Benjamin Pring

@LizWebsterSBF Churchill said there should be a United States of Europe but that Britain shouldn’t be in it. Convenient that Mr Heseltine omitted the punchline.

⭐ Michael Heseltine, the highlights: ✅ My only regret is that I wasn’t PM. But I certainly wouldn’t want to be in such a neutered position as the PM is today. ✅ Nigel Farage is one of the most menacing developments in modern politics. To have him anywhere near the centre of power would be appalling. He is Donald Trump’s vicar in Britain. You’ve only got to look at what Trump is doing on the world stage to realise just how ill thought out Farage’s policies are. ✅ The government is stark raving mad. Their tax regimes are destroying great swathes of wealth-creating activity and forcing a large number of entrepreneurs and investors out of the country. That’s the most appalling misjudgment. ✅ Keir Starmer is on a world stage over which he has very little influence and control. First, because it’s largely dominated by Trump and the Israelis. Second, because we have left the European Union, so we’re away from our allies there. Starmer is constantly demanded in one part of the world or the other. If he didn’t go, he would be much criticised. If he does go, he’s criticised for being out of the country. It must be an exhausting experience. ✅ In the Sixties we had Enoch Powell with his speeches about immigration. Now we’ve got Farage. I’ve lived through it all before. It is the easiest thing in the world to stir up tension against people who are different. He is oblivious to the fact that our social services and our health service are dependent upon doctors and nurses who come from overseas.

@empireofthekop I watched this in a pub in Notting Hill. Everyone went mad with the final goal and my glasses got knocked off my face and were trodden to pieces. Didn’t care. An amazing evening.

On this day, one of the greatest games of football unfolded between Liverpool and Newcastle 🔥

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@NickStuart1977 Jesus saves. But Keegan gets it on the rebound.

@jimhamilton4 This is inevitable destination for rugby in Europe. An NFL style model with c. 30 franchises across Europe. The sooner clubs across Europe adopt the better. It took American Football about 50 years to create the NFL. Pro rugby in Europe is c. 30 years old. No time to delay.

Rugby is being dragged toward NFL franchise economics whether people like it or not.

Spot on.

@PrometheanActn This is delusional. If Britain is still playing the Great Game, it’s currently about 73-0 down. (Pains me to say this as a Brit).

Trump told Israel NO on South Pars. Called NATO COWARDS on Hormuz. Both slapped down in 72 hours. Why? Because both serve the same master — Britain's Great Game. The Japan deal shows what replaces it: sovereign energy, nuclear power, critical minerals. The old empire is finished.

@kylesheldon My English Dad (born 1913) always called it soccer to distinguish it from rugger - Association Football and Rugby Football.

Still one of my favorite tweets of all time x.com/kylesheldon/st…

@will_hooley @usmlr @briannakim6 @CBellofattoTV @benholdenpxp This will be great to help grow the game in 🇺🇸

@BenjaminPring @usmlr @briannakim6 @CBellofattoTV @benholdenpxp Thank you sir

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This is such an important example of AI in the real world.

Sal Khan was one of the first people on Earth to see GPT-4. OpenAI called him in the summer of 2022, months before ChatGPT existed, and showed him what was coming. He couldn’t sleep that weekend. By March 2023, Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, an AI tutor built on GPT-4, the same day OpenAI unveiled the model to the public. They were a launch partner. While every other education company was figuring out what ChatGPT meant for them, Khan Academy had already been building for seven months. The “obsolete” platform now has 120 million yearly learners. Khanmigo, their AI tutor, grew 731% year over year in the 2024-25 school year, reaching 2 million users. In classrooms alone, adoption went from 40,000 students to 700,000 in a single year, with projections past 1 million for 2025-26. Their teacher tools are free in over 70 countries. In January 2026, Khan Academy signed a deal with Google to put Gemini (Google’s AI) into new Writing Coach and Reading Coach tools for middle and high schoolers. They’re now working with both OpenAI and Google. A peer-reviewed study published in PNAS (one of the top scientific journals in the world) in January 2026, with researchers from Stanford and the University of Toronto, found that more Khan Academy usage is directly linked to higher student test scores. Sal Khan wrote a whole book in 2024 called “Brave New Words” arguing AI would save education. Sam Altman wrote a blurb for it. His TED Talk making the same argument was one of the 10 most-watched of 2023. In October 2025, he was named TED’s “vision steward.” Khan Academy is now the AI education company. That 731% growth happened while students spent 7.7 billion minutes learning on the platform in 2025.

@walegates 20k sterling a night. You could stay in a much nicer hotel than this for that.

Great! I have found a property in London that works for my london need. I also dont need a property in london for 52weeks of the year.

@HewittJSB Beautiful.

