Burgundy, France
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Frederick Feybear retweeted
Andy Burnham wants us to rejoin the EU for more stability and less division. No thanks.
Frederick Feybear retweeted
"Doctors and engineers" trying to set on fire the Milan cathedral, one of the most magnificent buildings in the world 👇
Frederick Feybear retweeted
These degenerates can destroy, but they can only dream of being able to create something so beautiful.
The French govt could have chosen to protect this and other historic sites. Instead it chose to indulge the savages. What a mess
Frederick Feybear retweeted
The Nazis thought of destroying this historic city hall. And decided against it. These bastards have just done it.
Le clocher de l'Hôtel de ville de Limoges s'est écroulé
Toute l'info est à retrouver sur cnews.fr
Frederick Feybear retweeted
In The Times welfare project, a few findings - when they emerged - took my breath away.
This graph showing surge in Britain’s “deaths of despair” (due to drugs, suicide, alcohol) is one.
Plunging in Europe. Soaring here. Why?
Www.times-comment.com/despai…
Frederick Feybear retweeted
Let’s put an end to this irrelevant nonsense from you.
In the UK’s four last years as an EU member (2017–2020) it received roughly 26,500–35,700 main asylum applications per year (higher if counting dependants).
Eurodac foreign hits (indicating a prior asylum application in another Dublin country) numbered roughly 7,000–13,000 a year in 2017–2019, and higher in 2020. So a substantial minority — commonly in the region of 25–40% of applications in those years — had a prior registered claim elsewhere.
Of that big minority who had previously applied elsewhere the VAST majority were NOT returned under the Dublin rules.
Actual transfers out of the UK were only a few hundred people per year on average (for example, around 200 in 2018).
In several of the later years the UK was a NET IMPORTER under Dublin, receiving more transfers in than it sent out.
In other words, though the system identified many of those people who had already claimed elsewhere, only a very small fraction of them were ever transferred back.
Most of them either stayed in the UK for processing or simply remained without a successful transfer back.
In other words, Dublin had almost zero impact on asylum seeking in the UK when we were in the EU.
Now, please go away and don’t bother me again with irrelevant bollocks.
No, that was the reality of Dublin, one application allowed across all member states...
#Brexit took the UK out of that, so now they can, and do, apply in both...
Frederick Feybear retweeted
The timing of Donald Trump's decision to waive sweeping new sanctions against Russia deserves much closer scrutiny, particularly with the American midterm elections just 17 days away. BBC Verify reports that attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz have reached record levels, with 12 vessels struck in a single week. Oil shipments are slowing, energy prices are rising, and the economic consequences of the war with Iran are increasingly being felt by ordinary Americans.
Meanwhile, Trump has suspended significant new sanctions intended to squeeze the revenues financing Putin's war against Ukraine, having already agreed to facilitate Russian diesel exports in an effort to bring down fuel prices.
Is there a connection? It is difficult to ignore the possibility of an electoral calculation. According to Pew Research, 74% of Americans are now very concerned about energy prices, compared with just 43% in January. Inflation has reached 3.7%, and the cost of living is becoming an increasingly serious political problem for the Republicans. Trump came to power promising to make America more prosperous and to end foreign wars. Instead, his administration is confronting the economic consequences of another Middle Eastern conflict, while apparently seeking relief through energy arrangements that could strengthen Putin's hand. Of course, governments must consider the economic welfare of their citizens. But there is a troubling contradiction in pursuing an expensive military confrontation with Iran while simultaneously easing pressure on Russia, which continues its brutal assault on Ukraine.
And what makes this particularly questionable is that additional Russian diesel supplies are unlikely, by themselves, to offset the enormous disruption to energy markets caused by the fighting around Hormuz. We cannot know whether electoral anxiety is driving these decisions, but the timing certainly invites the question. Is Trump sacrificing strategic leverage over Putin in an attempt to contain the domestic political consequences of his own foreign policy? And if so, what does that tell us about the price Ukraine may be asked to pay for cheaper American fuel?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmde…
Frederick Feybear retweeted
This #bbcqt audience member (how did he get in?) absolutely nails it on Brexit.
“The Remainers never accepted the result.”
“The Brexit we voted for wasn’t delivered and left us in a half way house.”
“The EU is crumbling and our future doesn’t lie within it.”
A fine summary.
Frederick Feybear retweeted
Schools in north-eastern Italy have banned pork products in school meals to make them acceptable to Muslim migrants, meaning traditional dishes like prosciutto, porchetta and pasta all’amatriciana are off the menu. dailysceptic.org/2026/10/17/…
Frederick Feybear retweeted
📣 Labour are currently on their high horse, let's have a look at their recent history 👇🏻
Frederick Feybear retweeted
Of course the flying Tesla Roadster is a gimmick but that sort of misses the point, the tech flex behind it isn't.
Tesla's bulk business is about advanced technology from EV to self drive, but decided to create the most ridiculous manual drive supercar. Supercars are a gimmick,almost by definition, based on how wild can you make them.
The gimmick that can make the car literally fly, briefly, can make it corner like no other supercar and accelerate, literally like a dragster on a test track. It's got nothing to do with flying continuously, but having a car that will outperform every Lambo, Ferrari or McLaren with technology that they cannot replicate because it requires experience from space launches and computation that they don't have now nor will in future.
So Porsche, Bugatti, Aston Martin just became legacy prestige brands, like Rolex, Richard Mille or Patek Philippe. These cars celebrate the bygone age and the baroque, physical complexity of the internal combustion engine just as mechanical watches do for non digital, complex time-keeping mechanisms. But hey won't be faster anymore than a mechanical watch keeps better time than a Casio. They are now, de facto, mobile jewelry and no longer supercars with superlative performance. And this affects their ability to market the bulk business of mainstream European internal combustion engine cars. It's the end of an era of industrial era manufacturing.
I hate to be the one to burst the Tesla bubble today, but the spectacular “flight” we witnessed at the Roadster reveal needs a little context. The car is carrying around 250kg of compressed air, plus the weight of the tanks, valves and thrusters needed to contain and release it.
Based on the published figures, that gives it roughly 1.5–2 seconds of maximum thrust before the system needs to be refilled.
In short, it's a gimmick.
Frederick Feybear retweeted
🚨Burnham’s national security adviser ‘considers quitting’
Jonathan Powell cited ‘exhaustion and stress’ amid controversy over wife’s social media post regarding Palestine Action
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Frederick Feybear retweeted
Andrew is right. Congress should do its job and start investigating what on earth has happened this week. Why, out of the blue, was a ceasefire announced without any consultation with the warring parties? Why did Starlink fail and who ordered it to fail, if anyone did?
Congress Must Investigate Trump’s Aid and Comfort to Putin nationalreview.com/2026/10/c…
Frederick Feybear retweeted
When the left and Islam join forces you get a kind of Civil War.
#Marseille #France
Frederick Feybear retweeted
France was one of the first countries to recognize “Palestine.”
Now Palestine is recognizing France.
Frederick Feybear retweeted
One of the greatest travesties of the French Revolution took place 233 years ago today.
Here's an excerpt from Marie Antoinette's final letter, written at 4:30am on the day of her execution:
"I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy.
I beg pardon of all whom I know, and especially of you, my sister, for all the vexations which, without intending it, I may have caused you. I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.
Farewell, my good and tender sister. May this letter reach you. Think always of me; I embrace you with all my heart, as I do my poor dear children. My God, how heart-rending it is to leave them forever! Farewell! farewell!"
