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[@mr_james_c](/creator/twitter/mr_james_c)
"I definitely think so. Don't even need to buy stocks various index ETFs perform far better than the housing market and investments are liquid. The only time property makes sense as an investment is if your rental yield is higher than your mortgage costs and for the last XX years successive governments have been doing their best to ruin that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981643346209579234) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:46Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LoftusSteve This should have been obvious by October last year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981710332629512357) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T13:12Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Hi Zack imagine if you said "we don't use levels of income to measure individual health and wellbeing" You'd see that you'd made a pretty silly statement. It's not ALWAYS the case but in the vast majority of cases people who earn more have better health and wellbeing. It's the same with countries. You're welcome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981799935277150685) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:08Z 11.7K followers, 7955 engagements


"She's all of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1977989958032932963) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-14T06:48Z 11.7K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978072828315652568) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-14T12:18Z 11.7K followers, 2448 engagements


"@euanmccolm I have a prediction for young Samuel's future career: "Samuel Samuel make us proud bring us another coffee round.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978419322415411306) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-15T11:14Z 11.7K followers, 1535 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978425639796428904) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-15T11:40Z 11.7K followers, 2822 engagements


"@JenniferSey Hilarious lack of self awareness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978460461151461807) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-15T13:58Z 11.7K followers, 1073 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978734845065896347) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-16T08:08Z 11.7K followers, 9473 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978736449726943664) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-16T08:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@maxtempers Also this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978782015848611918) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-16T11:16Z 11.7K followers, 2050 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978793857950355671) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-16T12:03Z 11.7K followers, 2880 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978938134143570293) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-16T21:36Z 11.7K followers, 17.7K engagements


"@cjsnowdon I will never not be amazed how she became a public figure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979096003081847214) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-17T08:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The education system has completely failed society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979600931286343845) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-18T17:30Z 11.7K followers, 4303 engagements


"@ThomasBHall Yes but most of that is normal people owning their own homes. If you start going after property you'll barely scratch the super wealthy but hit the middle classes really really hard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979674915226955797) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-18T22:24Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Basically this is exactly what happened to journalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979833107047125141) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T08:52Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@theNOBSdentist @tomfgoodwin Yep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979833171987615801) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T08:53Z 11.7K followers, 9316 engagements


"@Zacnaloen It's just marketing people talking over their heads to other marketing people. The odds of actual Heineken customers knowing what this device actually is are zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979835554889187793) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T09:02Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"To explain this in a little more detail: We've crashed our economy chasing Miliband's crazy climate ideology while simultaneously selling out our own national security to a hostile foreign power. I don't throw around terms like "treason" lightly. but jeeeeez"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979840385485807971) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T09:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Read upwards to watch Grok repeatedly own this idiot. These people have no idea of how the world works and it would be amusing to just laugh at their ignorance but for the fact our government is full of people who share their ignorance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979851581618364704) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T10:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The last face you see before you're shipped off to Ed's Climate Dissenter's Gulag:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979863315959750972) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T10:52Z 11.7K followers, 7524 engagements


"@simonpatkins I'm guessing she was young when indoctrinated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979888303349567863) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T12:32Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"If Socialists had an interest in empirical reality they wouldn't be Socialists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979899213954871318) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T13:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"No. This is the problem. The cultural and political response to climate change became "use less" as opposed to "emit less". So you have institutions like the BBC politicians academia and the arts fixated on using ever less because that is the way to virtue. It's a catastrophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979932522898465002) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T15:27Z 11.7K followers, 1405 engagements


"@troy_mcartor @theNOBSdentist @tomfgoodwin And who pays the managers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979953705500713340) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T16:52Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Shocked SHOCKED"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980167251149148201) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T07:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@ricknoted Don't ask silly questions like that You're supposed to just be angry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980169851739001243) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T07:10Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"So. approaching other protestors is considered provocative and worthy of arrest if you're Jewish but shouting "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is not considered provocative. That's for clarifying your hopelessly Antisemitic state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980173048784494809) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T07:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@an0n_Nic Yep there's the problem:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980175150759727421) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T07:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Back in the 90s TV shows we're full of British cops chasing down and catching villains in modded-up hatchbacks. Today the same show would see police knocking on doors for nasty tweets and arresting Jews for being too Jewish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980181384992825575) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T07:56Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Sadly none of this surprises me a great deal. It's not so much the pro-China aspect so much as "Anti-US". There's a deep reservoir in the centre Left (far Left is a given) of seeing the US as the enemy. You see this all the time in European politics where politicians actively despise the US and resent the fact US security guarantees kept Europe safe from the Soviets. The chief expression was in Germany's Ostpolitik - fooling themselves they could control Putin. Back to the UK under this Anti-US logic particularly with Trump as President cozying up to China is the logic of too-clever mandarins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980185639573225562) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T08:13Z 11.7K followers, 1975 engagements


"@maxtempers We should just call it by its correct name - Subsidised Housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980186061801177090) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T08:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@maxtempers This is all part of my "why is the UK economy fucked" analysis: We've lost the ability to let markets be markets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980187509834534978) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T08:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@WalkerMarcus Thoughts:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980189686766469151) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T08:29Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@elonmusk Voted 🤜🤛"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980201451776528810) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T09:16Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


""In decadent Western countries Netflix pays thieves to steal things but then leave them behind.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980204070154482116) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T09:26Z 11.7K followers, 1063 engagements


