to rub together. Social media has democratised opinion mongering — not always for the better.

@DanielPriestley A consensus built around the need to create economic growth is the foundation, but bizarre as it might seem some don't even believe this to be the chief goal. They would rather prioritise inequality to make us poor and more equal oblivious to the freedoms lost vs China etc.

The UK tax system is broken and it’s breaking the economy. We now have 90 separate taxes and 1,180 tax reliefs; 815 of which HMRC can’t even cost. The burden is heading to 39% of GDP, the highest since WW2. As Dan Neidle puts it, the system isn’t a designed object. It’s a random set of ingredients thrown into a mixing bowl. Each successive chancellor has thrown in their random thing but no one has stood back and come up with a recipe. We need to design from first principles not try to fix the existing system. A tax system should be simple to understand. It should incentivise economic growth and prosperity for those who work and take risks. It should have economic safety nets (not hammocks) for those at the bottom. The problem we face is complexity. We have a stupid game no one feels they can play and win. Until that changes the cost of this complexity will continue to drag the whole UK economy down.

@liamhodges_ @PwnzAll @ZiaYusufUK Complete irrelevance where they are headquartered. It's access to Mythos that is essential or it's successor. It's worth reading up on and it's exactly why if as a country you don't prioritise innovation, wealth creation to enable security you become a vassal state.

@PwnzAll @ZiaYusufUK You do some research dickhead they’ve already expanded to 1,000 and growing

@LifeOfBoch Thoughts, I think for you football was invented in 1996. Football historians always say Garrincha, the man who was largely responsible for Brazil's 1962 world cup. Pelé himself said it plainly: "Garrincha was the joy of the people. He was the best dribbler I've ever seen."

🚨: Pyramid of the Greatest dribblers all time 🐐 Thought?

@Heccles94 World hunger isn't simply a funding problem. World hunger is a governance, conflict, logistics, and political problem. Plug one hole today another will emerge through war or corruption.

If you taxed all of Musks wealth at 50% he would still be the richest man alive by far, and we could eradicate world hunger for years

@gabriel_zucman Disagree, you've got it completely backwards. Economic freedom is political freedom. Every one of your points is restricted in a functioning communist state. Oh except the last one, no point even having elections.

Extreme wealth is always an extreme power: The power to stifle competition. The power to shape public discourse. The power to influence policymaking. The power to buy elections.

Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth: That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.

@DanielPriestley People just can't get their head around wealth. Musk is the opposite of a rent seeking capitalist, extracting money on inherited wealth. Musk has created entirely new products, reusable rockets & mass production of electric cars that will give enormous benefits to all.

If SpaceX shares halve, I wonder if Gary Stevenson will say “Look, right, this guys income is negative-$5B per day. That means he’s literally working 16000 years unpaid each day! Each day!! His negative income is so bad the government should be giving him 2% of his losses back each year in loss of wealth rebates!” Or is wealth only the same as income when it’s going up??

@lewis_goodall Absolutely clueless. Political freedom is economic freedom. You would rather destroy wealth created for the many in your desire to cut the wings of the successful. You know it is possible to still have open and fair government with richer people in society.

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

@sheftanzo1 @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Tottenham recruited him at 16, and he was in the Bundesliga Team of the year. Yeah great scouting! No one noticed him? 🤔 £30m (too cheap) but hardly uncovering an unknown quantity for a low fee!

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Brighton spotting top talents before everyone else notices them as usual. Their scouting network is genuinely on another level

🚨 EXCL: Brighton & Hove Albion make £30m offer to sign Luka Vuskovic from Tottenham Hotspur. 19yo #THFC talent among Europe’s most coveted players but Croatia defender favours #BHAFC as best step for development + mutual trust with Hurzeler @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/73473…

@repeat_the_past @Peston Like most things he doesn't have a position! His only strategy is keep his close allies around him happy so he stays in charge. Surely that's obvious to everyone now..

@Peston I just can't understand Starmer's position on this.

Al Carns has also resigned as a defence minister. As a former Royal Marine, he has been ruthlessly focussed on how to modernise Britain’s defence. He and Healey have not always been as one on what modernisation means, which makes his resignation more than doubly damaging to the PM

@AaronBastani MOD is an extremely centralised procurement structure exposing the limitations of UK civil service. If DOH or DEFRA were similarly centralised it would also be chaos. Govt could have spent the last 18 months reforming MOD procurement instead of dithering on defence review budget.

When you won’t give the MoD infinity money because they pissed away £6 billion on Ajax and £200 billion on a Trident system which possibly doesn’t work, and repeatedly failed tests. #jesuisrachelreeves

@_abochie Eriksen was top 5 in the league in assists for 3 seasons, 305 games 69 goals for Tottenham. Yeah rubbish, he still managed to be part of teams that finished above Arsenal for 5 years in a row from 2016! Also Lamela 257 games for Spurs wasn't bad either.

This was how Tottenham spent the €101m received from the sale of Gareth Bale in 2013. All seven players were shit 😆

@_CFCWhizz @themedeek In the way that he is the most decorated player in the history of football with 47 team trophies, and that's not even considering his individual 8 - 5 lead in Ballon d'Ors Vs Ronaldo.

@themedeek In what ways ?

🚨 For Cristiano Ronaldo to equal Messi's achievements, He needs: • 1 World Cup • 3 Ballon D'or Award • 2 French League titles and • 1 Human Hormone. 🚨 But For Lionel Messi to equal Ronaldo's achievements, He needs: • 3 Premier League titles • 2 Champions League titles • 1 Puskas Award • 2 FA Cup • 2 English Super Cup • 2 Italian League titles • 2 Italian Cup • 1 Club World Cup • 6 Globe Soccer Award • 1 UCL All Time scorer Award • 1 Diamond YouTube play button. Any disrespect to Cristiano Ronaldo from all Messi fans will not be tolerated anymore... 🤔

@ScoutTottenham Fee is amortized over 4 or 5 years so even £140m (way too high) is £35M cost in 26/27. We've sold Veliz £8m (£12m initially -£6m write down so +£2m profit 26/27, Devine sale another +£5-10m profit, Romero +£45m profit. With these moves we would be net positive +£22m for 26/27.

So if the reports are true, Savinho is around £70m and Van Hecke is another £70m. Do we have any money left for a striker, a left winger and a No. 6,and 8 or have we blown the budget before the transfer window has even properly started? 😂 #THFC

@LiamHalligan @SteveBakerFRSA Considering no recession, COVID or sudden energy shock (we haven't even seen potential impact of Iran war) this is a terrible record for 2 years of a Labour in govt.

Britain will over the coming months endure the biggest rise in unemployment of any major advanced economy. That was the conclusion of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) last week, when it warned that UK joblessness will soar from 4.8pc last year to 5.5pc by the end of 2026. When Labour took office in July 2024, unemployment was just 4.1pc. But the number of payrolled employees has since fallen in fourteen of the twenty-one subsequent months to April – with around 1.81 million now unemployed. It is unusual, when the population is rising, for the number of payrolled jobs across the economy to fall. But that pattern has been broken under Labour. 🧵1/8