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@mr_james_c
"As with institutions like the UN the primary function of the ECHR is to shame politicians into acting one way or the other. This is why ideologues love to use that influence to control politics in liberal democracy and why autocrats love to exploit these institutions so ruthlessly"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:55Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Your reminder that most media lies are not 'lies of commission' (ie. They don't tell obvious lies) Instead they are 'lies of omission' where important truths are left out of the story. The BBC consistently engages in these lies"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:55Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Every generation needs to relearn how bad things were before privatisation"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T21:39Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@realBobbyHealy 👀👀👀"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T11:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"My health is precious to me. I can assure you that a "healthcare system" that fails at its basic function is NOT precious"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@isnit0 Yeah the problem with applying "phobia" in this case is that the word denotes an irrational fear. which really is not the case huh"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T21:14Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@whippletom Because most of the costs of UK electricity are hidden in things like renewables subsidies and infrastructure spending. People like Miliband drone on about LCOE but it's a completely inappropriate measurement because it doesn't capture all the costs"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:01Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The "All eyes on Gaza" people are really quiet now. It's almost as if there's a different standard for Israel. I wonder why"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T06:42Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"This is slop. Nothing more. We are entering the creative world governed by Clark's Law:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T20:48Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@lhfang No it's because it's not the Left's vision for this stuff which is all about state control rather than growth and enterprise"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:41Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Of course i know WHY we don't do this and it's absurd: We care less about tax revenues and more about confiscation of wealth. It's so self-defeating"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:01Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox Part of me wonders whether all that US kit was left in Afghanistan hoping for precisely this outcome"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:25Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"🎯 I'm not a huge fan of the politics of Novara folks but they are more open to politicians with a different approach (which Trump has). They tend to be pretty high-agency people. The FBPE-types however are virtually zero-agency. They are addicted to the belief that there's an expert class that should run everything despite the frequency that experts fail. FBPE are terrified of admitting this because it would force them to take responsibility for their own lives"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T09:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Dear the Left how does your "Oppressor vs Oppressed" worldview apply here I may not be an expert but this looks like Hamas is being an Oppressor. So you'll be marching in London on Saturday to raise awareness for ordinary Palestinians right Right"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T07:45Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
""Returned to the state". Returned It never belonged to the state you clown"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:52Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@tomhfh Trump is a superb comic. Totally missed by everyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T08:48Z 11.7K followers, 2174 engagements
"@G0ADM Similar thoughts:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:36Z 11.7K followers, 5291 engagements
"The disconnect between the people of this country and the cultural establishment is ENORMOUS at this point"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:08Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"It's also AMAZING how much Palestinians were able to grift from sympathetic global audiences: Step 1: Invade Israel Step 2: Lose war Step 3: Profit"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T09:19Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@v_j_freeman @wallaceme 🎯"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T19:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I've developed what I think is the simplest possible explanation of UK government:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:19Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"It is a much freer market. A large part of the UK's problem is that all sorts of costs have been piled onto consumers that are the result of policy decisions around the energy mix. Energy policy has been captured as a tool of climate policy (rather than its essential job of supplying energy) and everything is downstream of that"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:49Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Re-upping this to make a point that anyone who thinks Labour has accidentally applied rent controls in its draft legislation is kidding themselves. This Labour government refuses to engage with markets because as Socialists they are ideologically opposed to markets"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T12:03Z 11.7K followers, 2833 engagements