"UK Government: Investors should buy shares in UK companies rather than foreign companies. Also UK Government: we will charge stamp duty on purchases of UK companies but not foreign companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980225093780554147) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T10:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Stock photo businesses are under existential threat from AI. So what does the CMA do Increase the likelihood they'll all fail. Bravo CMA bravo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980227145315340314) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T10:58Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@alexfmac Yeah it's cope for sure. *Of course* a mediocre team working extra hours will only be so effective and if you're a good team you can compete while doing normal hours. But if a high performance team is doing extra hours. you have to do it or you won't compete"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980231607606030394) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T11:16Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@jamesd_graham @G0ADM Not shocking sadly but utterly absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980235595143410004) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T11:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The best mental model I've come to with for China is a corporation. Marxism is the tool used to maintain power for the CCP but in most other aspects it looks and acts like a corporation. Right down to the point that top-level edicts from weak leaders are ignored by local leaders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980236463439528006) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T11:35Z 11.7K followers, 2052 engagements


"@peterrhague 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980265111831863753) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T13:29Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@petersavodnik Indoctrinated to believe that opposing this is "Islamophobia""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980270138285797548) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T13:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Many such cases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980270457170661766) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T13:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey @BayesBSchool as a masters graduate this is utterly unacceptable. Universities shouldn't put up with student threats like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980276444346671603) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T14:14Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Labour just cannot help but fuck up markets. It's like an ideological wrecking ball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980277980133024144) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T14:20Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Public sector productivity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980291869247741991) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@triggerpod @KonstantinKisin @ZackPolanski XXX% correct. The media needs to do the job that society gives it special privileges to do:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980295436209676763) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:29Z 11.7K followers, 5034 engagements


"@MrMBrown @daniel_sawko Yes but also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980295849365348448) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:31Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@BoredElonMusk @signalapp I cannot believe she still has a job anywhere. Jeeez"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980299500951585043) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:46Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The corruption of the word "truth" is the source of so much of the shit that's gone wrong. We have words to describe things she's talking about: Opinion experience perspective etc. None of these are "truth" because capturing their subjective nature is what's important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980300344304505200) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:49Z 11.7K followers, 1115 engagements


"The actual truth is special because it is objective. There's a reason courts seek a variety of evidence and witnesses to establish truth. There's a reason that science seeks repeatable evidence to pronounce truth. Establishing truth is hard. We definitely shouldn't debase it with this Therapy Speak bullshit when we have other words that more accurately describe subjective experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980301495217099069) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T15:54Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This was always going to be the case. The only question is whether global institutions like the UN media and NGOs actually do their jobs for once and hold Hamas to account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980314074442555465) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T16:44Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@JohnHolbein1 @cremieuxrecueil But y'know fantastic at increasing equality though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980320587458498963) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T17:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil Ok now calculate since the end of the Cold War. Europe has recently increased its spending but decades of underspending is what has left it vulnerable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980326409945117046) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T17:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil For example Germany has underspent its commitments by something like $700bn over the last XX years. It leaves a huge gap in spending. Europeans have called the US an unreliable partner because of Trump but their failure to meet commitments for decades makes them far worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980326931854938435) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T17:35Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil More detail:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980327163237933122) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T17:36Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Germany should have wanted its own defence instead in their arrogance and stupidity they thought they could control Putin when it was obvious they couldn't. Europe is entirely responsible for the defence mess it finds itself in. Rather than complaining about the US it should focus its efforts on sorting itself out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980333426541797450) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T18:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"It's amazing how often you hear this trotted out. There's some truth to it during the Cold War itself. But after the Cold War ended NATO was pushing Germany to spend more but Berlin saw it as a convenient excuse for freeriding. And. well. eventually daddy got sick of picking up the tab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980336184770396503) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T18:11Z 11.7K followers, 1027 engagements


"@Katie_Lam_MP Hard to escape the conclusion the inquiry would be a whitewash because an open inquiry would damage Labour interests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980337735513886814) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T18:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Europe complains about the US as an "unreliable partner" but many European nations have spent decades ducking their responsibilities condescending to the US and talking up Europe's superior culture. Europe also worries that its place in the world is diminished - because it is. You can't regulate the world if the world can ignore you. So Europe is less than the sum of its parts but is the only one that doesn't realise it. Defence is one of the fundamental roles of government. It's not nice to think about but it's a necessity. Because of its decadence and inaction Europe is currently being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980342618329415881) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T18:37Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Read this thread upwards for "Weak men create hard times""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980386875060941051) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T21:33Z 11.7K followers, 1009 engagements


"@elonmusk This 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980392018263306519) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T21:53Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@vulpine2020 Germany's economy is more than twice Russia's. The European NATO countries combined economies are 10x Russia. And yet when the US told Europe to take responsibility and look after its own region Europe shat itself. This was a consequence of European arrogance and decadence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980392849087812011) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T21:57Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@ConvoswColeman @TheFP @GadSaad It's Suicidal Empathy yes but when the West lets itself get taken in by Antisemitic regimes like Hamas it's effectively Homicide Empathy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980394152585228652) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T22:02Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Socialists: "The old regime is corrupt its rules must be swept away so that we can build a fairer society." Also Socialists: "We will exploit the minutiae of every rule of the old regime to maintain power.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980536509670609124) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T07:27Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The supposed difference between "Bad businesses" and "good unions" in society is fascinating. While businesses are expected to act in the interests of the widest possible group of "stakeholders" unions will always act in the narrowest interests of their members"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980538602397352233) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T07:36Z 11.7K followers, 1013 engagements


