James West
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Physics PhD. Retired project, technical manager and cat herder of 30 years in global IT. Award winning wildlife photographer.
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@Ian_DMoore
@jamescracknell
@DailyMail
I for one would be extremely happy to see the Mail, Sun, Express, Telegraph go out of business and their journalists become unemployable.
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@JuliaHB1
@MarkTew177
The chances of her ever saying “you know, I was a troubled little girl exploited by a political campaign to perpetuate a hoax on the world, and I’ll be permanently grateful to Julia Hartley Brewer for rescuing me” are precisely ZERO.
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@JuliaHB1
@MarkTew177
Yes. You’re paid by, associate with, cheerlead for people, organisations, interests that have for at least FOUR DECADES denied there is a problem and knowingly and deliberately obstructed action. The young are right to be outraged at this reckless inaction at their expense.
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@WhiteHouse
@realDonaldTrump
Actually the atom was first split in a British university by a New Zealander. The electric motor and dynamo were invented in Britain. A Scot invented the telephone (in the US), and the WWW was invented at CERN by a Briton. But apart from those points, spot on.
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@BBCNewsPR
Total nonsense. You didn’t give, for example, Cliff Richard airtime to challenge allegations. Banks has the opportunity to defend himself to the NCA and, if necessary, court. Your job is to ensure any prosecution is not prejudiced.
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@KayBurley
@MattHancock
He’s also a notorious climate change denier. At a crucial time when trade has to play a key role in achieving net carbon neutral over the next 30 years. He’s not an expert in trade.
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@JuliaHB1
@archer_rs
Not so. Once the UK applies its proposed “points based” immigration system and income requirements on EU citizens then it will be reciprocated. Sounds like you didn’t understand what you voted for.
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@jordanbpeterson
There are 20,000 climate scientists in the world. Even if all these 1200 were climate scientists (they’re not, barely a handful are) the. That represents just over 5% of them. Why do you trust them, rather than the overwhelming majority of climate scientists?
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@votepoliticsuk
@StevePeers
What?
No accounting and tax rules?
No health and safety?
No anti fraud, anti terrorism, anti money laundering, anti drug, laws?
No requirement to validate right to work for employees?
No requirement for their products to comply with national and international standards?
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@OwenPaterson
You’re an effing backbench MP with no standing or authority to negotiate anything. Who’s funding your travel, as it better not be my taxes? If WTO terms are fine to trade with the EU, why do we need an FTA with the USA?
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@akafacehots
@GretaThunberg
Because for forty years political ideology and economic vested interests have deliberately and knowingly obstructed action to ensure she and her generation have a habitable planet to live on. If they’d acted on their promises, she’d never have needed to be one an activist.
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@mrjamesob
It’s unacceptable for ministers using their Twitter accounts for government business to block voters, taxpayers, journalists
@DominicRaab
Too many of the cabinet do that.
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@piersmorgan
We had a collapsing pound, rising inflation, declining industries, lousy industrial relations, poor management, lousy design, and poor quality manufacturing. You were too young to remember. We looked over at the EEC and saw it was very different. OK?
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@BBCNewsPR
Unfortunately
@AndrewMarr9
is no longer a “robust” interviewer. He merely gives his interviewees a platform to air their opinions and does little to challenge them with evidence (that he doesn’t have anyway). Leave it to the NCA.
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@archer_rs
This is an example of people believing controlling freedom of movement only works one way: stop EU citizens coming here whilst UK citizens keep their rights. It was obvious right from the Brexit vote that this wasn’t going to happen. But both May and Johnson have not been honest
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@Telegraph
@BorisJohnson
Err, they did it by very careful planning, design, engineering, implementation, testing, support and a heavy dose of risk management. All the things notable by their total absence in the Brexit project.
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@piersmorgan
But more importantly: after 1870 Germany invaded France 3 times in 70 years. Twice we were involved at great financial and human cost. The EEC and now EU brought stability and there have been no great power conflicts in 73 years. Take that for granted at our collective peril.
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@JuliaHB1
We early await your reappraisal of 200 years of climate science in a paper published in a peer reviewed journal. When do you expect to publish it?
But you’ll need to explain what you think you know that every climate scientists & every national science academy have missed.
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@CotteeTom
@Boolintool
Yes, the only equipment anyone should be shooting wildlife with is a camera.
