Publican. Novelist. Makes things. At peace with Neitzsche.
Bath, UK.
Joined January 2021
- Tweets1.6K
- Following672
- Followers1K
- Likes30
Rod Humphris retweeted
In among the silver birches,
Winding ways of tarmac wander
And the signs to Bussock Bottom,
Tussock Wood and Windy Break.
Gabled lodges, tile-hung churches
Catch the lights of our Lagonda
As we drive to Wendy’s party,
Lemon curd and Christmas cake
Rich the makes of motor whirring
Past the pine plantation purring
Come up Hupmobile Delage.
Short the way our chauffeurs travel
Crunching over private gravel,
Each from out his warm garage.
O but Wendy, when the carpet
Yielded to my indoor pumps.
There you stood, your gold hair streaming,
Handsome in the hall light gleaming
There you looked and there you led me
Off into the game of Clumps.
Then the new Victrola playing;
And your funny uncle saying
"Choose your partners for a foxtrot.
Dance until it's tea o'clock
Come on young 'uns, foot it feetly."
Was it chance that paired us neatly?
I who loved you so completely.
You who pressed me closely to you,
Hard against your party frock.
"Meet me when you've finished eating."
So we met and no one found us.
O that dark and furry cupboard,
While the rest played hide-and-seek.
Holding hands our two hearts beating.
In the bedroom silence round us
Holding hands and hardly hearing
Sudden footstep, thud and shriek
Love that lay too deep for kissing.
"Where is Wendy? Wendy's missing."
Love so pure it had to end.
Love so strong that I was frightened
When you gripped my fingers tight.
And hugging, whispered "I'm your friend."
Goodbye Wendy. Send the fairies,
Pinewood elf and larch tree gnome.
Spingle-spangled stars are peeping
At the lush Lagonda creeping
Down the winding ways of tarmac
To the leaded lights of home.
There among the silver birches,
All the bells of all the churches
Sounded in the bath-waste running
Out into the frosty air.
Wendy speeded my undressing.
Wendy is the sheet's caressing
Wendy bending gives a blessing.
Holds me as I drift to dreamland
Safe inside my slumber wear
Rod Humphris retweeted
Elon often says forgiveness is divine.
He's right. But forgiveness requires clarity first. You can't forgive what you refuse to understand.
So let's be precise about who we're talking about when we talk about the radical left. There are three kinds.
The naive.
They were sold a beautiful story and they bought it. Equality, justice, compassion. Who wouldn't? Then the story started failing, and instead of updating, they doubled down. It's a kind of Stockholm syndrome: defending the very ideology that hurts them. Most of the time it's not stupidity. It's context. Their friends, their job, their university, their whole social world depends on them not seeing it. Waking up would cost them everything. I understand that. I have real compassion for them.
The cynical opportunists.
They figured out that playing progressive was good for business. Good for their career, their brand, their access. They don't believe a word of it. In private they'll tell you that's just how the game works. They're not evil. They're cowards. They saw the truth and chose comfort.
The cynical corrupt.
These are the dangerous ones. The Soros. The Pigasse in France. They know exactly what this ideology produces. They've seen the results: broken cities, broken schools, broken families. They know it's a mess that only delivers misery. And they push it anyway, because it serves them. Not a trace of empathy for the people who pay the price.
Now here's the part that matters.
When this era ends, and it is ending, no one should be persecuted for their ideas. Not one person.
We'll need to move on fast. And the message to most people should simply be: you were wrong. Here's why.
It wasn't entirely your fault. Education was captured. For decades, institutions installed broken software in millions of minds. Young people, good people, curious people who didn't yet have the mental immune system to resist it. That's not a crime. That's a tragedy. And the answer to a tragedy is repair, not revenge.
But forgiveness is not amnesia.
Those who committed actual crimes must be held accountable. Fraud, corruption, abuse of power. Investigated, judged, punished. That's justice, and justice is non-negotiable.
But only them. Individuals, for what they did. Never groups, for what they thought.
The moment you start hunting people by category, you become the thing you fought against. We don't get to copy the witch hunt playbook and call it victory.