"@lulumeservey She basically did this. Hilarious"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-08T05:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@KathrynPorter26 @DaleVince It's also based on that very very communist assumption that any money the government doesn't tax from you is a "subsidy". ie. It assumes ALL belongs to the government"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T14:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"And they pay the majority of income tax. You're welcome"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Destroying prime farm land to build a solar farm in one of the least solar-suitable countries in the world. Yep the climate cult strikes again"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Not just the government but the UK's cultural and educational establishments"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:51Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Westminster is a bubble in the worst possible way. The media the spads the think tankers the politicians fight and fuck and spend all their time in each other's company with virtually no exposure to the outside world. It's a court in the medieval kind of way and our politics is all court intrigue"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:12Z 11.7K followers, 6432 engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox @Mujakura The amount of people who abdicate responsibility for thinking about this because: - "A doctor said it." - "An NGO said it." - "The UN said it." Is precisely why Hamas has completely infiltrated these groups"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:40Z 11.7K followers, 2580 engagements
"Not only this but the very northerly latitude of the UK means that the sunlight we do get is less effective for solar energy production"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Because of course the whole "colonialism" discourse is pure bullshit that's a cynical play by countries like Mauritius because they know idiots in the UK will fall for it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:36Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I guess we should thank her for systematically discrediting every Woke policy assumption by simply funding them"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T16:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I propose the "Single Lock" that aligns incentives: Pensions increase (or decrease) in line with the growth rate of GDP per capita"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wallaceme Overhead luggage storage"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:39Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The response to this will be (of course) "Ah but it's not rent control it's just judicial oversight of pricing.""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T14:40Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"None of this would matter if this kind of student politics behaviour was isolated and inconsequential unfortunately it exists at the highest levels of global government. I can't imagine how pissed off and frustrated it must be to be Israeli or Jewish more widely. The injustice is just so galling"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:31Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"A reminder: Every accusation by these people is a confession"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@MaxAbrahms Hamas was never going to disarm itself. The key question is whether they will be held responsible by the likes of Turkey Qatar and Saudi for what happens next or whether (as always) Israel will be blamed"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T17:19Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"What's truly impressive about this paid ad from @anduriltech is that it's a paid ad with 23K likes. Typically paid ads on X garner a few dozen Likes at best. Congrats @JeffMillerTime and team"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:10Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Which way university students"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T10:08Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Apparently it wasn't like being left handed and was indeed a social contagion"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T16:02Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@maxtempers Here's one from yesterday about that clip featuring the energy company bosses:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:20Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Nuzum_Nterprise @seeds_we_sow @JuliaHB1 Lol what on earth are you talking about The anti-Israel crowd (aka Terrorist sympathisers) have been able to control London's streets every Saturday for the last X years"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Go Woke go broke"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@maxtempers Also this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:16Z 11.7K followers, 1971 engagements
"@CoopieBastards @howes_mike @tomhfh By definition cartels are not a capitalist creation because there is explicitly no competition. The lack of competition and coordinated selling is what defines a cartel"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:13Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@whippletom @EnergyGeek2 @Will_Quant 👇It's because we chose wind and closed coal"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:36Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Literally this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-11T06:12Z 11.7K followers, 4949 engagements
"Opening your news apps each day in the UK"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Team America utterly skewered the humanitarian pretentions of self-important actors who believe we can solve the world's problems if we just had some more actors doing acting"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-07T07:37Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@tomhfh They don't tend to exhibit signs of TDS. They're just usually pissed that Trump's charisma makes him more popular than their preferred politicians"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T09:14Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Either he's stupid enough to believe what he's saying or he thinks voters are. Not great options"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T10:02Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Serious question: Has the UK ever considered a flat tax regime I did some noodling on ChatGPT and by abolishing the personal allowance a flat tax rate of XX% would see a moderate increase in tax revenues. I'm guessing you'd also see a big increase in compliance because it's simpler"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:52Z 11.7K followers, 1127 engagements