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@OwenPaterson
We also have a trade surplus with the USA. Do you seriously think any deal you negotiate will be beneficial to anyone but the USA? What’s your solution to the Irish border if we permit the import of stuff that doesn’t meet EU standards? You didn’t have answers then, you don’t now
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@GuitarMoog
Common sense tells us the world is flat, the sun and planets revolve around it, quantum mechanics and general relativity are nonsense, and the miasma transmits disease. The scientific method was invented because common sense cannot explain the natural world.
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@SteveBarclay
Your job, that my taxes and those of others pay you for, is to find solutions not make pathetic excuses why you can’t do your job. With so many unfilled vacancies and nurses leaving the profession, the “Independent” panel clearly has the wrong remit and criteria.
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@OwenPaterson
You appear to be colluding of your own volition with representatives of a foreign government to undermine the stated aims of your own country’s government.
There is a name for that.
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@piersmorgan
On the manufacturing front, there's a reason Brits now prefer BMWs to Austin Allegros. But clearly some people yearn for the latter. For those wanting to return to the 1950s, moving to the Isle of Wight would be less disruptive for everyone.
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@Telegraph
@BorisJohnson
In my training as a professional project manager and 30 years experience of complex global IT projects, I don’t ever recall having a “can do spirit” being an accepted or acceptable risk management strategy.
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@jamesj1278
@mrjamesob
Just suppose that Corbyn and McDonnell had been in charge and done everything this government has done, you’d be all over them for their incompetence, corruption, deceit.
But we know Tories don’t look hard at themselves!
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@BBCr4today
@bernardjenkin
Once again
@bernardjenkin
wants to quit his golf club, but still expects to play golf there as before, use the bar, get his club discount in the shop, but not pay a subscription, obey the rules, or abide by the dress code. Deluded or what?
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@archer_rs
But they’re getting what they voted for, and they clearly didn’t understand what the consequences would be. However, if the UK wanted to it could negotiate continuation of FoM. But only if Patel’s immigration plans are scrapped. It’s those that force the EU to reciprocate.
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@BBCJLandale
As someone with 30 years experience managing complex international projects, if I were 22mths in to a project with 11 to go, and I still had no idea what requirements I was going to deliver, let alone a detailed plan with scope, costs, benefits, and risks, I’d be sacked.
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@michaelgove
Can you please tell us how many times in the past 10 years you or wife have hosted him to dinner, been hosted by him at dinner, or been hosted by third parties for dinner? It’s important you are open and transparent about your journalistic clique in appointments like this.
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@Telegraph
@BorisJohnson
Brexit is the equivalent of demanding we get to the moon by assuming the law of gravity doesn’t apply, Newton’s laws of motion don’t apply, and laws of conservation of energy and momentum don’t apply. Apart from that, a perfect analogy.
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@GlennThompsonBP
Man quits golf club. Man is then outraged when told by club steward he can no longer play golf there (maybe we can do a deal on green fees), book lessons with the pro, get the discount in the club shop, and has to be signed in to use the bar.
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@JuliaHB1
Climate science is not fundamentally based on models. It’s based on physics. Physics you don’t understand.
I heard
@JuliaHB1
was pontificating her climate denying nonsense on
@bbcquestiontime
#bbcqt
last night. She’s been a denier for many years and her nonsense has been well and truly debunked many times. Yet she persists.
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@ukhomeoffice
Which remove the rights of 65m UK citizens to live, work, study, retire in 30 countries.
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@DouglasKMurray
Please list the rights under the ECHR you don’t want for yourself or those you care about. Please be specific.
A reminder that the ECHR predates the EU by a long time and includes all European states except Belarus and Russia.
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@AndyGJBurge
Perhaps she can explain which rights under the ECHR she no longer wants for herself and those she cares about.
#bbcqt
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@Telegraph
This is known as green washing. You realise your many decades of denial have come to an end, so you place the burden on consumers with trivial changes. These all help but system changes are needed. Change you continue to obstruct as you’re in the pay of fossil fuel interests.
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@bbclaurak
Sorry, by definition, the Supreme Court cannot be wrong. Your job is not to act as a mouthpiece for lawbreakers.
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@bbcquestiontime
@TheSimonEvans
As someone with 30 years experience managing complex international projects, if I were 22mths in to a project with 11 to go, and I still had no idea what requirements I was going to deliver, let alone a detailed plan with scope, costs, benefits, and risks, I’d be sacked.
