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"Theresa Mays [----] reforms slashed UK stop & search by 70-75% (from over 1M in 2010/11 to lows around 240-280K by 2017/18). This may have made the Tories feel liberal and eased their passage to fashionable north London dinner 🍲 parties but query did it protect the vulnerable who are the man victims of violent crime Sweden defied liberal outrage rolled out no-suspicion safety zones & halved shootings (63% drop from [----] peak to 2025). What is best - the appearance of virtue or taking tough decisions that lead to virtuous outcomes I know my answer on that one. A more disciplined society where"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I am enjoying the @bbc #lordoftheflies save the bizarre casting which injects the usual BBC preoccupations - Ralph the decent leader is black Jack the nasty bullying choirboy is of course blond and posh Piggy - the conscience and intelligent one is Scottish. The series didnt need these additional nods to identity politics - black good / white bad - Celtic the acceptable face of whiteness"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"This is interesting for those who have a subscription. The last line is quite funny. Or as one Westminster wit puts it: We have nothing to fear but Keir himself. https://spectator.com/article/authority-is-like-virginity-once-its-gone-its-gone-inside-keir-starmers-downfall/ https://spectator.com/article/authority-is-like-virginity-once-its-gone-its-gone-inside-keir-starmers-downfall/"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When Boris stood next to some office colleagues and a cake for [--] minutes before in his own office/ home and Downing Street issued a statement to this effect there was wall to wall coverage for the best parts of two years from the media of what was frankly a non-event - here we have the extra extraordinary case of corruption at the highest level in Scotland and zero coverage - does Scotland not have a free press So the Mrs has just turned up in a brand new 150k motor home with some gold sovereigns. She reckons a brand new Merc is being delivered tomorrow We havent got that sort of money in"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"has a self image of being one of historys good guys fighting against nasty imperial oppression. The self image may not accord with reality - it was the British who wanted to stop westward expansion to honour treaties with allies. After the Seven Years War the Proclamation of [----] restricted colonial expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains to honor alliances and treaties with Native American tribes who had supported Britain against France. This was a major grievance for American colonists who saw it as blocking their Manifest Destiny to expand across the continentan ideology that later"
X Link 2026-01-18T11:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The picture of Mandelson in his bathroom immediately brought me to think of an episode of Frasier that sums up Mandelsons fate. The two Frasier boys - always desperate to fit in and go to the right parties and clubs finally think they have made it. They get themselves into a wonderful private members club and slip into a bathrobe to have a relaxing body scrub- thats it they have made it. Its not enough. They cant relax. There must be something more. They convince themselves there is another section even more exclusive than the room they are in. They find another door - push through only to"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It was obvious that Starmer was on the edge today would his going Improve the UK Lead to chaos Wont matter Improve the UK Lead to chaos Wont matter"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"If this was the prime minister it would be a major scandal and the press would be all over it with a key question how on earth could the first minister of Scotland claim to be ignorant of where all the money is coming from Why is it that because its happening in Scotland Its just a bit amusing. Boris was brought down because he ate a cake in his own house - why the double Standard https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022626142700601831 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022626142700601831"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Impressive - ask any British politician about UK defence configuration and theyd be clueless - instead of the boring question which interviewers occasionally ask politicians - how much is the price of milk They should be asked how many major surface combatants does the Royal Navy have in service at the moment How many tanks How many artillery pieces Europe doesnt need America agree Finnish President Stubb on whether Finland can defend itself without the US: If you ask me Can the Finnish military defend itself against a Russian attack The whole defence posture and the way we do it yes we can."
