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@afneil "The incompetence of the British state knows no bounds: A police manhunt is underway to find the Epping hotel migrant sex attacker after he was accidentally released from jail. Hadush Kebatu was meant to be sent to an immigration detention centre but was mistakenly freed"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-24T16:41Z 1.2M followers, 232.6K engagements

"Latest example of Britains dysfunctional state: Network Rail tweeted out at the weekend for everybody to remember that that clocks had gone forward an hour. Of course they went back. But at least youll now be two hours early for departure"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-26T22:54Z 1.2M followers, 132.1K engagements

"Hard to avoid the conclusion that Keir Starmer is living on borrowed time"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T08:37Z 1.2M followers, 408.7K engagements

"To spend an interview with the Leader of the Opposition on a supposedly serious news programme beating her up for not watching a particular TV drama (not a documentary as they kept calling it) is quite surreal. Ms Badenoch politely held her ground well. I would have been rather more robust with the interlocutors"
X Link @afneil 2025-04-11T07:43Z 1.2M followers, 950.3K engagements

"Irony truly is dead. Al Jazeera complains about simplistic genocide claims fuelling propaganda"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-19T04:52Z 1.2M followers, 250.8K engagements

"RenewableUK is a lobby/advocacy group for wind. I prefer to rely on neutral ONS stats. Which include onshore support for offshore wind farms"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-19T23:35Z 1.2M followers, 47.7K engagements

"Sorry. But energy saving was a thing long before green was a cult. Though given what net zero has done to energy prices its more important than ever. Thanks"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-20T07:00Z 1.2M followers, 244.1K engagements

"The R Reeves borrowing binge continues. Another 20bn borrowed in September 1.6bn more than last September. Year to Date the government has borrowed 100bn 7bn more than OBR forecast in March and were only half through the financial year. Another reason to be braced for big tax rises in next months Budget"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-21T07:06Z 1.2M followers, 177.9K engagements

"The Budget will hammer pensioners landlords and small businesses"
X Link @afneil 2025-09-24T04:20Z 1.2M followers, 330.3K engagements

"It is one of the great scandals of our time. Drax which generates electricity by burning trees imported as pellets from North America is more expensive than gas more polluting than coal and more dependent on imports than oil. Yet it is incredibly designated as sustainable biomass pocketed 870m in subsidies last year and will likely trouser another X billion subsidies over the next four years all to allow Ed The Zealot Miliband to include Drax in his net zero calculations. Not just a scandal but an expensive scandal for the taxpayer"
X Link @afneil 2025-08-29T07:29Z 1.2M followers, 501.4K engagements

"This is quite remarkable. The American woman is great"
X Link @afneil 2025-09-18T11:45Z 1.2M followers, 324.3K engagements

"How many jobs are required to sustain the average offshore wind farm"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-19T22:09Z 1.2M followers, 83.8K engagements

"The 2023 LECREE data set includes over 145000 jobs related to energy saving/efficiency all of which wed want to do whether we believe in net zero or not. Not really green"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-20T06:10Z 1.2M followers, 66.5K engagements

"Wind is this morning meeting less than X% of our electricity needs and a mere X% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised simply because there is so little wind. Yes I know there are days when wind generates much more. But until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days that is frankly irrelevant. The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous. Yet politicians and the Grifters"
X Link @afneil 2025-08-24T08:31Z 1.2M followers, 361.7K engagements

"I see reports that so far Hamas has handed over only four out the remaining XX bodies of deceased hostages. Any update on that Its also clear Hamas has deployed thousands of armed men often in civilian clothes to patrol the streets. They are already clashing with other Palestinian gangs/militia. I understand Hamass feared Arrow Unit essentially a murder squad is more active than ever killing/torturing suspected collaborators/opponents of Hamas. The heaviest fighting seems to be in Gaza City between Hamas and the anti-Hamas Doghmush clan. After the joy of hostage release it would seem tough"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-13T23:11Z 1.2M followers, 604.2K engagements

"I think he earns avios and tier points on every trip. Hell soon have enough for free passage back and forth at will"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-22T12:09Z 1.2M followers, 131.4K engagements

"Have a look at this. Latest YouGov poll. Reform still comfortably ahead. But after a year of dismal polling for Labour this is the first time its been as low as the Tories. Also first time ever four parties have been statistically nip and tuck. RefUK 27%(+1) CON 17%(nc) LAB 17%(-3) GRN 16%(+1) LDEM 15%(nc)"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T08:00Z 1.2M followers, 631.9K engagements