#bbcqt
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@montie
It’s called a RECIPROCAL RIGHT. We get the right to live, work, study, retire in 30 other countries. A right we don’t have with “old allies”. However we have been to war with, or against, sometimes both with every member of the EU over the past few hundred years.
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@CeeMacBee
As a manager in IBM THIRTY years ago we learnt about JIT, pioneered by Toyota, Honda etc. If you dont understand it now, then you can’t really describe yourself as an economist. The whole point of it is to avoid costs and wastage of warehousing.
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@piersmorgan
After WW2 Britain (a& the US) were instrumental in bringing about rules based international institutions that ensured small countries were protected from the power countries. Now the UK & the US wish to dispense of those rules they helped create that apparently no longer suit us.
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@nickeardleybbc
And to remove the rights of 60m UK citizens to live,work, study, retire in 30 countries. Why do you never own up to that?
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@EdwardLeighMP
This is my mother and grandmother, a working class family from Wakefield, in 1939 with a refugee from the Spanish Civil War they were housing. Your claim that your constituents would turn away refugees from Ukraine says far more about you than it does about them.
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@Mike_Fabricant
@SecretSuffolk
I have stamps in my first passport from France, Netherlands, Spain. I can’t say they compensate for my children and grandchildren losing their rights to live, work, study, retire in 30 countries.
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@KayBurley
@MattHancock
Trade deals will require trade partners to commit to the Paris Climate accords and implement actions will be an increasing requirement to meet net neutral by 2050. Abbott clearly won’t do that which is the main reason his appointment must be opposed.
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@jordanbpeterson
You’ve been corrected on this before, so why do you perpetuate this myth? Barely a handful of this 1200 are actual climate scientists. Most are assorted disciplines not associated with climate science and many have clear associations with fossil fuel interests. Debunked arguments
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@grahambsi
@fascinatorfun
In March 2016 there was an “entrepreneur” on Any Questions on Radio 4, advocating Leave as it would “simplify” his dealings with the EU. He needs to be invited back to see how it’s worked out for him. I think “simplicity” means “no business” in practice.
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@theresa_may
In a real world business, if I was running a project and after 27 mths with 6 to go I still had no idea what requirements I was addressing and had no detailed plan with the scope, costs, benefits, risks I’d be sacked.
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@SuzanneEvans1
@RoyalFamily
Why? Didn’t you understand how our constitution works? Like you didn’t understand the very likely loss of free mobile roaming after Brexit. It’s almost as if you really didn’t know what you were voting for.
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This is why science isn’t debated on broadcast media with non specialists.
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@naomirwolf
@HawleyMO
@simonschuster
Forgive me, but I was always under the impression that publishers were free to decide what they chose publish. If I’d known they were required to publish any rubbish put to them I’d have written a book years ago.
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@danbloom1
Basically, yes
@MattHancock
unless there’s a rigorous procurement process that ensures open and transparent decision making.
@SkyNews
You know, the sort of rigorous procurement process the government is legally required to follow and similar to those businesses have to have.
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@BBCPolitics
If a golf club gives a member resigning a better deal than the remaining members it won’t be a club for very long.
@Jeremy_Hunt
that’s basically what the UK government seems to be wanting.
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@MarcusRashford
When BA, Virgin, BP, and most businesses have clearly had no contingency plan to deal with the effects of a global pandemic, why does anyone expect the poorest families in the country to have them?
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Hang on. You’ve proven it’s possible to conduct business remotely. You’ve told the rest of us to return to work only if you can’t work from home. You’ve proven you can, so do it. Set an example.
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@PaulBrandITV
You know, I really yearn for the days when politics was pretty boring. Before 2016. When we could assume competent, but largely uncharismatic people were keeping the country on some course. Charisma is much overrated and dangerous in politics.
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@JMPSimor
@ChrisMasonBBC
@Keir_Starmer
By the time of this event the BBC and many others TV companies were recording programmes again, within the rules. As you say presumably there was catering for all the personnel involved.
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@BBCr4today
What
@bernardjenkin
doesn't seem to accept is that if there are tariffs it's because of the choice made by the British people that he asked them to make. He's getting what he wanted.
#r4today
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@iainmartin1
Sorry? The EU’s position has been clear since well before Art50 was lodged. They didn’t need or want “ultra Remainers” to advise them of anything. It’s YOUR failure to accept the consequences of what you advocated that is responsible for any impasse now.