X Link 2026-01-25T09:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@rcolvile I hear the bat / pangolin fried rice is very good"
X Link 2026-02-04T10:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"A navy without an airforce is a tragedy as we saw with the sinking of the Prince of Wales when it was sunk in the attempt at relieving Singapore/Malaya in [----] - there was no air cover. Building up a navy without air cover is a bad idea - but I get the point building a serious army is probably not the priority https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021222229942386710 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021222229942386710"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@almurray One thing this winter has taught us is the sheer uselessness of covering a huge area of the UK in solar panels when the sun doesnt shine here in winter"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I think youve already done this before a few times and good luck to you I look forward to it this is like one of those Labour policy launches where they announce for the 5th time that they are giving away three Weetabix for kids. No doubt youll be covering the Nancy Mitford novels in great detail https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021354391408664603 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021354391408664603"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@MerrynSW @AJ01701095 The Mauritius taxpayers"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When Boris stood next to some office colleagues and a cake for [--] minutes before n his own office/ home and Downing Street issued a statement to this effect there was wall to wall coverage for the best parts of two years from the media of what was frankly a non-event - here we have the extra extraordinary case of corruption at the highest level in Scotland and zero coverage - does Scotland not have a free press So the Mrs has just turned up in a brand new 150k motor home with some gold sovereigns. She reckons a brand new Merc is being delivered tomorrow We havent got that sort of money in our"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Theodore Roosevelt the 26th U.S. President famously said "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" This British PM with his one operational attack sub [--] archer artillery pieces and [--] operational destroyers takes the approach of talk loudly and carry a light twig. None of the big speeches make sense until we have some kit and a larger military - to do this we will need to take a meat cleaver to welfare. Its a tough thing to do politically and Labour are clearly not the party to do this. Until this changes expect a lot of pointless self aggrandising speeches."
X Link 2026-02-15T10:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There are [----] UK listed companies with a market cap of 4.6trn - the idea that there arent enough opportunities is just incorrect. The opportunity set is enormous when you consider many of these companies might include trusts and other vehicles which invest in hundreds of smaller companies. Whilst capital growth has been disappointing since the GFC This is beginning to turn around. Just look at the share price growth of UK banks for example in recent years. In addition many of these listed companies issue fantastic dividends. The idea that the likes of Rolls-Royce for example which increased"
X Link 2025-05-16T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Approximately 28.9% of the UKs total tax revenue in 2025/26 is spent on pensions and benefits including the State Pension Pension Credit Universal Credit disability benefits housing benefits and others. So Barclays is paying 400m + to pensioners and benefit holders. In reality its far more as Barclays employees approximately [-----] people who are average paid above average wage so thats probably something in the region of [---] million paid in tax. As trickle down goes thats pretty amazing. Once again on behalf the British people thank you @Barclays"
X Link 2025-07-31T08:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Love the stock market market jitters about US rural banks leads to very significant falls on AIM / FTSE which have absolutely [--] to do with US rural banks - the Dow Jones and NASDAQ open positively and stay positive. It makes zero sense"
X Link 2025-10-17T21:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"You are obviously living in a different universe to me - I bought Rolls-Royce a few years ago and its gone up [--] times I bought all the UK banks a few years ago and theyve close to doubled - I hold investment trusts with a track record of a rising dividend for [--] years which is doubled over a [--] year period whilst being fairly low risk - there are plenty of opportunities in the UK stock market"
X Link 2025-10-20T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The UK market has a great opportunity for people to find undervalued stocks but it also has great opportunities for income producing stocks too. A fund managers recent analysis suggests a higher likelihood of finding double and triple baggers (stocks that at least double or triple in value) in the UK market compared to the US. Jean Roches Schroder UK Mid Cap fund discussed this topic in recent interviews and articles. Her teams research covering [--] years of data (up to November [----] with a refresh noted in [----] publications) examined multi-bagger stocks. Out of [---] investable UK stocks"
