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Hugo Z. Hackenbush

@hackenbush2022

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Katılım Aralık 2014
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 3 Massive Silicon Valley company OpenAI has today paused its major Stargate UK data centre infrastructure project, citing high energy costs and the regulatory environment in the UK. UK industrial energy costs are the highest in the world (thanks, Ed). OpenAI and other AI giants are worried that Starmer’s desire (backed by Ed) to cosy up closer to the EU will mean AI in the UK coming under the Brussels’ regulatory regime, which is killing off AI projects in the EU.
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The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 2 At a time when global supply chains are vulnerable and we should be producing much more of our own food, E Miliband has today approved Springwell Solar Farm. It will cover seven square miles of prime Lincolnshire farmland. And the solar panels are likely to come from China (so much for green manufacturing jobs). Mili-Madness on stilts.

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 2 At a time when global supply chains are vulnerable and we should be producing much more of our own food, E Miliband has today approved Springwell Solar Farm. It will cover seven square miles of prime Lincolnshire farmland. And the solar panels are likely to come from China (so much for green manufacturing jobs). Mili-Madness on stilts.
Andrew Neil@afneil

The nut zero zealotry of Ed Miliband. A new occasional series. [feel free to add]. Fertiliser prices and shortages are soaring because the petrochemical industries of the Gulf states are major global suppliers but the Strait of Hormuz, through which they export, is closed. Not good for the spring planting season. Undaunted the UK will introduce a levy on imported carbon-intensive fertiliser as part of its costly obsession with cutting emissions, even when the impact is slight. At a time when we should be increasing food security government policy is to penalise farmers further.

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
The nut zero zealotry of Ed Miliband. A new occasional series. [feel free to add]. Fertiliser prices and shortages are soaring because the petrochemical industries of the Gulf states are major global suppliers but the Strait of Hormuz, through which they export, is closed. Not good for the spring planting season. Undaunted the UK will introduce a levy on imported carbon-intensive fertiliser as part of its costly obsession with cutting emissions, even when the impact is slight. At a time when we should be increasing food security government policy is to penalise farmers further.
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Alan
Alan@A1an_M·
@hackenbush2022 10 years will get you the minimum. You need 30+ years NI contributions to get the full state pension.
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Alan@A1an_M·
To all those saying it's not true that if you pay National Insurance to the government you are promised a State Pension in return, here it is in black and white on the government website. Today. Now. The promise is still being made. gov.uk/new-state-pens…
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
The current state of the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers — neither operational. 6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus). 7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational 5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?). Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged. Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy. Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
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Kathryn Porter
Kathryn Porter@KathrynPorter26·
Your ignorance is staggering The reason the North Sea is declining so fast is excess taxation. More taxes will simply increase our reliance on imports Producing more gas definitely will reduce energy costs because it will displace more expensive LNG reducing the number of days LNG sets the price UK gas prices at a discount to TTF (the main European benchmark). Increasingly production will widen this margin Increased production delivers more tax revenues both from the producers and the huge UK based supply chains that support them as well as supporting thousands of well paid jobs. This additional income could be used to fund your renewables subsidies and cuts in fuel duty It's not true that new production will take 5 years to deliver. Jackdaw and Rosebank could be up and running in months And decline does not mean it's not worth bothering with. On day 2 of production a field is in decline but only an idiot would use that as a reason to close it Norway has made major discoveries adjacent to the UK sector in the past year. These reservoirs almost certainly extend into the UKCS. There is plenty more oil and gas to be had Our production is also cleaner than imports It's bizarre to argue against it
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
We’re relying more on LNG to set the price because we’re allowing domestic supplies to decline and depend more on imported LNG supplies. A matter of policy. A bizarre policy driven by net zero zealots. Even in a mature field like the North Sea there is still a lot more gas to get out. Ask the Norwegians. Increase that supply and UK NBP hub prices will come down. Tax revenues will rise. Balance of payments will improve. Sterling will strengthen. And more jobs will be saved/added. Simples.
Tara Singh@RenewableUKCEO

@afneil Hi Andrew — you’re right there are regional hubs. But the UK NBP increasingly relies on LNG to balance the system, and cargoes go to the highest bidder globally. So the price here is increasingly set by the marginal LNG cargo — i.e. a global price, not a domestic one 1/2

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Colin Brazier
Colin Brazier@ColinBrazierTV·
There are so many things about present-day Britain our ancestors would find incomprehensible. But the British State sanctioning the killing of unborn babies, up to the point of birth, would likely seem the most vile.
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK

💔BREAKING: On a sad & shameful day for our nation, the House of Lords has just voted to allow abortion UP TO BIRTH to be introduced into law. This extreme proposal will endanger women & threaten the lives of viable unborn babies.🧵1/

