Lord Ed Vaizey @edvaizey

I do challenge the advice about stockpiling Sauvignon blanc. Surely better to stockpile a red - because if the power goes down, the white would be room temperature, which would be simply ghastly.

as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go to waste: please go to your boards and ask for help right now. not for ai, for the basics. (we need to hold on for ~18 months.)

Jason D. Clinton 🔸 @JasonDClinton

2 months ago

The vulnerability tsunami is coming in just a few months and there won’t be enough time to patch critical infrastructure. Network isolation described below (air-gaps and data diodes!) needed now!

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Honoured to have won Political Journalist of the Year — and my very own bust of Lord Salisbury — at the London Press Club Awards today. Congrats too to victorious colleagues @Gabriel_Pogrund and @larisamlbrown

William Hague declares Trump the worst president of his lifetime, and struggles to see how anyone could have a different opinion. “This mishandling of world affairs … is the most serious development and negative development in the world since the Second World War.“ @StigAbell | @WilliamJHague

Read this powerful article by @thetimes , and reflect on what has been shared.. This is not just “persecution by (extremely clumsy) process” imposed upon active-duty SAS operators fighting to detain vicious ISIS thugs in an active war zone, but also an example of performative self-immolation initiated by the most senior UK Special Forces officer at the time (G Jenkins) as self-serving exercise in what HE calls ‘transparency’…… So, if someone, anyone (quite possibly an enemy) within an active war zone says the SAS killed an unarmed man, then the so-called ‘senior leaders’ (some, as in this case, with near-zero combat experience) within the Whitehall-based ‘UK system’ desperate to demonstrate something that they call ‘transparency’ (or whatever else floats the MOD’s boat), will automatically launch an aggressive RMP operation to detain the SAS men involved…. Not on the basis of any hard evidence (there is no crime scene, no bodies, no bullets etc), but purely on distant, uncorroborated hearsay and remote, delayed analysis of operational reports; all supported by desk-bound, chinless leaders that seemingly care more about how they will (personally) look in an MOD promotion board than trying to properly understand the circumstances faced by the SAS men and defend them accordingly. What a gift this utterly pathetic weakness, low threshold investigative process and twisted self-defeating system gives to our many enemies….and what an awful message it sends to those that still volunteer to fight on our all of our behalves….

The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes

a week ago

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: How did a secret mission in Syria lead to a crisis within Britain’s special forces? Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team, can reveal the full story behind an SAS operation in Syria in 2022 — and its aftermath thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

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On a day of fast moving headlines - when the integrity of the supposed leader of the free world is being questioned - smart analysis by @emilysheffield on @TimesRadio. “We are at an incredibly dangerous, geopolitical situation right now.” And we can no longer count on America stepping in.

Pour ceux d’entre nous qui aiment la France, cette nuit a été tragique, surtout après l’effroyable vandalisme culturel survenu à Limoges. Les barbares ont gagné. Et le président Macron brille par son absence. Si l’establishment français, parfaitement inutile, continue sur cette lancée, il ne sera même pas nécessaire de procéder à un second tour lors de l’élection présidentielle du printemps prochain : Mme Le Pen obtiendra 50 % des voix dès le premier tour. Une tragédie est en train de se jouer.

"If there is to be any hope that the democracies, and especially what was once the greatest of them all, will retain or regain their moral compass, we must all keep shouting from the rooftops: “This is a lie!”; “That is a lie!”; “The leader of the United States is lying!”

Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands

a week ago

Max Hastings on fire. "The US has fallen into the hands of the most dishonest and venal leader in its history." thetimes.com/comment/column…

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@montie Yes, sounds like Cathy Newman's cluster of slovenly couch potatoes like Gillian Keegan, Caroline Flint and Ed Vaizey who are ALWAYS on, every time we tune in. What's going on?

'Do we not wonder why online disinformation drops off a cliff when a Russian data centre is bombed?' Should government be given tools to fight online disinformation? During The Spectator's Free Speech debate Lord Vaizey warns that social media is being weaponised by bad actors who have no interest in Britain's security and safety. Watch the Free Speech debate here | youtu.be/GxPRt3yqdMs @edvaizey

Saturday morning @TimesRadio always a pleasure. War mongering, Trump’s Putin capitulation, the AI tsunami and plenty of pontificating and windbagging by @edvaizey and me. And brilliant Tom Whipple.