"In a way the predictable cynicism of the unions is actually a pleasant change from the cult-like actions of the Woke but jeez it would be nice to see anyone who considers the interests of taxpayers for once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980539110675869714) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T07:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"I agree with this analogy in one sense but it suggests that the government *owns* the cow in the first place. A better analogy is one that assumes businesses are not domesticated and governments should do what they can to attract wild animals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980547596147106147) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T08:11Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Listening to @PalmerLuckey and @joerogan talking about a culture of censorship in the UK is interesting. I think there's X nuances: X. There's a difference between the institutional and cultural elite and a silent majority. X. Often the desire to censor lacks the perspective of trade-offs. Once the trade-offs become obvious there's a pushback"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980550456565744021) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T08:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Generally people all over the world are pretty bad at thinking through the consequences of what they think The advantage the US has is that stuff that many of the problems that could arise are addressed by a written constitution created by people who were VERY conscious of second order effects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980554239261675703) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T08:38Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Eldenofthering @PalmerLuckey @joerogan True but I think the "why" matters here. Often if you frame things to people in a way that impacts THEIR OWN actions rather than controlling that of other people they change their mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980554463036453100) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T08:39Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"I agree with this analogy in one sense but it suggests that the government *owns* the cow in the first place. A better analogy is one that assumes businesses are not domesticated and governments should do what they can to attract wild animals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980555301343334703) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T08:42Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@trevgoes4th 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980562681246675391) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T09:11Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Adrian_Hilton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980570148986905076) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T09:41Z 11.7K followers, 2187 engagements


"@shaunmmaguire @cyantist @tbpn Include a category for tech journalism that is actually about y'know technology rather than student activism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980574640277004450) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T09:59Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Fat_Jacques Exactly. Unions DGAF they just want gold plated union jobs and who cares if the taxpayer bears the cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980577732657573918) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:11Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@maxtempers One of the more white pill things about the UK right now is that once there's widespread awareness of the grift that's grown within the system of the last X decades things can be turned around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980579474103316836) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@maxtempers The question then becomes: How did things go for so long without these things being brought to public attention. For that I blame the media which has become excessively focused on participating in 'court intrigue' or worse just acting as a mouthpiece for ideologues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980580007648063892) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:20Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@maxtempers Imagine if things like the Equality Act or May's Net Zero act received actual detailed scrutiny from the media before it was waved through parliament"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980580234044100949) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:21Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"A vast majority of the shit that has befallen the UK over the last XX years has come about because people in positions of authority fell for emotional manipulation and failed to consider the trade-offs essential in their actions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980581250021880061) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:25Z 11.7K followers, 1014 engagements


"Ironically the Left used to claim it did things based on "the greater good" now it just does everything based on "I want to feel like a good person""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980581538380312630) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@CfEntrepreneurs (Mac people think Macs win. No one else can be bothered of disabusing them of that notion.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980584930196566091) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:40Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Oof the replies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980585588526076293) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:42Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"How about this strategy "Stop spending money you don't have and stop making it so hard for businesses.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980586130904059974) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:45Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@thmsenglsh Both cases: People like free stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980587005349363752) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:48Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@tomhfh What i don't understand: In literally any other situation "I didn't realise this was against the law" is completely unacceptable as a defence. Why is it in these circumstances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980587585014755395) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@rabois Mate it's a superb parody account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980588631229362234) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:55Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Honestly this is a work of genius. I'm just annoyed that I didn't think of it: cc: @rabois"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980589069899014272) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:56Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@CfEntrepreneurs Certainly a great example of the insufferable self-regard of Mac users"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980589332080828435) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:57Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Everyone else: Technology is a tool. Mac users: Technology is a form of self-actualisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980589603615920487) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T10:58Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@CfEntrepreneurs Ah yes compounding self-regard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980590428153119020) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T11:02Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@timothy_barnes If you're interested here's a longer critique of that ad:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980591228338204788) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T11:05Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@tunguz Seriously i often find it amusing about how government which has a monopoly on the use of force doesn't come in for more criticism of its failures by people like Warren"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980591442616893636) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T11:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@megynkelly Apparently he's hanging on somehow:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980595476388016316) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T11:22Z 11.7K followers, 1438 engagements


""I'm not an antisemite" people antisemiting again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980605812675412417) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@whippletom I disagree. Stop treating the like children and treat them like adults. The last decade is a handy demonstration of the error of saying "oh they're just students they won't do this in the real world""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980606602911596893) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"It's a promising sign that these things are being corrected and hopefully rejected. The bigger problem is how things got this bad. It's obvious from the drafting of things like "Non hate crime" incidents that they could be exploited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980606844755136841) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:07Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"As usual the world wants Israel to do the hard and dirty work of making the region safer while sitting back and vilifying Israel. What a disgrace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980608650159718573) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:14Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@whippletom Refer to my previous comment about extended adolescence rather than emerging adulthood. Oxford Union built its credibility on the emerging adulthood bit. So let's do the courtesy of treating students like adults. This article is an example:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980609330710761863) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:17Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@cjsnowdon For some reason she's prioritising Mad Ed's Net Zero spending over hospitals and schools as well. Government is all about choices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980609645824610661) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@DanielPriestley The frustrating thing about this stuff is that Polanski is all over the media at the moment you continually see clips like this he goes unchallenged. The media's job is not just to broadcast but to critique and analyse. It fails to do this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980610334898389374) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:21Z 11.7K followers, 2365 engagements


"@whippletom I guess I don't carry the anti-Oxford prejudices that may come from having been born in this country. That said I have certain opinions on *Oxford people* which is a different thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980610714495537327) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@micsolana I find it more amusing to wonder if Senator Karren has ever extended her logic to the actions of government itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980611004087103713) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T12:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@DownAndOut__ The opposite actually - people who have no respect for institutions and processes are cynically exploiting the institutions and processes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980622113170948586) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T13:08Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@whippletom My favourite example from this is from Australia in the 1980s complaining that daylight savings would "fade the curtains""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980622485306372297) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T13:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@eigenrobot There's a bunch of consumer tech which really should just be edge computing with the occasional call-back to base to delivery data and receive updates. Why your smart mattress (or fridge or washing machine) needs to be sending and receiving data 24/7 is completely beyond me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980624323665600827) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T13:16Z 11.7K followers, 3237 engagements


