# ![@botzarelli Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::171459113.png) @botzarelli AB

AB posts on X about ab, in the, level, the big the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::171459113/interactions)
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### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::171459113/posts_active)
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### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::171459113/followers)
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- [--] Months [-----] +3.10%
- [--] Year [-----] +5.20%

### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::171459113/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  8.65% [countries](/list/countries)  5.41% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  3.24% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  2.7% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.62% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.62% [currencies](/list/currencies)  1.62% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.62% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  1.08% [premier league](/list/premier-league)  1.08%

**Social topic influence**
[ab](/topic/ab) #1459, [in the](/topic/in-the) 3.78%, [level](/topic/level) 2.7%, [the big](/topic/the-big) 2.16%, [london](/topic/london) 2.16%, [folks](/topic/folks) 2.16%, [staff](/topic/staff) #1717, [money](/topic/money) 1.62%, [at least](/topic/at-least) 1.62%, [fun](/topic/fun) 1.62%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@emmablack77](/creator/undefined) [@simonmagus](/creator/undefined) [@roundhousesmc](/creator/undefined) [@carlchambe84398](/creator/undefined) [@mysteriosox](/creator/undefined) [@vjfreeman](/creator/undefined) [@scynic1](/creator/undefined) [@wargit](/creator/undefined) [@heccles94](/creator/undefined) [@trukb22](/creator/undefined) [@burgeoisiee](/creator/undefined) [@portraitinflesh](/creator/undefined) [@booby_hill69](/creator/undefined) [@scepticalsista](/creator/undefined) [@organisedpauper](/creator/undefined) [@witchworst](/creator/undefined) [@rcolvile](/creator/undefined) [@funky_boite](/creator/undefined) [@kifatlarge](/creator/undefined) [@lucytrims](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)](/topic/$uber)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Not really assuming you planned on eating in future weeks. Store cupboard stuff for that list (things for one country may be used for other cuisines) French: garlic salt pepper maybe a jar of dried tarragon bay leaves mixed herbs a small bottle of cheap brandy white wine vinegar Italian: olive oil dried oregano a wedge of parmesan olives pasta maybe a bottle of balsamic vinegar canned tomatoes Mexican: canned beans cumin chillies dried/powdered paprika rice Thai: coconut milk star anise dried cilantro red/green jar pastes ginger noodles peanut butter Indian: turmeric fenugreek garam masala"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2018790037559652509)  2026-02-03T20:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Its an incredibly crowded field these days but the actual most irritating thing about American food Twitter is how they call pretty much all types of pasta noodles. made buttered noodles. was $3000 for the ingredients and i had to hire a crime scene clean up crew to take care of the dirty kitchen afterward. all in $4800 https://t.co/lufsvhm1Gl made buttered noodles. was $3000 for the ingredients and i had to hire a crime scene clean up crew to take care of the dirty kitchen afterward. all in $4800 https://t.co/lufsvhm1Gl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2019888982637600804)  2026-02-06T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@kifatlarge They dont eat tortoises though. I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020073194179153964)  2026-02-07T09:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@guywalters Yes. Though maybe the contraction/expansion from the changes in temperature and pressure going up and coming down could have that effect. Where is metallurgy Twitter when you need it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020171769748013482)  2026-02-07T16:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TheImmortalKop Loved him for what he did for us but cant help but wonder what Andrews might have been getting with Mbeumo and Wissa available through since preseason. But thatd be mad talk of a title challenge. Maybe next season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020289712259493925)  2026-02-08T00:12Z [----] followers, 16.4K engagements


"Not so much in countries where you dont need to be that rich to do the sports. A weeks lift pass in the biggest European ski areas typically costs less than a day pass in the major US ones. A Bulgarian [--] year old won gold in Snowboard parallel giant slalom. Bulgaria is still pretty poor but was grindingly poor 25-30 years ago when he was a kid just starting out. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020518777155141652 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020518777155141652"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020518777155141652)  2026-02-08T15:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If youve not skied and are watching the biathlon relay youll probably not realise quite how hard going uphill at their pace is. Imagine if you were a bunch of lads in San Francisco out for a few light beers and the sort of slope youd take an 800m uber ride for. But as part of a 24km journey where youve got to control your heartrate and breathing to do target shooting every 6km. #WinterOlympics https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020528162631746012 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020528162631746012"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020528162631746012)  2026-02-08T16:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Outtara is not yet better than Mbeumo but I think in a season or two he will be. We couldnt have made him our biggest ever signing without expecting him to be capable immediately of performing at our level but we always buy with a view to where a player can get to. Both he and Thiago should hopefully be even better next season. Im also v excited by the next tranche coming through- Donovan Nunes Furo. Bookmark those for 27/28 when people go how did Brentford pick these ballers up https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020534028202278932 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020534028202278932"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020534028202278932)  2026-02-08T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Jan_Leeming Also in more child-friendly continental cultures they dont mind the children not being quiet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020570473046708496)  2026-02-08T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@emmablack77 @LucyTrims I think the boys got overheard by a teacher as they were still laughing about it as they got back to school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020623873893666947)  2026-02-08T22:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@walloper2025 @London_W4 @MysteriosoX IIRC theres a Partridge episode where hes in Dixons and presses all the CD eject buttons remarking nice action to the best"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020662766470873370)  2026-02-09T00:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RonnLennon The Big is money from stadium size commercial etc not success. They (and the other 5) would be almost certainly top [--] by money even if relegated to the Championship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020669985211715880)  2026-02-09T01:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DominicKing_DM 5th spot decider last game of the season v Brentford at Anfield too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020670636754874448)  2026-02-09T01:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@polypocketknife Worse much worse- lots of high power folks in the US these days right up to the President seem fine with calling people retards or at least implying it. Itd be an immediate resignation if a senior British business leader or politician said spaz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020686906468765895)  2026-02-09T02:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Sports fans by this definition are like opera fans. The reality is most of us are fans of our teams. I dont spend 8+ hours driving to see the best football game every other week or spend thousands to fly to see the NFL game of the season. I go to see MY team and Ill take a lucky win or a valiant defeat over the best. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020696973108470009 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020696973108470009"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020696973108470009)  2026-02-09T03:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Its pretty popular in America too. It wouldnt be a huge surprise if as many Americans watched the World Cup final this year as watched the Superbowl yesterday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020797915636039786)  2026-02-09T09:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Oh no schools which select by academic ability demonstrated by grinding out test scores get filled with kids famous globally for being pushed hard by their families to grind out test scores Grammar schools in the UK appear to be deliberately excluding White pupils This one has been completely captured by Indians to the extent that they are even opening a school in India [---] Indians and [--] British kids The things that go on in our country are absolutely outrageous https://t.co/IXLvyCEKxH Grammar schools in the UK appear to be deliberately excluding White pupils This one has been completely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020798801066205297)  2026-02-09T09:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nwnatur I think the words you are looking for are white/brown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020822136395321542)  2026-02-09T11:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It is of course a made up number. Nobody watched in Europe. Almost nobody in Africa and Asia even had a TV to watch it even if they had any idea what the Super Bowl was let alone be tuning in at 1am for the singing in the middle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021147808296783926)  2026-02-10T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@peterrhague Ironically most of the ones coming out and not understanding seem to be the ones with the best paying jobs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021148147993448538)  2026-02-10T09:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Gloshuaslgu @an0n_Nic The government means the taxpayer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021193067353563259)  2026-02-10T12:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@lukas_ohl @babbageismus Its needed grind for decades. Otherwise the entry levels from state primary schools in Kent Bucks etc rather than independent prep schools would be way higher"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021244588095160728)  2026-02-10T15:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DuncanStott I commute from Leeds to Sheffield by car. At rush hour the journey door to door takes 50-55 minutes. In an average car the round trip would take about [---] gallons of petrol. Which is much cheaper than the train even without the journeys at either end to and from the stations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021251067363701200)  2026-02-10T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@secretclubprov Its also not sustainable for society because none of them will be net contributors of tax either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021258504460238865)  2026-02-10T16:22Z [----] followers, 39.4K engagements


"I dont think America is remotely ready for pubs serving cheap booze and food no tips music or TV and children being welcome. I would LOVE a Wetherspoons in America I would LOVE a Wetherspoons in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021263764914344095)  2026-02-10T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ScepticalSista @lukas_ohl Read this I beg you. They then do a ton of all that other good stuff. But only for the top [---] scoring boys taking the test. https://issuu.com/qebarnet1573/docs/qes_admissions_guide_2026_entryff&hideShareButton=true&backgroundColorFullscreen=%23fff5f5 https://issuu.com/qebarnet1573/docs/qes_admissions_guide_2026_entryff&hideShareButton=true&backgroundColorFullscreen=%23fff5f5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021281795514237344)  2026-02-10T17:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ive said that throughout. Admissions are 100% academic the schools do other stuff after. That school does a ton of that stuff. If parents dont want them to do it with brown boys thats on them. Its got nothing to do with socialisation concerns. Its a superb school recognised as such. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021289003748593826 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021289003748593826"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021289003748593826)  2026-02-10T18:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MisanthropeGirl @BenRamanauskas Theyll also get to enjoy trying to get to their colleagues in Darlington and discovering its harder from Brum than London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021560601550745777)  2026-02-11T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think Nicks problem is he really wants to carry on with his white collar job and have a home wife kids etc like folks of his age got to do without thinking about it a generation ago. That can be helped by policies. But not in time for him. He could just go and do fun stuff but doesnt want to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021685302415475177)  2026-02-11T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@michael_merrick @SimonMagus @John_Stepek Sadly its about the same in my suburban Leeds local. Unless I get served by one of the longer term bar staff who give me a regulars discount"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021859950562324553)  2026-02-12T08:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @SCynic1 I suspect those folks going round and making lists dont have a DPO and privacy compliance policy. Theres a massive difference between being trained at work on what your employers expectations and processes are and applying that to outside work situations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021887902226022726)  2026-02-12T10:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @SCynic1 Im just going to laugh darkly at the idea that its not incredibly difficult in practice for political parties to train and police their elected members and volunteers on data privacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021890611293430152)  2026-02-12T10:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ive had to choose write or review those as well as the policies and procedures to implement privacy laws in UK EU and the world for companies with the resources and leverage over employees to enforce. Ive also done the same for a big political party at a local level as a volunteer. Which is why I laugh darkly about it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021895014649901554 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021895014649901554"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021895014649901554)  2026-02-12T10:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @SCynic1 Face to face training is v expensive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021906118893875249)  2026-02-12T11:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @SCynic1 Both first aid and fire safety awareness are a lot more narrowly defined and capable of being trained by volunteers than GDPR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021913139215052905)  2026-02-12T11:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@surplustakes @WarGit @John_Stepek @ianpacemain All the folks moaning about the unemployability and lack of business skills of graduates probably want Ruskin shut down despite it actually providing popular courses in business and management while valuing Classicists more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2021983557259002090)  2026-02-12T16:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@liamb0117 [--] is the best and most fun. But more for those of us who enjoyed lower league football and are not ashamed of those days"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022237508520833378)  2026-02-13T09:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@israel_ajoje Stoke City provides free coach travel to all away games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022243639985061957)  2026-02-13T09:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Media narratives are fun. Way back in July I was invited on to Talksport to discuss Brentfords preseason friendly at Gil Vicente and our prospects for the season under Keith Andrews. Theyd had folks like Rory Jennings banging on about us being doomed and how us getting found out for being tinpot was overdue. I said as fans we trusted in the club its processes and judgement. The performance even in that game weeks into KAs time as head coach showed that continuity. Ive not been invited back https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022247233584779489 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022247233584779489"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022247233584779489)  2026-02-13T09:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My son and I tried to import it into the Euro final in [----]. The big club/international game fans around us had never heard it but we got our block doing it because it they immediately got it was fun. It is best when it can be followed up by scoring and being able to sing its all your fault"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022254682320601286)  2026-02-13T10:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Funky_Boite @liamb0117 The one that made me laugh the most was years back when the opposition had Steve Mildenhall in goal. Some complete genius started a chant of youre just an airbase in Suffolk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022257017553928221)  2026-02-13T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BR3N7FORD No in reality we gave them the idea in the first place but their fans forgot that bit. Arteta earlier in the week acknowledged it. A lot of their set piece folks are ex-Brentford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022262116254699929)  2026-02-13T10:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @walegates IIRC in Kent the majority getting into the grammars have come from private schools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022281972068851958)  2026-02-13T12:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Im not sure its accurate to say he ran for leader as a Corbynite. He was when I saw him during the contest quite careful to say Labour should neither trash the achievements of the Blair/Brown governments nor those of Corbyn. In fact Im struck on rereading my thoughts from that time a month after the [----] GE and two months prior to Covid lockdown how consistent he stayed with much of what he said then and how my impressions of the risks he faced from his personality and lack of policy substance have come to pass since he became PM. Long-Bailey was very much the Corbynite alternative."  