X Link 2025-10-20T15:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Not sure if I understand do you reject the vct EIS and SEIS schemes which have a British component which have been fantastically successful Do you think that this move wouldnt drive additional investment into the UK Do not think there will be a lot more work for lawyers accountants and other consultants Would this not be useful for the hospitality industry as AGMs would need to take place in the UK There are a lot of upsides to this"
X Link 2025-10-21T08:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Wow - The highest paid [----] people - the 0.01pc - earn 2.3pc of all income paid but pay 5pc of all tax collected. This is more than the bottom 25pc of taxpayers (about 8m people) who earn 10pc of all salary paid but are asked for 3pc of the tax. Does the UK's best-paid 0.1% really pay more income tax than the entire bottom 50% I've been (rightly) asked for proof as this figure is not normally published. Here is the HMRC's Freedom of Information response and the full story:- https://t.co/CJI4RoNgvF Does the UK's best-paid 0.1% really pay more income tax than the entire bottom 50% I've been"
X Link 2025-10-21T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@CutMyTaxUK This not landing well with me there is so much crazy government spending to focus on - it doesnt seem wrong for a minister to have a desk and chairs"
X Link 2025-10-27T18:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ciabaudo Keep Ireland Judenfrei as they say in many parts of Irelandunfortunately"
X Link 2025-10-28T08:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I would take this with a pinch of salt - China will export its deflation. Imported goods account for about 2025% of Australias CPI basket and Chinese deflation could lower costs for items like clothing furniture electronics and vehicles. Other countries are going to reduce their interest rate too"
X Link 2025-10-29T10:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"This is a fair comment in a sense that the sentiment I see on Twitter shocks me - how much is this real life How much is this bots What we do know is the Irish people voted for a president who felt that Hamas - an organisation dedicated to the genocide of Jews - should remain in place and is part of the fabric of Palestine"
X Link 2025-10-29T12:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"You are probably right absolutely amazes me how people can live a lifetime where the data is blindingly obvious that socialism leads to horrible outcomes and yet they remain as commies The contrast between Venezuela and Poland being the most recent example of a perfect experiment in socialism versus capitalism"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"When the people on my team do it its fine and they are poor misunderstood petals who just made an inadvertent mistake when the evil Tory Prime Minister stood next to a cake in his own home at a gathering he didnt organise that was outrageous and he needed to be drummed out of parliament I think Ive understood your tweet correctly"
X Link 2025-11-01T08:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"All the luvvies voting for Indy have an important element which binds them together - none of them live in Scotland and so none of them will suffer the consequences of their beliefs - Robert Henderson calls these luxury beliefs - ideas and opinions that confer status on the affluent while often inflicting costs on lower classes. Living thousands of miles away guarantees they wont have to suffer the economic catastrophe which will be caused by independence. Coined by Rob Henderson luxury beliefs replace luxury goods as class signifierse.g. elites advocate defunding police from safe gated"
X Link 2025-11-02T22:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@DamCou Very thoughtful piece - well done I liked this- Trying to express heretical views under a theocracy is a supreme refiner of arguments and test of ones evidence for them a temperer of logical and moral mettle"
X Link 2025-11-05T10:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@K_Niemietz Think were at the FA stage of FAFO on the charismatic Zohran his only hope is that a bunch of Democrats stop him doing what he says he wants to do"
X Link 2025-11-05T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My Great Uncle Bill Phillips was a chaplain in the parachute regiment - he was a pacifist at the beginning of the war but changed his mind and joined the army after he saw a German bomber over his home town - you have got this wrong he said to himself - but he parachuted into Arnhem with a bible not a gun"
X Link 2025-11-06T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@USAmbUK You cant push America first and then expect Britain not to follow your lead - Rolls Royce is a well respected company which provides propulsion systems for nuclear power submarines they know what theyre doing"
X Link 2025-11-13T10:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The @BBC empire documentary narrated by @DavidOlusoga gives the strong impression that slaves were treated worse than indentured labour. The focus of the Barbados section is on slavery and it gives very little detail to the horrific conditions of indentured labour. Presumably this plays into the ideological proclivities of the @BBC and the production team. At the end of the section there are contemporary black Brits rightly decrying slavery - we of course hear nothing from the descendants of the indentured. Its these type of key subtle biases in story line guest selection historian selection"