"The Office for Budget Responsibility has told the chancellor it will cut its productivity predictions by about XXX percentage points. Long overdue. Every XXX percentage point reduction in OBRs medium-term forecast adds between X billion and X billion to the level of government borrowing in five years. So Reeves has a black hole of almost 30bn from this alone never mind all the other factors which are blowing her fiscal position to smithereens. The Treasury and XX Downing Street are furious which is hilarious since after the ClusterTruss which involved sidelining the OBR Reeves et al dined out"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T15:22Z 1.2M followers, 405.5K engagements

"Appreciate the contrary view. But the oil price has been steadily down since the post-invasion peak in 2022 and with current supply/demand fundamentals + storage capacity filled to the brim (theres even an armada of tankers filled with crude just floating around) I think Ill stick with my previous tweet for now"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T12:59Z 1.2M followers, 60.5K engagements

"The unfairness of this beggars belief. The subsidy to the 6m will not come from general taxation which is broadly progressive but from the energy bills of other households many of whom are not that much better off than those getting the subsidy. Interesting he doesnt tell us that. Despicable"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T18:00Z 1.2M followers, 514.1K engagements

"British politicians now lie openly about the so called Dublin Convention. It was used in a derisory number of asylum cases and where it was applied resulted in the UK being a net recipient of asylum seekers. Davey should have been asked: to how many asylum seekers did the Convention apply on an average year Since it worked both ways how many did we send back and how many came here under it Did we return more than we received under Dublin"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-30T08:08Z 1.2M followers, 165K engagements

"Yield on 30-year UK gilts a benchmark for the cost of servicing the national debt at one stage jumped nine basis points today to XXXX% close to a 27-year high. The biggest daily increase of any major global economy with economists warning that Britain was now paying a moron premium on its debt"
X Link @afneil 2025-08-26T16:28Z 1.2M followers, 707.1K engagements

"Well heres a surprise The first company backed by the state-owned Scottish National Investment Bank created by then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has gone into administration owing taxpayers millions. M Squared Lasers received XXXX million when it was launched almost five years ago. The Scottish state bank is understood to have loaned it about XX million in total. There is a risk all of that could be lost"
X Link @afneil 2025-08-28T06:35Z 1.2M followers, 274.5K engagements

"Jess Phillips the so-called safeguarding minister responsible for the grooming gang inquiry under growing pressure to resign after being accused of lying to MPs. A second senior figure has withdrawn from chairing the inquiry saying the process undermined by political opportunism and point-scoring. Four victims on the inquirys advisory panel have also resigned. Phillips presiding over a shambles. Phillips denied claims by Fiona Goddard a victim of the grooming gangs that the inquiry could be widened to include other forms of sexual abuse. Goddard then produced evidence which appeared to"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-23T00:21Z 1.2M followers, 249K engagements

"The more Hamas asserts armed control over parts of Gaza the more any kind of international peace force intervention crumbles. Because it wouldnt be keeping the pea in Gaza but enforcing it. If its peace enforcing nobody will want to touch that King Abdullah of Jordan has told the BBC. If were running around Gaza on patrol with weapons thats not a situation that any country would like to get involved in. The Saudis and Emiratis will tell you the same behind closed doors"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T04:50Z 1.2M followers, 50K engagements

"Thank you so much for the update. We talk of nothing else in Brisbane. So sorry Ive not mentioned it but Im attending to other matters out here. A bit of advice keep your thoughts and prayers for next months budget. Well need them"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-24T10:56Z 1.2M followers, 76.4K engagements

"Wrong. Read the constitution"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-25T15:38Z 1.2M followers, 93.6K engagements

"The president can levy tariffs under emergency powers. The Supreme Court has to decide if a 50-year trade deficit is emergency enough to justify the president wielding tariffs. I have my doubts"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-26T01:42Z 1.2M followers, 65.4K engagements

"My Brisbane Lecture on The Dire Plight of the Mainstream Right. Long but illuminating"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-27T23:50Z 1.2M followers, 94.6K engagements

"Mad Ed Miliband will soon be a busted flush. A new report by the Scottish TUC concludes that for every 1m spent on wind power in Scotland just ONE job is created. Thats right. ONE job. Hot air indeed"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T07:55Z 1.2M followers, 189.9K engagements

"Are you sure the next election wont be til 2029 And whenever it comes what makes you think Starmer will still be there"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T12:09Z 1.2M followers, 87.7K engagements

"Not really. The scale of the collapse in support for Labour/Starmer after a landslide only XX months ago is unprecedented. So who knows what might happen"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T14:46Z 1.2M followers, 88.8K engagements