Should MPs use taxpayers' money to pay for artists in residence? Former arts minister @edvaizey thinks it's a brilliant idea. I think it's mental, both as a misuse of public money and because the resulting 'art' will obviously be terrible (Can't believe we got 6 minutes of live radio out of this)

“You had me at erection.” You’ll have to watch to work out what on earth Ed Vaizey is on about… @edvaizey

The budget is already written — and “everything you see” in the papers is going to happen, says The Times’ chief political commentator, Patrick Maguire. “If you read in the paper, ‘The chancellor is considering this,’ he’s gonna do it.” @patrickkmaguire | @edvaizey

Is Ed Vaizey drunk? #skynews #SkyPapers

Listening to Ed Vaizey on Sky News tonight you can see why these liberal Tories let in a Labour government. No wonder he’s ended up as a 2/- DJ.

Like quite a few on here I thought this photo op was ill judged. The soldiers are unarmed and look like they were turned out in a hurry (in what sense is this an ‘honour guard’?). Theme park Britain

🇮🇹🇺🇦 WOW! WHAT A SPEECH! WHAT POWERFUL WORDS FROM ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI! Here is the full five-minute excerpt of her speech devoted to Ukraine and Donald Trump. “Russia has launched a new autumn campaign against Ukraine. Unable to advance on the battlefield, Moscow has increasingly turned its attacks against civilians: power plants, residential buildings, hospitals, and even buses carrying people to work, as in the horrific massacre in Kramatorsk. This is a strategy through which Russia seeks to subjugate Ukraine with terror, cold, and darkness, simply because it has failed to conquer it on the battlefield. The facts contradict Kremlin propaganda and those who spread it here. Since the beginning of the year, Russia has captured very little territory, and in September it lost much of what it had previously seized. This halt did not happen by chance. It was achieved through Ukraine’s courage and Western support, including that of Italy. This resistance is the only effective instrument for bringing Russia to the negotiating table. I respect and understand the passionate debate on this issue, including within this chamber, because nobody here wants war. We all want peace. The difference lies in how we intend to achieve it. As I see it, supporting Ukraine is not an alternative to peace. It is what makes peace possible. Because if an aggressor expects its opponent to surrender, why would it negotiate? Surrender is not peace. It is conquest. If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, as many suggest, we would not have peace. We would be discussing the occupation of a European nation and the return of Soviet imperialism. Personally, I do not miss those times. I do not miss Russian tanks crushing uprisings in Prague and Budapest. I do not miss the Berlin Wall. And nobody will ever convince me that the surrender of those defending their freedom can be called ‘peace.’ The peace we want, and the peace we are working toward, even at the cost of concessions, is a just peace, because only a just peace can endure. Only a just peace can protect Europe and our interests. That is why our government's position remains unchanged: support for Ukraine, with particular attention to civilians, pressure on Moscow, and Euro-Atlantic unity remain the pillars of our actions. In this context, we must address Donald Trump's diesel agreement with Russia. This is a decision I consider extremely risky. Of course, we all recognize the need to contain fuel prices, which place a heavy burden on families, including Italian families. But we must understand that rising prices are primarily linked to the war in Iran, not Ukraine. Legitimizing Moscow, whose bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, providing new revenues to finance the war, and weakening sanctions are all factors we cannot ignore. And they contradict everything Western nations, including the United States, have done to force Putin to the negotiating table. An energy ceasefire is a different matter, one that Italy supports, and we are grateful to President Zelenskyy for Ukraine's immediate willingness to agree to it. Now we expect Russia to stop attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Finally, at such a difficult moment, when so many variables are beyond our control, there is at least one thing that depends on us: We must ensure that Europe does not simply stand by and watch, because the terms of peace will affect our continent and our security.” — Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy

Wonderful to hear Baroness Campbell's AI-created voice @UKHouseofLords for the first time; a first for @UKParliament & among the first in any legislature worldwide. More than a tech milestone, it's very much HER voice, a powerful one for a leading disability rights campaigner📣

@NationCymru @edvaizey rhag dy gywilydd di, Ed! I work for a company and we hardly use English. All done through Cymraeg, even the settings on our windows / macs. The British language is alive. Maybe you should travel more? @sophiasgaler