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022293299537604994)  2026-02-13T12:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Grr Im annoyed all over again by having lost at home to Forest. Last ten games Brentford an ourselves are the two most in form sides. Thats probably going to go down as a really good point https://t.co/dU6i1Xhcnz Last ten games Brentford an ourselves are the two most in form sides. Thats probably going to go down as a really good point https://t.co/dU6i1Xhcnz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022298658276819203)  2026-02-13T13:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Though what he actually said I think was 50% having some experience of higher education. Which is not the same thing as 50% doing full time degrees. Im not entirely convinced that theres been a big and unjustified increase in graduate only jobs. Police officer is the main one. Regarding nursing etc its really only a rebranding of the higher level qualifications that were always needed and a shift away from them being entirely funded by tax. The loss of graduate premium is far more due to the minimum wage having grown by way more than general wage inflation over the same period. IIRC the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022308248716488847)  2026-02-13T13:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@XO_DYLXN @ChrisMDSmith79 @georgia_wwfc Even that makes no sense when you see how little shirt sales make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022371829109715150)  2026-02-13T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The school in Barnet everyone was losing it over for being filled with Indians gets about a quarter of each year into Oxbridge. Thats Eton level success. And Oxbridge is quite well-known for its interview process looking a long way past the bare grades. As they also get 85% of all their A Levels at A or A* the rest are also very likely to get into top universities. It is possible their rugby teams not what it once was. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022373588175589799 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022373588175589799"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022373588175589799)  2026-02-13T18:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yes- I think what it is most likely to do is lead to good firms getting juniors still to do work AI could do because otherwise theyll not have their next generation. Itll take out some jobs but probably drive up prices among the better firms. Much as juniors at the Big Law firms have long done automatable stuff but still been paid six figure starting salaries for it because theyre learning. It may kill off the billable hour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022384701684547736)  2026-02-13T18:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Zaphod2042 I had a BMW M440i [--] door coupe. V fast nice engine noise adults could fit the back seat boot big and with seats folded could bring an [--] foot Xmas tree home. Theres a cabrio and smaller engines if you want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022427439515996181)  2026-02-13T21:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@emmablack77 @CarlChambe84398 I think in playing Shag Marry Kill a lot would go for shag and absolutely not marry him. Thats still a big win when a lot of politicians elicit the kill response"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022637694254485727)  2026-02-14T11:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Lovely reminiscences from an underrated key player in the team and a key part of the clubs culture and history. I imagine the journey is one which his [--] year old self could barely have imagined. If KOC were ever to leave the club itd be like the ravens leaving the Tower 👑🐝 Kevin OConnor made his Brentford debut on this day in [----] Kevin played [---] games for us and has since become a key member of our first-team coaching staff In a letter to his 17-year-old self Kevin reflects on the moments and people that have shaped his life in football 👑🐝 Kevin OConnor made his Brentford debut on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023001312783450589)  2026-02-15T11:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tomhfh @LaurenMaeve Relative poverty is even sillier because x10 everyones income increases it and x0.5 reduces it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023006056482554356)  2026-02-15T12:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think almost all of the public sector productivity issues are manifestations of making them do more work to achieve the same outcomes. So streamlining the processes and considerations immigration officials have to do would help a lot. But the logistical side would need many more people to carry it out at least in the short to medium term to clear the backlog. I dont think anyones at all bothered about taking that stuff seriously as a practical issue. Which is why some just moan about why we dont simply sink the boats and machine gun the survivors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023049335278088612)  2026-02-15T14:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Yes across everything weve just piled on more policies for public sector workers to implement. Individually most have some merit and many would poll strongly but the impact on the core work and trade offs are largely ignored. But I think the only leader whos attempted to raise the concept of trade offs is Kemi and unfortunately its just a bit too dull and pragmatic a line to compete with the general desire for simple solutions and common sense. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023051369628807376 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023051369628807376"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023051369628807376)  2026-02-15T15:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FTBLsection Reminds me of when Eriksen joined Brentford. It took a couple of games for team mates to learn that they just needed to learn to get in the right place as hell have already seen where they ought to be running to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023425711210734055)  2026-02-16T15:54Z [----] followers, 20K engagements


"@fredsoda Also I suspect the Ivy League Asians arent mucking around majoring in History"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022803194175189092)  2026-02-14T22:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Obs_Martina @JohnPretty2o2o @michael_merrick Yes basically they were getting marginal around the time of WW1 and entirely impractical for most family owners. The Depression probably did for quite a lot more and by the end of WW2 there were shortages both of owners and the people whod previously have been their staff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023433709693870430)  2026-02-16T16:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CFCDray @Amandjnx Nice for the fans and the players. Less nice for a club which not long after went down to L1 where its spent most seasons since 2013"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022727645608235209)  2026-02-14T17:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CarlChambe84398 Schengen not such an issue as you can still have border controls for security and public health. It might actually end the small boat crossings by enabling us to put illegals back on the plane ferry etc they came in on. If we could be bothered in practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023042749168226747)  2026-02-15T14:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrganisedPauper It probably predates this but I think it was done a lot in the protests about Sarah Everards murder to focus on her as a person rather than on her murderer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023047957877002391)  2026-02-15T14:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LukeSmith050825 @ColeFusionHQ Id hazard a guess also that while parents of high attendance high engagement kids would love to take cheaper term time holidays the vast majority dont because they see a less fancy holiday as part of supporting their kids and they understand the value of attendance at school"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023088904098791775)  2026-02-15T17:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@OrganisedPauper @bugsandfishes Paternal- [--] who survived to adulthood (and all lived into at least their 80s) several more who didnt. Maternal [--] and one who died as an infant. I have a LOT of cousins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023109716688421023)  2026-02-15T18:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CarlChambe84398 @emmablack77 Also if the queue for EU is much shorter and has an immigration officer in the booth just join it with your UK passport. Theyll check it and let you through because they have authority to and its quicker and less hassle for them than pointing you to queue again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023123883721662736)  2026-02-15T19:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RoundhouseSmc @Heccles94 Fine with that. Can still be British though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023360648835448911)  2026-02-16T11:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WolfOfClapham Very simple to do by just mandating the use of the existing range of Sharia compliant financial products. Not sure thats quite what theyre aiming at though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023364466910347433)  2026-02-16T11:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I had always assumed the HRA would be repealed as part of it but tbh havent kept up with all the detail. I think itd be far easier and more effective to just repeal the HRA and remove all the causes of action plus ability to strike down infringing rules. The enforcement mechanism in Strasbourg is sufficiently slow expensive and unwieldy that other than under a Starmer with an international law fetish its only exceptionally of use. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023428200802517171 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023428200802517171"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023428200802517171)  2026-02-16T16:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@emmablack77 @andrew_lilico @SteveBakerFRSA There are a lot of very odd and misguided people with big youtube viewing figures. There are even more sensible people who have no more of an audience for their views than their friends and family. Many of whom dont even spend much time listening to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022770654513070130)  2026-02-14T20:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The weird thing is since Otley Road got narrowed so cars are stuck behind buses and the bike lanes put in it has become less congested. The thing Leeds lacks is cross town and radial bus routes (eg I often go from Far Headingley to Horsforth but car/taxi is the only way). But even those are much lower volume than would merit BRT or trams. There would be merit in extending rail out to the new developments earmarked for East Leeds Orbital. Faster transit from Otley via Bramhope too (eg the original Headingley tram route extended out and to take in the airport). But those are decades away from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022782786973896722)  2026-02-14T21:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If English football wanted to level things financially between clubs benefit fans and remove the divide between the Big [--] and the Other [--] there is one simple solution. Share gate receipts for league matches as happened in the EFL until the early 80s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2022791544701374553)  2026-02-14T21:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@NABurkinshaw I dont know whether there are vacancies or what the current conditions are like but son and I had a nice ski weekend in Glenshee when he was [--]. https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/ski-glenshee-a-weekend-adventure/ https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/ski-glenshee-a-weekend-adventure/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023006910216392988)  2026-02-15T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Yes- I did a fag packet calc of the actual choice I made as a [--] year old civil service lawyer in [--] between fully funding a years postgrad at Oxford and buying a [--] bed flat with parking in Camden. Either would today require a salary well over 150k from graduation to have saved for plus help from mum and dad. My old job now pays about 47k (and much less the previous [--] years)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023027602504499342)  2026-02-15T13:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@jonharland_ I think hell have a not for sale sign on him so itd take a very high first offer to even open a discussion. I think thatd have to be way above what Mbeumo went for. Particularly if hes made it to Brazils world cup team and performed well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023033663571861930)  2026-02-15T13:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SimonMagus @StevenEdginton The pic is at least one in the eye for our pubs are dying because of brown people being offended by alcohol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023145746661245255)  2026-02-15T21:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Playing to the important pudgy cab drivers wanting to find a Thai bride demographic. Restore Britain will ease fees and rules around spouse visas. If a British man or woman wants to raise a family in Britain with their foreign spouse we will support that. We will make it easier quicker cheaper. Foreign wives and husbands will not be treated like fraudsters Restore Britain will ease fees and rules around spouse visas. If a British man or woman wants to raise a family in Britain with their foreign spouse we will support that. We will make it easier quicker cheaper. Foreign wives and husbands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023329729332592961)  2026-02-16T09:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RoundhouseSmc @Heccles94 How about this Grandparents ethnically Indian all British citizens from birth. Parents British citizens from birth and lived their whole lives in Britain. Would that child be more or less British than your cousin who has one ethnic British grandparent to their zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023372589767574015)  2026-02-16T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"True. Though I wonder which ones were now not so keen on so need to downgrade a bit by leaving. But then again I have spent a good chunk of time this morning replying to contract mark ups saying stuff is not applicable or relevant with agree so this is not onerous for you and we will keep it in. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023387572228030565 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023387572228030565"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023387572228030565)  2026-02-16T13:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@chrisjlatimer 100% though some also hate other categories of immigrant depending on context (eg last week moving on to Indians for doing too well in 11+ exams and taking up grammar school places)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023407557919023373)  2026-02-16T14:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Catch [--] potential though for those putting extra into pension to avoid withdrawal of personal allowance. But NI is cheaper to pay. Anyway all good fun. I think the various things mooted for the Budget look like theyll cost me roughly 5-10k a year so Im looking forward to everything being brilliant for everyone really soon. Or maybe just going down to [--] days a week because why bother"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1987080427316576424)  2025-11-08T08:51Z [----] followers, 13.3K engagements


"Im repeatedly surprised that Wegg-Prosser is a real familys name and not just something silly invented by PG Wodehouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2019797040079786270)  2026-02-06T15:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tomhfh Unless you want cash that you can access between now and when you pay off the student loan. For many/most having 20k in three years time from an ISA will be much more useful to them than saving 9% of their above threshold income in [--] years time. For very obvious reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2020824442168029537)  2026-02-09T11:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Heccles94 The super fun bit here is that our modern day ethno-nationalists want to go more generations back than those laws in their test for Britishness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023011206961996159)  2026-02-15T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RoundhouseSmc @Heccles94 I dont know the grounds on which your cousin got her passport. Shes not in the UK so it doesnt really matter very much. From those I know whove gone through the naturalisation process passports are simply not handed out like confetti"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023381531478409426)  2026-02-16T12:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Which the ones still in family ownership have been able to do. But when the presumptive heirs who might have built new family wealth and come with fresh ideas got killed in the wars and the domestic staff returned from military service/factories feeling less inclined to be servants it was only going one way. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023435115745927631 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023435115745927631"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023435115745927631)  2026-02-16T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JohnBaldLangLit Its very progressive and redistributive. Theres no evidence that higher ability students are deciding against uni to suggest its gone past the peak of the Laffer curve. Indeed counterintuitively were probably at the education maximising point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/2023673486833512627)  2026-02-17T08:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@markswife He does look a bit too Young Stalin at times though Thats a lovely photo. Son and I went to our preseason match in Portugal and one of his mates went to Leeds one in Dublin. A lot of people underestimate how good football is as a thing for families"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962112620980220384)  2025-08-31T11:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WarGit Particularly fun given that the target of the chants was St Pauli who have deliberately been the wokest football club in the world for over [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962131592916168797)  2025-08-31T12:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DavidMuttering @MichaelCGlasper Its OK Ive also just reminded myself were in our fifth successive season in the PL playing at a new stadium have a current England international on the team and just spent about 40m on a player. All unimaginable [--] or even 11-12 years ago other than with a lot of mushrooms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962258687021531393)  2025-08-31T20:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JoeH_96 Farke must have done something very bad in a past life to be doomed to a loop of walking the Championship and finshing 20th in the PL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962574544817848397)  2025-09-01T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Johnnyproudlove @Beesotted No theyve both moved upwards. Brentfords a little way off CL qualification and Newcastle are a long way off challenging for PL or CL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962577927993741745)  2025-09-01T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SimonMagus Or we could use PR in a new upper chamber maybe moving to that being where government is led and having the local stuff subordinate. https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/a-new-house-of-lords/ https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/a-new-house-of-lords/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1962612008085233669)  2025-09-01T20:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@harrikare @QprEver @cheekyblinder11 Yes the taxman is perfectly fine with divorcing couples arranging for one to keep the matrimonial home and the other getting some money to help buy somewhere else. It happens all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1963150201243238581)  2025-09-03T08:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@trukb22 @burgeoisiee @MysteriosoX The SUVs keep them going but [---] sales globally are high. I think the Macan outsells the Cayenne now. Prosaically apart from cost/value one of the reasons I didnt buy a [---] was that it is very wide and marginal to get into either of my driveways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1963719614786904404)  2025-09-04T21:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@trukb22 @burgeoisiee @MysteriosoX I am speaking from a Euro perspective in the UK. No Porsche is large by US standards. I should have taken a photo for this conversation but I remember seeing a Bentley Bentayga in the parking lot of my hotel in Charlotte NC last year being absolutely dwarfed by the US SUVs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1963720482437632156)  2025-09-04T21:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@trukb22 @burgeoisiee @MysteriosoX I bet the 90s one had at least as big a bed and useful payload too A striking comparison can also be made with wheel sizes. IIRC the huge African Dictator Limo 70s Merc [---] SEL had wheels [--] smaller than the current generation of Mini"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1963723227433250984)  2025-09-04T21:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@trukb22 @burgeoisiee @MysteriosoX I also enjoyed hiring a compact SUV in DC in [--] which was a Toyota larger than any they sold in the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1963723744905453642)  2025-09-04T21:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SimonMagus Last time I went they beat Brentford 4-0 and our keeper got sent off after [--] minutes But its a date if theres no Bees game clashing. Id suggest West Ham v Brentford but its Monday night so not practicable for me and West Ham fans are boycotting it. Though maybe a pub trip"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1964060890640126300)  2025-09-05T20:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Also Poland has open borders to its fellow EU/EEA states and has plenty of Deliveroo too. Not many want to move there because few can speak Polish. But that may change as they increase English teaching and they have quite a lot who moved back from having spent years here pre-covid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1964281461818728525)  2025-09-06T10:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Hope is not particularly helpful. Im responsible for EMEA supply chain contracting for a large US manufacturer. Transfer pricing is not a thing for supply chains for products with thousands of specialist components each of which take [--] years for engineering validation to source elsewhere and which are bought directly from suppliers not bought by a foreign subsidiary and re-exported to US. The bottom line impact has meant significant cuts to jobs in the US and cost centres like procurement get hit before they can do the mitigation work. So consumers bear the cost unless theyre willing to delay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1964965064445690126)  2025-09-08T08:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Those that do it also need certainty about the stability of the tax regime and rules in their lead contracting companys domicile. This gets rather screwed by unpredictable and rapidly fluctuating tariffs. A services company I worked for a couple of years back was [--] years into a [--] year rationalisation of corporate structure to enable that sort of model. It had cost c100m to implement getting down from [----] operating companies to [---] with the right domiciles and intragroup arrangements. I doubt any CFO would authorise that project in todays tariff environment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965060026126446626)  2025-09-08T14:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexBalexCalexD @cooksimon @ONS Not so much bias as being misleading for any purpose other than the trivial correlation between diagnosed mental ill health and withdrawing from education"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965366186524508590)  2025-09-09T10:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AlexBalexCalexD @cooksimon @ONS But the graph goes beyond that to make a causal link to propose missing school makes children develop mental health problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965366571859329083)  2025-09-09T10:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The deduction is a flat 9% of salary over 25k regardless of size of loan outstanding until the loan is repaid. An annual 5% reduction would not cover the interest accrued. Or was the suggestion to drop the repayment deduction to 4% to give more immediate cash in hand but increase the number of years itd take to repay substantially"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965456817359605914)  2025-09-09T16:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I thought Banksy avoided prosecution for criminal damage because his works were placed on property where he could claim the defence of a reasonable belief the property owner would have consented if theyd been asked. Obviously that wouldnt fly for scribbling on the RCJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965790657131475217)  2025-09-10T14:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@msloobylou Paint over Banksy himself. See how he likes it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965791415319118178)  2025-09-10T14:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@WarGit I think if he simply decided to quietly retire nobody much would notice for about [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965848617593569762)  2025-09-10T18:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If this were a fair description one would expect the mass of ECtHR case law pushing the boundaries outwards to have been from the 70s & 80s and the accession of lots of former dictatorships and communist states in from the 90s onwards to have focused work on the more prosaic rights that were only newly and slowly being recognised in them. Im not an expert but I think this is the opposite of the actual jurisprudential time line. My @thetimes column: Human rights law was never meant to be used like this https://t.co/SjRSzujxuu My @thetimes column: Human rights law was never meant to be used"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965860669871563045)  2025-09-10T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Only [--] of the original [--] signatories of the ECHR had not recently prior to doing so been neither a totalitarian state nor occupied and governed by one. One of the others Greece withdrew in [----] due to the Council taking a case against its military dictatorship. It isnt really true that everything was so cosy in the 70s that idealistic thumb twiddling Human Rights judges started inventing crazy new rights just to feel something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1965868499118760055)  2025-09-10T20:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@portraitinflesh @Ocado Its the difference between picking stock from a warehouse and from a retail store which stocks principally to meet projected demand from in store shoppers who do their own substitutions without minding much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966414432864800855)  2025-09-12T08:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rhymerrigby @portraitinflesh Maybe its different in London but by me theres a huge twice weekly pub crawl called the Otley Run done by thousands in fancy dress. There are almost always people dressed as Trump in a MAGA hat going through the wokest parts of Leeds. Nobody bats an eyelid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966428484080656768)  2025-09-12T09:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rhymerrigby @portraitinflesh During Trumps first term I arranged to meet my cousin from Texas when he was on holiday in London. He