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In the 20th century, a foreign organism was deliberately introduced to a new environment to address a perceived imbalance.
The organism, characterized by its resilience and rapid reproduction, was released into the wild with little consideration for its long-term impact.
Initially, the plan appeared promising, as the new arrival showed enthusiasm for its new environment. However, unforeseen consequences soon emerged, as the organism's unchecked proliferation and indiscriminate predation began to disrupt the delicate balance of the local ecosystem.
Its presence, once hailed as a remedy, became a challenge that continues to perplex authorities to this day.
This post is not about cane toads.
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Some people have come to view disparities as indicative of suspect technique.
Because in their faith that all inputs are equal, so outputs must also be.
UK Foreign Office understood to be making representations to Israel to release them "after as long a time as possible, however long you can put up with them, to be honest. No hurry, really."
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The absolute arrogance of SNP politicians playing international stateswoman while Scotland falls apart is staggering. You flew thousands of miles just to “bear witness” and ended up achieving nothing but being “prevented from crossing the border”. You are not a sovereign foreign minister; you are a devolved politician whose party presides over a £22.8bn deficit, record drug deaths, and a collapsing NHS.
The Israeli government does not care about your “pressure”. Get on a flight home and do the actual job Scottish taxpayers pay you to do.
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Christ, a 25 tweet thread to explain to the hoi polloi that Afghans and North Africans being much more rapey than your average man is no big deal.
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No. She said 80% foreign, predominantly Afgan.
It should also be noted that even though the number of staff has risen, case loads per person are low in comparison to other areas of the police.
Thankfully, two people job sharing at 0.75% could historicaly cope with these cases, as not many people subject women to rape that tears them internally, or insert objects causing anal bleeding that won't stop. Many of the cases are hounor driven and are against a partner or family member.
Most of these cases are not walk in reports, they are the result of hospital treatment and police attendance. This is all going unreported until circumstances force it out. These handlers provide support for the women from initial case capture, victim accommodation protection, through to sitting in court with them. A lot of the job is assuring the women at all stages, given that they are recieving continual death threats.
You can think what you like, but that is the reality of that force, a near trebling of handlers since 2020. Personally I find it concerning that this type of crime is increasing at an above normal rate, even if the overall numbers are low.
This team is all women and sees things on a daily basis that would probably make you cry and still needs to expand further. So if you want to conclude that violent sexual crime didn't change after 2020 and maybe these women are just lazy, that's up to you. The reality is it's horrendous, getting more common and a lot of it originates from those that were not born in this country.
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There is nothing socialist about a system of free movement that is used by multi-nationals to undermine wages. WATCH my Brexit speech today.
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Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
That’s why Reform’s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures I’d take if I were Chancellor:
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britain’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed 🚀
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I’ve come to realise something about modern political disagreement following my appearance last year on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze to discuss Net Zero. The whole experience completely changed my perspective on politics and sent me on a massive intellectual journey, forcing me to examine deep philosophical assumptions and beliefs I had long taken for granted.
During the discussion, I found myself returning to two deeply held convictions that I had long taken for granted: that Western civilisation has been, on balance, a moral force for good in the world, and that the Industrial Revolution represented an enormous advance for humanity. Both convictions are rooted in the Anglo-American Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in reason, individual liberty, scientific progress and the capacity of human beings to improve their material circumstances. I believe this view of modern Western civilisation is now under serious threat from within (left- and right-wing populism, eco-pessimism and Islamism) and from without (revisionist powers such as China and Russia).
Following the debate, I came to realise that if you want to understand why intelligent people can disagree so profoundly about what ought to be done in life, it is often insufficient to examine their immediate political or policy arguments. You need to understand the deeper philosophical premises from which those arguments proceed, including their assumptions about the nature of reality, human nature, progress and what constitutes a good society.
I think this gets to the heart of what we mean when we talk about political polarisation and the so-called “culture wars”. People are not simply disagreeing about policies. Nor is it about “comms” or individual personalities.
