Richard Harding

@Dbrown_beer @Telegraph It's depressing how few people commenting on this post understand this.

@Telegraph Norway didn't shoot themselves in the foot by privatising their energy. We did. So any oil produced by North sea drilling would be priced at the same rate as that from Norway anyway.

Britain is paying Norway around £20bn a year for oil and gas, and that dependence is only expected to grow. Energy Editor Jonathan Leake explores how declining North Sea production, Labour’s stance on new drilling, and rising imports are fuelling concerns over the UK’s long-term energy security ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@Gainz777Alpha @r0ck3t23 Who does the building?

@r0ck3t23 How can someone so smart be so dumb? The base of capitalism is build for a dollar and sell for 2 not labor arbitrage. People choose jobs because it's easier than working for yourself. Fucking communists

Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X. Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not. Gawdat: “The very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.” That is not a prediction. That is a coroner’s report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet. Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread. Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin. AI just closed it to zero. A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch. When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it. But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes. Gawdat: “Even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody’s able to buy what you’re making.” That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet. Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll. Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer. Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand. They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income. 50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark. You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call. Gawdat: “Wealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few years’ time.” This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning. If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place. The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist. Gawdat: “So the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.” He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking. Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible. The question was never whether AI could produce enough. It was whether capitalism could survive its own success. The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer. And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy. It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.

@deGourlay Ten points to Gryffindor.

The deputy speaker makes an unprecedented intervention before the budget, lambasting the government for their constant briefings outside of the house. Even going as far as to say it amounts to breaking the ministerial code. This is a resignation matter for the chancellor. But don't expect any integrity from this government.

@GoodwinMJ Anti-brexit? How many times has Farage been on Question Time compared to other politicians?

📺NEW POST📺 The BBC is in Cloud Cuckoo Land This is not a "right-wing conspiracy" against the BBC; this is a taxpayer-funded media organisation that has completely lost the plot For years now, the BBC has imposed a pro-trans, pro-immigration, pro-diversity, pro-Gaza, anti-Brexit, anti-Trump, anti-Western, anti-science groupthink on the rest of us while expecting us to stay quiet Those days are over mattgoodwin.org/p/the-bbc-is-i…

@Rousey59 @GoodwinMJ How much does GB News make for its owners?

@GoodwinMJ If proof were needed that the BBC has lost public confidence then the success of GB News proves it. Go WOKE Go BROKE proven again !

@ABridgen @grok is this true

Extremely disturbing ! This video shows a civilian waving a white flag near Petropavlovka (Kharkov region) struck when a Ukrainian drone dives into him. Minutes later, a second man trying to reach Russian positions is hit the same way. Report by Geopolitics Prime

@DrawingDead5 @DameFella @BGatesIsaPyscho They just haven't had their chance yet, and for all our sakes let's hope they never get it.

@DameFella @red_red_robbo @BGatesIsaPyscho Not Reform.

🚨🇬🇧 New:- “You’re arresting me & taking me to Harrogate in the Middle of the night over a Tweet” “Our Hate Crime Team have reviewed it & said there are offences we need to explore” Yet another unbelievably shocking clip of Keir Starmer’s Gestapo arresting Brits in the middle of the night - the alleged tweet was aimed at Hamas. The UK has truly fallen ‼️

@SpeechUnion Free speech eh? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: An American cancer patient and Trump supporter was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation. Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She told him she was an American citizen and a member of the Free Speech Union and he should be investigating burglaries and rapes, not hurty words on social media. Chillingly, he told her he was there to get her to apologise to the person who was offended by her posts. If she refused, she’d be questioned down at the station. What was Deborah’s supposed crime? The policeman didn’t tell her. Was it her passionate support of President Trump and the MAGA movement on her Facebook and X pages? To make it worse, Deborah is in the midst of cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. She ought to be have been convalescing. Instead, she was harassed for her tweets. The FSU took on her case and, as a result, the police have now dropped their investigation. But they still haven’t told Deborah which of her posts got her into trouble, claiming they’ve accidentally deleted the record of the complaint. Thames Valley Police are responsible for guarding President Trump this week. What would he make of the fact that those same officers are visiting the homes of his supporters – including US citizens – and threatening them with arrest.

@phmbaker @GoodwinMJ If we didn't spend a single penny on benefits to foreigners we would still have veterans on the streets.

If you want to know how utterly insane the UK is right now read this: Last year, a man named Shahidul Haque, 55, who is on benefits, claims he is "disabled" because of "obstructive sleep apnoea" and depression, and cannot speak English, was moved into a retirement home in Berkshire. A retirement home. His rent? £110 a week. A few months later, he brought his 28-year-old wife and two children into the retirement home, claiming he did not know he was not allowed to do this because he cannot speak English and read tenancy documents. After the elderly neighbours complained about anti-social behaviour and sought his eviction, Shahidul Haque said he should not be evicted because it would be a breach of his "human rights". His lawyers are using the European Convention on Human Rights to try and prevent his eviction. Our "leaders" are giving foreigners who do not speak English subsidised housing in retirement homes for our elderly because they claim to have "depression". This is insane. This has to stop.