X Link 2025-11-13T22:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Excellent analysis of what went wrong with @bbc journalism - the pressure to be a pressure group for a particular narrative. One admitted that he frequently had no idea if the stories he reported were true or not. Its bizarre he told Born; you become a kind of virtual journalist stuck in a bureau reprocessing material and not actually going out and witnessing events not experiencing what youre reporting. "As a former BBC journalist who now teaches journalism at university I can tell you that no the BBCs journalism is not impartial and yes the corporation is institutionally biased." --"
X Link 2025-11-14T07:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Makes sense - BBC is accused of left wing / anti Israel bias so best thing to do is appoint a leftist who 1) decided he needed to delete a [----] X post equating Gaza genocide as being worse than the holocaust and 2) in [----] speeches he called non-Muslims animals and equated homosexuality with pedophilia. Yes makes total sense. Get him In - no baggage there - hed be perfect Are you playing three-dimensional chess and youre hoping for the BBC to be destroyed"
X Link 2025-11-14T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The @bbc series on Empire is a classic of its ideological genre - it focuses on colonial oppression and seeks to gloss over incidents where Britons were the victims the incident - the black hole of Calcutta was described as being exaggerated used for purposes of proof of Indian despotism. There were no details given. If the incident featured British despotism no doubt all the grizzly details would be set out. As it is wasnt the incident was effectively was downplayed"
X Link 2025-11-14T23:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The @bbc series on Empire is a classic of its ideological genre - it focuses on colonial oppression and seeks to gloss over incidents where Britons were the victims the incident - the black hole of Calcutta was described as being exaggerated used for purposes of proof of Indian despotism. There were no details given. If the incident featured British despotism no doubt all the grizzly details would be set out. As it is wasnt the incident was effectively downplayed"
X Link 2025-11-14T23:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Your conclusions when placed into an AI model are as follows : The UK would have significantly outperformed both Germany (+0.3%) and France (+3.8%) with cumulative growth 2.53x Frances and over 30x Germanys. During the UKs time in the European Economic Community/EU (from [----] until 2020) or even looking broader at post-1970 history the UK has never outgrown Germany by a factor of [--] times or France by [---] times in terms of cumulative real GDP growth over any multi-year period. Such multiples would require extraordinarily lopsided performanceessentially near-stagnation in one or both"
X Link 2025-11-16T08:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@DerbyChrisW So it can print print money - do you know what that leads to inflation. People on fixed incomes like retirees or low-wage workers get hit hardest. Their money buys less while essentials like food and rent skyrocket. So sad that you wish to hurt this demographic"
X Link 2025-11-16T21:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I suspect you are in an echo chamber of people who adhere to the bizarre theory of MMT - serious economists dont endorse it - I say once again when you start the printing presses up you get inflation thats what happened in Germany its what happened in Zimbabwe and it happens every time the printing presses get busy - hopefully mmt isnt tried in the UK - inflation hurts the very most vulnerable people in society"
X Link 2025-11-16T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Corrupt system equals reality - I dont call it corrupt when my credit card provider expects to be repaid - thats life - theres no magic I can use to get out of my debts I just have to reduce expenditure or earn more money - the country is in the same position you can use all the buzz words you like Neo liberal etc but sadly borrowers must pay lenders or the system collapses"
X Link 2025-11-17T19:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CatharineHoey I think youve misunderstood the deal. The UK is paying billions to transfer UK property - their homeland - to Mauritius were not selling it"
X Link 2025-11-19T08:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@v_j_freeman I wonder if she has a nice poem about the trials of the poor policewoman who was hospitalised in the attack"
X Link 2025-11-20T09:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It wasnt the tax on income or capital gains that was the issue one adviser familiar with the Mittals move said. The issue was inheritance tax. Many wealthy people from overseas cannot understand why all of their assets wherever they are in the world should be subject to inheritance tax imposed by the UK Treasury. Many such cases.. this idiocy seat started under the conservatives labour just carried on with the same stupidity"
