Stuart Isbister

@W_Russell__M @AlexHolgate1982 @prodnose How much daylight then - a ‘chink’ or enough to make a sailors drawers? Still needs to be defined and cannot be subjective. In my view.

@AlexHolgate1982 @prodnose If they try to automate this nonsense that will be the final straw. I'd like to know which idiot(s) came up with the rule that your big toe can be offside. They need sectioning.

Look at this bullshit. This is what football supporters have been cowed into accepting in their game by television. Fuck off television. And every single vampire creep who is an apologist for this nonsense

@monstroso @grahamramsay Click at your count point and then shift-click at your start point.

@stuartisbister @grahamramsay But I only want to select up to a certain point.

Years ago in Word, if you clicked on a word it would tell you (eg) “word 10,000 out of 20,000”. Now you can only get that stat if you highlight a big chunk of text. Not really practical if you have a very long document. Is there a hack?

Personal View: BBC journalism is disgracefully maligned by my old newspaper world, by Trump and commercially-focussed idealogues, yet here at home I just watched @BowenBBC on Iran, followed by @FrankRGardner, followed by the wonderful @VitalyBBC from Kyiv…. I was in US last week… let me tell you NO news organisation is as good as this, no journalists as clear and free, the new DG needs to fill the newsroom with confidence and….defiance…. it is time to wave the BBC flag.

@monstroso @grahamramsay Command a selects all.

@grahamramsay Not on a Mac it seems

@OliverKamm @omriceren Thank you for doing that. I thought it smelt like bollocks.

@omriceren In short, and even though this is only Twitter, it’s not a great idea to lecture people on grammar if you’re not on top of the subject. I admit to being a supporter of the EU and no admirer of your boss, Senator Ted Cruz, but my point holds regardless.

A sentence fragment in the past tense passive voice leading into an adjectivial clause that personifies the passive subject, hides the relative pronoun, and shifts the tense to the future. A lot of work just to avoid mentioning who did the attacking.

@barkmeta @adamboultonTABB @grok is this true?

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

@AstroMikeMerri @sixtysymbols I would like to think that yours (from what little I know, and not having time to read the article) is the sort of ‘pathway’ they have in mind?

Happy to be largely symbolic, thank you — I have done my time in academia, and now enjoying the rest and opportunity to do other things. Just doing the occasional @sixtysymbols video, and having my former employer benefit from the publicity in return for the title.

@DavidMark124720 @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @GBNEWS @PoliticsJOE_UK Where are you on the Brexit lies? Surely facts matter? A ‘macro’ trend isn’t a trend just because someone can put a ruler on a graph.

He would be a mug to 'debate' you on that nitpicking nonsense. The central argument that extremely rapid demographic change, high non-Western immigration, parallel communities, and elite “suicidal empathy” are eroding Britain’s historic identity and cohesion stands or falls on ONS census data, fertility rates, net migration figures, integration studies, and polling on public attitudes. None of your points touch those macro trends. The errors are almost all in illustrative anecdotes, classical quotes, and specific citations, not the headline numbers or the big-picture warning.

