Dr Dyks 🇺🇦
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Natural Philosopher. Working on particle accelerators. Brutalism and nuclear fission fan. Senior fellow CERN. It’s pronounced “dicks” 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇵🇱🇫🇷🇨🇭
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Switzerland have projected a tribute to the queen onto the Eigar. Absolutely beautiful display. The largest projected light show in history.
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Still not sure how renovating the House of Commons can cost more than the replacement for the Large Hadron Collider.
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You’d think CERN people wouldn’t be so moronic. I left a note to remind them.
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So there was another Islamist attack on a gay venue yesterday, and we’re just going to ignore it?
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A pretty grim account of what Pincher is alleged to have done the other night. I think this is a key point. For far too many people male-male sexual harassment and abuse just isn’t that big an issue. The issue will continue to get worse with this attitude.
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I see the BBC News app haven’t sorted their priories out. Mum got a notification about the President of Harvard resigning. Why? Why is that remotely interesting to the vast majority of British people?
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Moving away from the moral dimension of this, imagine what effect this has on the wider economy. £700 a month sucked out of shops, bars, restaurants, concert venues, and all types of other businesses.
No wonder high streets are emptying.
Me: Hi can I see this flat advertised at £1300/ month?
Landlord: Ah we've taken deposit from someone else now but your salary shows you could afford a higher rent. We would let this out to you at £2000/month?
Me: Ok - I’m not renting for more than what’s advertised
Response:
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I know people on £100,000 won’t get much sympathy, but this sort of thing is ridiculous.
The 20,000% spike at £100,000 is absolutely not a joke - someone earning £99,999.99 with two children under three in London will lose an immediate £20k if they earn a penny more.
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Hunt’s flight was from Heathrow, so at least 30 minutes from Downing Street. Manchester airport is another 20 from the conference venue. He will spend a very substantial amount of time at the airport. After all of that the plane is probably slower than HS2.
I don't often say this but well done Jeremy Hunt.
We can already get from London to Manchester in 30 minutes even without HS2.
A modern society needs more flights not fewer.
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I just don’t get the GP booking process in the UK. When I want an pointement with my GP in Switzerland, I just go on an app, look at the available times and book.
Trying to move a doctor’s appointment to another time.
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If the WASPI women do win compensation from the government, do the women that did the right thing, researched their retirement properly, and worked several years longer than their WASPI colleagues, get fuck all?
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The whole strip of land between Oxford and Cambridge should be one mega city, driving growth for the whole of the uk. These should be two of the fastest growing cities in the world. No other places in Europe have anything like as much talent. They are strangled by Regulation.
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One of the great points Christopher Hitchens made is that alcohol is just about the only drug that can make people more pleasant to be around. All other drugs always make people worse.
Cannabis smoke rises from the thousands assembled in Hyde Park.
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Britain is a middle income country with London attached. A very sad realisation due to the shear amount of low hanging fruit that could generate growth and boost incomes.
Excellent graph from the FT that highlights that for nearly half of British households the "nightmare of being overtaken by Eastern Europe" has already happened.
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I’m 28 and not expecting to receive a state pension until my mid 70s. Hope that helps.
Would love to know how many of the ‘wtf how did waspi women not know their pension age changed’ 1. Know exactly what their own current pension forecast is 2. Understand just how many people don’t really follow the news 3.Know when social media was invented
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It’s absolutely terrifying to consider how close these people were allowed to come to power.
Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine.
The video below was featured in a live stream titled: 'No War in Ukraine: Stop NATO Expansion'. Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn MP was also present.
@HackneyAbbott
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Even amongst a collection of some of the finest minds in Europe, you will find regressive homophobes. They need to be treated with the contempt they deserve.
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Please sir, can I have a safe seat.
🧵 Today, we've learnt more about Rishi Sunak personally and a fair bit more about what Sunakism might be. His
#cpc23
conference speech was striking for its ideological dexterity - with policy that pleases and prods different wings of the Conservative Party.
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We absolutely should copy France. Lots of high speed rail and lots of nuclear power stations, both of which the greens oppose 🤡
Exc: Green party boss Lorna Slater calls on UK to copy France - and look at banning domestic flights where there are public transport alternatives
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Just to be clear, FIFA will not allow England to wear a fake rainbow on their sleeves, but will allow the host nation to actively discriminate against Jewish fans, banning worship in public.
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It turns out that the so-called Black Forest is in fact green.
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Jolyon Maugham must be in my top 5 most awful people in Britain.
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We have such an unhealthy relationship with our health service. And it’s getting worse.
I saw the brilliant Keeley Hawes in 'The Human Body' at the weekend, the Lucy Kirkwood play about the birth of the NHS.
When her character is told that Nye Bevan's new health service is “bound to fail” she replied: “The idea will not have failed. We will have failed the idea.”
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This is fucking mental. Not sure I’m prepared for 5 years of this sort of rubbish with the afterburners on.
@kimleadbeater
's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th.
I fully support this bill and
@owe65332
with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses.
You can find the petition below:
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The Wrong Trousers is one of the greatest short films ever made. The train chase is second to none.