X Link 2025-11-23T12:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"It was a very partial program which left out extremely important facts in order to advance a specific political agenda - activist history. Your last point ignores the pre-existing status of slavery in Africa - Slavery was indigenous ancient and widespread in Africa long before Europeans arrived. African kingdoms and merchants actively participated in slave raiding trading and owning long before the Portuguese showed up on the coast in the 15th century. None of these was given any airtime. A wasted opportunity and no balance. There was no attempt to make any positive points - where was the"
X Link 2025-11-26T12:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@serge_golubev The fall of bitcoin in sync with the markets is very disappointing I struggle to see the point"
X Link 2025-11-27T10:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"During a raid by Palestine Action activists on the Elbit Systems UK factory near Bristol on August [--] [----] a police sergeant named Kate Evans suffered a fractured lumbar spine after being struck in the back with a sledgehammer. We should have [--] respect for those that support this organisation"
X Link 2025-11-29T08:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Da_IrishGuy13 @MattWalshBlog @ItsThomAnt Are you the kind of person that goes to the Grand Canyon and leaves a Tripadvisor report saying it was a bit rubbish just a canyon and there was no MacDonalds"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Absolutely I love it - it goes against almost everything mainstream broadcasters would ever Commission [--] middle aged male white heterosexual presenters Dense content and no repeats of what has just been said Treating the audience with the expectation they are not idiots Levity and jokes but without some patronising effort to appeal to the yoof / idiots Ive learnt a lot and Im somebody who has read a lot of history with an academic background in the subject"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Youve just issued this piece a few days after a very detailed inquiry into the murder of Dawn Sturgess. The Skripal Inquiry (Dec 2025) just ruled: Putin personally approved GRU officers smearing Novichok on a UK door killing Dawn Sturgess. In certain circumstances it couldve killed thousands. State-sponsored chemical attack on NATO soil isnt propagandaits war by other means. Facts vibes. ⚖"
X Link 2025-12-10T07:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"It appears you live in South Africa so I expect its not a great concern to you that Russia has launched not one but two well documented chemical weapons attacks in the UK - throwing in words like global elite just confuses matters its very hard to understand what motivates your misinformation but Russias invasion of Ukraine and its various hostile acts around the world are fairly obvious. It should be obvious to you even if you live a long way away"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"When Labour negotiates the UK pays dearly - delight in giving away UK taxpayer money in absurd one way deals is their default setting Chagos was only the beginning - how an earth weve got to the point where we educate Europes young and we end up paying - in [----] [-----] EU students came to the UK and [-----] went to the EU outbound - we are now absurdly going to pay dearly for this imbalance - if only these mendacious chancers could be locked in a cupboard until the next election - there is only so much lunacy a country can take"
X Link 2025-12-18T05:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@TheSimonEvans So do you think that British people should be paying reparations for slavery Do you think the sins of the father should be visited on the sons and daughters I dont think Edward has a point"
X Link 2025-12-19T13:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"As a practising lawyer I can attest to its power and effectiveness with caveats - the hallucination problem hasnt gone away and every so often it makes a crashing error - it currently makes an awesome first draft but may miss something obvious - you need to guide it in the same way you would a junior associate - in a few years it might step up to partner and then Ill retire"
X Link 2025-12-20T23:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Irish exports to the UK (fresh/frozen beef) for the first three quarters: [------] tonnes down 9% from [----]. Australian imports have increased significantly in specific months (e.g. September 2025: [----] tonnes up from [---] tonnes in September 2024) with first half totals around [----] tonnes (up 92% from 2024). Ireland remains by far the largest supplier (6070% share in recent months) while Australia is a small but growing contributor (typically 5% share). Overall Irish beef exports to the UK are vastly larger often [----] times the volume of Australian imports"
X Link 2025-12-28T04:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"As the Prime Minister said when he was leader of the opposition he was jailed for his social media activities. Are you saying the leader of the opposition as he then was was lying If I was you when in a hole stop digging. Just admit that when his case came up you got on a bandwagon did no diligence Thought it was a great occasion for a bit of virtue signalling and now look like a chump like all your parliamentary colleagues https://x.com/joerichlaw/status/2005439850099716395s=46&t=LqEXap9uszMRuZ5u3kPfyg 2022: Labour Leader Keir Starmer claims at PMQs that Alaa Abd El-Fattah was imprisoned for"