Judge actions, not labels. Punish crimes, not opinions. Forgive the rest.
That's how a civilization heals.
Rod Humphris retweeted
The Restore Britain Budget.
Britain has spent decades being governed by politicians who believe the answer to every problem is yet more government - that policy has destroyed our country.
More spending. More borrowing. More regulation. More taxes. More state.
Parasitic overreach into our lives - delivered by politicians and civil servants who have no understanding or appreciation of how real wealth and opportunity is generated in the private sector.
And what have the British people received in return?
A country where working families struggle. Where businesses face punishing costs. Where young people cannot afford homes. Where failing public services demand ever more money, whilst prioritising endless third world migrants. Where inflation runs rampant.
For British men and women, it is a government-backed scam. Corrupt incompetence.
It is impossible for Britain to tax itself into prosperity. I repeat, IMPOSSIBLE.
Wealth is created by people - the public sector should exist to support the private sector, not the reverse and that is the principle which underpins our philosophy.
Restore Britain backs the farmer producing food, the white van man driving the economy, the engineer designing machinery, the shopkeeper serving customers and the entrepreneur risking everything to start a business.
It comes down to this - Restore Britain will protect their freedom to succeed.
If you work hard and contribute, we are on your side.
Our Budget would begin the work of returning power, responsibility and money to the British people.
First, the spending cuts - to come before ANY reductions in tax.
Our 20 point plan to restore prosperity…
1. Freeze working-age benefit rates.
We will freeze working-age benefit rates for the duration of the first Parliament. Britain cannot indefinitely increase expenditure without considering the burden on the people funding it. That would be morally wrong. The healthy indolent will not be rewarded.
2. Restrict welfare eligibility.
No more benefits for foreigners, saving billions. No need to expand.
3. Reform sickness and disability benefits
We will overhaul eligibility, assessment procedures and return-to-work support.
People with serious disabilities and health conditions must receive appropriate protection.
But those who can work, will work. If they refuse, they will be put to work. That simple.
4. Reform pensions.
We will protect the State Pension while replacing the triple lock with annual CPI uprating. Public-sector pension arrangements will be overhauled to address differences with private-sector provision.
These measures will save tens of billions - all outlined in full in our economic paper, The Wealth Of Our Nation.
Next, take an axe to unnecessary government spending
5. The quango bonfire.
We will conduct a comprehensive review of arm's-length public bodies, the default will be abolish unless there is a serious reason to retain. Where its functions duplicate a government department, consolidate them. Deliver accountability and savings. AI will mean vast cuts are possible.
A LOT of Whitehall civil servants will lose their jobs. To be frank.
6. Freeze most departmental budgets.
We will introduce a three-year nominal spending freeze across most government departments - the main exception will be our programme of mass deportations, which in the short term will cost, however as we know, any immediate funds will be quickly recovered and then some.
7. End public spending on Net Zero.
We will end all public expenditure directed towards achieving Net Zero. Energy security will be our main priority. We will support investment in dependable domestic energy supplies, including the infrastructure needed to maintain a resilient electricity system. Energy security will be placed above any ideological dogma. If it makes Britain more resilient, we will pursue it.
8. Review government consultancy and discretionary expenditure.
We will audit consultancy contracts, procurement services, and ALL external advisory work - spending that cannot demonstrate a clear public benefit should end.
The procurement scam will end.
All bullshit ESG and social value nonsense will be stripped away - if the public sector wants to use a third party firm, make it the best one - subject to right-to-work checks to ensure no illegals are being employed.
As stated - spending cuts first, then tax cuts. Done carefully and responsibly. Here’s an overview of how a Restore Britain Government will lift the tax burden…
9. Raise the income tax personal allowance to £16,000.
Nobody should be paying income tax on their first £16,000 of earnings.
We will raise the personal allowance and extend the basic-rate income tax band to £100,000.
We will also restore the full personal allowance to higher earners, ending the withdrawal that creates exceptionally high effective marginal tax rates.
Success will be rewarded, hard work will be rewarded, ambition will be rewarded.
10. Cut corporation tax.
We will introduce a zero corporation tax rate on the first £50,000 of company profits.
