Mark - RIGHT WITH JESUS

@visegrad24 Happy Saint George's Day! and a song to go with it. To celebrate the late Queen on Saint George's Day suno.com/s/ecDsoFxY5xQJ…

Just like Andy Burnham, when I go for a jog I invariably find there’s a TV crew in the vicinity. It is SO annoying. 🤣😂

Last year's Unite the Kingdom rally = 23 arrests Notting Hill carnival = 443 arrests Palestinian marches = >500 arrests. I'm not making a point about race. I'm looking at the facts about the threat level. This is @Keir_Starmer trying to hate-bait you into violence. RISE ABOVE his attempts to divide the country. Wave your flags. Drink your flasks of tea. Hug strangers - just like last year. And celebrate our history, our shared culture and our potentially great nation. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

SpaceX will launch Starship V3 for the first time at 2330 BST (1830 EST) next week on Tuesday 19th May. If this goes well, it's a game changer for space exploration - and helps clear the way for next year's Artemis III mission, where NASA's Orion capsule is due to dock with Starship in low earth orbit.

BREAKING NEWS; A Syrian Migrant has been found Guilty of Raping a 19yr Woman in a toilet on a BOURNEMOUTH Beach; I have Never posted on so many rapes/indecent assaults committed by illegal Migrants & BOURNEMOUTH comes up time & again on my timeline;👇🤷‍♂️

A “children’s cell” was discovered in a torture chamber in liberated Kherson. According to Ukraine’s Ombudsman, children were starved, psychologically abused, told their parents abandoned them, and tortured for photographing destroyed Russian equipment. One 14-year-old boy was held there after taking photos of damaged Russian vehicles. This is what occupation looked like. #Ukraine #HumanRights #WarCrimes

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The United Arab Emirates after leaving OPEC announces plans to CIRCUMVENT the Strait of Hormuz entirely with a new pipeline — and will DOUBLE oil export capacity A major realignment is underway 🔥 "Officials in OPEC-free UAE announced plans to build a second pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz and boost export capacity, doubling it by next year." — @LucasFoxNews

‼️ 🇷🇺 Moscow exchange offices have run out of dollars & euros after the ruble crashed to 73 per USD - the strongest in years. 🇷🇺 financial media report: most points now only buy foreign cash. Buying or reserving is nearly impossible - banks stopped ordering new supplies.💵Ultra-high interest rates & mandatory dollar sales by exporters pushed the ruble higher, sparking a rush for “cheap” currency ahead of summer holidays. Classic supply-demand whiplash in a sanctioned economy. Black-market premiums will rise, queues will return, and the gap between official & real liquidity will widen. If the ruble stays strong, this shortage will likely continue until late May - early June. #RussianEconomy #CurrencyCrisis

This was one of the most powerful and painful blows to Russia’s defense industry since the start of the war. The facility was located deep inside Russian territory, in one of the country’s central regions. It was there that Russia mass-produced and stored thousands of tons of explosives, including guided aerial bombs (KABs) used daily to terrorize Ukrainian cities — from Kharkiv and Sumy to Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro. This is not just the loss of a single factory. It is a serious disruption of the entire aerial bomb production chain. Russia lost: • Thousands of tons of ready-to-use guided bombs • Production facilities that will take enormous amounts of time and money to rebuild • Part of its ability to continue the mass terror bombing of Ukrainian cities Russian propaganda is already in hysteria. First they called it an “industrial accident,” then “Ukrainian terrorism,” and now they have largely fallen silent because the scale of the destruction is impossible to hide.

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE ON LBC!🔥 “I Hate Andy Burnham!” 😳 A furious caller from Makerfield, Wigan just absolutely slaughtered “backstabber” Andy Burnham live on air and it’s brutal. She didn’t hold back: “I cannot vote for Andy Burnham. I hate Andy Burnham. He’s the biggest backstabber you will ever meet.” “He walked away from Westminster and now this man thinks he can just walk into Wigan’s seat?” “I hate disloyalty and he threw his dummy out and walked away. I will not vote for him.” People thinking Burnham’s going to stroll back into Parliament as the next Labour hero… you might want to listen to this. His own backyard is not rolling out the red carpet. Local anger is real. The knives are out!