X Link 2025-12-29T14:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The Patriot grotesquely twists history into a false evil Brits vs heroic Patriots narrativedirected by German Roland Emmerich who falsely attributes a Nazi SS atrocity (burning civilians in a church at Oradour-sur-Glane 1944) to the British. It never happened in the Rev War. 20-30% of Americans supported the Crown; it was a brutal civil war with violence on both sides. #ThePatriot https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007452123605188749 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007452123605188749"
X Link 2026-01-03T14:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My kids are [--] and [--] and I now find it hard to see them - they are busy with study and friends and one is at university - I am glad they are socialising but cant help looking back to the moments they needed me. You will miss this time. It goes in a heartbeat you will beat yourself up about this - your [--] something self will be angry with you - learn patience https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007745758611599368 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2007745758611599368"
X Link 2026-01-04T09:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Anarcho-tyranny: Where the state crushes law-abiding citizens with endless rules taxes & regulations while letting criminals run wild with impunity. In the UK middle-class families grind under bureaucracy & high costs yet violent thugs & gangs face no real consequences. There is a clear parallel within international relations superpowers like Russia & China flout intl law (e.g. invasions annexations) but smaller nations like UK meekly comply handing over strategic gems like Chagos Islands to Mauritius for zero gain despite non-binding ICJ rulings & no legal obligation. Why surrender vital"
X Link 2026-01-06T07:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Restructuring__ @KinshukRajan Dont invest in S and P then - most world markets are still cheap - combination of ftse / euro / jap / India and EM will get him a 8pc return / do a commodity etf too"
X Link 2026-01-08T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK I have criticised Dom for his lack of loyalty to his clients / breach of faith and poor personal conduct but its amusing @RoryStewartUK uses this issue as a club to beat him when this news arose this week"
X Link 2026-01-09T20:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@KurtSupeCPA Why not just buy dividend yielding stocks and live the dividends"
X Link 2026-01-11T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ZachCPG Then why is the share price of one of the biggest booze companies in the world in the toilet Diageo Or is this a turning point"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WasOnceLoved @adamboxer1 @MoneyTelegraph I am and large numbers of people mostly in the south who are sitting on million plus pound assets dont regard a salary of [---] k staggering"
X Link 2026-01-12T16:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I dont think you have any understanding of how unsafe America is compared to Europe- youre almost [--] times more likely to be murdered in Washington than in London. The US murder rate is significantly higherabout 4-9 times that of the European countries - if youre worried about her safety you would probably ask her to move to Europe. Heres some stats: London UK: [---] (97 total homicides in 2025; population [--] million) Milan Italy: [---] (latest available; population [---] million) Paris France: [---] (latest available; population [---] million) New York City US: [---] (estimated [---] total homicides in"
X Link 2026-01-14T13:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Loved this show - very thoughtful - I was really struck by the complete change of perspective people in retirement need and I also liked the point raised that people should spend their money to help the local community as well as enjoy themselves. Perhaps to follow up episode would be useful to focus on what a income related Sipp/ Isa / vct should look like. My plan is to hit a number and live off the income - this wasnt discussed - it should have been - I think a lot of the anxiety is caused by people drawing down their capital - why do this A mix of VCT tax free dividends dividends from"
X Link 2026-01-14T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Imagine the sheer levels of stupidity you have to reach to ban non alcoholic beer - instead of being able to go to a party and join in with a beer the government will force young people to choose between not going drinking alcohol or rotting their teeth with something like coke whatever ever happens to the mantra treading more lightly on peoples lives"
X Link 2026-01-14T16:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The issue is that reform might get say 24% in any consistency Tories say [--] % and the left might combine together to get 25% - a constituency that would have formerly been an easy conservative win turns into a loss for the right if you can combine the total. Having said that the left is now split as well"