Increasingly, we are operating from fundamentally different understandings of the world itself. Yet few politicians articulate the philosophical assumptions underpinning their vision of society. Take the nature of reality. Is it an objective order that we must discover and adapt to, or something we can shape through our will and values? These are the underlying questions in many of today’s debates, from transgender identity to energy systems and whether governments can override the laws of supply and demand.
Instead of telling us what they fundamentally believe and why, politicians jump straight to political positioning, tactical messaging and policy announcements, leaving voters totally confused. I think this contributes to the growing fragmentation of our politics, which technologies such as social media are accelerating by reinforcing competing worldviews and making it much harder for people to recognise, let alone understand, the assumptions from which others are reasoning.
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Anyone who says "we want a death penalty referendum": you are a eunuch.
We are lucky enough to live in a Parliamentary Democracy that can write new laws tomorrow.
But if Rupert & Charlie win a majority, they need extra permission to write a new law on one side of A4?
Get help.
The proposed death penalty referendum is the most egregious example of slopulism in British politics ATM in that it’d burn political capital, waste months, allow oponents to coalesce around the No campaign and be lost badly enough to take the death penalty off the table for fifty years, all while being completely pointless (death penalty legislation could be forced through parliament and public opinion tends to follow legislative changes).
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Scaling out of the Power Crunch
Historically, only 15% of power generation projects wanting grid connections ever get built, projects demanding large load connections have an even worse attrition rate.
Why?
There are physical, regulatory, and industrial limits. Industry analysts show overlapping hurdles and bottlenecks that often delay or raise the cost of both new generation and hyperscale/AI campuses.
Grouped for clarity…
(many interact and compound)
Site and physical constraints
• Land (size, cost, contiguity)
• Water rights (availability, competing uses)
• Geology (soil, seismic, flooding)
• Noise, air quality, and heat-rejection
• Proximity to high-voltage infrastructure
• Fibre routes and redundancy
• Grid access and headroom at substation
• Interconnection queues
• Transmission lines
• Substation capacity
• Voltage/frequency stability
• Cost allocation / upgrade responsibility
Equipment, manufacturing, and supply chain
• Transformers (all classes)
• Switchgear, circuit breakers, cables, conductors
• Gas turbines
• Recip engines, and other prime movers
• Generators, UPS systems, batteries
• Cooling equipment (chillers, CDUs, etc)
Specialised manufacturing capacity:
• Casting, forging, large lathes/turning of shafts,
• Grain-oriented electrical steel, copper, etc
• Fuel delivery infrastructure (gas pipelines)
Regulatory, permitting, and political
• Environmental permits (air, water, discharge)
• Local zoning, land-use, and building approvals
• Community and political opposition, litigation risk
• NIMBY dynamics
• Residential priority / capacity allocation
• Fuel security, emissions rules
• Behind-the-meter versus grid-tied pathways and associated regulatory treatment
Workforce / construction / financing
• Skilled labour (sparks, welders, pipefitters)
• Construction management, heavy-lift capacity
• Capital costs, financing terms
• Insurance, risk pricing, and contract structures
The number of sites that can satisfy ALL of the above is finite. “Permissible powered land” is much harder than people think it is.
FURTHER… This is much more challenging to do in the West, where individual property rights are strong and empower NIMBYism.
All the highest-quality sites are largely taken, interconnection and equipment timelines dominate schedules, and each successive project tends to face higher costs, longer waits, and more opposition.
Every operator ranks their development portfolio and tests for F.I.D every financial year.
Why is it like this?
It’s because we are doing the build out inside the construction industry, inside civil and construction frameworks.
Consider…
You have a large major capital project, you have 35 supplier stakeholders, each is the top firm in their domain and delivers 95% of their projects on time.
The likelihood of your project being on time is 0.95^35=0.166
That’s a 16% chance of being on time.
You likely have bonds and covenants resting on this 16%. Allocating $900 billion capex into this is scary, but here we are.