asked if there was anything he could bring me from the US. I asked for a MAGA hat. He said he couldnt as hed probably get murdered going to the sort of place that sold them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966437014665879583)  2025-09-12T09:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Perhaps but particularly for non-science courses theyve always been most interested in interesting and engaging people. ABB would be well above the baseline literacy and numeracy needed to do well at PPE and the dons ultimately need to choose people who theyre going to enjoy listening to and discussing [--] years of essays from. It harks back to when Oxford dgaf about A Levels and made EE offers. People still complain about Toby Youngs seriously mediocre A Levels but its undoubtedly true he would have been an interesting person to teach and someone perfectly capable of doing very well at the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966454911698084328)  2025-09-12T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"My old Oxford College is now probably the most DEI one with 95% intake from non-selective state schools and a heavy recruitment focus on schools which have never sent anyone to Oxbridge. Its results are WAY above what they were when I bumbled in [--] years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966461551033864582)  2025-09-12T11:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bradwellcommon @IGMansfield Id expect those from schools/families with higher social capital and confidence to be much more likely to phone up to make the case about a near miss than those without who might just take it theyve not made the offer at a place theyd already seen as a stretch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966481696942927952)  2025-09-12T12:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@CapelLofft Yes. And that Oxford Union guy while having made an appalling comment could well be much more interesting and unorthodox than such students"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966797973876056574)  2025-09-13T09:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It used to be customary for the proposers and seconders of Oxford Union debates and the officers to go out for dinner together. I wonder if it still is and what might be said in private at such dinners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966809941357826414)  2025-09-13T10:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@paulmasonnews There are [--] London Premier League teams playing in London today. More actual Football types will be at those games than at the rally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1966841041085943899)  2025-09-13T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@btharris93 Depends on what they were asked and how seriously they took it. Id be unsurprised if it was a tiny sample and from a survey you needed to click past to access something else. My responses to such things would have you conclude that Id never heard of Nike or Coldplay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1967522755332747738)  2025-09-15T09:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RupertMyers That ignores that throughout the films and series the synthetic humans tend to like and admire the aliens and are under orders to preserve them above the lives of the humans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1967841103958487392)  2025-09-16T06:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Leaving aside possible/likely corruption and intentional gerrymandering via social housing rules requiring allocation by reference to a hierarchy of need will in the absence of huge oversupply put those least capable of not being dependent at the front. The young lady who has a job and can find a home to commute from will always be low on the list in that set up. In theory increasing the amount of social housing could fix that. Except even its advocated simply have no interest in building the huge amount of social housing which could have that effect. So instead what their form of Nimbyism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1967851596550959527)  2025-09-16T07:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SimonMagus Timothy turbocharged the very worst of May. Our decline being near terminal is in how hes now seen as a serious part of the Parliamentary party. Id quite like him to go off to Reform who hed fit like a glove"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1968632537464361290)  2025-09-18T11:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Im glad that Connie has drawn the parallel of her case to the calls for Abaraonye to be expelled from Oxford and hope the FSU will be as active in preserving his right to have and express his horrible opinions. That ludicrous character Toby Young even set up an organisation Toby Youngs organisation saved me from being expelled from university. He has saved countless peoples jobs. Countless peoples reputations. Hes saved people from prison for their speech. If youre ever in need https://t.co/H9hV72zXmQ That ludicrous character Toby Young even set up an organisation Toby Youngs organisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1968639193845727706)  2025-09-18T11:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MCosovich @MysteriosoX How much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1969116401106383201)  2025-09-19T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@WarGit It might be a useful polling exercise to say why an alliance would be a bad idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1969779572238397546)  2025-09-21T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Well thats nice. I expect many will feel that just a starter and will point to there being still too many once theyve got past those with indefinite leave to remain and will want them to move on to certain categories of folks with full citizenship who are now undesirable. Monday's TELEGRAPH: Farage: I'll kick out hundreds of thousands #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/DOyPyoacp4 Monday's TELEGRAPH: Farage: I'll kick out hundreds of thousands #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/DOyPyoacp4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1969888530534146049)  2025-09-21T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tc1415 Yes- though presumably sos the [---] advance train fare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1970392273146769488)  2025-09-23T07:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@YouMustBeAnna Sadly I dont think these are guys who are either aware of or care about pregnant women being in pain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1970466508724920515)  2025-09-23T12:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The fact that the Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point UK is the UKIP (who) leader suggests that in fact almost nobody in the UK was actually aware of Charlie Kirks organisation and views until he was atrociously murdered for them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1970499455653740976)  2025-09-23T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"As a prediction of what the country would look like in [----] its all pretty far off beam. It rings truer in parts for today but to blame it all on Blair [--] years after he left office is as barking as the leftists who still blame Thatcher for everything a generation before him. Roger Scruton before the election of [----] on how Blair would make Britain worse and turn it into a different country. The prescience is pretty astonishing and demonstrates that Scruton wasn't just the Paddington Bear of safe consrvatism. https://t.co/dk2KHhhvrF Roger Scruton before the election of [----] on how Blair would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1970535815072883076)  2025-09-23T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MisanthropeGirl @v_j_freeman The intense difficulty everyone has had in fielding a realistic candidate over [--] goes makes me more wary of going in two footed on Khans obvious uselessness. Goldsmith was the best of them but OMG what a bad and ugly campaign strategy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971140769676501267)  2025-09-25T09:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think the impact on dissent is most like to come after much more fundamental assaults on individual liberties. People like Owen used to rightly warn against misuse of stop and search/sus laws. Mandatory Digital ID and the power for not only law enforcement and state officials but also employers and landlords to require presentation expands us into a (digital) papers please society. Even for those who arent dissenting. This should absolutely terrify you. We live in an age of rising authoritarianism. The prospect of a right-wing authoritarian government in the UK is far from a fantasy."  