"It's essential to get an outsider who will not be swayed by the biases of the system that allowed this to happen in the first place"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T15:25Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@TushSapa Classic democratic socialist play TBH - if the people disagree with you just remove their democratic rights"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:24Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"The problem with telling people it's impossible for them to be racist is that they'll believe you"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T17:40Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@tomhfh UK's XX year economic malaise occurred because the markets have been steadily removed from public life. In every are prices are being manipulated and subsidies are distorting behaviour. It has massively accelerated under Labour:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:47Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@hayesy316 Exactly"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:09Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"That plus: infiltrating message boards (as the Dutch police did) and acting on threats of violence. The only way to stop this stuff is to actually prosecute people under powers the police already possess. Enough of this "community relations" bullshit and start prosecuting people"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:44Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@garyb_pro @G0ADM I spent a few years doing policy about a decade ago and it was bad back then. I imagine it's way worse now"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Amazing what the police can discover when they actually you know investigate crimes"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:44Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@v_j_freeman Unfortunately it very much is Britain"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:03Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"We hear a lot about "fair share" when it comes to taxes. The thing is that there's nothing fair to individuals about progressive tax systems - they punish success. The ONLY fair tax systems are flat tax systems - there are no disincentives to grow wealth"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Amongst all the incredibly dismaying and disturbing things that this letter represents it's the "Barrister" and "MP" parts of his title that are the worst"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T21:10Z 11.7K followers, 1277 engagements
"Incidentally if you did this and set a flat tax at XX% you'd see an increase in revenues on the order of 250bn. In any case the UK competes globally for talent and setting low levels of flat taxes would effectively drain competitor nations in Europe of talent. Why aren't we doing this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:55Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@G0ADM One of the reasons UK politics has become so dire over the last few decades is driven by this. The impact on the country is less important than the battle for influence in the Westminster court"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"This. They should be called Subsidised Homes"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Keir_Starmer @DavidPintoD You're tolerating Antisemitism in your own party. You and your whole party are a disgrace and shame the whole country:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:53Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@KathrynPorter26 @tomhfh China's CO2 emissions grow each year by more than the UK's total emissions"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T17:38Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"It's a bold strategy to recommend that the UK become even more like European social democracies at the very point when European social democracies are bordering on economic and social collapse"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@cjsnowdon I will never not be amazed how she became a public figure"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Labour: You wish us to bring down prices"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:05Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Yes but "Zios" is not the same as "Zionists" is it Zios is even more explicitly targeted at Jews. Anyone who says it knows exactly what they mean when they say it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:13Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@DanNeidle As far as i can tell their argument is "we need to tax the wealth of everyone richer than us""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"This. It's not a 'nice to have' it's about survival at this point"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T09:29Z 11.7K followers, 1605 engagements
"@tomhfh So does Putin"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T09:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Handy reminder that the "Democratic" part of Democratic Socialism is just a fig leaf. If the people don't agree with your policies they must be wrong so just ignore the 'democracy' bit"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@tomhfh Apparently the only area that's seeing jobs growth at the moment is camera operators who can comfortably walk backwards"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Ok ok if we're going to do this civil servant exchange stuff with China at least make it work for us. Let's send over civil servants to indoctrinate them into Woke ideology teach them how to draft disastrous legislation like the Equality Act and productivity destroying work practices"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:08Z 11.7K followers, 6409 engagements
"Here you go @Keir_Starmer if you want to do something to protect Jews in this country you can start with your own party"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@CamillaTominey We know the truth about this government's relationship by the fact it's even on the table"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T12:56Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Not really. Currently everyone earning more than the personal allowance is paying XX% or more. The big thing that reduces revenues is the personal allowance. Why does it exist You could offset it by means testing low income earners or whatever else. A flat rate is a way better system. It's also fairer"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:11Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
""Mr Williams repeated the chant several times using the word Zio as an abbreviation of Zionists with several others around him joining in." Ah yes but it's more than just an abbreviation for "Zionists" isn't it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:08Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@shaunmmaguire What an amazing company"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T15:58Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@peterrhague There's a dark humour to the fact that even as the stupid kid destroys his future he can't help himself but mention that he goes to Oxford"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T14:06Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Oh look another example of the trade-offs that are ignored when policymakers want to feel good about themselves"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@micsolana Good luck expecting intellectual consistency from those idiots"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T15:20Z 11.7K followers, 1709 engagements