"It's not so much that smart appliances are a bad idea it's that there's no need for them to be constantly downloading and uploading data. In the case of Eight Sleep surely it just makes sense to download and upload data once a day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980625534150177002) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T13:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The idea that countries may impose borders seems to really break some people's brains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980625954461692412) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T13:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Brand advertising should communicate ideas. For some reason many tech companies don't do this. I'm not sure why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980637738073485454) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:10Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"That's not an accurate comparison. Although a wider remit unions still focus exclusively on maintaining the interests of their members to the exclusion of much else (especially wider society). Companies are increasingly expected to put the interests of shareholders below other stakeholders. ESG was explicitly about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980639829957193737) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:18Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@jason_fox Although interestingly Apple still makes things but sells them on the thoughts they created a generation ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980641011601928432) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Unfortunately ESG is a political/social experiment masquerading as a business/financial one. If investors don't wish to invest in certain kinds of companies that their right but they shouldn't attempt all companies to adopt policies that have nothing to do with the function of those businesses. Having worked in public companies I can tell you it's not about "stranded assets""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980642709984444560) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:29Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Fascinating that China is willing to pay $10bn for something that Starmer was willing to pay billions to get rid of. I wonder what value they can see that Starmer can't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980644108726341967) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:35Z 11.7K followers, 1800 engagements


"@TU_144_ @DanielPriestley Yep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980644596163186807) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:37Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@G0ADM "Sports deaths and procedures around crowd control including but not limited to: sporting events; cultural events; festive crowds.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980646889512120587) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:46Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The very best parodies are the ones where you're never quite sure if it's a parody or not. This is the da Vinci of parodies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980647265967747159) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:48Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"For the non-UK folks: The UK is paying something like $40bn to GIVE these islands to Mauritius. Mauritius then turned around and is selling one of the islands to China for $10bn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980647689642713326) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:49Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Starmer's UK Government: We don't want to be seen as colonialists so we're going to pay $40bn to give away the Chagos Islands Also Starmer's UK Government: Our Online Safety Laws supersede the constitution of the United States of America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980648641976283331) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T14:53Z 11.7K followers, 1209 engagements


"I've decided to be an LP in this guy's fund. But i have conditions: - I'm going to DD for ESG rules (I'm sure he'll be fine with that) - Plus I want to coinvest on every deal but under my own terms - Finally if the market turns I might demand he liquidates his portfolio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980655016177463494) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T15:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"One of the skillsets required to succeed in Labour is the ability to manipulate official procedures through tactics like changing the scope of reference or maliciously applying rules. You can see it being done in real time with the Oxford Union. For a senior Labour figure like Phillips is just second nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980669612325814494) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:16Z 11.7K followers, 2377 engagements


"@jonst0kes It's all theatre kid stuff that's escaped into the real world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980670495692673263) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:20Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@jonst0kes "So we performed this piece of performance theatre it as so dramatic we totally changed the narrative" It's how you end up with shit like this at every climate protest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980671311245398033) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@micsolana Given the prevalence of Adhan (call to prayer) apps on smartphones does it really need to be done over public loudspeaker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980671979431547162) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@jimmygandhi @micsolana No amplification no pre-recording. 🎯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980673497291526582) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:32Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@JakeWSimons 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980674722309288279) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:37Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Ah I see that normal service has resume at the NYT. Somehow this headline fails to mention Hamas repeatedly failing to meet the bits of the deal it DID agree to and then violating the rest of the deal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980677091264811128) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T16:46Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@prestonjbyrne I wonder if ANYONE in the UK government realises that the stupidity of the Online Safety Act opens the door so that any country can demand the UK comply with whatever regulation they may have cooked up that supersedes the laws of the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980690486974455937) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T17:39Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"I'm old enough to remember when stories would get pulled when they were this inaccurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980702534684819736) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T18:27Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@G0ADM Mahmood can say things that Phillips would be accused of racism if she said them. It's as stupid as that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980760799074193687) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T22:19Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The UK Labour government increased employer side taxes - only on private sector workers - and tried to claim that it wasn't a tax on workers. Staggering l dishonest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980907581951664276) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T08:02Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The UAE has this figured out. Immigrants are welcome permanently but conditionally - the condition being obeying the law and being economically productive. Once you're no longer employed your visa expires. It's not that complicated and people abide by it because they understand the economic argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980912396613960133) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T08:21Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@BoredElonMusk Still way too much gaming of the payouts system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980912984395264378) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T08:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"GDP per capita is much less of a scam. It's how we know that mass immigration is currently not working for the UK. Average earnings is currently being gamed by a Labour government paying out to unions. It's also inflationary. GDP per capita is a more reliable measure of economic growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980913552505417881) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T08:26Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Not huge surprises here but how the hell does "Gaza" even end up on this list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980942229356138963) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T10:20Z 11.7K followers, 1671 engagements


"@tomhfh @JLYucel @ukonward Mars and Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980942239846051918) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T10:20Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Question to pollsters - is it possible to generate polling questions or use polling methodology that ensures trade-offs are addressed If yes why is this not a common practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980952390292451386) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@garyb_pro @cjsnowdon Would you like wealthy people paying more tax Respondents: XXX% yes What if that results in wealthy people leaving the country and you're left to pay more tax Respondents: wait what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980953552529854477) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:05Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@garyb_pro @cjsnowdon I feel this should be a basic requirement of polling questions where there's plenty of evidence on the likely outcome of a response"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980955408240930999) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:12Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@peterrhague X full time employees THREE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980962296579993998) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:39Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@lindayaX @AutismCapital We should always be wary of very well educated very articulate high powered people with terrible ideas. Mainly because they believe themselves too educated to be wrong and they tend to be good at convincing other well educated articulate high powered people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980967103877566811) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:58Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@micsolana I just don't understand how he was convinced to pull out. Compared to him the other candidates are a clown show"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980968833595879480) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:05Z 11.7K followers, 2870 engagements