A response to my critics. Suicide of a Nation is clearly becoming a major book & I'm DELIGHTED by the debate it's sparked. This is why I wrote it. People deserve to know the truth about what is happening in their own country. I also find myself in the curious position of watching Suicide of a Nation be criticised by people on both the Left, many of whom have clearly not read it, & people further to my Right, who oppose my support for Reform. I will deal with all this together. 1. Research, stats & evidence All the research, stats, data come from the official 2021 UK census data. The projections are calibrated to the 2022 Office for National Statistics national population projections, ensuring consistency with national trends. I believe this is the most systematic, sophisticated look at the demographic revolution unfolding in Britain that we have to date. To be clear, Suicide of a Nation is also a trade book, intended for a mass audience. It is not like books written by academics that are typically only read by a few dozen or a few hundred people. It is designed to reach tens of thousands, which it is now doing, to try and help shift the Overton Window. If you want all the detailed assumptions, analysis, & modelling behind the book you can read them here: shorturl.at/d3Hg8 Or if you want to look at the key trends in more detail you can see them in our Substack this morning: shorturl.at/LLBeS 2. Substack, links, and footnotes Trade books by their nature have minimal footnotes. The aim is to inspire a mass readership. Having spent 20 years in the universities, I wanted to write a trade book. Hence the lack of footnotes. If you want the data detail on the trends see the paper above. I do link to several of my Substack articles because, as it happens, with the exception of David Coleman, I am one of the only people who has run demographic projections at this level. You can read it here: shorturl.at/Gij6S. Ditto my discussion in the book of Muslim attitudes, Reform voters, and the economic costs of net migration. Nobody else is writing about these issues as we are at mattgoodwin.org hence me citing those pieces. I see no problem with this. I am proud of our work. Academics cite their own work all the time. It just so happens this time around they disagree with my work! 3. AI school census data Footnote 8 includes a reference to school and nursery data via AI which was then cross-checked with the real dataset (available here: shorturl.at/KlFVm. I see no issue obtaining datasets via AI so long as they are cross-checked with the original source (above). Hence why I include the reference. This school census data shows, clearly, nearly 1 in 4 primary pupils & nearly 1 in 3 nursery pupils no longer speak English as their main language. I attach the screenshot. In Bradford, the example, nearly 40% of state primary children do not speak English as their main language (see screenshot). In some primary schools in Bradford, 98% of pupils speak 'English as an additional language'. Nationally, as I talk about in the book, and as GB News revealed last year, there are now 2,000 schools where English is no longer the main language for most pupils In 2 primary schools, not a single child has English as their native tongue. In 107 schools, 9 in 10 pupils do not speak English at home. In 2,309 schools in England, English is no longer the first language. And across the country, 1.8 million children, 1 in 5, do not speak English as their main language (see here shorturl.at/KXROf) It is also now fact, as I say in the book, to have schools in the Midlands with more than 30 languages spoken: shorturl.at/OfyNj I notice my critics ignore all these statistics, as well as the obvious problems this creates in the classroom, for example -> shorturl.at/6TJYz The left-wing claim that this does not create problems is ludicrous. Research by scholars such as Strand and Hessel finds that pupils who speak English as an additional (not main) language explains 22% of the variation in their educational achievement, compared to 3-4% that is statistically explained by things like gender or free school meals (as a measure of poverty). So, unlike the Left, I think this is a major problem and I make no apology for saying so. We should have a shared language. Bilingualism undermines our shared culture & nation. Mass immigration is weakening our educational system. 4. Solutions and prognosis Some argue the book offers no solution. I disagree. I am clear throughout. End mass migration. Exit the ECHR. Repeal the HRA. End welfare & social housing subsidies for non-Brits. End two-tier multiculturalism. Crack down on Islamism. Invest in Pro-family policies. Deport illegal migrants, foreign criminals & those who do not make a net fiscal contribution to the UK economy. Reassert our free speech. Scrap definitions of 'Islamophobia'. Abolish non-crime hate incidents. Where I depart from critics further to my Right is in opposing vague and ill-defined talk about "mass deportations" or "remigration", which often appear to mean "deport anybody who isn't White", or "deport British nationals". I reject this - politically, morally, ethically. I simply do not think it is right, possible, politically appealing to an election-winning majority, or in tune with our political culture. I also do not think the Americans cheering on other parties understand the nuances in our political culture. 5. Intellectual lineage. The book implicitly nods, throughout, to the work of Roger Scruton, Eric Kaufmann, Anthony Smith, Walker Connor, Douglas Murray (subtitle), all of whom have warned through speeches, podcasts, e-mails, and articles about the loss of a historic majority group. This is deliberate. Left-wingers who argue, for example, that Smith or Connor did not warn about the loss of a historic core are simply not reading their work, or being disingenuous. The title of the book is a specific nod to Arthur Koestler's Suicide of a Nation, a left-wing account of Britain's decline in the postwar era. My book, in contrast, is obviously a national conservative/right-wing take on Britain's decline. Sometimes, you don't need to state your influences because they are so obvious - at least to people who read books. 6. Publishing in 2026 Some people have asked why I did not publish with a mainstream publisher given my past books were with Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge, Routledge, etc., and I wrote two Sunday Times bestsellers (now three?) The answer is because I believe the publishers have been ideologically captured and no longer allow genuine free speech and debate. Having gone through mainstream publishers, I know for a fact this book would never have been published or would have been edited and diluted to the point at which it says nothing interesting or truthful at all. Anybody who is a serious author, who has gone through the editorial process, knows this to be true. The reality, in 2026, is if you have a profile and a large Substack you no longer need mainstream publishers. You no longer need to be controlled by Gatekeepers. This is a positive development. And in many respects I hope that given it's obvious success (top 5 on Amazon) Suicide of a Nation will encourage others to break with establishment publishing. This is what we need to do if we are serious about taking on the institutions. Lastly, my thanks to the left-wing trolls and resentful, bitter, unsuccessful former academic colleagues who are coordinating an attack on the Amazon Reviews page. They are helping drive the algorithm, ensuring this book receives the attention it deserves and is read by many, many more people. I thank you for this. Best wishes, Matt p.s. buy the book below or via Waterstones, Blackwell's, Foyles, etc (Amazon is now regularly running out such is the demand) amazon.co.uk/Suicide-Nation…

