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Strong leaders require a build-up of strong ideas. Read today's lecture to CFCC to see direction the nation should now be taking ,with strong consent,in a v.dangerous world. bit.ly/3JvJpjY

Winter fuel payments cuts -a higher Treasury lunacy . New pension credits mean minimal net Exchequer gain and much suffering. Instead abolish WFP ( save £2bn+) , slim £14bn tax on all energy bills, beat down wholesale prices. Help all sides.

Peter Mandelson is a good appointment for Washington. He will help modernise the special relationship and remind Americans that while Britain is a friendly partner of the USA it is neither America’s puppet nor poodle in an utterly changed world.

DavidHowell620 commented on The Times & The Sunday Times: "An honest new review badly needed in the light of concerns about the cost of the planned gigawatt-sized nuclea..." openweb.com/share/2rq7LHwT…

David Howell, new book of commentaries ,essays and letters - ‘AVOIDING THE COMING ANARCHY: A short book for optimists in dangerous times’ is now available on Amazon, from the publishers (NOMAD PUBLISHING CO.) and in bookshops -switched on ones).

Antidote to gloom that technology is undermining trust and democracy . Read 'Avoiding the Coming Anarchy', - a short book for optimists in a very dangerous world. bit.ly/432AYr0 bit.ly/42WKzzY

I was appointed Minister for the Civil Service in 1970 and over time we succeeded in bringing total central civil service down from just under 800k to eventually to 500k approx we have today. But it took 8-10 years! Why? see next tweet .

Why so long to turn the Whitehall 'tanker' round? Because ONLY way to cut numbers is to cut functions, which takes years , and put them in the private sector under competition where possible. Neither Reeves nor her inquisitors have grasped this. See more

What happened in 1970-80 was that numbers rose at first then, after brief Blair/Brown bump, settled well down as most nationalised and state owned industries were removed from public sector. After 1 mill Covid spike , now back around 500 again.

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It is depressing to see still more Asian states pressing ahead with small reactors while the UK dithers. For example, Indonesia now going ahead 20 new technology reactors . The first one, a Thorium Molten Salt reactor, will be ready commercially by 2028!

The trump team should re-read Richard Baldwin’s brilliant book ,’TheGreat Convergence’ , (2016). They have simply not understood the nature of the fourth great globalisation where the internationalisation of production processes has made most supply chains undisentangleble.

I would like to repost my speech to the Conservative Foreign and Commonweaelth Council a year ago,April 22nd, because it forecast exactly what would happen when Mercia went awol under zany leadership and how we should repond.

Messages for European and UK leaders meeting today in London . ‘The Union of all depends on the independence of each’ - Leopold van Ranke (19th century). The EU is a pre-digital-age concept. European Good Neighbours future lies through EPC

Minister says I oppose Sizewell C. Not true. I oppose a gigawatt 'replica' of Hinkley C on Sizewell C site. Let Rolls Royce put in 4 SMRs, or GE-Hitachi 6 of theirs. Ready years quicker: private investment instead of £40bn from taxpayer/consumer: less waste:built offsite.

Columnist says Conservatives 'have nothing to offer'. They don't understand this is only so when the alternative promise is higher incomes , bigger benefits, more prosperity, beer and skittles. When this does not transpire, and disorder grows, the appeal and power of

I am NOT against Sizewell C. Lord Hunt. I am IN FAVOUR of 6 or 8 SMRS on the Sizewell site,which would be running by early 30s. I am AGAINST a giant white elephant ‘replica’ which will take a decade to build on a dodgy design, costing taxpayers a fortune.

“UK Treaties and Alliances in the 21st century: The new dilemmas” Rt Hon Lord Howell of Guildford, Patron CFCC | Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council cfcconline.org.uk/news/uk-treati…

Diplomatic Annual Reception on the Terrace | Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council cfcconline.org.uk/events/diploma…