@leeharris So the bit in ' 's, which traditionally indicates a verbatim quote of what was said, wasn't what was said. Well I never.

Lawyers acting on behalf of Yvette Cooper have said 'the rights of illegal migrants are more important than the people of Epping' Labour just said the quiet bit out loud. This utterly unacceptable statement should immediately trigger a general election.

@FinanceTiger @PolitlcsUK @SadiqKhan No, because that would be undemocratic.

@PolitlcsUK All of London seems to agree: crime has surged in our capital under @SadiqKhan's leadership! Can't Starmer, as Prime Minister, remove him from the Mayor's office?

🚨🎥 WATCH: Donald Trump says Sadiq Khan is a "nasty person" who has done a "terrible job" as London Mayor Starmer: "He’s a friend of mine actually"

@SamCoatesSky Woman goes to concert with husband. It's not really much of a revelation is it?

Sky News can reveal Home Secretary Yvette Cooper went for free to a Taylor Swift concert as guest of Swift’s music label Universal Music. Ms Cooper went as a guest of her huband, Ed Balls who was given four tickets. That came after the home secretary had discussions about boosting protection for Ms Swift when she was in London after concerts were cancelled in Vienna because of a foiled attack Mr Balls was offered the tickets on August 4, before the Swift's shows in Vienna were cancelled for a show on August 16 This has not appeared in the public register to date because the tickets were understood to be worth £170 - less than the £300 that would make it a declarable expense. Earlier today the home secretary made the declaration to the cabinet office.

@IdleAn94328 @MikeHudema A very good question. Probably not applicable to a solar farm in the desert of course, but still a point worth making.

@MikeHudema Being environmental apparently means covering natural beauty with a sea of silicon. Why not put them over parking lots and asphalt?

The world's largest single-site solar farm is officially live. The Al Dhafra solar farm contains almost 4 million solar panels. It's expected to power 200,000 homes and eliminate more than 2.4 million tonnes of CO2 per year. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

@MikesExWife @MikeHudema Err, what happens when a nuclear power station has to be replaced?

@MikeHudema What happens when those solar panels need to be replaced? Where do they discard them and what effect will they have on the soil once discarded? Solar is not the answer. Nuclear power is a better answer than solar or wind by a mile.

@TiceRichard Who knew outsourcing was such a bad idea? 🤷‍♀️

Our vetting firm was paid six figure sum to vet candidates They delivered nothing but promises telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

@Charlotte_Rhea2 @alexwickham I hope not 🤞 😂

@alexwickham Typical tory fear mongering.

The Tory campaign is now saying they face a generation out of power if Starmer gets a big majority

@Secret__Box1 @hol40900 @Nigel_Farage Are you Laurie like Laurie Cantor or Laurie like Laurie Metcalf?

Thank you, Clacton.

@santismagic @gooner260589 I hate to rain on your parade, but this government has a history of taking action that has massive downsides and very little upsides. They are a government on their way out and they are stealing as much of the silverware as they can. It will be personal gain over common good.

@gooner260589 Thanks. A very understandable concern. I am quite confident though. Such an action would not only be incredibly stupid but also, very likely to fail. Seems all massive downside with very minimal upside.

🚨 𝗔𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗜’𝗺 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗙𝗙𝗣… The linked thread has led to lots of lovely comments of appreciation, for which I’m very grateful and really pleased to be of help to folks on this topic. It’s also resulted, to a lesser degree, in some attacks on the thread’s veracity and my credibility. The most common accusation is that “I haven’t read the CAS judgement” often paired with a screenshot of a single page in the judgement where the word “no evidence” is highlighted repeatedly. I have mentioned several times in my posts that I will do a thread dissecting the CAS Panel’s majority decisions and why I consider them to be egregious - it will take some time though. However, in the interim, I’d like to make an offer to those folks who assert I’m wrong in my analysis and that Man City are innocent of the charges against them… If anyone can put in the comments below a plausible reason why, if Man City were not subverting FFP, these leaked emails exist then I’ll delete the thread. It doesn’t even need to be a probable reason; just one I can find remotely plausible. If you can provide a probable reason then I’ll delete my account altogether. This may surprise you but I’d actually much rather believe that Man City hasn’t cheated. I’d appreciate the past decade of Premier League football a hell of a lot more if that were the case. But I can’t unread what I’ve read. This offer is open to anyone that has a plausible reason because I’d very much like to hear it.

@DavyMac1894 @slbsn Then they should take the punishment that's due to them, which would take into account the fact that they provided the information required when asked.

@red_red_robbo @slbsn 'If' that happened, a fair chance that big spending Utd might finish 5th. But let's not forget what club from Manchester actually admitted cheating FFP in 2023.