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MPs really don’t understand modern life. How many years will it take them to catch up?
I'm at a genuine loss, who when approached by a total stranger sends them nude images, when they are not an MP, let alone when they are.
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A great example of everything that is wrong with Britain. Local busybodies and morons blocking viable businesses from expanding.
🔴 The former Top Gear host is said to be ‘visibly upset’ by the decision following his appeal
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I can see how maybe it costs 1 or 2 billion, but 10-20 is insane.
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British politics 2023.
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This is precisely the opposite of true. The proliferation of Henry sums up all of our economic problems. It was once a great bit of kit, but is now way behind other hoovers. It’s still ubiquitous across the land not because it’s good but because it’s twee.
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One of the worst buildings I have ever seen.
Well folks, you know what time it is! WORST BUILDING OF THE YEAR 2023 TIME! Your choices are as follows:
(Thomson Centre Renovations in Chicago, Wrapper Building in Los Angeles, The renovations of this church in Massachusetts, and this house in GA)
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I have worked in science for the past 6 years. What the fuck does this even mean?
NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness.
@michelledonelan
announces plans to depoliticise science at
#CPC23
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I’m sorry but this is a disgrace. I will be ending all donations I give to
@OfficialUoM
as an alumnus until this is reversed.
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When you buy Keir Starmer on Wish.
SNP Deputy Leader Keith Brown suggested he was tricked into appearing on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland show under false pretences.
Keith Brown claimed he was asked on to discuss Gaza, but was questioned on Michael Matheson instead.
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Has there been any polling done on the phrase “green new deal” in the uk. To me it still means nothing to British people who have no idea what the original new deal was. An imported Americanism that doesn’t really work as a slogan.
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@quantinghome
“Not known for undocumented asbestos and dodgy engineering”, have you ever been to CERN?
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The most frustrating of gotchas. Politics is about getting things done. What’s the alternative to working with some of the opposition on good terms? Some sort of Dennis Skinner type, despising the other side as evil, achieving precisely nothing over your decades in Parliament.
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The sad thing about Britain today is that if this lab makes a major discovery that can be brought to market there is no lab space for them to expand into.
King Charles is at a laboratory in Cambridge - which they hope will become the leading global centre for disruptive innovation in net zero aviation and energy
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How does the Sun get security footage from inside a secretary of state’s office? I feel that’s the bigger story here, someone with a lot of access really wants to bring down Hancock.
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Amazing how religion allows people to get away with such hateful bigotry. If she targeted any other minority group, one that didn’t allow her to use her religion as a shield, she would be hounded out of polite society.
🚨 Homosexuality 🚨
If you do not believe in God then this Xpost is not for you. And if you cannot separate your emotion from an opinion on homosexuality then this is also not for you.
I'm Muslim and Islam does not condone the (act of) homosexuality. It is seen as unnatural and
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Has anyone named “czar” for a particular policy area ever improved anything?
London is leading the world in its 24-hour policy with other global cities looking to us for inspiration.
London's Night Czar spoke earlier about her role, championing the nighttime economy and representing 1.3m workers.
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Maybe there’s a reason Poland is seeing massive economic growth and Britain isn’t.
Rolls Royce now has full government permission to move forward with its plan to deploy its 470 MW SMRs in Poland. Article link in reply.
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The median salary in Geneva is 77,000 CHF.
Another classic from the Civil Service job board. Would you like to lead trade negotiations between Switzerland and the UK? Do you have an expert knowledge of global trade and diplomacy? Would you like to be paid many times less than those skills are worth?
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The Greens being anti-HS2 never stops being completely mind boggling.
GE candidate for Uxbridge & S Ruislip Sarah Green showing what
#HS2
plans to cut down this week. 'Just brambles & weeds', they say, ignoring young oak trees, fruit trees & lots of lovely greenery that supports birds, insects & small mammals.
@HillingdonGreen
It's time to
@stophs2
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No conversation of interwar London apartment blocks is complete without my favourite (and the favourite of Soviet spies), the Isokon building, built 1933.
Really great article.
One of my local favourite buildings: Regency Lodge, built in 1938 right before the War put the kibosh on London's flat building boom.
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Ridiculous policy. The correct way to solve this almost totally harmless high would be to provide bins to put the waste in as they do in Switzerland.
🎈 Banning 'laughing gas'.
We’re banning nitrous oxide - putting an end to litter and intimidation in our parks so people feel safer.
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These people are awful, just going after events they don’t like. Nothing at Glastonbury despite the corporate nature of it and 100s of helicopters, but attacks on pride, snooker and all sorts of random mainstream events.
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My cousin made a sideboard for my aunt in his shed. It’s really gorgeous.
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Sometimes I can see why NIMBYs oppose certain things, for example a massive abattoir. I simply can’t grasp how anyone could oppose a data centre.
NIMBYs: tough on a high tech future, tough on the causes of high tech futures.
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What an absolutely disgraceful situation. Everyone involved ought to be ashamed of themselves. A complete failure to stand up to zealots who are threatening an autistic child because of a scuff on a book.
