He/him. Sane leftist geek. Believer in Jewish and Palestinian self-determination | Slava Ukraini | Team Biden/Harris/Hillary. MAGA must be destroyed.
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Unfortunately I've had to discontinue my old account for personal reasons, but I feel increasingly the need to have my voice counted in the chorus against fascism and extremism. This is my new account intended to allow me to do so.
My principles should be clear, but to be sure:
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Even in the most ambitious solar scenarios less than 1% of UK land will be used. Climate change is a far greater threat to farming than renewable energy.
See that thing in the picture as well as pylons? It's a tractor. They are used so farmers can grow our food efficiently. Plastering the landscape with "solar farms" won't grow our food
You are destroying energy security via "green" but you are also destroying food security too.
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As much as I like seeing these numbers overall, the fact tidal power isn't a much more dominant proportion for us is just daft. We have so much coastline.
Yesterday #wind produced 50.2% of British electricity followed by solar 14.1%, nuclear 10.1%, gas 9.9%, imports 9.7%, biomass 2.9%, other 2.1%, hydro 0.9%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation
The history of the USA may not be as long as that of some nations (although people are seriously blind to how many countries in the world are younger), but it is rich, with grand architecture and beautiful traditions.
This is so depressing. I want America back. Not this.
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I am rare amongst Brits in that I actually love America and have immense respect for it. At your best you can be unequalled. The melting pot came together over 250 years into something truly beautiful.
Trump is just a desecration. The worst stereotype possible. I mourn for you.
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Since 2018, when Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, experts warned that his opposition wasn't to the deal itself; it was to the fact he hadn't engineered it. They warned that Trump would try to negotiate another JCPOA he could take credit for but would likely be worse. Here we are.
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The pop at the government is rather stupid, but the complaint is valid. I had consistently less frustrating experiences with mobile connectivity when 3G was the norm than I do nowadays with 5G. Even with reasonable signal strength, the speed and reliability are non-existent.
I’m in Dulwich. One of the more expensive areas of London, supposedly a global city, and I’m getting worse mobile phone reception that I did in Kabul a decade ago. I pay for two contracts: @O2 and @EE and neither is reliable so I can’t work.
Mobile phones are useless in vast areas of Britain and have got worse. You can never work on a train, unlike in France. But we’re spending £4.5 billion in bike lanes and crossings.
This government is prioritising virtue signalling vanity projects when we need infrastructure urgently.
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And train WiFi... I travel a lot and I don't even try to get on the internet - certainly not for work. I get better connectivity when I go through parts of the London Underground than I do across most of the rest of country on rail.
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Transatlantic discourse is frustrating as ever.
The cheese and onion sandwich post is clear bait. "X mind cannot comprehend" always is.
The US has much more extreme climates than the UK - it's a continent!
British-Indian curry is in fact curry, and can be *incredibly* spicy.
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*I had ran into the character limit so couldn't be more precise, but because my wife has taken exception (love you!), I should clarify that of course I know the US is not actually a continent, but I feel my point is fairly clear regardless.
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Not calling anyone out in particular with any of these, but watching Brits and Americans just ridiculously overgeneralise about each other over things they each have misconceptions about and lack any personal experience of, and thinking it all extremely silly.
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And just to point out, the correct take on the heatwave discourse will always be that British heatwaves ARE actually objectively really horrible for various reasons, but not globally special, and our lack of air conditioning is both stubborn and incredibly, amazingly stupid.
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Man if only you had been Chancellor for two years then you could have done this Jeremy
How to find the money for defence: my article in today’s Sunday Times
thetimes.com/article/77aed49…
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#OnThisDay 1982: Argentina surrenders
@RoyalMarines and @BritishArmy, supported by gunfire from @RoyalNavy, make the final assault on Port Stanley.
The Royal Navy mobilised 112 ships (RN, RMAS, RFA, STUFT). 907 died (649 Argentine, 255 British and 3 locals).
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Watch: Royal Marine Commandos board the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker SMYRTOS in the Channel, in the first UK-led operation of its kind, backed by HMS Sutherland, HMS Ledbury and an RAF P-8. The vessel is now held off the south coast as investigations continue.
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This is absolutely nonsense and is the kind of material on X that is meant to foment rage against Muslims.
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Muslims in the UK are calling for a BAN of people eating Bacon in public during Praying hours.
They argue that seeing people eating Bacon is untidy to their faith.
What's your message to them?
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Russia's shadow fleet is reacting to the seizure by British forces directed by @Keir_Starmer this morning. AIS data shows multiple sanctioned tankers altering course and turning away from UK waters in the hours since UK @Commando_Ops stormed and seized the SMYRTOS.
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The 12z GEM control run is an absolute inferno for later this month. 40°C in London. 41-42°C in Paris. In June! 🔥
Highly unlikely to occur, but something to keep an eye on nonetheless. Plus it shows what is possible in early summer nowadays.
Eerily reminiscent of July 2022 👀
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If only he’d been chancellor at some point and had actually done so. If only…
Jeremy Hunt: How I’d have found defence cash if I was still chancellor thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Despite Putin’s best efforts to evade sanctions, we will not let him get away with it.
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The queue is so you get an introduction to local cultural traditions.
If you ever hear people complain that London is an expensive place to visit, please remind them that London's most popular tourist attraction -- a phone box at Westminster -- is completely free of charge.
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