"@rodolfor Which is why the ruling class hates markets"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T14:06Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"There's something disturbingly pathetic about the framing here. Government is utterly destroying affordability in the energy market yet the committee member assumes it's up to the energy companies to fix the problem. UK government is disaster at the moment"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T10:10Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@eigenrobot Isn't that Crazy Rich Asians"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:24Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@peterrhague I'm guessing the gyrations of the flip are pretty stomach churning as well"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T06:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@tomhfh I'm not sure why the UK doesn't allow privately developed toll ways like Europe. They work so much better"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T09:29Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@rorysutherland Yep"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T11:39Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@MaxAbrahms No protests when it's anyone except Israel involved. I wonder why"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:29Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@whippletom @ajwillshire @EnergyGeek2 @Will_Quant Feels like we need @KathrynPorter26 in this conversation"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T10:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@CPhilpOfficial 👇"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:24Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Europe is basically a museum of its own era of growth. The things that Europeans love about Europe - the culture the enlightenment the philosophy the art the architecture - all of it is a relic of a time when Europe dominated the world. That Europeans don't realise this irony is tragic"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:56Z 11.7K followers, 1098 engagements
"Male hostages were returned alive so we'll hear about starvation and torture. No living female hostages will return to tell us about rape and abuse"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@peterrhague Sorry dude the UK is doing its best to outdo Mamdani"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:22Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@isnit0 make an announcement about infrastructure funding nothing happens nothing happens remind people of announcement nothing happens why is politics so hard"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T21:31Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Doomscrolling (adj.): The act of reading daily updates of life in the UK in. 2025"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T17:42Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Hamas just rugged the entire Free Palestine useful idiot movement. Because of course they would"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-11T23:30Z 11.7K followers, 4186 engagements
"I'm sure they'll still find a way to blame Israel for this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T07:08Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wolfejosh @Amirmizroch @amasad Hamas does this because they know that Useful Idiots like Amjad will post shit like this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:01Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Many such cases. These activists wear the skins of their organisational reputations to camouflage their personal ideology. The UN is particularly predisposed to such stunts"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T11:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@G0ADM Careful what you wish for:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T14:13Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@alicemodigliani @Lyndagee49 @euanmccolm True. I'm being unfair to people working in coffee shops"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:00Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Every single thing in this post is a lie. This guy is hilarious he's convinced he's a revolutionary but he'll be lined up against the wall like everyone else"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The UK is so utterly fucked at this point"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T05:53Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"And a classic example of how Brutalist buildings age terrible. Not only is the overall aesthetic like something out of 1984 even on a bright sunny day the degradation of the concrete looks awful"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"So much of the stuff about renewables is just vibes - a grid built to make people feel good. The grid should supply electricity not your self-actualisation. The consequence is all sorts of weaknesses and complication are baked into the system"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T08:34Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@isnit0 Careful Joe that sounds pretty you-know-what-phobic doesn't it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T21:08Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"If you live in the UK "Doomscrolling" is just reading the news each day. Just today: - Chinese are spying on the UK with the collusion of the PM and Treasury - Legislation that would create price controls on rentals - Climate policies destroying energy affordability - Jewish fans blocked by police from attending a football match because they may be attacked Muslim MP celebrates his successful lobbying for this outcome. JUST FROM TODAY"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T21:36Z 11.7K followers, 16.3K engagements