On this St. Patrick's Day (I am so happy to have my Irish passport!), here's my interpretation of "Danny Boy" as arranged by Grainger/Siloti. I'll be back performing in Dublin in November. Hurrah! youtube.com/watch?v=w4QPlO…

@Houseofyogi When you put it like that …

Don't be IBM and fumble an 18yr head start on AI IBM was the most valuable company on Earth. Invented the hard drive. The PC. The floppy disk. The ATM. DRAM. SQL. The barcode. Most US patents 29 years straight. 405,000 employees. 70% mainframe market share. Today: $231 billion. 67th in the world. Anthropic. Founded 2021. Four years old. $380 billion. Every piece of the bag was fumbled... Invented the PC. Sold to Lenovo: $1.75 billion. Invented the hard drive. Sold to Hitachi: $2 billion. Server business. Sold to Lenovo. Basically nothing. Now the chips. This is pure comedy. IBM was the largest semiconductor manufacturer on Earth. Fabs in New York. Fabs in Vermont. 16,000 patents. They PAID GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion cash to take it. Gave away the factories. Gave away the patents. $4.7 billion write-down. IBM had American fabs. They paid to close them. And the same Democrats who scream about chips going overseas are the ones whose policies made it too expensive to build here. We wouldn't have TSMC/Taiwan issues today. Decisions have consequences. TSMC: $700 billion. Nvidia: $5 trillion. IBM paid to exit chips right before chips became the most valuable industry on Earth. Incredible timing. Deep Blue beats Kasparov. Live television. First machine to outthink a human world champion. IBM owned AI. Not as a buzzword. As a fact. On camera. In front of the whole planet. OpenAI did not exist for another 18 years. Anthropic for another 24. Nvidia was making cards so teenagers could play Halo. Google was two grad students sharing a dorm room. IBM had an 18-year head start on the entire AI industry. What did they do with it. They dismantled Deep Blue. Put it in a museum. Same mentality as every socialist (cough dems) who wants to regulate AI before it ships. Celebrate the breakthrough. Kill the follow-through. Watson wins Jeopardy. Destroys the two greatest players alive on national TV. Most famous AI brand on the planet. IBM spends billions on Watson Health. AI that cures cancer. Their engineers flagged it unsafe. Instead of fixing it they sold it for scraps. Then killed the brand entirely. Loser mentality. IBM Research. Decades of NLP work. The compute. The talent. The CEO looks at LLMs and says "no thanks." Two years later ChatGPT launches. 100 million users in two months. The entire economy reorganizes around the exact technology IBM looked at and said nah. That is like having Google's algorithm in 1997 and deciding to build a phonebook. The suits and the consultants took over. Same thing that kills every city, every agency, every institution that picks socialism over competition. $201 billion in buybacks over 25 years. More on buybacks than CAPEX. They could have funded every AI lab on Earth with that money. Instead they bought their own stock while the stock went down. Revenue down 22 straight quarters. Nobody fired. Name another job where you lose $95 billion in market cap and get a raise. Actually don't. That job only exists at IBM and in Congress. Buffett bought $12 billion in IBM. The greatest investor alive. Held six years. Dumped it on CNBC. "I was wrong." Put the money in Apple. Best investment in Berkshire history. They had the patents. The labs. The engineers. The brand. An 18-year head start on AI. Replaced the builders with bureaucrats. Chose buybacks over R&D. Chose administration over competition. Lost everything. Now look at who wants to run the same playbook on the AI economy. Bernie wants data center moratoriums. Tax the builders before they finish building. Ro Khanna represents $18 trillion in Silicon Valley market cap. Apple. Nvidia. Google. His district built AI. He just held a Stanford town hall with Bernie called "Who Controls AI: The Oligarchs or The People." Wants to tax unrealized gains. Pause data centers. Put unions on AI boards. Redistribute wealth that hasn't been created yet. His own district is trying to primary him. Not because he's too progressive. Because he's trying to kneecap the industry that made his district the most valuable zip code on Earth. That is IBM energy. Tax the engineers. Slow the builders. Add a committee. Wonder why nothing works. Gavin ran California from a $97 billion surplus into a $68 billion deficit. Lost 789 companies. Tesla. SpaceX. Oracle. Chevron. 200,000 people leaving per year. And he thinks he should have a say in how AI gets built nationally. The guy who can't keep In-N-Out Burger in California wants to regulate the most important technology since electricity. These aren't hypotheticals. This is the IBM playbook in real time. Replace engineers with regulators. Replace competition with committees. Replace building with administrating. And act shocked when the talent leaves and the lead disappears. IBM went from first to 67th. 1.43% a year for 28 years. A savings account beat that. Don't let them do it to America. Name a bigger fumble. I'll wait.

@BenMank77 @CBSSunday Great job!

Thanks largely to Patty Jenkins and Tony Goldwyn, this story on @CBSSunday Morning turned into something pretty interesting. I remain an enormous fan of both of them.

Spot on.

.@jfftweets: A survey of 3,000+ Americans finds AI adoption at work and in learning is uneven. Many see benefits, but workers report limited training and often rely on informal resources as job skills shift. info.jff.org/ai-for-workers…

@data_republican @ChrisMartzWX 💯 I blame Redford & Hoffman.

The MSM started digging deeply into candidates lives and exposing everything from hang nails to illicit affairs. People's lives have been ruined. Many do not want to go through the scrutiny, not even the good guys, so it's difficult to find "good" candidates. Not saying it's wrong for the media to do this, but I think it prevents a lot of people from running.

Americans used to elect very intelligent people to federal office. Now we elect the dumbest people ever imaginable. Can anyone explain how we got here?

@EkoLovesYou I watched his movies and dreamt about moving to California (and did eventually) not realizing he was making them 4 miles from where I lived in Hertfordshire.

the most dangerous filmmaker in history got away with it for forty years because he never said it directly he said it in parables, and the parables are still running