Ahmer Wadee

Angel calling

Farage is what's wrong with the UK.

Well, I'm an avid @therestpolitics.bsky.social listener and fan, and I'm basically the same age as @rory-stewart.bsky.social - if my calculations are correct, I think I'm somewhere between 6-7 weeks younger...

Best UK political podcast by a country mile. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

5/6 All these projects enabled @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social teams to partner with top research teams and companies all across Europe.
@horizoneu.bsky.social

4/6 With EU-funded projects Professor Leroy Gardner harnesses 3D printing to produce perfectly formed steel and metal structures for large-scale infrastructures, like bridges, significantly lowering environmental impact.
@horizoneu.bsky.social
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Our paper on the design of unequal-leg stainless steel angle columns has been published in the journal "Structures" @istructe.bsky.social. Led by our excellent PhD student Ruikai Dai and co-authored with Leroy Gardner.

@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Guardian

“The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever”

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My pleasure, Andrew!

Note to party leaders: let Nigel Farage get in your heads and you are doomed Reform’s leader thrives on fear and imitation. To beat him, the main parties need conviction, not copycat politics

Outstanding analysis from the excellent @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social
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🗣️ DO YOU WANT TO BE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR??!?

Reminds me of an anecdote regarding some American tourists visiting the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where one enquired:

"This is a beautiful building, is it pre-war?

to which their guide patiently replied:

"Madam, this building is pre-America."

Do you yearn to hear Starmer condemn Trump? If so, you’re going to be disappointed | Andrew Rawnsley ‘Don’t poke the beast’ remains the watchword at Number 10 even as the beast rampages around chewing the legs off the global economy

The usual excellent article by @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social.
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JD Vance and Jonathan Gullis, village idiots poking their phones.

When 2 villages are missing their idiots...

JD Vance and Jonathan Gullis, village idiots poking their phones.

When 2 villages are missing their idiots...

Can confirm...

Just caught up with the latest @thetwomatts.bsky.social, love the pod and have been a happy subscriber of @theneweuropean.bsky.social for a few years now.

Just wanted to point out that Ken Loach directed "I, Daniel Blake" and not "I, Daniel Craig"... 🤣

It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state | Andrew Rawnsley Smarter, more productive, government will require more than yet another bonfire of the quangos

Excellent piece as ever by @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social
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Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the world, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Brilliant article by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley The stakes couldn’t be higher and the risks couldn’t be greater when the prime minister visits Washington this week

Excellent article by @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social as usual.
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Worst. Episode. EVER.

Hasn't Anderson left yet?

And you know who you have to blame for this, Nikki?

Any word from "Surrender UK" yet? Have they handed Clacton, Boston, Skegness and Basildon to Putin yet? #r4today

Trump on 9/11 (?):

"The World Trade Center's architects are to blame, if their buildings weren't so tall, they wouldn't have been hit by 2 innocent planes..."

#r4today

A very nice piece.

A belated, "my pleasure", Andrew

Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...

Of course.

Excellent!

It looks like Starmer has finally found the real special relationship

#RejoinEU

Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves | Andrew Rawnsley The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences

Excellent article by @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social, in fact @paulmason.bsky.social has been arguing strongly that stepping up defence spending is likely to inject much needed economic growth also.
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