Trevor Phillips attended the previous 'Unite the Kingdom' rally. Keir Starmer ought to have watched this video before releasing his own.

❗️RUSSIA IS TRYING TO DRAW BELARUS DEEPER INTO THE WAR WITH UKRAINE! «There have been additional contacts between Russian officials and Alexander Lukashenko, aimed at persuading him to join new Russian aggressive operations. In particular, Russia is considering plans for operations south and north of Belarusian territory - either against the Chernihiv-Kyiv region in Ukraine or against one of the NATO countries - specifically from Belarusian territory. Ukraine is in possession of details regarding the conversation between Russia and Belarus. Ukraine will undoubtedly defend itself and its people if Alexander Lukashenko makes a mistake and decides to support this Russian plan as well. I have instructed Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces to reinforce the relevant sector and to present a plan for our response, which will be reviewed and approved by the General Staff» – Zelensky

STARMER LOVES BREXIT BENEFITS In the last few days, the Starmer government has bragged that it has blocked EU citizens from entering the UK, including a sitting MEP. Labour would not have the power to do this, without Brexit. He is bragging about using a Brexit benefit.

🚨 TRUMP ABSOLUTELY COOKS THE BBC 🫳🏼🎤 TRUMP: “Who are you with?” REPORTER: “BBC” Trump: “The ones that are being sued now for $5 BILLION dollars… You with BBC? They’re another FAKE outfit!” “BBC, you mean the ones that put AI in my mouth? The ones that added me to saying a statement that they now admit was not true? The ones that put terrible words in my mouth and then had to admit that it was fake?”

⚖️ 36 countries have already backed the creation of a special tribunal against Putin The Council of Europe is officially launching a special tribunal in The Hague over Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine. The initiative has been joined by Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, as well as Australia and Costa Rica. The tribunal will have the authority to investigate the actions of Russia’s top leadership, including Vladimir Putin.

Keir Starmer slammed over handling of Mandelson files with 'documents withheld' gbnews.com/politics/keir-…

Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.

Timely reminder that Keir Starmer had no way out.

An illegal Iraqi asylum seeker who pushed a 16-year-old Ukrainian refugee in front of a moving freight train in Germany has avoided jail. The court ruled that Muhammad A. is not criminally responsible because he has severe paranoid schizophrenia and instead ordered that he be placed in a psychiatric facility.

‼️‼️ The Presidential Office in Kyiv, the Presidential State Dacha, and several underground facilities are on Russia's list of targets for attacking "decision-making centers."

This "new type of rocket" from UK startup Pulsar Fusion—the Sunbird—is not yet a fully operational rocket, but its underlying fusion propulsion concept has genuinely revolutionary potential for space travel if the company succeeds. The March 2026 "first plasma" milestone in their Mark I Sunbird exhaust test system (demonstrated live at Amazon's re:MARS conference) is an early but meaningful hardware step, not hype-free breakthrough. Sunbird is designed as a reusable orbital "space tug" powered by Pulsar’s Dual Direct Fusion Drive (DDFD)—a compact, linear fusion reactor concept. It’s loosely based on (and has partnered with) Princeton Satellite Systems’ Direct Fusion Drive (DFD), which uses a Princeton Field-Reversed Configuration (PFRC) plasma setup. The recent milestone: They confined and accelerated plasma in the exhaust architecture for the first time (using krypton). This proves basic plasma handling in their nozzle/divertor design but is not full fusion ignition, net energy gain, or measured thrust. It’s analogous to a tokamak reaching "first plasma"—a necessary early checkpoint, not the engine firing. Next steps per Pulsar: Static testing soon, in-orbit demonstration (IOD) of core components targeted for 2027. Bottom line: The Sunbird concept is highly revolutionary in potential—it could make routine, fast interplanetary travel practical and economically viable. The 2026 first-plasma test is a credible early win that puts real hardware behind the vision. But we’re still years (optimistically) from a working engine, let alone flight hardware. Watch for the next milestones (thrust measurements, actual D-³He fusion tests). If they deliver, this could be one of the biggest leaps in propulsion since reusable rockets.