"@Katie_Lam_MP Of all the terrible things this letter represents probably the most depressing bit is the "Barrister" and "MP" in his title"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:58Z 11.7K followers, 1847 engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox "I am terrible at my job so please ignore that and focus on my backstory.""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T10:39Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@joshxhowie @oxfamgb Palestinianism is a graveyard of reputations"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:05Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Hey here's another way to avoid more expensive borrowing - STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T16:44Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Free website idea:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The media and institutions that slavishly repeated Hamas propaganda for the last X years are currently having their reputations shredded even further. They should be utterly humiliated by what's happening in Gaza at the moment but instead they're trying to ignore it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@thomasforth It's not the visiting fans that are the problem here is it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:31Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"It's remarkable how stupid Ofcom has proven itself to be. The government has empowered these idiots and they're demonstrating exactly why petty bureaucrats shouldn't be offered a sniff of power"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:16Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@rohanpaul_ai @JimPethokoukis It's slop pure slop. Welcome to Clark's Law:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T20:45Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@admcollingwood Your point is still valid"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T14:36Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Hmmm. this sounds pretty "colonial" to me"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:34Z 11.7K followers, 1159 engagements
"@JeffMillerTime @PalmerLuckey 👏👏👏 The velocity of product development at Anduril is insane"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T13:54Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wallaceme It's less about getting on and more about getting off"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Unions act like monopolies so it shouldn't be a surprise that competition improves the situation"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:13Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"*Subsidised housing"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T10:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Maybe try posting about this stuff when you've actually done it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T07:14Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
""The consensus of the evidence we've received" is totally wrong. So who is providing this evidence"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T10:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@KonstantinKisin Also this:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T10:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I will never understand how Carole Cadwalldr was ever seen as a credible journalist. Even the stories that made her famous were based on bullshit"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T16:27Z 11.7K followers, 1187 engagements
"Disgraceful. Utterly disgraceful"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T17:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wallaceme Overhead luggage again. If it get into the aisle you save time getting off"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:40Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@thomasforth It's not a suspicion it is actually the case"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:37Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@treesey Ahh yes the "I'm definitely not antisemitic" Jeremy Corbyn"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:54Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"The Palestinians have demonstrated time and again for 60+ years that given the option between peaceful coexistence and killing Jews the latter is more important to them. In this they have been aided by the UN NGOs and the world media"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:16Z 11.7K followers, 1271 engagements
"@ClaireCoutinho Also Pippa fails to note this qualifying point that's quoted in the article. She's just publishing rage-bait"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-07T08:51Z 11.7K followers, 14.9K engagements
"@rcolvile @Shelter @natfednews An under appreciated aspect of the mess in the UK is that after Brown lost the election all sorts of Labour activists left government and found themselves jobs in the quangocracy and NGOs that Blair had created. They have been the power in the UK for the last XX years"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:53Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Tikhturov It's complex but not crazy complex like the US. The main problem is that the way it's structured is that it incentivises people to stay on welfare and disincentivises to earn high wages. We basically trap people at middle income levels"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Is there a reason these moronic policies don't get interrogated by the UK mainstream media anymore I have no problem with politicians demonstrating their idiocy but the job of the media is to interrogate them not to just given them an audience"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wesyang 👇"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T17:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"It's interesting to me that the type of people who insisted the Soviets didn't create the Holodomor are the types of people now who insist Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Facts are to be ignored they simply assert based on their ideology"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T12:59Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"This is the fundamental mindset of socialists - they believe everything is the gift of the state. Every X you earn belongs to the state and it's only the generosity of the state they don't take all of it. It's a cancerous mentality"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Alongside everything else Palestinianism has utterly destroyed the reputations of institutions and individuals alike. It is very easy to understand how the Nazis perpetrated the Holocaust with the popular of the German people. Like this idiot here it's just easier to go with the crowd"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-13T08:59Z 11.7K followers, 1073 engagements
"If the UK actually had a functioning media capable of interrogating these failed policies rather than just parroting them the Greens would be toast. Unfortunately the UK doesn't have that anymore"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:06Z 11.7K followers, 1000 engagements
"@G0ADM This is completely wrong. Different East Asian cultures are enormously different. Japan is incredibly high trust whereas China is incredibly low trust (which is why it has needed a social credit scoring system). Hong Kong is different to Mainland China. All very very different"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T14:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Oh FFS 🤦🏼♂"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T15:17Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@JenniferSey Hilarious lack of self awareness"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:58Z 11.7K followers, 1069 engagements