X Link 2026-01-16T18:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@cashflow_king94 Perhaps you can give examples of Covered call option ETFs"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@FUDdaily You want a leader who will declare he wants to take a NATO allys property whether they like it or not Sounds sensible"
X Link 2026-01-17T08:30Z [----] followers, 21.1K engagements

"What a weird takea guy can be 100% right on one issue and 100% wrong on another. The Chagos deal lacks Chagossian support and the transfer of Greenland doesnt appear popular with Greenlanders. Surrendering islands Mauritius never owned which are [----] km awaybased on a non-binding opinion from a court we dont recognise on this issue stacked with Chinese and Russian judges who have issued a non binding advisory opinion is idiocy. Only brainwashed elite London lawyers could think this a good idea - its a stich up between friends in the same profession and have the same anti colonial progressive"
X Link 2026-01-20T11:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Pulling every leaver to hold on to British territory and undertaking damage control when the government of the day high on internationalist progressive anti colonists ideology and human rights barrister back slapping is trying to commit an act of egregious self harm is exactly what an opposition should be doing - handing over territory because of a Russian / Chinese lawfare plot resulting in an advisory opinion (issued by amongst others Chinese and Russian judges) should not mean that we meekly handover the property If malicious countries wish to take our territory we should repeat the works"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@NavyLookout The hits keep on coming what have we learnt this week [--] operational sub (on its way to Australia) [--] ships in the Middle East [--] frigates Utterly utterly shameful"
X Link 2026-01-23T10:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@ekwufinance Junior copper miners such as pivotal metals with a huge undeveloped deposit in horden lake Canada with a lot of copper are super cheap - when will the signals from the market mean that investment becomes viable"
X Link 2026-01-24T12:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ChristineKayNow You cant refute the points can you - there are trade deals we have done wed need to drop there are joining criteria we dont meet or would be unpleasant - when the public work this out support in the polls for rejoining collapses"
X Link 2026-01-24T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Every point I make is irrefutable- you may have some overriding loyalty / enjoyment of eu membership some of which have practical application such as freedom of movement - which may supersede in your mind and many others the micro issues I raised - in the same way Brexiteers focused on sovereignty - fair enough but these issues will move into focus if we decided to try to rejoin - none of the issues I raise are the joke that you think that they were when I made the original post - it is no joke to commit to give up the longest continuously serving currency agree to paying 30bn ish okay to the"
X Link 2026-01-24T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@andy4wm Hard to see what the policy agenda is - in what way is the current leadership not pro business - suspect this is code for -lets rejoin the EU and block ECHR exit - if it isnt what are you talking about"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ChathamHouse How can you oblige on an advisory opinion - @grok please ask you a community note on this"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ChathamHouse Did the Work experience kid from China get hold of the account"
X Link 2026-01-27T00:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The last three Tory Defence Secretaries@PennyMordaunt @BenWallace70 and @grantshappsoversaw the gutting of our navy: ZERO ships in the Middle East ending [--] yrs of presence and our ONLY active sub HMS Anson shipped off to Australia. Tories should be utterly ashamed of this shameful legacy Labourgiven their record to date on the economycan only worsen the situation. To find our military in this state in this geopolitical situation is enough to tear ones hair out. #investindefencenow"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Most Politicians are not inherently evil people in fact most have good intentions - but here we have an example of doing good which has lead to mass unemployment for young people - a 16% rise in youth unemployment in the last two years alone - a horrible result and a malignant intervention by the Tories and turbo boosted by Labour politicians - the minimum wage has increased significantly above inflation. Since [----] the minimum wage for adults has risen by roughly 48% while cumulative inflation for the same period was approximately 28%.Terrible policy making by the uniparty. 'If you want to"