"Grocery prices are not rising as fast as they did after the pandemic/Ukraine invasion and that is true in all major economies. But theyre not way down. As measured by the US CPI food for home index grocery prices are up XXX% year on year"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T04:35Z 1.2M followers, 102.6K engagements

"I should have added that beef prices are more than a little problem. Theyre up XX% year on year"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T04:52Z 1.2M followers, 58.9K engagements

"Ed Davey and other politicians distorting the truth need to read this and apologise"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-30T08:53Z 1.2M followers, 90.9K engagements

"UK GDP declined XXX% in May after XXX% decline in April. Looks like Q2 will show decline overall. So perhaps ministers can now stop spouting nonsense about being the fastest growing economy in the G7. As some of us have pointed out it was always going to look a forlorn boast with a very short life. Its clear growth in Q1 boosted by activity being brought forward for which were paying the price in Q2. Overall GDP is broadly flatlining at below the OBR's forecasts which means trouble for government revenues (which are based on OBR forecasts). And GDP per capita on which so much of the"
X Link @afneil 2025-07-11T06:43Z 1.2M followers, 365.7K engagements

"It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldnt afford 1.5billion for pensioners winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating 7billion to resettle Afghans"
X Link @afneil 2025-07-17T07:13Z 1.2M followers, 584K engagements

"Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020) which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came. The PM is either ignorant of the facts or knowingly lying. Neither is a good look. The Dublin Convention was a two-way street for asylum seekers. Yes we could try to return them. But others could also be returned to us. As a result the Dublin Agreement actually made us a net recipient of asylum seekers. Take 2018. We made 5500 requests for asylum seekers to be returned. Only 209"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-01T08:37Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements

"Re Redbirds never-ending efforts to take control of The Telegraph the case for the Government to issue a Foreign State Intervention Notice under section 70A of the Enterprise Act 2002 is overwhelming. It would compel the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate fully whether the proposed takeover would allow a foreign power in this case the Peoples Republic of China to control or influence the editorial policy of The Telegraph. Redbird is very cosy with Beijing"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-22T01:00Z 1.2M followers, 62K engagements

"The Daily Telegraph is still in limbo two and a half years after it was forced into receivership through no fault of its own because the useless shower at Redbird Capital (US private equity with zero track record in UK papers) cant work out how to clinch the deal. And now they could face a national security investigation into their China links. They are unfit to own/run a newspaper"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-17T03:40Z 1.2M followers, 120.4K engagements

"This is deranged. Despite tens of billions invested in solar and wind there are only about 40000 jobs in both sectors combined. Given the subsidies involved each one at a cost of over 200000 which is unsustainable. The result is the most expensive industrial electricity costs in the world which has destroyed far more jobs than expensive renewables have created. The claim that theres a cornucopia of big salaried green jobs is a myth of the net zero zealots"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-19T09:52Z 1.2M followers, 915.2K engagements

"And how many jobs will you destroy in the process In the past decade as the push to renewables gained steam and UK industrial energy costs rose to become the highest in the world we lost around 140000 direct and indirect well-paid jobs in manufacturing. How many more will we lose with your energy policies in the next decade"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-19T23:44Z 1.2M followers, 151.9K engagements

"A worrying mega poll about France in Le Monde today: XX% dont think democracy is working for them XX% think most politicians are corrupt XX% think their living standards are getting worse. XX% have trouble making ends meet XX% think France needs a real leader to restore order. XX% say they dont feel at home any more. These are troubling findings for French democracy. You wonder what a similar poll would find in Blighty"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-21T08:34Z 1.2M followers, 982.8K engagements

"Its like a scene from a farce: Home Office sources have confirmed that one person sent to France under the UK-France treaty which allows people who cross the Channel to Britain in small boats to be sent back in exchange for bringing the same number in France to the UK via a legal route is now back in the UK. He returned by a small boat"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-22T12:04Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements

"Update on that drive to net zero: New research shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration last year saw the largest one-year increase since records began in 1957. Levels in 2024 hit XXXXX parts per million (ppm) or an increase of XXX ppm from 2023 and XXX% of the pre-industrial level according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This compares with an annual average rise of XXX ppm to XXX ppm a year in the decade from 2011 to 2020"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-24T05:57Z 1.2M followers, 119.4K engagements

"Some days out here Im busy other days I have a bit more time to keep abreast of dear old Blighty. If you think an inflation rate stuck at twice target is good then I have a bridge to sell you. And borrowing costs have not collapsed. Theyve slipped by a modest amount. Nothing to do with the UK government. Its a global trend and perhaps short-lived. If you think thats a collapse I have another bridge to sell you. Why dont we reconvene after the Budget"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-24T11:17Z 1.2M followers, 68.3K engagements