"@Daedalus6 @cjsnowdon You missed "Leftwing". The UK media would never give her a profile if she was Rightwing"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T08:33Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"She's all of us"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T06:48Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Wow. This essay is pretty mind-blowing"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
""They are reinventing themselves are policemen" No they're acting like the gangsters they have always been"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T08:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Wonkypolicywonk @CommonsWEC It amazes me how these activists are able to effectively wear the hollowed out skins of their organisation's reputation to push their own ideology. And yet there's never a negative impact to the organisation. The same thing happens with the UN"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"If this idiot was a neo-Nazi he would have been shut down years ago. But the equivalent ideology on the Left is indulged. The Left needs to take responsibility for the monsters it has created"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:31Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox Posts by two of Keir's own MPs that celebrate the decision might be a good place to start:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:30Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox @Mujakura And yet these organisations somehow retain their good reputations despite activists continually despoiling them"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:51Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@AdamSykesWirral Re X. - yeah there's this "rich people hoard money" thing which is SO TOTALLY WRONG"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T13:43Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@ClaireCoutinho"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T22:12Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"God the FT continues to beclown itself"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:02Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Dunetsk The pipeline for these breaches happens early. as with the Cold War:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:08Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@lulumeservey It's basically the same boilerplate you get when you are stuck on hold making a call"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T15:11Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Yes they're a depraved culture but their enablers in the West are even worse"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:30Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@matthewclifford @jackwiseman_ They make the mistake of believing (hoping) that if AI fails their jobs are safe"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T10:30Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Dunetsk @KTmBoyle I discuss this in here"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:09Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@sussexbythesea4 Finland only has a population of 5.5m people. Tiny. The UK could make this work. if it wanted to"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T13:08Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@owainkenway It's also downstream of everyone capitulating on GDPR. It was a lousy piece of legislation that should have been ripped apart by the media and national policymakers but because everyone had decided that tech was the bad guy post 2016 it was waved through"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T10:48Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@seeds_we_sow @JuliaHB1 If this was neo-Nazi stuff it would have been shut down years ago. But instead the ideological equivalent on the Left is indulged. So of course it will ratchet further to extremes"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:30Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@WalkerMarcus I wouldn't put anything past this government"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T10:01Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"I've recently started my own consultancy. Having done so I've learned it's incredible the amount of time and effort from small businesses not to: a) breach the 90k VAT threshold and b) not to break the 100k annual income point I shudder to think of the amount of lost productivity and wealth caused by these two tax limits"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-09T09:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"I'm sure this will be covered in the media. Certain of it"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T09:13Z 11.7K followers, 1104 engagements
"@eddiedeanNYC3 @GnasherJew 👇Society indulges this stuff:"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:34Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Missing from this discussion of the tech stack is automation. How many automakers - ICE or EV - can offer automation. That's where this plays out next"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:16Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@wallaceme Sometimes it's not. People put huge effort into not having to check their luggage"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T18:43Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@antoniogm @garrytan This is very similar to what I call "Clark's Law". Basically: as the cost of execution drops to nearly zero the value of unique ideas approaches infinity. Yes I named it after myself"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-06T07:07Z 11.7K followers, 1109 engagements
"Two thoughts: X. "Fake outrage". Fake Are you fucking kidding X. "Get things done". The Chagos deal was appallingly bad for the UK and kept getting worse each round"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T16:38Z 11.7K followers, 1375 engagements
