Prof Simon Gibbons

Maybe an elected second chamber is needed or just scrap it. Vote for people who get it right first time, or if not, vote them out for some who will? Just a thought.

@KingBobIIV @Joseph_DeMarzo @CarriePrejean1 She can join us Baptists. We follow Jesus.

@Joseph_DeMarzo @CarriePrejean1 About bloody time a Catholic stood up for Catholics being Catholic

In recent days, @CarriePrejean1, a Catholic, was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. She was not given notice as to why she was removed, but it is highly plausible that it was because of comments she made during a hearing. I wish to note both a question she asked and a statement she made. In essence, one of the questions she asked was whether a person who is not a Zionist is therefore antisemitic. The statement she made was that Catholics are not Zionists. Bishop Robert Barron posted on X that she was removed for “browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes.” I must disagree with this statement, having viewed the meeting myself. The purpose of the meeting is to promote religious liberty and to speak out against discrimination and injustice against any person, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or otherwise. Defense of religious liberty under the First Amendment is the defense of all human life. Her comment was fitting for the meeting, and for the following reason. Carrie asked an important question, which was directed to Yitzchok Frankel. She asked whether one could reject antisemitism and at the same time condemn the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, reject political Zionism, or not support the political state of Israel. Carrie was fulfilling her duty as a member of the board in speaking not only for the protection of Jews, but also for Palestinians. It is also a fair question to ask in light of the thousands of Palestinians who have been killed since October 7. As Catholics, we decry the killing of all innocent human life. Her comment and question were also fitting in helping the committee address the evil of antisemitism. In other words, her words can be interpreted as a caution that, in light of evil antisemitic actions, one must not resort to uncontrolled violence against Palestinians in Gaza. There is a fire that was lit, and she was simply pointing out that another fire has been lit, and one cannot put out fire with fire. She wished to hold all persons accountable for violence against innocent human life. Furthermore, defining terms is crucial in arriving at proper justice for all. In resolving the issue of antisemitism, it is important to define exactly what that constitutes. It is not foreign to public discussion to speak of Christian Zionism as it pertains to the present conflict in Iran. She, as a defender of all faiths, must be able to defend her own. That she did courageously in noting that Catholics are in fact not Zionists, and that this should not be remotely part of the definition of antisemitism. The reason this is important is that if rejection of Zionism is equated with antisemitism, it opens the door to the persecution of Catholics, or of people in general. Since this language is part of the current political context when speaking about Israel’s actions, it is just that Catholics, having their own religious liberty under the First Amendment, be able to disagree with religiously or politically motivated actions which do not reflect what it means to be Catholic. Otherwise, we run the risk, as a nation, of gaslighting Catholics as antisemitic, which would itself be a form of religious persecution. The committee cannot serve the purpose of defending religious liberty by denying it to another group, namely Catholics. Therefore, I support Carrie as a fellow Catholic and American for her bravery, and I am proud of her. In fact, she was recently awarded the Catholic Champion Award at the Catholics for Catholics Prayer for America Gala only a few days ago. Countless Catholics from all over the country viewed this moment, where Catholics came together in solidarity to pray for our nation and to support fellow Catholics in responding to our Lord’s command: “Let your light shine.”

@KathrynPorter26 @STranswidows @AndrewBowie_MP Labour are NBG madam.

@AndrewBowie_MP Labour has no plan Its own electrification policy for homes will take 47 years to deliver (over 28m households getting heat pumps at a rate of 600,000 per year) How do they propose to secure the oil and gas we're going to need in those years?? Lunacy

🥀 Labour MPs just voted against ❌ Removing the Energy Profits Levy ❌ Ending the ban on licenses ❌ Immediately approving Rosebank and Jackdaw 🥀 Because of Ed Miliband, Britain is poorer, less secure and thousands of jobs are being lost. 🤯 Utter insanity on stilts.

@latimeralder @HHepplewhite Renewables are useless.

Where does Britain get its energy from? 39% from oil 32% from gas 10% from wind and a few odds and sods. This may come as a shock to renewables fans. Be gentle with them. It upsets their world view

@MichaelCGlasper @MysteriosoX BBC are poor quality. Guardian readers. Enough said.

Honestly, what a load of bollocks. BBC News - TV's Repair Shop rejects 'inappropriate' Bob Monkhouse joke book bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@profgibbons @KathrynPorter26 @HHelenakhl Completely agree. The toolbox for building complex molecules from renewable feedstocks keeps getting deeper. Even commodity solvents like ethyl acetate are going 100% bio-based now. The economics are finally catching up to the chemistry.

