I want to have a take on this, but I have exceeded my quota.

The OP here has no idea whatsoever about maritime operations and what you can actually do within the scope of maritime law. I see this all the time on social media. People think the things the Aussie navy did (push back seaworthy vessels in intl water) are available in the channel. They aren't (1/2)

Twitter obsesses over Bluesky in the manner of a rejected partner convinced that they might still win their ex over Bluesky obsesses over Twitter in the manner of the partner who left, but who didn't get the last word and can't let it go

A banger. Agree.

I’m gonna go with Osborne. He was a smart guy and extremely effective but his cynicism was to understand the bad fiscal dynamics of the aging population and decide that the thing to do was to spare the Home Counties and squeeze the rest of local government. I find this to be a damming chart.

I think Julianna has put her finger on why I am so depressed about it all. I think it's possible to crush these guys but we're just collectively not. They aren't especially smart or strategic and they don't currently hold many important levers.

This is really good by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk it should form the basis of both the governments response and a sensible centre right opposition response to Reform. I am certain that you can move towards a more liberal and practical solutions to boats if it's framed as both "fair" & "value for money"

I've done enough event work to know these lads backs are going to be done for at the end of the day unless someone gets them some litter pickers. You can't be bending over for every sweet wrapper.

You know that tweet about "Your going to the camps!" "Its 'you're'" Well imagine if that was the entire political strategy of the government of a G7 nation

It's not a tradition it's international law. Sailors are obliged to rescue others in distress. The home office ran into this in the mad Patel era when they were toying with tipping boats over. A) Professional seafarers won't and B) They would immediately be required to do a rescue.

It's not a tradition it's international law. Sailors are obliged to rescue others in distress. The home office ran into this in the mad Patel era when they were toying with tipping boats over. A) Professional seafarers won't and B) They would immediately be required to do a rescue.

Hard agree with this one.

Unbelievably weak, especially since he is continuously obviously on manoeuvres.

MAIB reports are really good. They are easily read, always teach you something, and the presentation we had from them once featured a very entertaining speaker. Top organisation. UK ftw here (also interesting thread)

My best story about tall ships. Circa 2010 I was working in Salcombe harbor driving a launch for the sailing school, which floated on a converted Mersey ferry round the corner. I had to do drop off every hour. A tall ship was anchored, and someone in my launch had a connection. So got a tour (1/2)

This is good news. Both countries stand to do very well from this if cards are played carefully but this is an important early move.

UK and France vow to co-ordinate nuclear weapons for first time https://on.ft.com/44FIjfG

I think it's just America brained actually James. Obviously water scarcity is a problem in California and closed loop cooling is hard in hot places. This does not apply to the UK. Caught in the AI hysteria /American stuff. It's just not an issue for us withthe reservoirs we should build anyway.

I know what happens next.

Strong agree here. In a representative democracy it's vital our MPs throw their weight around.

There are stories in politics that stay etched in your mind from the first time you hear them. This is one of them.

This is a good idea.

someone should invent a Nighttime Internet, like a child lock but for that last hour before bed when you sort of want to pleasantly scroll for a bit but without getting confronted with The Constant Horrors

Keep away from 5th Avenue.

There is a junior senior officer somewhere, like a colonel, who if generals come down like a tonne of bricks on, you can be reassured, and if not, you are in real trouble.

This has come up before several times and it turns out that snuff for MPs cost the taxpayer like 99p. I think Cooper might sneak that past the treasury

No wonder the Treasury had some doubts about her spending plans if that’s what she’s been funding

There has been no point in my life at which if I could have guessed what I was doing in 5 years I would have been correct. This has been both good and bad, as it represents both surprise opportunities and disappointed hopes.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

Agree this is the correct take. Trump has loads of levers, Elon has none.

I'm trying not to get over excited that it took one whiff of modest power and the contradictions became absolutely glaring internally for Reform. I did sorta worry they would quietly run a few councils but it's working out great (unless you live there)

I keep seeing people say it's a lying machine/useless etc. but it's incredibly useful to me, saves me loads of time, and I remain responsible for my output. Sure it could be better, it's actually improved a lot in quite a short space of time.

Update

Just discovered that my submariner brother was under water in one go for the entire Luz Truss premiership.

Extremely good. Immediately what jumps out is Lab - > Reform movement is quite small - most of their new voters come from non voting and tories.

I wrote a speech. No bugger would deliver it though… www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

I know this isn't the point here but at what point can you speak a language well? I wouldn't say I can speak French well/fluently but I have lived there, I can do my stuff in the shops or the bank or chat to people in the pub.

A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:

Indeed. Public opinion has to be the brake, it can’t be the motor, because we all want different things.

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

This is really really good.

This is very good. I imagine it takes a long time for journalists to get their head around stuff well enough to write a clear guide to what has actually happened like this. It's incredibly annoying to get half baked reaction immediately and have to wait weeks for actual analysis.

I am BEGGING Reform to continue linking their policy proposals to Donald Trump.

Quite the quote.

I was looking at long rolls of ethernet cables the other day (bear with me here) and basically a whole bunch are made from something called CCA which is dead cheap but makes them rubbish. Loads and loads of cables are being sold in the UK with classifications which the guys in that (1/3)

This has shaken my belief that 'you can use AI to create art, but you can't just call whatever the AI spits out "art" and have done with it', in that this, in a sense, is art.

It's well understood! The sunk cost falicy.

"An elegant weapon from a more civilised age"

Thanks to those of you who aren't bots. I appreciate it.

Until proved otherwise, working assumption is it was calculated by Grok