"@TheGriftReport @ZackPolanski TBH this is the least cringe thing he's done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980969819739459996) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@micsolana Goose chase meme How did the slaves *become* Muslims"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980974739553452412) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:29Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@micsolana If they do it's "Oh it wasn't the same when WE did it because insert cultural bullshit and really the slaves loved us.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980975504527421655) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@RoyDelfino @micsolana Yep. Do we really need to go into detail of why there's no cultural memory of the East African slave trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981027841757040789) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T16:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Has the science of generating electricity dramatically changed in the last hundred years Nuclear energy is the last major innovation and that's more than XX years old. Why do you need a chief scientific advisor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981029100572545351) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T16:05Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LoftusSteve Also this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981029297360900225) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T16:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tomhfh She was set upon by X officers. THREE Three full time staff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981037969671705082) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T16:40Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@waitbutwhy Bear in here that all this thread is based on projected colour - ie. Colour from light which operates in RGB. Whereas printed colour is mostly blended pigments in CMYK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981063081456521335) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:20Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"And here's why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981063984406041036) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"What you've described in your first example is also capitalism when employees own shares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981065964499488863) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:31Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Ninoinoz1 @maxtempers Yeah true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981076562951671889) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T19:13Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@VividProwess Because they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981077672814895104) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T19:18Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"This would be the right outcome. Phillips was clearly more interested in driving the inquiry in the direction that's politically convenient for Labour. It would have been a cover-up of decades of cover-ups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981252644304724433) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T06:53Z 11.7K followers, 1226 engagements


"How can you rescue a society this committed to its own decline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981253537607930260) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T06:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Or Syria. Of course they were. But people wanted to be fooled because all this really was about was hatred of Jews. It's really that simple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981255522297725252) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T07:05Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"It's only a phobia if the fear is irrational"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981258563583692940) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T07:17Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tomhfh @CityAM I'm going to pull you up on something: low cost energy is of enormous "social value""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981270581052944447) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T08:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This has always been the problem with Leftwing ideology. Proponents are captured by their own self-absorption claim they're taking a theoretical high road and then blaming "human nature" when they're proven wrong - as they always are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981271756246524170) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T08:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"It's the modern version of Lysenkoism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981278448745152600) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T08:36Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


""WHAT DO WE WANT" "MORE TAXES" "WHO DO WE TAX" "ANYONE RICHER THAN ME""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981302759019167869) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T10:12Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Seriously WTF is with warmings like this Why do we need a "Severe weather alert" for Moderate Rainfall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981331831979921783) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:08Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Adlestrop1914 @lfg_uk Unfortunately activists "for" usually earn the pejorative title "lobbyist". That's something that needs to change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981335807521595416) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:24Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Madz_Grant That was always the irony with Marx his grand macroeconomic theories were all totally wrong because he lived in an ivory tower. But his personal relationship with Engels is the prototype of the psychological interaction between socialists and society thereafter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981341001852817683) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:44Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The obvious but very wrong answer to this is usually: "Build batteries to fill in the gaps for renewables" Batteries are great if you're the US and Australia where you have predictable sun throughout the year and you need capacity for a few hours a day. But the UK can go weeks without sun or wind in winter. The battery capacity required to supply a week of the UK's electricity needs would cost TRILLIONS of . It really is just nuclear that does the job for the UK. For decades the UK had relatively cheap consistent electricity supplied by coal. The most straightforward response is to swap coal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981348832672960894) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T13:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Martinoleary @tomfgoodwin You find this all over the place politics is another example so is journalism same with marketing. People whose job it is to understand *everyone else* can't see past their own interests. Ironically we've never had better tools available to us to research other people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981635224434819356) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:13Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Zacnaloen @PalmerLuckey For various reasons my wife and I started way too late. Missed the chance to have kids and I'll always regret it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981637550386397339) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"One of the few reasons that property is a reasonably good investment compared to stocks is that it forces people to stick with the asset. You can lose lots of money trying to time the market and trade. With stocks you're better off picking something kind of boring and just ignoring your investment for years. That's exactly the behaviour inherent to property"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981644086248644727) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@rorysutherland Ok this is very interesting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981651773082472451) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:19Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Martinoleary @tomfgoodwin 🎯 Yes that's the point I was trying to make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981658774856499630) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:47Z 11.7K followers, X engagements


"Also again to be fair the final frame of the film looks at follow-on offerings in London (listed companies coming back to raise more capital) are holding up pretty well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981667286651208178) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@isnit0 Unfortunately politicians and media in both cases are utterly clueless which is how we end up with such terrible regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981669474119135553) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:29Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@bswud It seems to be happening with increasing frequency. correlated with terms like "my/your/their truth""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981690212079243649) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:52Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@garyb_pro I just don't understand the lack of agency these people possess "I don't want to think for myself and resent you for trying to do it". So weird. IMO this is a signal of a bot - the aim is to get people to give up and accept decline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981693482281677208) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:05Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@russellwarfield I'm sorry you have no idea what you're talking about. If you're not willing to pay a tax yourself but you're happy to get someone else to pay it you are the one being "punitive and cruel""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981696375877431530) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:16Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Itmustbetues @AndieforIndie @DanNeidle I think you've just demonstrated that you have no idea what you're talking about. Bye"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981697345445380531) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:20Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@adwooldridge It doesn't seem to be an impediment these days. Parties get voted on based on vibes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981699154486415435) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:27Z 11.7K followers, X engagements