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971242915163693430)  2025-09-25T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Another way of looking at digital ID to control illegal migration is: All those arriving by small boat to be given a new smartphone by the government Itll have to be done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971510679648849921)  2025-09-26T09:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AllyFogg Inevitable. A friend recently bought tickets to an Ajax game and their online ticketing portal requires Dutch folks to use their state digital ID to access it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971539263935397942)  2025-09-26T11:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bouledenerfs_ Also I remember reading Iris Murdochs husbands account of her later days with advanced dementia where she happily spent her time watching Tellytubbies on the television. Awful for him and for her compared to the life she had before but not so much for her in the moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971694006938824772)  2025-09-26T21:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Vicbadgerken @99_hp @tc1415 Singapore is not silly. The UK rather is. I think were likely a long way off social capital/nanny state use of digital ID. But as its being proposed to control immigration I dont think its so fanciful that thered be support to do much more than evidence right to work etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971824130401226872)  2025-09-27T06:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Thats why Im concerned. Its largely pointless for its stated purpose but creates a platform for doing a lot of other stuff. But as justified by immigration control it opens up nastily. Eg the Reform proposal to abolish ILR and reassess those with it. A digital ID that implements that by an overnight update to everyone is quite different to waiting for bureaucracy to process 100ks of applications for work visas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1971899832101970348)  2025-09-27T11:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Hang on to Amorim until the end of the season and youll have a decent chance of going to see Man U playing most of those clubs in the league next season. Everyone will be happy. @nightshiftgaz Be a great day when they aren't tbh . Need bigger supporter base clubs in the league - Sheff we'd Sheffield United WBA Birmingham City QPR Norwich Ipswich Derby County Southampton even Blackburn Bolton Stoke City. Never going to be excited about playing Brentford or @nightshiftgaz Be a great day when they aren't tbh . Need bigger supporter base clubs in the league - Sheff we'd Sheffield United WBA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972054032144650413)  2025-09-27T21:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I hope the loan is on commercial terms. Otherwise why not just let/make Tata Motors fund it If JLR lets its supply chain go bust JLR goes bust. This government seems pitiably easy to play for cash. The taxpayer backed loan will enable JLR to extend credit to direct suppliers (Tier [--] and 2) It wont reach (smaller Tier 3) suppliers of suppliers - some of whom are also up against it. It fixes a lot it wont fix everything. The taxpayer backed loan will enable JLR to extend credit to direct suppliers (Tier [--] and 2) It wont reach (smaller Tier 3) suppliers of suppliers - some of whom are also up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972064147295949253)  2025-09-27T22:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ShivamKPy @premierleague @BrentfordFC If you want to see how Lisandro Martinez copes against Brentford thanks for the opportunity to rewatch this. He got hooked at half time at 4-0 down. https://youtu.be/jnsml_Yr5xQsi=CDfxHcnlrFdh0WG6 https://youtu.be/jnsml_Yr5xQsi=CDfxHcnlrFdh0WG6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972282995882266963)  2025-09-28T12:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@v_j_freeman @witch_worst Call me idealistic but the response to that should be to enforce the law rather than to pander to other stuff virulent racists actually want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972338532472815849)  2025-09-28T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@TraMufc The sorts of big clubs Terry Christian says you should be playing rather than tinpot outfits like Brentford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972341750623785377)  2025-09-28T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"You are a bit as a recent candidate But thanks for replying. I tend to agree and certainly agreed with your account of the appalling approvals system before (at least you managed to get some feedback- I got sorry probably an admin error theyve all taken voluntary redundancy so we dont know) But I think more fundamentally we need to have leadership that knows what it believes and policies that reflect that. I think it was at best naive to ask the membership for either. Thatcher did not wave her volume of Hayek and say this is what we believe because the predecessor of CPF had had the members"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972352067231711689)  2025-09-28T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@bouledenerfs_ If theyre allowed to read physical books do so and are otherwise brought up well by parents who talk with them and take them places I dont think restricting their screen time on top of that makes much difference either way beyond a degree of unawareness of the modern culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972681752767336945)  2025-09-29T15:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Ofmooseandmen @bphillipsonMP Obviously not. Grants will bring those amounts down for those qualifying. But not the loan repayments before the loans are fully paid off. Which for a graduate earning 35k a year is basically not until its written off after [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972695439934980152)  2025-09-29T16:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JohnBaldLangLit Sure. But if anything is to be got rid of it has to be both. Just making the student loans of students from poor families get paid off earlier but only if they become very high earners is nonsensical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972765896595939822)  2025-09-29T20:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@v_j_freeman I cant really see how grants would do anything for closing that attainment gap. But they have somehow landed on the most expensive and least effective new HE policy. It even relies on maintaining numbers of overseas students. Utterly idiotic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972925129220051339)  2025-09-30T07:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@v_j_freeman Theyll probably quietly reintroduce letting students bring their grannies to ensure enough come. Unless the grants are only for competitive courses/unis at most itll make going to bad ones more attractive and to teens who would otherwise have been keener on apprenticeships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972927790480855178)  2025-09-30T07:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@rcolvile Reassessing those who already have ILR is Reforms policy. I try not to be too snowflakey about it but I think once you start turning legal migrants illegal youre going down a dangerous path which would have popular support"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972930221801418899)  2025-09-30T07:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@witch_worst @v_j_freeman No I think it goes the other way. As theyll want to ensure the levy pays for the grants theyll need to keep up the numbers of international students. Assuming they even vaguely care about attempting to make it revenue neutral. Its lose lose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972950447129539068)  2025-09-30T09:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@witch_worst @v_j_freeman Yes it ought but its unclear how price elastic that demand is. The US having become much less welcoming to even existing foreign students and being more expensive probably helps maintain or grow demand which dipped when we tightened immigration rules before them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972952446910845307)  2025-09-30T09:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LucyTrims Ben would cheer it to the rafters if digital ID went down the more likely route of focusing on legal immigrants (and people who look like they might be immigrants) entitlements"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1972969382692487672)  2025-09-30T10:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Hes gone full John Major here. Together we can achieve a Britain built for all. https://t.co/n5uLIuTaXm Together we can achieve a Britain built for all. https://t.co/n5uLIuTaXm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1973057354133336575)  2025-09-30T16:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@OrganisedPauper Its a very good course arguably the best of its sort globally (Starmer did it a few years before me) but yes crazy money now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1973082574701420878)  2025-09-30T17:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Fat_Jacques Yes- I cant really see him doing an equivalent of Majors drive round Brixton or his soapbox speaking tour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1973094111608443194)  2025-09-30T18:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"If you went to private school how often through life have you benefited from the networks you made there Please RT for reach All the time Sometimes from good mates Just show me the answers Cant remember ever much All the time Sometimes from good mates Just show me the answers Cant remember ever much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1973333891613335769)  2025-10-01T10:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"There are plenty other things but Im not writing a manifesto just saying technocratic bureaucratic things like industrial strategies are not good. Weve really not tried deregulation or liberalisation at all for 30+ years. Weve increasingly regulated. A strategy of regional hubs or whatever is just a way to look like helping but instead replacing businesses choices as to what to invest in and where with governments. If a business wants to build a widget factory in Barsetshire you could say great what upgrades