Stefan Roberts @stefanroberts
the UK should be an R&D lab with an economy attached 🌐🚀🏳️🌈 stefanroberts.com London Joined November 2008-
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American politics: wow, did you see the latest crazy thing Trump said! Meanwhile Friedrich Merz to AfD candidates:
RIP Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent. A splendid person who shunned much of the pomp and privilege of her role, instead devoting herself to behind-the-scenes charity work, including secretly teaching at a primary school in Hull for many years. She will be much missed.
new from me for @WorksInProgMag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵
The Elizabeth Tower restoration nearly didn't happen because there was such push back from MPs about turning off the clock, the parliamentary authorities nearly cancelled it. Exactly the same currently happening with Restoration and Renewal. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The fact that this is obviously never going to happen is just so heartbreaking. I grew up just down the road and the area is crying out for new towns.
The fact that this is obviously never going to happen is just so heartbreaking. I grew up just down the road and the area is crying out for new towns.
Already in the Sunak death spiral: no money or political capital, so no way of getting good headlines other than focus group-inspired bans.
Already in the Sunak death spiral: no money or political capital, so no way of getting good headlines other than focus group-inspired bans.
Our generation’s Hemingway
You mean because
If only there was some other way for the economy to grow
If only there was some other way for the economy to grow
Donald Trump gets asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement.
"Get me Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, find the Huggies stock. Triple leverage on all of it. Get a million baby strollers in bonded storage, pronto. Get options on talc. Read that back to me."
"Get me Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, find the Huggies stock. Triple leverage on all of it. Get a million baby strollers in bonded storage, pronto. Get options on talc. Read that back to me." https://t.co/X87y0ZXkG1
UK taking a HUGE hit on the Taylor Swift engagement news. Finally closing the door to one of our last remaining world-leading export markets (artsy twinkish men). Sterling should be down 5%.
#TeamClub https://t.co/ec4kasnZ6S
It’s neither illegal nor even slightly morally reprehensible to call a shoplifter a scumbag
It’s neither illegal nor even slightly morally reprehensible to call a shoplifter a scumbag https://t.co/yAdl1BddWw
Leaving the ECHR would also put Britain in the same camp as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Leaving the ECHR would also put Britain in the same camp as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

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