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@bbcquestiontime
Yet she can’t describe what “it” is, what benefits come from “it”, or how anyone will deal with the adverse consequences of “it”. After threee years there still is no plan detailing what “it” is.
#bbcqt
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The people condemning the motives of
@GretaThunberg
are the same journalists and politicians who have deliberately and knowingly obstructed action to ensure they have a habitable planet to live on.
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@SenTedCruz
This is complete nonsense. Paris is the place the Accords were agreed by 200 nations. The Mayor of Pittsburgh agrees with them. What you’re doing is showing you don’t give a damn whether your grandchildren have a habitable planet to live on. Do you think they’ll thank you?
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@NJ_Timothy
Strawman alert.
You won’t remember this, but I well remember in the 60s when frozen broccoli became an exotic addition to our diets, pasta could only be bought in the Italian van that came by once a month, and olive oil was bought in Chemist shops.
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@campbellclaret
Seriously, though. It should not be possible for a government minister, using a twitter approved government account, conducting government business on it to block anyone, least of all voters, taxpayers, media. Some ministers have blocked people from before their time as ministers
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Maybe you should read his teachings, sunshine. You definitely don’t practice them.
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@danielmgmoylan
It had nothing to do with democracy. It was a bunch of unelected judges (you know, the type you keep complaining about here). The SC made a decision 50 years ago. If it was right then (and we have to assume it was) how come it isn’t now?
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@CeeMacBee
Small businesses are in the supply chain of bigger businesses. Corner shops in Swindon, which do not export, depend on trade from employees of Honda and other businesses in the area that do. Anyone calling themselves an economist would know and understand this.
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@darrengrimes_
Only a monoglot English speaker would think that was “impressive”. Grow up. Get a real job.
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@BBCJLandale
Or the client would reconsider whether it was worth proceeding or not, especially if the key requirements can never be met, and under all scenarios the costs are greater than the benefits. But none of the Brexiters have ever had a real job in their lives, or have forgotten.
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@andrew_lilico
I have 30 years experience managing complex international IT projects. You don’t deliver by telling them they have a “year to do it” when the requirements are still unclear and contradictory. Your attitude is why public sector IT projects usually end up as “troubled projects”.
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@Conservatives
@BorisJohnson
Err, no. Passing the Second Reading is an important but far from final step in approving legislation. If you don’t understand parliamentary procedure, I suggest you stop publicly embarrassing yourself.
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@wesstreeting
It should not be possible for a government minister, using a twitter approved government account, conducting government business on it to block anyone, least of all voters, taxpayers, media. Some ministers have blocked people from before their time as ministers. Needs to stop.
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@kevin_j_foster
@LukePollard
@pritipatel
This is my mother and grandmother, a working class family from Wakefield, in 1939 with a refugee from the Spanish Civil War they were housing.
I am not aware of any seasonal worker scheme this young girl had to face before being given refuge by the people of this country.
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@JamesCleverly
You’ve unilaterally removed the rights of 60m UK citizens to live, work, study, retire in 30 countries.
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I’ve 30 yrs experience of complex global IT projects. If I was 28 mths into a project with 5 to go and still had no clue what requirements I was addressing let alone no detailed plan of scope, costs, benefits, risks, I’d be sacked. Or the project cancelled.
@Channel4News
I work in project management.
If all the critical parts of a project were showing red/amber after 2 years, and with just weeks before Go-live decision to be made...
....Either the boss would lose their job or the project would be cancelled/delayed.
Or both.
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@cathynewman
@carolinenokes
@Channel4News
Will those "deported in error" be brought back AND compensated? Will those who've lost jobs, or been unable to live normal lives, have their situation rectified? This is all reminiscent of Soviet style behaviour we were told we were thankful not to live under!
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@jasonhickel
Do you think Trump would have done anything differently? Apart from claiming none of it would have happened if he’d been in charge!
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@Nigel_Farage
Well, if you want to be “open to the world for business” it’s not very helpful if you use a system of weights and measures no one else uses. I presume you are unaware that Imperial measures are all defined by reference to the metric system. Have been for a very long time.
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@BenKentish
@jdportes
What we do know is that tax exile billionaires, hedge fund managers, and many if not most “high skilled” jobs are doing eff all to keep the country going, and all of us a,ive, at this moment.
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