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Jim Campbell
@jamscamp
Entrepreneur. Ex. Ayrshire🏴. Lived 🇨🇦🏴 🇿🇦🇺🇸. MA St Andrews MBA Georgetown. Himself. All opinions his own. No one else’s.
Virginia, USA Katılım Eylül 2012
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We’ve just recorded 2 episodes on one of the most significant - and divisive - figures of 17th Century Scotland: Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll. Coming soon!
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Here is a potential topic for the podcast. I was visiting Rob Roy’s grave in Balquhidder and also saw that a very cruel and tragic event occurred there in the cemetery in 1558. See photograph. The memorial indicates that banditry was the explanation for this genocide but given the date I wondered if it was reformation related. Do you know anything about it?
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Apologies to any regular listeners looking for a new episode tomorrow, unfortunately work pressures mean that we don’t have one for you this week. Normal service will be resumed soon, in the meantime why not catch up on one of your favourites over the past year?
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At the airport, waiting to fly on the @AmericanAir direct flight to Edinburgh from Philadelphia. Thanks for restoring this service!
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@MarieMacklin Malcolm Offord just created an “Overton window” and changed the debate. Good for him. Let’s see where this goes!
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@MarieMacklin There are lots of expatriates abroad who want to help. Tap into the diaspora and let’s get back on a good track for Scotland and it’s guid folk
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Agreed! 👏🏴
I was the one of the ambitious kids of the 1980s one of the left behinds who had to go to London for work.
I didn’t want to go but had go in order to earn money and prevent me going on unemployed list pulling the dole!
My parents would have none of that!
We had to work pay our taxes so people who needed support through social welfare got help via the governments tax intake
We need to nurture and give our young people more ‘Opportunity’
Malcolm Offord MSP@Malcolm_Offord
Never. I’m sick of ambitious young Scots having to leave Scotland to make a success of themselves. I don’t want them to have to go to London to make their money, like I did, or be drawn to Dubai. I’ll not be going anywhere until Scotland works for those who work.
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Jim Campbell retweetledi
@Malcolm_Offord Scotland will never be a lost cause! 🏴
Our country was built by the hands of women and men of greatness the makers and doers. That dream lives on today
in the heart ❤️ of our working class ‘Communities’.
All we need is the right leader and policies with purpose to deliver !
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Jim Campbell retweetledi
Back in the day, Greenock Academy and Paisley Grammar were great local rivals. In that tradition Andrew, I must disagree.
Never give up on Scotland. We’re gonna turn this around!
Andrew Neil@afneil
From the always insightful Stephen Daisley, this tells you more about the sad state of the country than a thousand pieces of Westminster analysis. Scotland is already a lost cause. But the rest of the country is heading in the same direction. spectator.com/article/malcol…
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@nicksortor Delighted to read this. The northern Virginia traffic can be awful!
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WOW! President Trump leant King Charles MARINE ONE* for his visit to Virginia today
This is INCREDIBLY rare.
I can’t personally recall any other instances of foreign dignitaries using Marine One
Really shows how much respect 47 has for Charles.
He’s now on his way back to England.
(*Obviously, this helicopter is only called Marine One when the President is on board)
h/t @GBNEWS
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@alexmassie Well said. If marginal tax rates are too high it’s also much more difficult for individuals to accumulate capital, and that will have an impact on new venture formation, and ultimately, economic growth
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Yes, Scotland needs more people like Malcolm Offord.
thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
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@Rombodog @ruth_wishart Yes, it seemed pre planned and he knew how Greer would likely reply. He had his riposte ready. Gutsy move. Let’s see what the voters think.
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@ruth_wishart No, he set a trap for a dim witted student activist. He made the point that he came from nothing, moved for work while in debt. Became successful, created thousands of jobs and contributed £millions in tax. Ross Greer doesn't want people like that in Scotland. Bait taken by idiot
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Malcolm Offord, Reform's Scottish leader, bragged about his six houses on STV. Most voters would be happy to take one off his hands. Especially the homeless.
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@LHolt99 @MikeStewart79 1000 Offords and Scotland is booming, we’ve got thousands of Greers and the outcome is obvious
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The Greer-Offord face-off may prove to be a turning point in Scottish politics. It brought into the open the class envy and warfare, entitlement and miserable lack of aspiration that has lain under so much of Scottish politics for decades. It may, I hope, have lanced a boil on the body politic, exposing the SNP, Greens, Labour and Lib Dems as populist grifters, the enemies of ambition and economic growth.
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@LHolt99 Gutsy move on the part of Offord. I loved that he told Greer to grow up at the end. We’ll soon see in the election if enough people are able to break out of the attitudes of resentment, envy and class warfare.
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@Malcolm_Offord @ReformUKScot What a great turn of phrase: an “impoverishing ideology”
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They can bring it on.
I’ll not stop standing up for ambitious, grafting Scots until the impoverishing ideology of the SNP and Greens is gone for good.
The National@ScotNational
NEW: The Scottish Greens have pledged to introduce an 'Offord tax' after Reform UK's Scottish leader 'boasted' about owning six homes, five cars and six boats in a live TV debate
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Dad: Gordon Highlander British Eight Army. Fought in Egypt, wounded and hospitalized on a hospital ship at Khartoum. Also served Libya, Cyprus, Palestine. Mum drafted as a teenager to make munitions in a factory. Maternal grandfather Italy. Part of the force that liberated Rome. Uncles: India, Burma, Germany, a sailor in the Royal Navy and a Royal Marine commando. It was total war.
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What was your relatives role in WW2?
I will go first my great grandad fought as an RAF pilot flying anti submarine machines hunting German U-Boats near Malta.