"Lol good luck Lefties"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980889376633835888) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T06:50Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@John_Stepek My proposal: The Pensions Single Lock - pensions grow (or shrink) at the same rate as UK GDP per capita"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980889744109084965) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T06:51Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Nelson definitely met his OKRs and delivered synergistically for stakeholders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980908081199423603) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T08:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tomfgoodwin This is what's driving it IMO:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980938276232974832) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T10:04Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Who could have possibly predicted this would happen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980945790995427637) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T10:34Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@ewpaisley Possibly yes but it's just as likely that advocates (incorrectly) assumed that the costs would be borne by food companies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980952703908958474) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:01Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@cjsnowdon Handy reminder with any polling data:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980961033410764978) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:34Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Loneliness Epidemic: Latest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980986837486420030) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T13:17Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@micsolana It's notable that there's not much cultural memory of it. possibly because slavers for the East African slave trade (ie. the Arab slavers) had the habit of castrating male slaves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980988059094257782) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T13:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@KTmBoyle @CBS @survivorcbs Smoking was what we did to keep ourselves occupied before we started Doomscrolling. Likewise the whole "look at when the smartphone was invented" meme also coincides with "look when indoor smoking bans happened""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980989117673644123) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T13:26Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The following X things happened in the UK within X months of each other in 2007: - Indoor smoking bans (July) - Northern Rock bank run (September) - iPhone released (November) Bear this in mind when extrapolating from charts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980990533716890010) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T13:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tomfgoodwin Tbh this is most companies. It's just tech is a high profile very open industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981001101676794012) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T14:14Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"I guess it's not essential to be economically illiterate to be a socialist but I'm sure it helps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981044157725515853) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T17:05Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@NeilDotObrien @WalkerMarcus That's pretty much literally it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981048630917140831) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T17:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Shot Chaser"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981065306148917604) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:29Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Almost every problem with rental and property (especially in London) comes down to lack of supply. Even shitty landlord stuff. If your landlord (or agent) knows you'll struggle to find a new place to live in there's no incentive to provide you with good service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981255232416804869) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T07:03Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Madz_Grant TBH Marx was very much about getting stuff for free (from Engels) and resenting him for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981297835099173100) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T09:53Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@huskyjayhawk IMO it's not empathy it's guilt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981322955125608614) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T11:32Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Instead we've spent XX years building: - Wind: Highly variable source that costs money when there's too much wind and costs money when there's not enough - Solar: UK latitudes mean we don't get enough sun and lack of east/west spread means we can't dispatch electricity to meet demand like say China US or Australia - Gas: Spot rates jump at the point where you need energy the most because renewables aren't delivering. This is a shared failure across northern Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981344169462579251) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@peterrhague Interesting question: many pharmaceuticals have a use-by date. What's the use-by date on cocaine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981631629249405406) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T07:59Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"The UK claims it needs to give away Chagos to Mauritius because of "Colonialism". Yeah re "Colonialism" how about this aspect a) UK is entirely disregarding the wishes of the Chagossians b) Mauritius is selling out to India and China Claims of Colonialism are purely cynical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980313490419245466) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-20T16:41Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The real problem is "how is this guy still polling well" Like New York is going to be fucked but it will be fucking itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980953182218915929) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T11:03Z 11.7K followers, 5439 engagements


"@micsolana Can someone explain why Adams pulled out He seemed like the only viable candidate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980967792796225683) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:01Z 11.7K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@micsolana 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980969139943415949) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T12:07Z 11.7K followers, 4341 engagements


"@huskyjayhawk It's not empathy though because empathy requires the ability to see something from another's perspective. That's not what's happening here at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981332491605545150) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:10Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@nfergus City University's business school - Bayes - changed its name in a panic in 2021 because a handful of students complained about the original name - Cass - because John Cass was connected to the slave trade. Apparently they'll only respond to CERTAIN types of political pressure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981344877393944578) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T13:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@ClaireCoutinho Please do this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981651327597052184) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:17Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"US - Population: 340m GDP (ppp): $30.5tn EU - Population: 450m GDP (ppp): $28tn China - Population: 1.4bn GDP (ppp): 40tn The EU has a population and economy that *should* positioned as a global behemoth. But somehow the EU is *less* than the sum of its parts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981706532116218149) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@eigenrobot @G0ADM @mehdirhasan It's only a phobia if the fear is irrational"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980905499450306692) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T07:54Z 11.7K followers, 3681 engagements


"@cjsnowdon I'm convinced that a large part of the problem of governing by polls is that polls are based on questions that rarely (if ever) address trade-offs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980951672550523263) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T10:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The biggest danger to the security of the UK has always been from the Left because politically and culturally we are blind it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981263610513858975) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T07:37Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The mistake here is to use the pejorative "Low road/High road". One of these paths was based on ideology and delusion the other was based on markets and reality. Unfortunately the UK chose the road of delusion because it felt better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981269813059342423) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T08:01Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Surely they should have forced him to watch Adolescence. Right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981301543493378287) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T10:07Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@FutureJurvetson @pmarca Europe's greatest weakness is that the EU cannot conceive of a "solution" that does not come from the EU itself. In the US private companies drive innovation private comments don't do it in Europe because they're squeezed out by the EU because the state must be supreme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981472816181522734) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T21:28Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@mttgrmm @IbrahimS15 Well said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981484284553626075) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T22:14Z 11.7K followers, 1131 engagements