Here are the Chief Inspector's remarks. They are atrocious.
Nothing on the death threats. Scolding for the boys.
Lots of praise for the mosque and the imam and their "tolerance".
What a miserable failure. The government should step in here. 5/5
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@TheDailyShow
What on earth are you talking about? What backlash has there been? Unlike the US the UK is not obsessed with race. This video is a totally perverted view of Britain.
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Wonder why there’s no lab space in Oxford Layla.
Research Q: What is the biggest issue facing UK science?
Tory Hypothesis: Wokeness
Evidence: Brain drain caused by taking so long to rejoin Horizon Europe, lack of lab space, cost of visas for researchers, any coherence in either industrial or foreign policy.
Result: Negative
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The last period of success was set up when the chancellor still drank alcohol in the chamber. Maybe we should return.
I am 30 years of age and I cannot remember, in my adult life, a single time when headlines about the economy said something along the lines of "actually things are broadly fine right now!"
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Mary Richardson, the women who smashed this painting, became the head of the women’s section of the British Union of Fascists.
Just Stop Oil protestors have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery.
"Women did not get the vote by voting," they say.
A century ago, the painting was slashed by a suffragette.
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So Tesco can’t use a yellow circle yet ALDI can completely rip off their entire product range? I really don’t understand trademark law.
Lidl has won a trademark lawsuit against grocery market leader Tesco over its use of a yellow circle in branding
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The fact that we force people in the public eye to make a grovelling apology when they decide they’ve made a mistake really bothers me.
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@BenABrittain
It depends. She will be seen rather like John major, as a decent, hard working and honourable person but ultimately a failure as PM. I don’t think any retrospective will view her time in office favourably.
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All of these points are valid.
But are completely irrelevant to the question of whether a man with a previous conviction for sexual offenses should be given asylum.
84% of sex offenders are British white males
>3.1 million British adults were sexually assaulted as children
1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted
1 in 3 suffer domestic abuse
2 women killed every week by partners or ex
The problem is male violence agst women, not asylum seekers
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To save us from American cultural dominance we need this man to be the template of language we teach in schools.
Increasingly of the opinion that the UK needs to become like the Swiss Germans and start speaking a dialect that is asymmetrically unintelligible with the primary linguistic home.
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Why not make this permanent? Is there any reason why a pub shouldn’t be open at 11 am if it wishes to be?
Talks are underway between UK government departments about allowing pubs and bars to open earlier than usual for fans watching England play Spain in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday, which will kick off at 11am UK time.
More from
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So tonight for the first time in two and a half months I went round a friend’s house to eat pizza and drink beer.
It really counts as one of the best evenings of my life. I’m not sure how to describe it, but it’s just lovely to see people in the flesh again.
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I literally have no idea why anyone rates this man at all.
🚨NEW🚨
Rory Stewart slams Keir Starmer for trying to “micromanage” the Labour Party, calls the expulsion of Jeremy Corbyn “mad” and “disgusting”.
Full interview with me, on
@novaramedia
, published this Sunday at 6pm.
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Socialism for the old paid for by the young. Absolutely sickening.
NEW: UK Govt confirms the "triple lock" will apply for next year's state pension, meaning millions of pensioners are in line for 10%+ rises to their weekly income.
Treasury minister confirms in response to written question.
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Oh god. I would die if I was in this pub.
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Politically this seems a very strange road to go down. He’s right, £100,000 isn’t an enormous salary, had earnings kept up with pre-08 levels a lot more people would be earning it. But how can he possibly get around the fact that his party has been in government for 14 years?
'A £100,000 salary doesn't go as far as you might think', says Chancellor
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.
@TrevorPTweets
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#TrevorPhillips
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Can’t see how this is anything other than a net vote loser. One of the first things my parents said to me yesterday was how much nicer Oxford is with fewer cars and more pedestrianised areas.
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@jdportes
@pmdfoster
@GoodwinMJ
Goodwin blocked me on Twitter when I pointed out that during the January 6th storing of the Capitol he spent the evening deleting all of his tweets that defended Trump, in particular ones linking to articles where he said “trump isn’t a fascist”.
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This was lockdown. Almost everybody supported lockdown. People are now sitting back and blaming the government for the consequences of this. Bizarre.
Hancock's appearance on this show is also an insult to the tens of thousands of kids and students whose studies were interrupted, the people whose work or businesses were hit and the millions with medical conditions that left them cut off for two years from the rest of the world.
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Education is about learning that references should be done as you go along.
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Switzerland has some great form here. They lit up the Matterhorn to remember British Covid victims last year or so.
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He looks so similar to Prince Phillip here.
The Earl of Wessex visited troops on deployment in Estonia and Germany this week to recognise their service and their commitment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth throughout her life.
HRH is Royal Colonel
@CO_2RIFLES
and Royal Honorary Colonel
@WessexYeomanry
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Can British people stop going on holiday and come back thinking the bang average french stuff is amazing?
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This looks like a rather pleasant Saturday.
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