@ronmanagernottm What on earth was ‘idea for living? Air in a bag?

So much to enjoy in this Broad Marsh from a thousand years ago: the bored teenager in front of Ideas for living; the sensible apparel of the older ladies; electricity when you bought it in bags from a shop; newspapers. Newspapers!

@johnredwood Once a plank always a plank.

With solar only available 8 hours out of 24 and wind producing under 10% of our electricity yesterday and today, where are renewables when you need them?

@RedfieldBS @JonathanPieNews How about total utter, complete and absolutely irreversibly stupid cunt? Still doesn’t quite get there though does it…

@JonathanPieNews There's cunts, there's total cunts, there's total utter cunts, there's total utter complete cunts and then there's total utter, complete and absolute cunts and still it's not enough to describe him.

Just saw this and was about to post something amusingly ironic along the lines of : I'm sure Trump will be magnanimous in his response to a former foe. Then I saw his response and even my jaw hit the floor. Bush: "He helped prevent another terrorist attack on US soil." Obama: "One of the finest directors in the history of the FBI" Trump: "I'm glad he's dead." The current President of The United States is not a normal human being. He's a vicious, crude, unhinged cunt of a man.

@nickdemarco_ You could do with working on your outdoor furniture though…

Two years today since we left London and moved to the house by the river. I still love London, and I’m there most of the week, but there’s something about the water, the trees, and the birds in the evening that makes this place feel extraordinary. Tonight Ripon’s cooking roast lamb while a rather exceptional bottle of red opens up in the decanta and I enjoy my traditional Sunday bath after a couple of hours working on the novel. A small anniversary, but one that reminds me how lucky we are to live here.

@TezzaLap @gilescoren @guardian Potentially. It wouldn’t be the first time. I just thought it too much of a leap to make without evidence.

@stuartisbister @gilescoren @guardian It must have been coincidence, then.

Wow, this is some mad fucking antisemitism from @guardian - and a truly honking piece of restaurant writing into the bargain.

@gilescoren Bit harsh on @RomeshRang - we need more of the guy surely?

I bet you have!!!

@RonadatylJake @DanNeidle @paullewismoney Not at all, but it is a suggestion that the business has multiple customers that pay.

@stuartisbister @DanNeidle @paullewismoney Becoming VAT registered is not an indication of competence.

If you ever wondered what cutting your nose off to spite your face means, it is this bit.ly/4rFjPxa cutting the turnover of your small business to avoid registering for VAT, which anyone with a spreadsheet can sort out in half a day every three months

@TezzaLap @gilescoren @guardian I’d suggest it is.

@stuartisbister @gilescoren @guardian I just rearranged some of the sentences & phrases in the article to mock its innuendos. However, the impertinence of a joo-bakery opening within sight of a muslim proprietor's shop made it to a writer at the Guardian. It's not a huge leap to assume it made it to the local ummah.

@paul_conyngham @IterIntellectus Good on yer mate. What about the rabbit?

@IterIntellectus Hi mate, there are a few people here claiming this is fake news. Rose and I were on Aussie national television this morning: youtube.com/watch?v=COYSRb…

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

@volcaholic1 Wow!

In Afghanistan, grapes are preserved in airtight clay-and-straw containers called kangina. This traditional method keeps thick-skinned grapes fresh for months, from autumn to spring 🍇

@TezzaLap @gilescoren @guardian It’s a bit of a jump to blame the retailer. A ‘well-intentioned’ customer maybe but would be beyond silly for him to be involved even indirectly.

@gilescoren @guardian The night before it was due to open, Gail’s was daubed with red paint. Less than a week later, all its windows were smashed in. 20 metres away, no such incident befell the Palestinian cafe. Heavy handed high-street aggression? "That’s how we compete" said Mahmood, the proprietor.

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21