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@lordmiles Millionaires don't go to Wetherpoons, especially not the sort that travel with 3K suitcases.

I’m in the airport pub (Wetherspoons) and came across an elderly couple. We started talking and they said they’re leaving England due to the amount of foreigners. I said same. There was a glint of sadness in their eyes We had a very productive conversation. They told me they sold their property portfolio because foreigners kept not paying rent They both had branded aluminum hand luggage worth $3k. Millionaires leaving the UK

@NickCharnock @MtarfaL They may not be a peer to a NATO led by the USA, but perhaps it's time to look at what constitutes a peer (to the UK) differently....

@MtarfaL Great thread, but I wonder if Russia is really a peer threat? It seems that the Ukraine war has shown they are not a peer with NATO in terms of technology or operational effectiveness. They just have numbers.

Thread: The Pilgrim RAF Fast Jet Future – A Strategic Assessment 1/ Amid global instability and the UK’s ongoing Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the future of RAF fast jets—here termed the “Pilgrim RAF Fast Jet Future”—requires careful consideration. This thread evaluates investment in Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35B, and GCAP within a 2.7% GDP defence framework. Opinions my own - facts can be challenged.

@Adaltioratendo1 @Inevitablewest This is just fundamentally not true.

@Inevitablewest It’s reciprocal tariffs. They already have 25% tariffs on us, thought they don’t call it tariffs, have another name for it.

🚨BREAKING: President Trump announces 25% tariffs on the EU The EU fucked around and found out.

I miss Valentina & her kiosk. I miss her positivity & warm-heartedness. Valentina has been undergoing cancer treatment. To cheer her up I turned the Valentina’s Kiosk theme into a song & the legendary @BBCSingers have recorded it for her. Here is Valentina’s Song. @BBCRadio3

@HMRCcustomers Hi. Your public sector annual allowance tool asks for SA302 data back to 2015-16, but only the last 4 years are available from the self assessment account. How can these be accessed? Could they be made available via the SA account since many people will need them?

@TheStoicSailor And I agree the point that exercising a war footing would be useful, but it's hard to do without a war .... Particularly where industry are concerned.

@MickeyC162 a "war footing" bubble could be useful. I've seen DHs, SOs and CAEs spool up to deliver, only to be held back by the MAA and Industry who aren't as ready to spool up as quickly. I just feel like that should be more freely exercised.

I'd love to see the RN conduct a short test run of clearing something like this on our RPAS under 'exercise' conditions. Just to see how long it would actually take us.

@TheStoicSailor Interesting. I'd question if they were actually held back by the MAA or perceived that they were. Certification is long and difficult, but doesn't apply to the vast majority of RPAS. The MRP allows for this stuff to be operated with remarkably little Regulator involvement.

@TheStoicSailor But 2 paraphrase my understanding of your reply, I hear u say that non-urgent things take a long time because we don't have enough people, and those we do have are focussed on higher priorities. Maybe that's ok. Perhaps that stuff that's dragging on for years should just be cut!

@TheStoicSailor What specifically is it you think is holding things up? If the money's in place and the Duty Holder is content to hold the risk then we can (and have) do this in days few. But there are many unfunded 'good ideas' that rightly never see the light of day.

@clgrv @ThreeUKSupport Oh yes I phoned them to. They say their phone lines are extremely busy. No shit Sherlock....

@MickeyC162 @ThreeUKSupport Literally. @ThreeUKSupport your phone lines wouldn’t be being hammered by people like me thinking their 5G broadband boxes are knackered if you updated your status page.

Problem is that after a few years, most people normalize extreme climate as normal They also normalize disappearance of world Bees insects birds wildlife, marine life, forests wetlands and their replacement with a sterile barren lifeless landscape as normal

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain “Every decision taken by Tory (and @LibDems) governments was a political decision—it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich friends and dump the burdensome price on those least able to endure the cost.” “There is mold in the walls and shit in the rivers, posh butter in the supermarkets has anti-theft tags stuck to it, the trains run on schedule about half the time, the average pub-poured pint of lager—the blood of the nation—is nearing the criminal price of 5 pounds ($6.34), and on May 22 a new general election was announced to the people of Great Britain by a prime minister who is richer than the king.  “Should the polls prove correct—short of a 2016-scale error—the annihilation will be justified. Wage growth is at its lowest level since the Napoleonic Wars. What the Financial Timescalls the “rental market” and what the rest of us call “How much of your money someone richer than you takes every month” is stratospherically inflated; rent is about half a person’s average salary in London. Chain stores on British high streets close permanently at a rate of 14 per day, leaving most shopping areas a procession of corrugated shutters, uncollected rubbish, and the sleeping bags of the homeless. “The precious marvel that is the National Health Service is cracking at the seams; at the current rate, waiting lists will not be cleared for another 685 years. The union for junior doctors, the BMA, has organised 10 strikes and walkouts in the past year for a pay deal that would only bring wages up to the current level of inflation. The city of Birmingham was the first to tip over into bankruptcy; more will follow. “In 2022, at least 3% of all families in Britain—around two million people—could not afford to eat. Like a revenant from Dickens, Victorian diseases like scurvy, rickets, and scabies are back to blight children. “Life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 2010—tellingly, the year the Conservatives took power, at the height of the recession.” “These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five PMs other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches. “Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure.  “Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the EU. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity. “Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed. newrepublic.com/article/182987…

@pinstripedline I agree with the sentiment, if not the solution. The actual remembrance act is of overwhelming importance to a diminishing minority, but the day's become a national art project for everyone else. It needs to evolve, but I struggle to see political will to embrace any change.

As the season of Remembrance ends, Pinstripedline blog asks whether, when the last of the WW2 generation pass on, the time will be right to end the tradition of Remembrance Sunday. The answer is probably yes. tinyurl.com/4m9nzrwk

This STOL my heart. 😉 #avgeek