This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

Electricity is getting more expensive for several reasons. Yes some is investment in the grid, some is levies nothing to do with generating or distribution costs that should be removed. But the main culprit is gas which pushes up the bills largest component the wholesale price.

This @WSJ piece on the UK's runaway disability benefits is something else. Great color from @MaximColch & @davidluhnow

HOW DO WE STOP THE BOATS? I get asked this question constantly. “Send in the Navy!” “Turn the boats around!” “Put more patrols in the Channel!” My opinion is different. Having spent weeks on the ground in France, watching this unfold with my own eyes, I believe the answer is far simpler. France has played an absolute blinder. Conditions in the migrant camps are appalling. Filthy, overcrowded slums that make France look like somewhere nobody wants to stay and Britain look like the land of opportunity. Clever, when you think about it. Then comes the next stage. Buses transporting migrants, gendarmes walking groups towards the beaches like they’re on a school trip, and French vessels accompanying boats across the Channel until British authorities take over. I’ve documented enough of this to form my own conclusions. So here’s what I would do. Stop handing France millions. We’re paying for a system that clearly isn’t delivering. Detain everyone arriving illegally, Identify, photograph and document every arrival. Return every person to France Invoice France for the costs. Yes, I know they probably wouldn’t pay. End the perception that arriving illegally guarantees accommodation, financial support and a permanent future in Britain. Make the journey pointless, and you destroy the smugglers’ business model. People are paying thousands because they believe reaching British shores is the finish line. Remove that incentive and why would they keep handing their money to criminal gangs? I believe crossings could fall dramatically within weeks if that message became a reality. No Navy warships required. No dangerous confrontations at sea. Just a government with the backbone to enforce its borders. It is not racist to believe your country should control who enters it. It is not racist to demand that immigration laws are enforced. And it is certainly not racist to believe that the British people and their interests should come first. I’ve watched this operation from the beaches, the camps and the water. Throwing more money at France isn’t my answer. Remove the incentive. Enforce the law. Break the business model. It’s time to put Britain first.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Everything they are saying is a lie. The energy price surge has nothing to do with Ukraine. 🔸 Oil prices have risen 45% since the Iran conflict began. 🔸 Kyiv has been attacking Russian refineries since 2024. 🔸 The Iran war was poorly planned, and now they are trying to evade responsibility. Populism to win elections is one thing, but this is an absolute disgrace. Ukraine, Europe stands with you and always will. A serious administration will soon return to Washington, and we will stand together again.

Wow. What a surprise. Good analysis David.

FINALLY! We're getting help with our energy bills. The chancellor is looking at a £1bn package to help with... Oh. Sorry. It's just for people on benefits.

Both of these are CCGT’s which should cost no more than £160/MWh at current extortionate gas prices, including their profit, tax, operational costs etc. They’re charging over 6x as much. And yet you’re blaming renewables, instead of being angry at exploitative profiteering..???

In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us. theguardian.com/politics/202…

Absolutely staggering thread.

No other party has the courage to face the inescapable fact that the Triple Lock is not fit for purpose and is a fiscal weight dragging our necks under water. Lowe knows this isn't a vote winner, but it's proposed anyway because it's in the national interest.

The Home Office is taking us for complete mugs. They splash “returns up 50%” like they’ve finally got a grip. Then you look at the numbers. Nearly 9,000 Brazilians have been handed up to £3,000 of your money to go home after overstaying visas. That’s almost half of the entire “assisted returns” scheme. Safe country. Easy flight. No small-boat chaos. Just a taxpayer-funded golden goodbye. Channel arrivals? Eritrea: 7. Sudan: 11. Afghanistan: 14. Somalia: 3. So the big “deportation success” is paying people who should have left anyway, while the people they keep promising to remove treat the offer as a joke. This isn’t enforcement. It’s a spreadsheet trick run by a government that couldn’t organise a one-way ticket without a bribe. They think we’re stupid. They’re not even trying to hide it.

To be clear, the only thing JK Rowling has publically funded was a law saying transwomen cannot use women's spaces. Regardless on whether or not you agree with that law, that is not a genocide and is not a human right being revoked. Acting as if it is will get you more hate

I am confident that if Terminator 2 came out today, it would be absolutely massacred by online discourse and the recent reveal of Lucia in GTA6 reaffirms that. Sarah Connor has every trait the culture warriors hate. Cold, calculated, prone to rage, unrelenting and steadfast. Every man she encounters in this film pales in comparison. She is the central dominant human figure in this film and we loved her for it. A traumatic series of events and motherhood were simple and sympathetic themes that helped turn her into a cinema icon but by 2026's standards, she'd be reduced to an annoying girl boss just trying to emasculate every man around her. A total bad ass by every metric and nobody can say otherwise. Nuance has been lost and everything is tribal now. You're either right or you're left. If you dare ask questions you get labelled a chud or woke. Terminator 2 remains one of the greatest films of all the time but if this clip was in the trailer, the YouTube upload would undoubtedly have more dislikes than likes with comments spamming "woke" and "this was written by a WAHMAN".