"So much for Labours promise to be ruthless in the pursuit of growth. Mad Ed Milibands tender process for the UKs planned new fleet of nuclear reactors has descended into farce with bidders required to show a higher-than-usual commitment to social value. Companies were asked how they would create jobs for those who face barriers to employment which included refugees people who have recently immigrated or are seeking asylum. The tender said businesses that applied should outline plans to ensure XX per cent of those working on the contract were women"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-24T16:35Z 1.2M followers, 295.9K engagements

"US trade experts think theres an XX% chance that early next month the Supreme Court will rule against President Trumps use of emergency powers to levy tariffs"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-25T00:30Z 1.2M followers, 53.1K engagements

"No idea Swing King what TNI is. Even less of an idea why if you dont care you follow Bot malfunction"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-27T21:45Z 1.2M followers, 54.6K engagements

"It did catch the audiences attention when I reached this bit in my lecture"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T06:29Z 1.2M followers, 88.4K engagements

"Andrew Neil: The twlight of the centre-right. An edited version of my Brisbane Lecture"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T16:03Z 1.2M followers, 31.4K engagements

"The recent fall in yields is part of a global trend which will likely prove short-lived and nothing to do with the government. The current yield is only a little lower than the peak hit during the ClusterTruss (and was recently above it) so we clearly have a different view of what constitutes good news"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T16:13Z 1.2M followers, 76.6K engagements

"Just about every report coming out of Gaza strongly indicates that the ceasefire is crumbling. So what does President Trump do now"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-28T16:30Z 1.2M followers, 65.3K engagements

"Housebuilders have made clear to the Office for Budget Responsibility what Ive maintained for some time now: there is no chance the Labour government will hit its target of 1.5m new homes by 2030. Yet another blow for whats left of Rachel Reeves economic policy. Her growth plans were predicated on a house building boom which wont happen. So her fiscal black hole just got deeper. The OBR is already assuming only 1.3m homes will be built by end-decade. Now even that looks optimistic. Which suggests another down grade to growth forecasts"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T02:35Z 1.2M followers, 94.7K engagements

"As the Chancellors black hole deepens almost by the week from 20bn to 30bn to 40bn+ its hard to see how she can fill without resorting to increasing income tax thereby breaking yet another manifesto commitment. A 2p rise in all income tax rates would raise an extra 20bn/year. Even that wouldnt be enough. So other taxes will rise too"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T09:50Z 1.2M followers, 312.3K engagements

"Reform now regularly 30%+ Labour struggles to stay above XX% Tories wallow in the teens and Greens/Lib Dems juke it out for fourth place. Most polls being going this way throughout 2025"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T11:33Z 1.2M followers, 142.6K engagements

"Looks like were heading for a global oil glut. Saudis upping production to win back market share. Global demand slowing while global production increasing. Brent crude could be heading towards $XX sometimes next year. Nightmare for Putin with fossil fuel revenues for the Kremlin already down sharply and Trumps new oil sanctions about to bite. So hell struggle to finance a war of attrition in Ukraine"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T12:26Z 1.2M followers, 218.3K engagements

"The business news on @BBCr4today Today programme this morning had a long item on AI in the run up to the XXXX news headlines discussing if AI companies should serve the cause of mankind or make a profit. Of course it never dawned on them that one was not necessarily in conflict with the other. That you could do both. And this was the BBCs business staff Speaks volumes for the group think mindset"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T12:43Z 1.2M followers, 61.6K engagements

"A scandal that is largely ignored is how much natural gas the EU continues to buy from Russia. Before the invasion XX% of EU gas imports were from Russia. Its still 15-20%. Russian gas by pipeline has fallen since the invasion tho 3bn worth has still come in via TurkStream so far this year. Incredibly LNG imports from Russia have actually INCREASED recently hitting record levels and accounting for XX% of EU LNG imports. Indeed the EU imported more Russian LNG in 2024 than it did in 2022. Its landed in Belgium France Spain Holland. This year the EU has so far imported 5bn worth of Russian LNG."
X Link @afneil 2025-10-29T13:16Z 1.2M followers, 101.2K engagements

"Your tenuous grasp of the stats shows you have no grounds for calling anybody wrong. The Dublin Convention was only ever applied to a fraction of asylum seekers. The stats in the table are nothing like the full number"
X Link @afneil 2025-10-30T10:25Z 1.2M followers, 39.8K engagements