In a workshop on the outskirts of Bletchley (it had to be there, didn't it), on the 26th of March this year, a small British company called Pulsar Fusion did something that has not been done by any other company or government on Earth. It ignited a controlled plasma inside the test chamber of a working nuclear fusion rocket engine. The plasma held, along with the chamber. The fusion reaction was the kind of reaction that, contained inside a sufficiently engineered magnetic bottle, will one day take a crewed British vehicle to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months, and that will, within the working lifetime of the engineers presently building it, make the outer planets of the solar system accessible to anyone with a British passport. The geography of the achievement deserves a longer moment of pause. Bletchley, in 1942, was where Alan Turing and his colleagues broke the Enigma cipher and almost certainly shortened the war in Europe by two years. Pulsar Fusion's headquarters sits roughly 600 yards from the Hut where they did it. The country that did the maths inside that hut has just, less than a mile down the road, ignited the plasma that could power the next century of human space travel. There is a continuity of British scientific lineage here that is, on the face of it, almost embarrassingly providential, and it is almost completely unreported in the British press. It's not quite Kitty-Hawk-to-the-moon in 61 years, but it's close. Like so many great companies of profound importance, Pulsar Fusion is pretty small. It was founded in 2013, and employs around 50 staff. Its chief executive, Richard Dinan, is a working British physicist who has spent the last decade quietly assembling the team and the capital to do what the world's national space agencies have been promising for 60 years and consistently failing to deliver. The competing American programmes, principally at NASA's Glenn Research Center and at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, are years behind on the propulsion side. The competing Chinese programmes are obscure but, on what is known publicly, also behind. The European Space Agency is, as ever, organising a workshop. Pulsar fired its plasma in March and has been preparing the next-stage tests in the months since. What this kind of capability means, when commercialised, is genuinely vast. The economic argument for getting a payload to Mars in 30 days rather than 8 months is not principally about the human passengers, though there is one. It is about cargo. Given a 30-day transit, Mars becomes a logistically tractable destination for the kind of infrastructure-build that turns it from a flag-planting science mission into a working industrial site. The argument for the outer planets is even larger. The asteroid belt alone, on conservative mineralogical estimates, contains more economically viable platinum-group metals than the entire crust of the Earth has been mined for in industrial history. The first country with reliable fusion propulsion is the first country with reliable access to that supply. The country that holds that capacity, fifty years from now, will be holding the most consequential industrial advantage of the 21st century, and there is no obvious second prize. The standard British response to this kind of thing is to either ignore it entirely, sell the company to an American buyer at series B (the DeepMind path) for fire-sale prices, or fund it at the level of a Whitehall departmental tea and coffee budget (the Skycutter and Orbex paths). The standard British response will not be sufficient. Pulsar Fusion needs the kind of patient capital that turns a working demonstration into an operational engine, and that, in turn, into a manufacturing capability. The British state, on present form, is structurally incapable of providing it, British pension funds are structurally incapable of investing in it, and the British political class will, on present form, only notice if it somehow manages to swing a leadership election. I wantt= Pulsar Fusion treated as a national-strategic asset, and beyond that as a potential subject of national destiny. The Sovereign AI Fund that backed Ineffable Intelligence has a clear template. The Prosperity Zone programme we designed at Progress that anchors heavy industry at SaxaVord and Teesside has the geographic flexibility to include a fusion-propulsion cluster in Buckinghamshire, six miles from the most evocative site in modern British scientific history. The procurement architecture of every major British defence and space agency should, from this autumn, be writing offtake contracts contingent on Pulsar's milestones. There's nothing extreme about these ideas. We could have been doing it decades ago. I always conceived of Britain as being as much among the stars as it is on Earth. To buy into the idea of Britain as a culture and polity is necessarily to buy into the concept of the human being as an illimitable force. Our history is littered with happy instances of people of great fortitude hitting upon obstacles and, with a cry of "This will not stop us", clearing the way for our brothers and sisters to follow through. A small British company in Bletchley has, while nobody was looking, extended that arm of our tradition, by accomplishing one of the most important pieces of scientific engineering of the decade. The country that produced them is, in a measurable sense, the same country that produced the Bombe, the Colossus, the jet engine, the structure of DNA, and the World Wide Web. The capacity is intact. The political class capable of recognising it must catch up, and will.