Above that threshold, we will restore the headline rate to 19%, with a longer-term ambition of 15%. As soon as fiscal conditions allow.
Let’s give small businesses the genuine breathing room to get their operation off the ground, and then use the corporation tax cut to compete with our neighbours.
11. Abolish inheritance tax and stamp duty.
Families should not be punished for saving, investing and passing assets to their children.
We will abolish inheritance tax.
For farmers, for family businesses, for everyone.
The state has no claim to a family's lifetime of accumulated wealth simply because somebody has died. I detest it. It will be binned for all.
Stamp duty makes moving home more expensive, discourages mobility and creates unnecessary friction in the housing market.
We will abolish it.
12. Reduce disruptive tax.
We will cut the standard rate of VAT from 20% to 18%.
We will also raise the VAT registration threshold to £150,000, helping smaller businesses grow without immediately facing additional tax burden. The amount of businesses hovering just under the current threshold is painful. The issue is OBVIOUS, yet nobody in government has thought to act.
And we will ditch unnecessary taxes.
We will abolish:
Insurance Premium Tax.
Air Passenger Duty.
The Climate Change Levy.
The UK Emissions Trading Scheme.
We will also substantially increase the annual Capital Gains Tax exemption.
Restore Britain’s objective is a tax system that is simpler, more predictable and less hostile to investment.
Next, we will restore a state that works for our people.
13. Hold the NHS accountable.
The NHS will remain free at the point of use for British citizens.
We propose charging non-citizens at market rates - ensuring they actually pay the bills.
We will make private healthcare expenditure tax deductible. If people want to go private, let’s make it cheaper.
Alongside far-reaching structural reform, we will demand basic improvements in patient communication. Answer the telephone. Confirm referrals. Explain test results. Keep patients informed. Use AI to clear pressure on GPs.
All patient-facing staff must demonstrate the English-language communication skills necessary to perform their roles safely. If staff can’t speak English to the required standard, they will no longer have a job.
14. Restore Britain’s education system.
We will move towards greater school-level autonomy, with funding more closely linked to pupil numbers.
We will remove VAT from private education and make private education tax deductible.
We will also promote practical education, apprenticeships and stronger links between schools and employers. The aim will be to prepare children for working adulthood - full paper to come.
Apprenticeships are vital - my businesses have developed hundreds and hundreds. It works, especially with the rise of AI.
Student loan interest abolished for British nationals resident in the UK, full paper published.
An overhaul of childcare regulation and funding - led by those in the sector who know what’s necessary and what’s not.
Next.
The Restore Britain Budget will work to restore a self-sufficient Britain, backed by sovereign AI capabilities.
15. Support British farming and food security.
We will review the regulatory and tax burdens facing British farmers.
Food security must be recognised as a matter of national resilience and urgency. That will be central to everything.
We will make it FAR easier for domestic producers to compete for public-sector food contracts and examine ways to reduce unnecessary administration. Let’s use the public sector spend to back our own people, not import from foreign farmers.
Britain should not become increasingly dependent on imported food while making it harder for its own farmers to survive. And we desperately need to bring more young people into the industry…
16. Ease pressure on transport network.
We will rebuild Britain's transport network, tackling potholes, congestion and crumbling infrastructure while improving vital freight routes and rural roads - motorists will no longer be treated as cash cows. Fuel duty cut, and plenty more. (Full paper about to be published.)
Get this right, and the whole economy is lubricated.
17. Back small businesses.
We will review regulations introduced over recent decades, with a presumption in favour of removing law. Compliance simplified, licensing stripped back. Administrative burdens burned away. Scrap IR35, obviously.
Business rates abolished for small high street businesses. Review car park charges. Boost police numbers in town centres.
Restore confidence on the high street. Bring footfall back. Watch businesses thrive.
18. Develop sovereign AI capability.
AI is coming whether we like it or not. We need to ensure that we have our own protected AI capability which can promote and defend our own interests. We’re already falling behind, and it’s getting worse. We have the opportunity to be a genuine world-leader. Let’s pursue it.
19. A foreign policy that puts Britain’s interests first.
No endless foreign wars driving up the cost of living for ordinary families, no foreign aid unless explicitly to advance our interests. We will prioritise national security, trade, energy independence and protecting British citizens abroad.
Spending will be increased, but our armed forces exist to defend Britain and our vital national interests, not to act as the world's policeman.
20. Protect sound money and fiscal stability. This is the most important of all.
We will pursue a balanced Budget over the medium term and a declining debt-to-GDP ratio. Our aim is to cut the debt, not just the deficit.
The era of mass money printing will end. Inflation will be controlled. The cost-of-living reduced.
The aim - a Britain that belongs to its people
Every Budget promises change, while the state grows larger and the taxpayer becomes poorer.
Restore Britain offers a completely different direction.
A smaller government that spends less - all helped by a massive reduction in the number of migrants living in Britain.
Doing a small list of things, but doing them well.
A welfare state that protects genuine need and expects personal responsibility.
A tax system that rewards work, saving and enterprise.
Public services that answer to the people who fund them.
An economy built on productive businesses rather than a parasitic state.
We do not believe the British people need politicians to manage every aspect of their lives.
We believe they need the freedom to build better lives for themselves.
In short - we will stop buying votes with other people’s money.
Our ambition is not to make government richer.
It is to restore the prosperity of the British economy, the British nation and the British people.
Every word.
What happened in that time took away our foundations as a country. Truth and accountability have to happen before we can build our future properly again.
Same in the UK. Though, I see it as a moral failure before an economic one. My generation and the one before me have failed to build and defend a future for those who come after us. We have been selfish.
We have become stupid and blind to many timeless realities.
We must be ready to defend what is ours; the world is not kind.
Men must provide for and protect women and children; if we aren’t willing to do that, we’re no use to ourselves or anyone else.
The old must give way to the young; we are custodians of our world, not owners.
The ugly truth about France and some of the other European countries currently in turmoil - and which none of the politicians want to admit because it'd be political suicide - is that you can't solve the problem by going after immigrants (as the right asserts) or the rich (as the left asserts), but you could solve it by going after the old.
One extraordinary statistic for you: people over 60 in France, a quarter of the population, own 60% of France's wealth, non-financial and financial (ofce.fr/pdf/revue/2025/3-192…).
And here is another crazy statistic:
that same quarter of the population, those above 60, receive nearly two-thirds of all social spending by the French government (previssima.fr/actualite/prot…) - which is famously among the highest in the world (France's government spending is an insane 57.3% of GDP).
Last statistic: they make up about 40% of voters because they're a third of registered voters (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/266…), and they turn out far more than anyone else (franceinfo.fr/elections/sond…).
Put our 3 statistics together and there's almost a bit of an apartheid situation here: the old own most of the country's wealth, collect most of the social spending and have the political power to keep it that way.
Which makes them a de-facto rentier class, living off assets and transfers paid for by younger generations.
And, of course, at the risk of stating a truism, the future is built by the young. Yet France keeps effectively taking money away from them to give it to those whose working lives are already behind them - and need the money far less since they already own the country's wealth.
What about inheritance, I hear you ask? That's the funniest/saddest aspect: given that life expectancy has kept rising, the French now inherit a home at 54 on average. The most common case is someone in their 80s leaving it to heirs in their 50s, in effect the very old transferring wealth to the about-to-be old (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fic…).
You can add this to our earlier apartheid statement: on top of all the rest, even when the old finally let go of their wealth, it stays within their own "camp".
That's my personal situation, incidentally: I'm 42, my father is 71 and he is starting to look at ways to pass things on to me and my siblings, when our professional lives are already well settled, so it'll arrive when it changes things the least, which is pretty much the French system in a nutshell.
Now, I get that there'd be some unfairness in going after them: they paid into the system their entire working lives, playing by the rules of a social contract that told them if they paid up they'd collect at the end. Changing the rules now means breaking that promise, which is admittedly unfair.
But there's no magic wealth tree in any society: you can only take it where it is. That's the way most major societal transformations end up happening. They're often triggered by a catastrophic event (the so-called "four horsemen": mass-mobilisation war, revolution, state collapse, plague) BUT what really drives change is a transfer: wealth gets pried from the privileged class who've been sitting on it and handed to those who'll build what comes next.
So, in theory and in an ideal world, you can do without the catastrophic event and directly proceed with the transfer...
The fact that in France, and elsewhere in Europe, it's the youth protesting is probably no coincidence - even though they don't frame it as a generational fight. And even though, cruel irony, the left politicians many of them march behind promise to bring the retirement age back to 60 (lcp.fr/actualites/legislativ…), which would make the situation even worse.
Let's say they understand intuitively that the system is stacked against them, even if they haven't yet figured out how. And politicians are obviously doing what politicians do, meaning pandering to the people who actually vote, while pointing the young towards easier - and politically convenient - scapegoats.
To be clear I'm not saying it's the only problem in France, VERY far from it. I'm also not saying that all old people in France live a lavish lifestyle at the expense of younger generations: there are also plenty of very poor retirees who, if anything, would deserve more.
What I am saying is that it's probably the biggest elephant in the room: everyone can see it, nobody dares mention it - no politician, from any side, wants to run on cutting grandma's pension - and it makes every other problem harder to fix.
Amen to that.
You can call that right-wing if you want, but that’s what the working people of this country need. I call it Left-wing.
I’m fortunate. I’ve been successful in business, I have money, I don’t have to worry about our financial future. I donate my entire MP salary to local charities, to show that I’m in politics for the right reasons.
I’ll be honest. I don’t have to worry about paying the mortgage each month, or having enough money to buy the children what they want for their birthday, or even being able to put food on the table.
I don’t, but I know millions of Brits do. That’s the brutal reality.
Hardworking British men and women should not have to live like that. If you work hard, put the hours in and live honestly?
You should be rewarded for it, properly.
That means lower tax, MUCH lower tax and higher thresholds, but it also means a state that can keep inflation under control so that the cost of living does not outstrip your wage.
Fuel, food shop, clothes, electricity. Everything. It all gets more expensive whilst so many earn the same.
Inflation. All driven up by the decisions of politicians who will never have to live with the consequences of their actions.
Our economy is completely broken. It works for the international corporates, the bureaucrats, the London managers.
It does NOT work for the plumber, the entrepreneur, the farmer, the construction worker, the hairdresser, the nurse, the sole trader, the HGV driver, the police officer.
We must aim to entirely reshape how the economy works so that vast profits made from British workers are not shifted offshore through complex corporate structures whilst working families are bled dry by our corrupt state.
I want family businesses to thrive, entrepreneurs to succeed, risk-takers to flourish. Those who contribute, protect and enhance our society rewarded. I want the shirkers and piss-takers crushed.
That’s what I want. That’s what Restore Britain wants.
I don’t want the parasitic global corporations or our rotten state profiting off the ingenuity and sweat of the British risk-taker. Rotten monopolies that have no respect for the individual will end.
In short - an economy that provides for our people.
There is ONE way out. A Britain that lives within it means. Just as we all have to, our state must do the same. Spend less than it earns. It’s that simple.
That is how we make Britain affordable again, make Britain ambitious again and make Britain work again.
That’s what a Restore Britain Government will deliver.
Release the innate brilliance and tenacity of the British people.
Our entrepreneurial spirit conquered the world before and we can do it again.
The thing about this that I think a lot of people don’t get; these people believe. (The anti-racist protesters) They are inside a faith. Reality is irrelevant to them.
This is the force that makes martyrs, that makes, jihad, that makes war.
On our side, we see ourselves as rational, balanced, peaceful even. We don’t yet realise that the fight is existential and ideological. We will have to go there too.
There’s a beast that’s going to get let out of the box on our side too. It isn’t going to be neat or tidy and it will be frightening. And it is necessary.
Moments before the disgusting attack on our democracy, I respected their right to peacefully protest and kindly asked our brave volunteers to meet at the secondary location.
Our volunteers did so without question, but then rent a mob followed and hounded our campaigners.
The safety and security of our volunteers was my first and only priority in this moment.
Restore Britain have made it very clear. Putting our members in harm’s way is not something the party is prepared to do.
I would like to sincerely thank one of our Restore Britain donors for kindly funding the delivery of our leaflets.
Once again I would also like to thank the brave campaigners who should NOT have had to face the threat of intimidation ans violence by these communist thugs.
If this was another way round, we would all have been arrested on the spot.
We will not stand down. We will step up in our THOUSANDS to campaign for this seat.
Bloody hell, a grown up.
Restore Britain is not going to throw the women of Piddington, or anywhere else, to the third world wolves because their neighbour may or may not have voted Liberal Democrat two years ago.
British women do not surrender their right to feel safe in their own towns and villages because of how their neighbour voted.
British children should not bear the consequences of decisions made by adults at a ballot box years earlier.
I am not going to ask a frightened woman how she voted before deciding whether her fears are relevant.
Reform have said communities that vote for the wrong party will have these migrants forced on them.
I disagree.
That is not the type of politics I am interested in.
Yesterday I went to Piddington and listened to the people who actually live there.
I met Restore Britain members living in the village, and many others. They all deserve our support - as do those in Epping, Crowborough, Thetford or ANYWHERE else.
There is a genuine fear in the Piddington community about what is going to happen to them. Understandably so.
I am with them, as I am of every other town affected by these vile camps.
Restore Britain will protect British communities and British women whether they voted for us or not.
It is up to us to make that argument to the British people, and urge them to support a party that will deport these men in the millions.
Restore Britain.
This is true.
A lot of the terms we use for political things are all wrong now. By the original definition, the world we live in, in the UK is pretty much fascist.
And a whole world of people who seem to have entirely lost the ability to think, or even just read anything and check, now think that those of us who don't want this, are fascists.
This quoted post is unavailable.
I’m having a restorative day. Walk by the river in the company of the dog, a kestrel and a pair of kingfishers. Cooking supper for the family in the company of Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams, and a modest amount of Glenfidich.
Rod Humphris retweeted
The Steak Bake Battalions
I have said it for years.
The men who will save this country can be found every morning, from six until half past eight, at almost every Greggs in the land.
They are there before the office lights come on. Before the besuited pen-pushers arrive for their lattes. Before the morning fills with pushchairs, school runs and meetings about meetings.
They are already awake. Already moving. Already at work.
You will know them.
Men in high-vis and cargo shorts. In battered work trousers and steel toe-capped boots. Sometimes in hard hats. Paint-spattered. Plaster-caked. Oil beneath their fingernails. Bags beneath their eyes.
They queue for coffee, bacon rolls and Steak Bakes.
The banter is merciless. The humour is dark. The language is occasionally appalling. But the fellowship is real.
They are the grafters.
Tradesmen. Engineers. Drivers. Fitters. Welders. Bricklayers. Scaffolders. Electricians. Plumbers. Mechanics. Machine operators. Small businessmen. Employers and employees.
Working-class men. Middle-class men. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen and Northern Irishmen.
British men.
While much of the country still sleeps, they are leaving their wives, their children and their warm homes. They climb into cold vans. They drive through darkness and rain. They go where the work is.
They build Britain.
They keep the lights on and the water flowing. They repair the roads. Raise the scaffolding. Lay the bricks. Weld the steel. Fix the boilers. Clear the drains. Restore the roofs. Mend what is broken.
They rarely appear on television.
Nobody invites them onto fashionable panels. Nobody asks what they think. Nobody in Whitehall seems particularly interested in whether they can afford another van, another apprentice or another year of taxes, regulations and rising costs.
Yet without them, the country stops.
Completely.
These are the descendants of the men of Agincourt and Waterloo. Of the Somme and Dunkirk. Of D-Day, Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not trained soldiers, most of them. But recognisably of the same temper.
The same stubbornness. The same humour in adversity. The same refusal to make a song and dance of hardship. The same instinct to shoulder the load, finish the job and look after the man beside them.
They carry an inheritance shaped across centuries. Celt and Pict. Roman and Saxon. Viking and Norman. Generations forged by cold seas, hard ground, long winters, dangerous work and war.
Their forebears built ships, railways, bridges, factories and cities. They crossed oceans. They defeated Napoleon, Hitler and Galtieri. They created an empire of extraordinary reach and consequence, and then spent British blood and treasure destroying the slave trade across much of the world.
They were not flawless men. No nation is flawless.
But they were formidable.
And these men are formidable still.
They are not extremists. They are not fanatics. They do not spend their days raging online. Most ask for very little.
A fair wage. A decent home. Safe streets. A future for their children. The freedom to speak plainly. And a country that remembers who built it.
But beneath the dust, the laughter and the apparent indifference, something remains.
A deep attachment to home.
A quiet patriotism.
A line that can be pushed only so far.
When this country finally decides that mass immigration must end, that integration must mean something, that borders must be real and that Britain must remain recognisably British, it will not be delivered by consultants, commentators or career politicians.
It will be delivered by the people who already carry Britain on their backs.
They are out there every morning.
Millions of them.
Waiting patiently in the half-light. Vans lined along the kerb. Engines ticking. Reflective jackets catching the first grey light of dawn.
Coffee in one hand. Steak Bake in the other.
The backbone of Britain.
The Steak Bake Battalions.
Rod Humphris retweeted
Things what will increase in value with AI and AGI
-raw video
-unique personalities
-proprietary, experiential, process knowledge
-materials science and materials manufacturing (you cannot code atoms into existence)
-Real life events and friends
-->Reality is the Moat
Rod Humphris retweeted
George Kennan on NATO expansion (May 2, 1998): ''I think it is the beginning of a new Cold War... I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves... Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are -- but this is just wrong.''
I’m beginning to have a feeling that events are taking charge. Money, politics and war. It seems improbable to me that normal can prevail for much longer.
The bit that worries me most is this:
Money is going to get tight. Our noble leaders are going to be put in the position of having to make choices, whether they like it or not.
If they don’t continue funding our unwelcome third world guests, these gentlemen will cause trouble. More trouble. Not for our leaders, of course, for the rest of us.
If they do, and we are really suffering and going without, while our guests are having it easy… that’s not going to go down well.
Either way, the basic question of choice between the interests of us, the native population, or the invaders, is going to come into sharp focus.
I can imagine that if they get it wrong, it could leave scars on our national psyche which will make the crimes of Covid seem minor.
Rod Humphris retweeted
We don't have the capacity to take the fight to Russia. The Russians have no interest in coming here.
Provoking Russia into retaliating against us will mean long range missile strikes on our industry and cities. They have hypersonic misdile systems and the world's largest nuclear arsenal. We have no defence against this. It is complete insanity.
The British press tells the world that high tech drones are being made in the U.K. and being supplied to Ukraine from where they are fired into Russia. Some of these new drones are getting through Russian air defences and striking targets inside Russia. Russia says that this must stop or there will be consequences. Our new PM says that Russia can get lost and that the drone supply to Ukraine will continue. Given the lamentable state of the British armed forces - to say nothing of our bankrupt economy - this policy of provoking Russia into war with the U.K. is nothing short of lunacy. There is no public foreign policy debate. There are no dissenting voices in the House of Commons. Unless we open proper diplomatic relations with Moscow which will involve a change of the current U.K. policy, this will end badly for the U.K. I am 76. I do not care for myself but I care for my children and grandchildren.
Entirely right.
The British press tells the world that high tech drones are being made in the U.K. and being supplied to Ukraine from where they are fired into Russia. Some of these new drones are getting through Russian air defences and striking targets inside Russia. Russia says that this must stop or there will be consequences. Our new PM says that Russia can get lost and that the drone supply to Ukraine will continue. Given the lamentable state of the British armed forces - to say nothing of our bankrupt economy - this policy of provoking Russia into war with the U.K. is nothing short of lunacy. There is no public foreign policy debate. There are no dissenting voices in the House of Commons. Unless we open proper diplomatic relations with Moscow which will involve a change of the current U.K. policy, this will end badly for the U.K. I am 76. I do not care for myself but I care for my children and grandchildren.