🧵Exclusive: Katherine Eban's article on Baric's testimony includes several noteworthy (and self-serving) statements from Baric and confirms the committee is poised to recommend debarment of EcoHealth Alliance.

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vanityfair.com/news/story/ral…

Seven million died from COVID. Why don’t we know where it came from?

10 (top) reasons why I want to Get Khan Out 🧵

1) Knife crime - and crime generally

Khan doesn’t seem to care about it, and even joked about machetes last week in a panel with Susan Hall, telling her that she should stop watching The Wire.

#getkhanout
charlottecgill.co.uk/p/10-reasons-w…

The net zero leviathan is crushing the UK economy telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Exclusive: for my latest in VANITY FAIR, I reviewed closed-door testimony that University of North Carolina coronavirologist Ralph Baric gave to Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in January. vanityfair.com/news/story/ral… /1

Might it be possible that the whole offset your emissions thing is not very scientific/a scam? ft.com/content/adec5d…

In a POLITICO profile today, I’m described by a virologist as investigating the lab leak theory out of “deliberate malice and scientific ignorance.”

If you’re coming to my page from that profile, please allow me to clarify my actual motivations.

The Biden administration has

Thread 🧵-- my latest for The American Conservative:

McKinsey & Company—the largest management consultancy in the world, the alumni of which include Pete Buttigieg and the geniuses who advised Purdue Pharma on how to “turbocharge” opioid sales—have published four studies since 2015 (“Diversity

JUST RELEASED:

Research from AEI's Mackenzie Eaglen estimates that China's true military spending is $710.6 billion.

This calculation is 3x larger than Beijing's self-reported totals and several billion dollars higher than estimates from the US intelligence community.

The problem for the Bank of England is as below
1) It faced 4% inflation with an interest-rate of 0.1%
2) Now it faces 2% inflation ( as it soon will be) with an interest-rate of 5.25%

If you don’t want to do anything with your life - go into corporate America in 2024. You will spend most of the day in useless meetings discussing useless agenda items to solve a problem that was solved in the late 90s. Then some dumbass middle manager will kick it on to some

UK electricity generation from variable renewable energy (=wind+solar) fluctuates between 5% and 60% of UK consumption with an average over 3 days.
Advocates of VRE continually dispute how the dips in generation are compensated for.
It is obviously fossil fuel, here is a thread

✍️ New Next Generation Centre paper out today, co-authored with Mimi Yates!

🏙️𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒔 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔

Why is it so difficult & expensive to go out in London nowadays and what can we do about it? 🧵

adamsmith.org/research/on-th…

In 1854, so 170 years ago:

- Liverpool had more inhabitants than Moscow
- Manchester was larger than Madrid
- Leeds was larger than Milan
- Birmingham was larger than Rome
- Dundee was larger than Valencia
- Bath was larger than Frankfurt
- and Paisley larger than Athens

In 1993, Jensen Huang pitched a startup idea to his former boss, Wilf Corrigan.

After Jensen's pitch, Wilf said,

“I have no idea what you just said. That was one of the worst pitches I've ever heard.”

Wilf then called the renowned venture capitalist Don Valentine, and said,

There are about 1300 unicorn companies in the world (>$1 Bn valuation). 329 of them were started in California, just less than half of all unicorns in the US.

China with over 1 Bn people has produced only 278 unicorns, less than California as a state.

In 2022, California

Number of Nuclear Bombs by Countries:

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Anchor being released,

Watch to the end it’s extraordinary

Most of the conversations that I have about nuclear energy, leads to the same question: “- but what about the waste? -What waste? -Well, you know, it remains highly hazardous for a long time and…”

Let me tell you 3 facts about nuclear spent fuel:

1️⃣ A nuclear power plant,

A case for why Spain is the greatest country on Earth:

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