"Oh look once again the media is outraged about something @PalmerLuckey said and which he will be proven right about in a few years time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981631279951954174) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T07:58Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This seems an odd thing to be doing at a time when the UK should be spending more on Defence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981633263509618714) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@isnit0 Make the globe being carried on his shoulders a digital sphere like the one in Vegas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981657340559626689) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:41Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@wallaceme Meanwhile our cultural institutions are feeding us stuff like Adolescence. Is there such a thing as "cultural sabotage" Because this is what this is and the motivations behind it feel deeply ideological"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981657940227670269) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:44Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@willesdenchess1 @s8mb @lfg_uk @pursuitofprog It's actually very very Labour. Look at the way London has voted for Mayor for years. Boris was a very rare exception"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981677247691117034) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@JenniferSey There's a reason why totalitarian ideologues use children as their shock troops - because they're morally undeveloped and very easily brainwashed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981683526870376670) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:25Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@VoteTimBarnes 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981684747102523818) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:30Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Lol you have no idea what you're talking about. For the last decade the UK has been increasingly statist in almost every area - energy property healthcare transport industry - the state has become dominant whether by regulation or price controls. The UK is screwed precisely because it DOESN'T have "neoliberal economics""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981690806017593564) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:54Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Ah yes the ever consistent appeal to authority from low agency people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981691174613348540) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:56Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Energy - price controls and no functioning markets Healthcare - price controls and no functioning markets Property - Building/planning controls and no functioning markets Transport - Natural monopolies state sanctioned minimal functioning market Water - Lousy regulation badly drafted privatisation. I could go on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981695976801812909) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:15Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Somewhere in BBC Scotland: "Did you know that an AI data centre uses XX million bottles of water a year" "What size of bottle" "That doesn't matter. XX million sounds like a lot doesn't it" "I guess so but how does that compare with residential usage Or waste by leaks Or other industries" "That's irrelevant this is tech companies using it" "But doesn't water get recycled And doesn't Scotland have a lot of rain" "I'm calling HR this is climate denial." "Fair point what resources do you need to make the story""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1979831585789587608) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-19T08:46Z 11.7K followers, 143.5K engagements


"@maxtempers Given people are more likely to be in accidents near where they live it would be interesting to do heatmaps on the locations of accidents and compare that with existing census heatmaps of different ethnicities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981645282581594209) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:53Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Ok so this is pretty good from @Bloomberg But once again we see 2006-7 being used as "London used to do this" when we can see what historical outliers they were. As we also know a lot of this stuff was. ahem. questionable listings on AIM which tightened up thereafter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981666674404385254) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:18Z 11.7K followers, 1149 engagements


"Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981669063307956710) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:28Z 11.7K followers, 1216 engagements


"A meteorite is about to land on the UK rental market and it's being cheered on by the media and policymakers. Of course in a few years time we'll see the inevitable Guardian articles about "unexpected" effects on the rental market. The UK is *so* cooked right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981682496929685966) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:21Z 11.7K followers, 1004 engagements


"Let's put this in human terms. Imagine if Zack said "We don't use personal levels of income to measure health and wellbeing" he'd be laughed out of the room by his own party. That's because people who earn more are usually healthy and have a better standard of living. It's usually the same with countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981799363039928803) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@John_Stepek @MerrynSW @CharlieCapel One gripe: Any discussion of London listings needs to accept that 2006-07 is NOT a reasonable baseline for comparison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981801720737837158) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:15Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Goodguybarry @ZackPolanski Ok genius now do Sweden with literally any country in Africa or South America or most of Asia. You see how this works Probably not because you totally ignored the qualifying statement in my previous post. Moron"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981820189722513599) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T20:28Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


""European Imperialism" oh come on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981867776685097146) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T23:37Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@antoniogm Ironically Trump is totally Peronist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982000145878155390) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Martinoleary 🎯 One of my biggest marketing gripes. It's driven by the corruption of brand marketing by social media people who prize attention and engagement over everything else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982010573194739954) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T09:05Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Martinoleary Here's a related example:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982011557602083113) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T09:09Z 11.7K followers, XX 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](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1978373466005910010) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-15T08:12Z 11.7K followers, 6449 engagements


"If nothing else this is an excellent example of what happens to democratic processes when "Democratic Socialists" have a sniff of power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1980530556086661192) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-21T07:04Z 11.7K followers, 4664 engagements


"@ArchRose90 There will be but the pictures will be swapped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981064801477677528) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:27Z 11.7K followers, 11.9K engagements


"This is the right outcome. People shouldn't work at places they disagree with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981065653068190079) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:30Z 11.7K followers, 1683 engagements


"@shaunmmaguire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981066721516802537) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-22T18:34Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Frankly the UK is a hideous mess at the moment because too many people think "I had an experience like this" but never bother to think through the second order effects of policies. We are failed by a political and media caste who are ignorant of their own ignorance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981252037821055037) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T06:51Z 11.7K followers, 12.3K engagements


"There aren't many silver bullets in climate policy but for the UK "just build nuclear" is just that. If the UK paid Kepco $6bn per 1Gw plant (what they charged Czechia) the UK could meet its entire electricity needs for roughly XX% of the NHS *annual* budget"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981343187924111605) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T12:53Z 11.7K followers, 1121 engagements


"The problem the UK faces right now is that too many politicians will look at this and rather than seeing a very obvious trap of human psychology they'll see a path to winning votes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981445976939212951) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-23T19:41Z 11.7K followers, 7055 engagements


"@s8mb @lfg_uk @pursuitofprog Sadiq wins not because he's any good but because voters vote by habit and along "community" lines. There's a reason why London is more Labour than most of the rest of the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981623050337501489) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T07:25Z 11.7K followers, 3081 engagements


"@BurnsideWasTosh @Mr_Andrew_Fox @ukhomeoffice We all know what they mean when they say "community" don't we"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981631816076497036) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@MerrynSW 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981634305802596600) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:10Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Martinoleary @tomfgoodwin In this kind of environment the only way it's possible to not try and understand the interests of others is that it's never occurred to you that your job is to understand them. And that's the problem. Everyone exists in a bubble of "lived experience""  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981635646616900094) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T08:15Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@VintageMrHobbes @maxtempers I don't think it's just social housing. If large numbers of people immigrate from places with. ahem. questionable driving practises. and aren't required to retake driving tests then naturally those driving practises will be more common on UK roads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981648056992084334) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:04Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@TypeForVictory Look at it this way: When you do a job do you expect to get paid only enough to cover your cost of living No you expect to get paid more because that allows you to put aside money for the future. That's EXACTLY what profit is for businesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981658615653273770) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:46Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Hey question for you (as an artist): Do you think it's fair that you're paid to sell art purely at the cost of materials and time you took to create it Because if you expect to be paid more than the cost of inputs you're seeking a profit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981660278287941694) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T09:53Z 11.7K followers, 7077 engagements