X Link 2026-01-27T10:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The government is leaning very heavily on me this afternoon. About to send off my tax return 👻 and as a compliance officer in a law firm I am Spending approximately [---] hours compiling documents for a regulatory review (none of this time of course is chargeable and the tasks are time consuming and pointless). Whatever happened to the Starmer promise of "tread more lightly on the lives of voters" Think its more George Orwell [----] - If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Am I the only ignoramus who did not know this My mind is officially blown. While you slept last night completely still in your bed our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room on the same planet yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the https://t.co/L2TArslszG While you slept last night completely still in your bed our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room on the same planet yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Smash a defence facility break the back of the police officer and walk away scot free lauded by a former Labour shadow Chqncellor - Im beginning to think there is something rotten in the state of Denmark This is a huge victory for the Palestine activists whom I visited in prison seeking to end the complicity of arms manufacturers in genocide. BREAKING: Six pro-Palestine activists linked to Palestine Action have been found NOT GUILTY for breaking into an Elbit Systems factory. This is a huge victory for the Palestine activists whom I visited in prison seeking to end the complicity of arms"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ikeijeh @TonyDowson5 I love the reference to the public square as if hiring a on a private basis is the public square - I also love the list of people who are beyond the pale God botherers being one - 84pc of the world population has a religious affiliation"
X Link 2024-04-16T16:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Ubique2078 @iainmartin1 @rcolvile No new licenses are being granted for gas generation in the UK how do you get gas generation without gas fired plants"
X Link 2024-12-04T23:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"🚨 The UK equity market throws up some odd anomalies : FRP Advisorys pretax profit soared 1079% from 2.8m (2020) to 33m (2025) yet its share price barely budged (24% up from 100p to 123.8p). Revenue doubled too 📈 Why no love for small-cap gems 🤔 #UKStocks #FRP How long will these anomalies persist @MerrynSW @John_Stepek or is the market permanently broken"
X Link 2025-07-09T17:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"China operates the worlds largest distant-water fishing fleet. If Mauritius opens these waters to commercial licenses to generate revenue Chinese vessels could legally fish just miles from the military base. Large fishing fleets can be used for "maritime militia" activitiesusing fishing boats to crowd sensitive waters or deploy underwater sensors to track US submarines leaving Diego Garcia. The islands can be used for surveillance infrastructure. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015527928210100589 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015527928210100589"
X Link 2026-01-25T20:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@RezaYounesi The river to the sea folks silence on this massacre is deafening"
X Link 2026-01-27T07:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@alexfmac Cameco has been a great investment for me too"
X Link 2026-01-28T12:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@John_Stepek You are generous spirited - remember being incensed at the sell low strategy - it was the Chagos move of the new Labour era"
X Link 2026-01-28T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"It has paid massive amounts of corporation tax NI and fuel levies and its shareholders have paid cap gains and stamp duty the private sector has invested in it and politicians havent been able to cut off investment to it because they invariably preferred to pay teachers salaries and leaky hospital roofs. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. PS Brown selling off the gold was almost (but not quite) as stupid as transferring Chagos for [--] bn - this administration is taking maladministration to a new level https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016870725932437866"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@jonburkeUK Here is the trend since the second world war picking [----] as the date this trend instigated is ridiculous and arbitrary"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@CSaltroad1 @John_Stepek @trivet1806 The do everything big there they dont they - how on earth does a non expert who wasnt born into money generate such a vast portfolio I guess it helps being married to venture capitalist but even so the success of her portfolio is truly amazing"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@williamnhutton Rain in England in February Clearly climate change - never happened before"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@CraigMurrayOrg Indeed the magic sledgehammer that moved itself - naughty sledgehammer - I envisage a new opera instead of the magic flute the magic sledgehammer - the pro Pal leftists will love it - its set in a world of unreality where up is down and down is up good is bad and bad is good"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Somehow this treats reminds me of this quotation from Orwell The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final most essential command"
X Link 2026-02-01T13:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"What I want to know is - where is the emergency podcast on Mandelson by the @RestIsPolitics The world is waiting"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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