Andy Wilson

Energy Independence: Part 2 The will to win: make Great British Energy a cross-party national effort for energy independence

Drill baby drill - said the man gifted a $400 million plane from Qatar... @mrjamesob.bsky.social
A cross-party plan to build the grid, connect cheap power, add storage and cut the import bill so energy independence becomes real.
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Energy Independence — Part 1 Oil down the drain

Britain spent its oil windfall; Norway saved and built a national asset. This piece shows how ideology beat stewardship on oil and water, and why strong institutions are the real route to energy independence. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Oligarchs and Outrage: Popper’s Antidote to the New Tyranny From Westminster to Washington: Disinformation, tech money and the fight to keep an open democracy alive

From Westminster to Washington, oligarch money and outrage engines reward stories that resist correction. Popper shows how open democracies survive: prove it, or change it. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Legalising drugs looks sensible - until you count the costs The evidence on availability, price and harm turns quick fixes into costly mistakes

I have you to thank for this one @mrjamesob.bsky.social It is clearer than my BS responses to the undergraduate talking about race & criminalisation (he did a good job but it's not the full story)

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Better one

@mrjamesob.bsky.social control as racism or lack of control?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Opium - racism? Chinese authorities repeatedly prohibited opium on public-health and social-order grounds. The Qing court moved against opium centuries earlier: Yongzheng’s 1729 decree banned opium sales and smoking houses; later edicts under Jiaqing (1799)

Hope and Ambition: Future-proofing the UK Projects, not posturing: storage, grid, magnets, anodes, recycling and a ring-fenced resilience fund to pay for them.

This sets out a practical UK plan: storage, grid, magnets, anodes, recycling and mine-water heat + a ring-fenced resilience fund to pay for it. Projects you can visit, not rows on TV. That’s how we steady bills and reduce dependence over time @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Solving the problem of drugs in prison? How overcrowding and imported drug culture recruit more than they rehabilitate

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Decriminalisation - yes
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James @mrjamesob.bsky.social I don't know why you're buying into the Netanyahu back slapping line that on Trump could have done it where Biden and @barackobama.bsky.social could not. It turns reality on its head

@mrjamesob.bsky.social what do you mean, stopped? The killing should have been stopped at the beginning of August - he let them continue until all their objectives had been achieved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is why I think you're @mrjamesob.bsky.social giving Trump too much credit - good but not "the only one who could have delivered"

And my question was deserving of a Nobel? Not for me... maybe yes from you!

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Netanyahu says Gaza City push aims to end war quickly Israel aims to take on Hamas' two remaining strongholds in its new Gaza offensive, which it hopes will conclude "fairly quickly" and end the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

You are totally ignoring the fact that he let Netanyahu keep going until he fulfilled all of his objectives - stated clearly on 10 August @mrjamesob.bsky.social Not hard to imagine a fully functioning Biden stepping in earlier... or any other compassionate president

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social you really can't say no one else could have achieved it... seriously. World opinion had turned against the war. Any US president would have felt the world pressure - you could reverse this & argue only Trump would have kept up support when others would have buckled earlier

Netanyahu says Gaza City push aims to end war quickly Israel aims to take on Hamas' two remaining strongholds in its new Gaza offensive, which it hopes will conclude "fairly quickly" and end the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social credit - yes - but timing is important. Aug 10 Israel aims to take on Hamas' two remaining strongholds in its new Gaza offensive, which it hopes will conclude "fairly quickly" and end the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Does Trump Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Making sense of Trump’s contradictions on peace, security and democracy.

I think you know the answer to this @mrjamesob.bsky.social ... jury out (not the one that convicted him... had to fact check myself the aside sounded to ridiculous)
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What Happened to Neil Oliver? A Short Study in Isolation and Explanation Purity and danger in a digital age: why wellness and politics fused after lockdown

What happened to Neil Oliver is not just about one presenter, it is about how wellness and politics fused after lockdown and why evidence lost ground to purity and control. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Typical of the pour oil on the raging fire reporting from the Sheffield media

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Why Sure Start Makes Sense Austerity’s cuts saved pennies; society paid pounds.

Why Sure Start Makes Sense
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Why Sure Start Makes Sense Austerity’s cuts saved pennies; society paid pounds.

I owe you for this one @mrjamesob.bsky.social Whenever you mention the importance of youth clubs I mutter "Sure Start" at the radio... here's the long story
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So, Jimmy Carter didn't make a peanut out of his presidency and so far Trump has pocketed $660m (income reported for 2024 + 2025 tech settlements). It seems there is a price on the democratic deficit @theguardian.com

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social How low can you go? Are you competing with GB News?

With spreadsheets... At least no one was singing from Truss’s songbook

Russian Bribes, Brexit, and Fake News Kremlin-aligned narratives paid for others, amplified by GB News, normalised by Farage

A bribery case shows Kremlin lines paid into Brussels. The same themes echoed on GB News and were made familiar by Farage. Add bot noise and a Lexit overlap, and you see how the debate tilts in ways that weaken support for Ukraine. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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People have lost their minds - I'd vote for Andy... since when did we become a presidency? Mad, utterly nuts - one year into a government that came to power with a cupboard full of IOUs and racists barking at boats and I'd vote for Andy is the answer?! MAD

At first he replied like someone who was embattled - ready to misinterpret what I was saying, so I was on eggshells. Now, I think he trusts my motives - not looking to take something the wrong way. If I'm unsure, I ask for clarification

Yes - first time was me suggesting he should sack Monk. Since then he's responded/sent over 100 messages... He sent two messages in response to the one putting your question

Well, I had a long reply, 500 words of frustration - "Easy for the fans to say i should come out to say something but the fact they will never listen even in normal situation while they have their thinking and agenda". Without a doubt, commitment to sell - but not at any price.

"They want me to sell which i already said i will but the way the try to do make it slowly and like they do not want me to sell at all. Why i said this was if all smooth look good then maybe already sell but the way they try to convince the buyers they may buy cheaper"

All good... apart from the fact that the real question was why Farage was so reluctant to correct Trump... paracetamol is safe, Trump isn't