The solution is to get out of construction and into manufacturing. In manufacturing you can vertically integrate. You can reduce your counterparty risk by reducing your stakeholder count towards 1
There are 2 escape paths for the compute build-out to get out of construction hell.
One is space, the other is the ocean.
Innovation means breaking out of the box. Landless, residentless flag-jurisdiction is the key to scaling this under Western control. Our enduring freedom now depends on it.
Putting any humility aside for a second… I think Elon and Jeff have space covered, I’m going to do the oceanic path. I think I’m uniquely and best placed to do this, I grew up in a nuclear shipyard town, I’ve work on ~20 offshore platforms, this not my first company, not my first major capital project.
It’s very clear to me how this gets executed.
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We are developing a drug that opens up the capillaries and fills the body’s tissues with a compound that - according to our partner military labs - destroys all known pathogenic bacteria, all known pathogenic fungi, biofilms, influenza virus as well as viruses of the herpes family.
These are facts.
The FDA recently designed this product a Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) for all cause pneumonia, giving us FDA Fast Track, and Priority Review.
Good news for the day. ❤️🩹🫡
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2016 Scotland, hidden from us
45 Confirmed Asylum seekers raped at least 44 girls, with one being raped by 28 of them and another by 23
“Of the 44 underage victims, It's believed one may have been abused by 28 men, with another linked to 23.
55 suspected members of the vile group were identified by officers, with 46 positively identified
All were asylum seekers from the Kurdish, Afghani, Egyptian, Moroccan, Turkish, Pakistani or Iraqi communities”
I wonder what unified them ?
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Here’s a rather extraordinary discovery: humanity seems to have interrupted the beginning of the next ice age. We thought it might happen in the future, but the evidence suggests it's already happened.
A new study in Science argues that the next major glaciation had already begun roughly 2,000 years ago, before modern warming reversed the trend in the 20th century.
The evidence comes from the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last surviving remnant of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered much of Canada and reached as far south as Illinois.
Because Barnes is frozen directly to its bedrock, advancing ice buries and preserves vegetation beneath it. Researchers radiocarbon dated plants emerging as the ice retreats to reconstruct its history.
They found that after melting to a minimum extent around 3,000 years ago, the ice began expanding again about 2,000 years ago. The researchers interpret this as the earliest stage of the next glacial period.
Left to natural orbital cycles, that cooling would have unfolded extremely slowly, potentially taking tens of thousands of years to rebuild a continent spanning ice sheet.
But around 1960, the trend reversed. Summers became warm enough that Barnes began losing more ice than it gained, despite Northern Hemisphere summer sunlight continuing to slowly decline in a way that should favor renewed glaciation. Greenhouse warming had (thankfully) overwhelmed the natural cooling tendency.
The Barnes ice cap may now disappear entirely within the next few centuries, removing the final remnant of an ice sheet that repeatedly served as the nucleus for much larger glaciations.
There is a remarkable deep time perspective here. For millions of years, orbital cycles have pushed Earth between warmer interglacials and colder glacial periods. According to this study, that ancient cycle had started turning once again.
Then, in the geological equivalent of an instant, humanity pushed hard enough in the opposite direction to stop it.
Just so we're clear, this is a very very good thing.
📸 Geology Sciences
Sources:
1) phys.org/news/2026-10-global…
2) science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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The British Right has a miniscule amount of actual organization.
What has happened across Western Civilization is that a progressive/leftist alliance has essentially super-won/completely curbstomped the right. A number of different forces came together to create this situation. Full spectrum political dominance.
When this happens, people on the right fall into two camps:
- (most people) Fake right. Leftism with a speed limit. Based Kemi and Zia campaigning to reduce government spending by 0.1% and arrest at least some repeat violent offenders.
- (a smaller group) Real right. British Empire/Rhodes reels, but done from people's bedrooms.
The first step to getting out of this mess is realizing that you are in it.