@somersetlevel @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield 😂😂😂😂👍👍👍

@profgibbons @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield Sounds fascinating dear Professor ! My chemistry is very basic - I’m currently studying turning Guinness into urine - is there a chemical formula ?

🚨BREWDOG COLLAPSES INTO ADMINISTRATION WITH £500 MILLION DEBT — EQUITY FOR PUNKS INVESTORS TOTALLY WIPED OUT! The once-rebel craft beer empire founded by James Watt has officially been placed into administration after racking up debts exceeding £500 million (£553.8m owed to creditors). A pre-pack rescue deal to US firm Tilray for £33m (brewery + 11 bars) left a £480m shortfall. Thousands of small investors who bought shares through the heavily-promoted “Equity for Punks” crowdfunding scheme have been told their stakes are now completely worthless. 38 pubs closed and 484 staff made redundant. The anti-establishment brand that once valued itself at £2bn is in ruins. £500 million pound debt...wow James Watt and wife Georgia Toffolo (below)

@somersetlevel @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield Working. Doing some fractionation. Finding time for vodka and wonderful polish food!

@profgibbons @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield Hello my friend! How are you ? On vacation or working ?

@DickyWoodbine @KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 @BBCNews @Ofcom Rodney and Del in Nelson Mandela Towers could freeze.

@KathrynPorter26 @mwt2008 @BBCNews @Ofcom And there's no way they're hitting 600,000 per year. And they're not suitable for many homes.

.@BBCNews Please can we have some balanced coverage on North Sea drilling / energy extraction amid the Iran energy crisis. @Ofcom Gas will largely be relegated to a backup role in GB power generation within 6 years.

@mwt2008 @KathrynPorter26 @BBCNews @Ofcom Labour won’t be in government in 3 years. Reform will bin that nonsense.

This doesn’t follow. You’re using today’s slow rollout to justify decades of fossil fuel use and new North Sea drilling. But both Climate Change Committee pathways and government policy assume rapid scale-up from here. 1.Your 47-year claim assumes flat deployment 600,000/year is not a ceiling Government projections go to ~1.9 million/year by 2035 2.Demand falls before full replacement Even if powered by gas electricity, heat pumps cut gas use by ~40% per home (Carbon Brief) 3.You’re mixing systems Gas in electricity is already declining toward a low-utilisation role this decade Heating is slower, but still reducing demand through efficiency 4.This is the key policy point New North Sea fields take ~10–15 years to come online By then demand is already projected to be significantly lower Bottom line: “We’re behind” doesn’t mean “we need more gas supply” It means deployment needs to accelerate, exactly as the official pathways already assume

@somersetlevel @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield How are you Sir!? Greetings from Poland! 🇵🇱

@profgibbons @TheGriftReport @jfwduffield Utter pish Sir, the drink for downstreamers! Ghastly stuff!

Following many requests I finally got round to making this video explaining how our energy bills are derived I cover the breakdown of bills, why changing price formation in wholesale markets (getting off "the most expensive form of generation") would make no difference to bills, and some things that actually would cut both bills and costs youtu.be/T62amjK_I5Y

@CSG1973 😂😂👍👍👍👍

@profgibbons And a fuse

I have just discovered that calling the British plug the best is a very quick way to start an argument.

@KathrynPorter26 @jonburkeUK Some people are morons.

Saying all the oil and gas is owned by private companies implies that the state has no interest and they can do what they want with it Neither is true... The state earns significant royalties from the production and the products can only go where infrastructure allows So even if the state retained ownership of the oil once produced we can't insist on it being shipped to the UK if we lack the refinery capacity to process it So these ownership arguments are a red herring just like most of the anti North Sea arguments The fact is we have significant resources we could produce earning material benefit to the UK while lowering emissions yet some people are dead set against it. It's bizarre

I’ve found another one pretending that Britain ‘owns’ its North Sea oil and gas. This one even invokes the Petroleum Act 1998, which explicitly states that, upon extraction, 100% of North Sea oil and gas immediately passes into the ownership of private companies…😂

@MarkACropper @AnnieJo80051383 Amen Sir. I support the British Jewish community too. God’s curse on verminous antisemites. Genesis 12:3, Numbers 24:9.

I am a Christian British citizen. I wish to make it known that I fully support the British Jewish community.

@jfwduffield @TheGriftReport Craft beer onanism Sir.

@profgibbons @TheGriftReport 'Craft beer.' Drinking beer & pubs reinvented but without the working class people.