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Denby Pottery
Denby Pottery@denbypottery·
We need your help to #SaveDenby! We are sad to share that we may be forced to close and a British institution could be lost. We need your help: 1. Share this post 2. Sign the government petition 3. Buy Denby 4. Visit us at the Pottery Village Read more: denbypottery.com/pages/save-den…
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Paul Rees. ex Rucksack.
Paul Rees. ex Rucksack.@HannahIamthest1·
19th March, 1988. Corporal Derek Wood aged 24, and Corporal David Howes, aged 23, both of the Royal Corps of Signals, were savagely beaten and murdered by a baying mob of IRA supporters attending a funeral in Belfast. Lest we Forget these brave young men murdered by cowardly IRA scum.
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics

“It is very important that we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened” Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says “it is something we’re looking at” when #BBCLauraK asks whether the UK might send ships and drones to the Persian Gulf bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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judy murray
judy murray@JudyMurray·
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KeyserSosse
KeyserSosse@KeyserSosse·
13th March, 1996 Remembering all the victims and those injured in the horrific Dunblane Primary School Massacre Please never ever forget these innocent wee bairns and their teacher 😢 ❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏
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Norman Brennan
Norman Brennan@NormanBrennan·
BREAKING NEWS; The Asylum Seeker Backlog has reportedly reached some 104,433 which has DOUBLED in just ONE YEAR!! The Asylum System has been Taken over by the bloody LUNATICS!👇 Is there ANYTHING in Britain that Actually Works?👇 That is a Rhetorical Question👇🤷‍♂️🙄🤦‍♂️
GB News@GBNEWS

Asylum seeker appeals backlog hits new record high after doubling in just one year gbnews.com/news/migrant-c…

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Robert Lyman 🇺🇦
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦@robert_lyman·
Military historian here: this is a widespread but erroneous assumption, propagated by people who don’t understand war. Wars are won by winning them, in most cases by bringing about the military defeat of the enemy. And, by the way, if you think that Iran was going to give up its millenarian fantasies because of a deal with Oman, you don’t understand jihad and shouldn’t be the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
Emily Thornberry@EmilyThornberry

Wars are only ever resolved through negotiation. It’s tragic that calm heads did not prevail in the US when the Omani Foreign Minister said, just hours before the bombing started, that a peace deal was within reach. And now hotheads in Iran think it’s a good idea to bomb Oman.

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
They just can’t help themselves. The Bank, not the government, cuts interest rates — and it has been doing so because the economy is flat on its back. Foreign inward investment has been weak. Last year well below 2023 for example. Inflation doubled under Labour (from 2% to almost 4%) within a year and is still at 3%, 50% above the 2% target it inherited. Debt is rising not reducing. There was a budget surplus in January. There always is in January. We’re still on track to rack up another multi-billion pound budget deficit in 2025/26. Gaslighting is now Labour’s default position — and truth a stranger.
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP@TanDhesi

Since #Labour came to power, we’ve seen six interest rate cuts, tens of billions in inward investment to the #UK, falling inflation, reducing debt and record budget surplus @LBC @IainDale Please don’t listen to #Reform and failed #Conservatives—the #economy is turning a corner.

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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
Sad news: The Cornish brewery that makes Doom Bar ale is to be closed by its US owner. The drinks company Molson Coors said it plans to shut Sharp’s Brewery in Rock, Cornwall, saying it was “no longer financially sustainable”.
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
Almost everything this PM says now requires a community note. The electricity price cap is not coming down because the government has managed to produce electricity more cheaply. It’s still the most expensive in the world — and forecast to become even more expensive. The cap is reduced because the government has taken £117-worth of largely green subsidies from fuel your bills and put them on to general taxation. You’re still paying for them — just in a different way. And as your taxes go up to meet these green levies the cap is still £73 higher than when Labour came to power. So your energy bills are not coming down — though Labour promised they would — and the overall tax burden is at a record high. There PM. Sorted it for you.
UK Prime Minister@10DowningStreet

Today the energy price cap has dropped by £117. We said we’d bring energy bills down - we meant it.

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
We already run a massive trade deficit with the EU on food and agricultural products. This deal will make that deficit even bigger. I will also place UK food and agribusiness under EU rules, regulations and ECJ court judgements once more, processes in which this time we will have no say. And it will undermine UK technological advances in agriculture, in which we are becoming world leaders, because it returns such research to the dead of Brussels’ ‘prudential’ approach, which regards all innovation as a risk unless it can be proven otherwise. Hugely retrograde for UK, huge win for EU.
Cabinet Office@cabinetofficeuk

Once finalised, our new 🇬🇧🇪🇺 food and drink deal will make it easier for British shoppers to buy Spanish produce and reduce the barriers to great UK companies selling in Spain and the rest of Europe.

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