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@ClarksonsFarm1 What’s this whole house luxury? We heated a sitting room with coal, and warmed the kitchen by cooking
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@_The_Prophet__ Yes, and for the first time in hundreds of years, official government policy is that citizens should have less. Less of everything and less than their parents had. I’m not sure liberal democracy can survive this shift. We are entering revolutionary times.
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⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly.
“The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.”
That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal.
This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan.
Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top.
The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue.
This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it.
They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem.
They see it as necessary and good.
JackTheRippler ©️@RippleXrpie
🚨GAME OVER EUROPE! NOW: 🇪🇺 Europe is recommending remote work and expanded public transportation to reduce fuel consumption, according to a report by the Financial Times. Ursula von der Leyen: "The cheapest energy is the one you DON'T use.” Translation: Stay home, don't drive, and don't use electricity.
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@_The_Prophet__ In my experience, you are spot on with this analysis
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⚡️ The most honest version of what’s happening is that a massive price correction is coming to professional services, and the correction isn’t AI destroying jobs.
It’s AI revealing that those jobs were being paid 3 to 5 times more than they were worth, and now the price is coming down to what the work actually costs.
The whole professional services industry has been systematically overcharging clients for decades.
The pyramid model is a price discrimination mechanism dressed up as a service model. Clients paid premium rates for work that was mostly done by 24 year olds who Googled things and made PowerPoint slides, because the industry convinced them that the partner stamp on top made the work worth five times what it actually cost to produce.
The associates were never worth $800 an hour. They were worth maybe $150 an hour as raw labor. The firm charged the higher rate because they could, because clients had no way to verify what the work was actually worth, and because the prestige of the firm name gave the output credibility that the output itself couldn’t have earned on its own merits.
The partner doing narrative wasn’t worth $10,000 an hour either. The partner was worth maybe $2,000 an hour for actual judgment and relationship work. The rest of the rate was extracted because the partner could point at the pyramid of associates and justify the price through billable hours that were themselves marked up four or five times over actual cost.
This is why AI is so threatening to these firms. Not because AI does the work better. Because AI makes visible what the work is actually worth. When a client can get a passable deck from Claude in twenty minutes, they start asking why they paid $500,000 for a McKinsey deck last quarter. The answer was always “you weren’t really paying for the deck, you were paying for the judgment and the brand.” But now clients can see the deck was mostly the deliverable they were paying for, and the judgment layer was a small fraction of the actual value, and they were getting charged ten times what the whole engagement was really worth.
The industry has operated as a protected cartel for a century. The prestige of the firms, the credentialing of MBA programs, the networks of former partners placed throughout corporate America, all of it created a system where nobody asked too hard whether the fees made sense. It was just what you paid to be advised by McKinsey or Bain or BCG or Goldman or White and Case. The fees were part of the signaling function. Paying the fee proved you were serious.
AI breaks that because it gives every executive an alternative that produces comparable output at a fraction of the cost. Once they try it and see the output is acceptable, they can’t unsee it.
The entire premium pricing structure was based on the premise that you couldn’t get this quality of work anywhere else.
When you can, the structure collapses.
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__
⚡️This is the exact cope that every profession produces in the first eighteen months of AI disruption and it’s wrong for the same reason it’s always wrong. The McKinsey guy is making the last stand argument. The machines can do the tactical work but they can’t do the strategic work. The real skill is narrative, taste, judgment, knowing when to kill a slide. Those things require experience, human intuition, years of development. AI can’t replicate them. So the profession is safe at the top even if the bottom gets automated. This argument is offered by every professional in every field right before their profession gets restructured. The lawyers say the real skill is negotiation and judgment. The doctors say the real skill is bedside manner and diagnosis under uncertainty. The writers say the real skill is voice and taste. The designers say the real skill is understanding the client. Every one of them is pointing at the part of their job that currently can’t be automated and declaring that’s where the value always was. They’re wrong for a specific structural reason. The parts of their job that AI automates are the parts that fund the parts that AI can’t automate. The junior consultant building the deck is how the partner gets leverage to do the strategic thinking. Take away the deck building and the economic structure of the firm collapses. You can’t have a partner making partner money doing only narrative work because narrative work alone doesn’t scale to the revenue that supports the partnership. The leverage came from the associates. Remove the associates and the partner’s economics don’t work. The McKinsey guy is describing a two tier system where narrative remains valuable and slide production becomes commoditized. He thinks this means the narrative people survive. What actually happens is that McKinsey’s fees depend on charging clients for the full pyramid of associates and managers and partners, and if the associate layer can be replaced by AI, clients stop paying for it. Which means the partner is suddenly charging narrative consulting rates without the leverage fees that made his compensation possible. The deeper issue is that narrative is not as hard to automate as he thinks. What he’s describing, knowing when to kill a slide, knowing when the executive summary is overloaded, knowing that the client needs to feel the problem before the solution, these are pattern recognition tasks. They require experience because humans learn them through repetition over years. AI systems are absorbing that same pattern library through training on thousands of successful and unsuccessful decks, client responses, deal outcomes. The narrative layer he thinks is uniquely human is the next layer to fall. It might take three years instead of one, but it’s not permanently defended. The “fingerprint” of AI decks is real right now because the current generation of tools is naive. Three boxes, generic icons, bullet points that sound impressive but mean nothing. Yes. That’s version one of the tool. Version two will look different. Version three will look different again. The fingerprint he’s identifying is a temporary artifact of current model training, not a permanent signature of machine generated output. Within 18 months the decks AI produces will be indistinguishable from the ones senior consultants produce because the models will be trained specifically on the good ones.
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1.5 trillion is incomprehensible amount that is 5 times bigger then the Chinese and 10 times the Russian defence spending.
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3
BREAKING: Trump requests a staggering 1.5 trillion for defence spending for 2027 a 44 percent increase-WP
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