"@cjsnowdon Also this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981667795923501156) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:23Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tanstaafl_muc 🎯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981668749431509097) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:27Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"It depends on what form of "Inequality". Feudal style (or indeed communist style) inequality where most of a fixed pie of capital is captured by a few people is really bad. Capitalist inequality where the pie grows for everyone but some grow faster than others isn't socially or economically damaging. It's most often a consequence of long periods of peace and prosperity. Incidentally the only sure-fire way to create "equality" is by killing lots of people - wars revolutions plagues etc - are fantastic ways to create equality. Anyone keen on that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981673881204031811) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:47Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"People react quite differently to "profit" when you put it in personal terms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981674613500448919) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T10:50Z 11.7K followers, 1010 engagements


"@kieran__duff Unfortunately yes i did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981679626717135138) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:10Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"The Left has a weirdly deranged relationship with "profit". They've demonised something that's enormously beneficial if nothing else because profitable businesses usually grow and provide more employment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981680623065686186) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:14Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@JenniferSey One of the specific problems of Western society is the deification of children. We have been conditioned to see children as somehow more 'purely connected' to an innate knowledge. But instead they're inexperienced driven by hormones and very easily manipulated but adults"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981681151145398315) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:16Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@bswud We're particularly screwed because almost everyone has had a shitty experience of being a tenant and politicians are incapable of seeing past their own experiences when creating legislation:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981685501276143895) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T11:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@prestonjbyrne I've literally never heard of this group before. I'd suggest this was astroturfing but my guess is they exist entirely on taxpayer money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981697694545678394) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:22Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LoftusSteve Dense is probably the wrong word given the sparsity of their braincells"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981700185853243402) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:31Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@tunguz The thing that's most fucked up about this is that paying this much is by choice. There's nothing inherent to building nuclear power stations that makes it this expensive. Kepco can build a high standard 1Gw station for $6bn a pop. Paying more is a choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981701101863985465) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:35Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@andrew_lilico 👇The UK is so cooked:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981703008095531470) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T12:43Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"In the film "Minority Report" people are arrested before they commit a crime because police know they're going to commit a crime. In the UK 2025 criminals are accidentally released from custody because police know they're going to be released from custody anyway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981790828696621519) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T18:32Z 11.7K followers, 4065 engagements


"Coincidentally the film would still be called Minority Report (for now)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981791599928688900) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T18:35Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@LoftusSteve I'm sorry you've made the mistake of thinking a Socialist has any comprehension of economics. If Socialists understood economics they wouldn't be Socialists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981798041901310220) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:00Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Handy reminder: If Socialists understood economics they wouldn't be Socialists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981798169785536600) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:01Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@CapX @isnit0 @shivmalik You might find this an interesting read: (PDF) Tech Country: Looking beyond London in search of Britain's technological future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981798640437100676) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T19:03Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@JamieClapton1 @ZackPolanski What on earth are you talking about I can only assume this made more sense inside your head"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981819231374066174) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T20:24Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@JamieClapton1 @ZackPolanski Apparently you're missing the "richer countries tend to be healthier in the same way richer people tend to be richer" but sure ok whatever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981857320259964968) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T22:56Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Newsflash: Zack's stans are as stupid as Zack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981857717850665093) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T22:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Gutted to find I haven't been included. more work needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981872596233679118) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-24T23:57Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@NoisyMV Nope. It's accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981984738999947652) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T07:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@s8mb It's depressing how the defining feature of the Left is zero understanding of human nature and therefore zero accounting for human behaviour when developing policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981985453659066527) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T07:25Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@DanielPriestley @CeeMacBee Sadly I can't see that happening anytime soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981992180651880947) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T07:52Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@s8mb Actually the depressing bit is that these idiots are in office"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981994573988520278) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:01Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@Gav_Griffiths @DanielPriestley @CeeMacBee 🎯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981994577994141933) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:01Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"omg just stop spending money you don't have its really not that fucking difficult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981997782962418031) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:14Z 11.7K followers, 1036 engagements


"It's amazing how far you can get in UK politics in 2025 by having no brain and no understanding of the world but speaking very confidently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981998888580981203) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@isnit0 @daniel_sawko QQ: what does this mean exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1981999457995522397) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:21Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"To be fair he was pushing on an open door when it comes to Europe's passion for regulation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982000288950370365) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:24Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Sorry that's not how immigration works. We don't hand out citizenship to people when they arrive (well we don't yet). Visas are conditional and subject to change. That is the nature of ILR. Other countries don't hand out citizenship to just anyone. We shouldn't either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982001964616450476) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:31Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Accusing someone of "racism" in the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982002975598928068) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:35Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Erm. We already have this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982007081541529676) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:51Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"This. Hey blood is on the hands of everyone who: - advocates open borders - tries to elide the difference between genuine refugees and obvious economic migrants - who took a benevolent view of people throwing away their documents - is scared of being called racist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982008249105703168) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:56Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@wallaceme 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982008563506807266) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T08:57Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"@isnit0 @daniel_sawko So it's a form of leasehold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982010020867797502) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T09:03Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


"Re-upping this. once again. for obvious reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982012299062980659) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T09:12Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"At this point a large part of UK media academia arts and politics is effectively a botnet that has been directed to destroy thousands of years of cultural and historical development"  
[X Link](https://x.com/mr_james_c/status/1982013150959370338) [@mr_james_c](/creator/x/mr_james_c) 2025-10-25T09:15Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements