Tim @TimfromSing

Recently returned from 15 years in Japan and Singapore. Once a physicist. England, United Kingdom Joined December 2012

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Tim @TimfromSing

13 hours ago

@NickDixon Possibly. Bit surely, if it’s true, it’s a moral act. Ms Reeves, having helped Labour get in, has every duty to stop lunatics like Mad Ed take over.

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Tim @TimfromSing

22 hours ago

@NickDixon Apparently we’re supposed to observe an annual one week-ban on metaphor, forever.

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a day ago

@premnsikka The first positive thing about Burnham I’ve heard.

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@WalkerMarcus This is an important point among the “decent man” narrative. Sir Keir, who got the Labour Party into power and then couldn’t control it, had a duty to fight to the end kept the lunatics out. Again, this time amidst tears, he let us down.

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Tim @TimfromSing

2 days ago

@1romancatholic @BruvverEccles Some of these seem a bit iffy. The Aeneid is in “books” which I seem to remember taking about 30 minutes each to read, and Homer’s works are famously in 24 books. However, I believe the monks did add chapter headings to some previously continuous texts.

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Tim @TimfromSing

3 days ago

@SamCKx What about Project Fear: the “punishment budget”, the “immediate recession”, the “500k-900k surge in job losses” including 75,000 in the city, the 18% to 30% house price fall claims? Was this ok because it was not online?

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Tim @TimfromSing

3 days ago

@RogersHistory I agree with you. He was dreadful: raising NI (despite committing not to), pushing assisted suicide (not in manifesto), Chagos, net zero, abolishing 2 child cap (despite promises) and then pretending it was on principle, neglecting defense. But his replacement will be worse.

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Tim @TimfromSing

3 days ago

@Ameer_Kotecha On the final point, the idiot’s right though. Mad Ed will be the power behind pathetic Andy,

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4 days ago

@RejoinP If everyone who marches pays up you’ll have over a grand.

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Tim @TimfromSing

4 days ago

@richenergyceo @Barney_WR_Lane @afneil You must be very grateful to Boris for opposing Sir Keir on this. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

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Tim @TimfromSing

5 days ago

@af16051107 @adamboultonTABB This is not true. Natural gas wholesale prices vary significantly by county because NG is transported via pipelines or liquified, and regional markets can’t balance one another. Creating more supply in the UK could make UK prices closer to the lower prices in the US.

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Tim @TimfromSing

5 days ago

@CptHastings1916 Hope this knocks heads together on the right, and shows them that splitting the vote three ways will lead to national disaster. Unfortunately, being on the right requires such firm-mindedness in a politician nowadays that they tend to be uncompromising and fractious.

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Tim @TimfromSing

6 days ago

@RinseHold @BxtnLovesEurope Some of the Eastern European economies we have nothing in common with are doing well. They pull the EU average up to our level.

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Tim @TimfromSing

a week ago

@TrisOsborneMP @afneil But those are rather different numbers, aren’t they? A 2% short-term hit to develop long term relationships within CPTPP seems a small price to pay. An 8% hit would be rather different.

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Tim @TimfromSing

a week ago

@zarahsultana Isn’t the problem that comprehensives are by-and-large of such low quality (why you didn’t go to one either)? Perhaps try to solve that first?

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Tim @TimfromSing

a week ago

@Bushra1Shaikh I agree that ordinary Muslims are being out in danger, and this is terrible and wrong. Completely unfair. But might they perhaps be safer if they went away?

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Tim @TimfromSing

a week ago

@bphillipsonMP On the other hand Hitler also closed lots of private schools: all the great Catholic schools in fact, though they were mainly restablished when he was gone. Sadly, this will not happen for the schools you closed.

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Tim @TimfromSing

2 weeks ago

@ThomasSowell Mostly immigrant Chinese and Jews. Compared to their population in the world, Jews are about 200 times over represented in Nobel prizes for the sciences. By a strange symmetry, Muslims are about 200 times under-represented.

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Tim @TimfromSing

2 weeks ago

@DPJHodges I would say the Belfast incident was unlucky timing for Andy Burnham, if similar incidents didn’t happen every week or two.

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Tim @TimfromSing

2 weeks ago

@DPJHodges Yes, and no doubt many people participated in poll tax riots for the same reason. However, this does not mean that people did not feel aggrieved about the poll tax, or that they had some way of stopping it other than rioting.