to road rail and power infrastructure do you need can we simplify the planning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1973785394853327031)  2025-10-02T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mrsDugskullery @TheLawMap I think that was the thinking in [----] when a coalition of Arab states attacked Israel on Yom Kippur. So Israels forces dont really get that day off any more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1974216766688530611)  2025-10-03T20:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@thomasforth Last time Farke beat a team managed by Frank he got sacked in the changing room straight afterwards so I think yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1974425290576396483)  2025-10-04T10:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@StevenJNorris @andy4wm @emmabest22 Unfortunately I dont think it is where the party is. It ought to be but it isnt. I dont think that party would have tolerated Jenricks comments about Handsworth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1975844950710657094)  2025-10-08T08:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SimonMagus They could just get Leeds United to pay for it all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976225315287597397)  2025-10-09T09:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BradfemlyWalsh Channeling Eddie Murphy in Trading Places. Karate Man bruise on the inside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976296489581236274)  2025-10-09T14:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@SimonMagus @DuncanStott @cjsnowdon The mode of transport everyone forgets is walking. And in particular how much the new infrastructure for fashionable modes like trams and bikes damage the infrastructure for pedestrians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976328786606960728)  2025-10-09T16:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"A handy tool for those who can read P8 and A8 data in the context of an honest appraisal of our own childrens ability aptitude and application. Want to know more about the schools in your area Check out our school dashboard 👇 https://t.co/WVgCoNYRPO https://t.co/y4DNeGS95D Want to know more about the schools in your area Check out our school dashboard 👇 https://t.co/WVgCoNYRPO https://t.co/y4DNeGS95D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976564509008593242)  2025-10-10T08:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@LoftusSteve @SimonMagus @sunlit_upland The best transport investment for GDP growth in Leeds is probably in the airport but nobody likes that sort of thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976640057390862546)  2025-10-10T13:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@sassycassyL Tbf the tweet you just replied to was someone RT-ing their husbands thread. But I agree. I quite liked the fake graffiti on Egyptian antiquities I saw at MOMA in NY a couple of years back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976925764139524278)  2025-10-11T08:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@markeltro Not really what I was getting at. Though I do remember having an interesting conversation with a biologist friend one May Morning about what you could learn from dog crap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1976956210441339230)  2025-10-11T10:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@SamuelVimes10 @portraitinflesh Its funny how prisoners have no trouble at all in discerning the relative gravity of different offences but Parliament doesnt bother"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1977311069602554242)  2025-10-12T09:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AJPendleton Im not sure he did that even with the Burnley team he took into Europe with a prime Chris Wood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1977319516863607249)  2025-10-12T10:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dannypea @henrywinter Ajax is a substantially more successful club than Rangers at European level"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1977388000158843122)  2025-10-12T14:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@dannypea @henrywinter Whoever it is needs to go with the grain of the clubs culture. I think ETH is risky because he showed at Man U he was not able to do that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1977394955099201780)  2025-10-12T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think you can be relaxed about even happy that Ian Watkins is dead without it meaning aha you actually agree with the death penalty after all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1977445750180323428)  2025-10-12T18:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"How do you bother if youre a band like Drycleaning Why would you go to the effort of writing performing and recording songs about how so very bored and cynical you were about everything while not actually saying anything in particular"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978015580834640195)  2025-10-14T08:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Ive recently been feeling somewhat insubstantial. I wondered if it was a mental health issue or maybe just the encroaching invisibility of middle age. Then I realised it was probably just because Ive lost over a quarter of the weight Ive had through adulthood over [--] years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978395522265133335)  2025-10-15T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"UK prices after tax are not much lower than Australian ones (40 AUD is about 20). You can fairly easily find non-counterfeit fags in the UK openly on sale for 7-8 a pack rather than the [--] duty paid price. Why wouldnt you buy them Arthur Laffer the economist who gave his name to the economic theory of the "Laffer curve" holds up Australia's tobacco taxation as a "perfect example of the extreme version of the Laffer Curve". "It's not working at all." https://t.co/TRQ2n0VY4p https://t.co/Tqf0OjpwIG Arthur Laffer the economist who gave his name to the economic theory of the "Laffer curve" holds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978443604684071292)  2025-10-15T12:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"When you think about it its remarkable that not one but two people have high profile careers that largely revolve around them saying Bosh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978532057094475779)  2025-10-15T18:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@John_J_C_Moss @SimonMagus @rcolvile From the M40 round to the A1(M) outside the North Circular and within the M25 is largely farmland. With [--] rail mainlines (&HS2) and [--] tube lines going through which would be trivially easy to expand or to connect up by something like Croydon Tramlink"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978732785238995243)  2025-10-16T08:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@99_hp @rcolvile Talking of holiday homes is there a good reason why static caravan sites have to prohibit year round residence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978737832354070691)  2025-10-16T08:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Its certainly a business opportunity but these are generally small businesses and run as such. Id be unsurprised if Royal Mail and any other parcel delivery service they sell place limits on daily volumes for collection. The volume for eBay parcels probably makes ad hoc commercial service hard to provide for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1978825630071357789)  2025-10-16T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The thing the protests in Epping and the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from their game at Villa have in common is that both have demonstrated substantially how threats of mob action and community concerns regardless of merit impact public order decisions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/1979208070925275233)  2025-10-17T15:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I wonder whether the Welsh Sports Minister will be ordering a remark of the result against Serbia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/245633886556663809)  2012-09-11T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"My montblanc has died after [--] years #firstworldproblems -any recommendations for reasonably priced fountain pen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/515040586328711168)  2014-09-25T07:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@hayleycampbell @brokenbottleboy I used to then realised about [--] years ago that anyone under [--] had no idea what I was talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/668756757406220289)  2015-11-23T11:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Griffin a bit bare of #brentfordfc fans at the moment. Hopefully the game won't be all #itfc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/764436593033809921)  2016-08-13T12:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I think Keir Starmer needs to give in to his face and grow the moustache that's begging to come out. #bbcqt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/791760938969989120)  2016-10-27T21:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"The Road to Wigan Fear #BrentfordFC https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/the-road-to-wigan-fear https://botzarelli.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/the-road-to-wigan-fear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/botzarelli/status/822909847054258177)  2017-01-21T20:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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