"It would be helpful if Hamas was put under the same scrutiny by the media etc as Israel receives. Never seems to happen. I wonder why"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T06:49Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@GoodwinMJ Another day in Britain"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:22Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@maxtempers And this"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T11:17Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@philbaggers Unfortunately because we have stupid politicians and activists instead of journalists these obviously failing policies don't get interrogated"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:07Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Yet another piece of disastrously bad legislation with entirely predictable outcomes that future legislators will lack the will to fix because it might upset a constituency"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T07:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"When will they learn that this fuckwittery always has the opposite effect from what they intend"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T07:11Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"The level of ignorance of basic economics displayed by the current generation of UK politicians is staggering. This person was the former leader of a party that currently has at least the opportunity form a coalition to gain power"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T15:43Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"There's a few aspects to this: - it's easier to justify paying tax when you believe taxes are spent wisely. In the UK this is absolutely not the case. - it's also easier to make a virtue of paying tax when high earners are offered some kind of gratitude for the taxes they pay. This is absolutely not the case in the UK where high earners are treated as something between a cash cow and a pariah. All in all the UK has a toxic relationship with wealth. If you're an earner why would you contribute to a place that resents you"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-08T04:52Z 11.7K followers, 108.8K engagements
"@antoniogm Arguably the West has not had this since WW2. There's a reason they're known as the Greatest Generation"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T13:40Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@Mr_Andrew_Fox Oh that's weird"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T08:27Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Britain if the police changed their name back to "Police Force""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-17T09:45Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@GnasherJew This idiot has ruined his life entirely as a result of his own actions. No doubt he'll respond to this by. blaming the Jews. as every antisemite in history has done"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:19Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@LSUSUPPO @KTmBoyle Morally bankrupt certainly"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T18:31Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@CoopieBastards @howes_mike @tomhfh Price gouging if it does exist is only temporary because capitalism creates incentives and mechanisms for competing on price. The only time this fails is when a monopoly exists and this is usually a creation of government"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T14:10Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"The only chart that matters is this one. There's lots of unnecessary burdens on London issuers but if you fix the problem described in this chart everything will fix itself"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-02T02:20Z 11.7K followers, 45.3K engagements
"@KTmBoyle Academics engage with the world in the way they wish it was. Business people are forced to engage with the world as it is. The difference in mindset is essential"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T12:18Z 11.7K followers, 2146 engagements
"@nicolelampert @DouglasCarswell Exactly and "Zios" isn't short for Zionists. It is explicitly used because they know they're not allowed to say "Jews""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:46Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
""Grid scale" batteries that last a few hours at best. If you want something that's actually practical in the UK (weeks rather than hours) you're looking at TRILLIONS of spending. Just build nuclear FFS"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T07:09Z 11.7K followers, 1824 engagements
"@tomhfh I admire your spirit Tom but like Socialism these people are impervious to empirical facts. There's even more years of evidence to dispel Malthusianism than Marxism and yet it persists"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T08:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@WholeMarsBlog You want to check out @MannaAero They've been doing this with drones for years"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T17:32Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"I've long had a theory I call "The Ed Miliband Theory of Everything". In essence it's that somehow on everything from the UK's climate strategy to the failure to act on Syria a decade ago to Brexit to the Leftward lurch of the Tories from May onwards Miliband influence is obvious"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:12Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"This is XXX% spot on. The "Narrative" of the Europe for the last XX years has been the growing power of self-important bureaucracy in Brussels. The bureaucrats convinced themselves they were the essential element - because of course they did. A Bureaucratic Aristocracy. All the while they were dragging Europe into decline"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-14T08:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@CoopieBastards @howes_mike @tomhfh Apparently your definition of Capitalism somewhat wrong. You might want to think about that"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:14Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"@t_fraser_ I can virtually guarantee that Ed isn't in this for the money - he's a zealot and totally driven by ideology. Of course the people around him probably aren't. There's lots of money to be made exploiting zealots"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T12:30Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements
"Refusal to pay the TV Licence should be a form of conscientious objection"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T06:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements
"@euanmccolm I have a prediction for young Samuel's future career: "Samuel Samuel make us proud bring us another coffee round.""
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-15T11:14Z 11.7K followers, 1524 engagements
"@MsMelChen Sadly they never will. They will never figure out the moral bankruptcy of their beliefs because of their total belief in their own righteousness. "Are we the baddies" will NEVER occur them. This depresses me so much"
X Link @mr_james_c 2025-10-16T16:07Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements