“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Use the Oxford comma, folks.

We are saddened by the passing of Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and a four-time spaceflight veteran. Lovell's life and work inspired millions. His courage under pressure helped forge our path to the Moon and beyond—a journey that continues today. go.nasa.gov/41tbrpq

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Column on the glorious spectacle of Nicola Sturgeon arranging her tax affairs to avoid taxes she raised on other, less fortunate, Scots. Tax avoidance is always wicked, it seems, until you can do it yourself. Bravo. thetimes.com/article/c93875…

The day is here. After 2 years of toil, in the midst of a job & raising 2 small sons, 'The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain' publishes today. To mark the occasion I have a treat...a totally revamped 'Political Compass: Rage of Party' quiz (see next tweet)

As many of you know the Imperial War Museums is kicking out over 200 Victoria Crosses at the end of this month as they feel such commemoration of the bravery of our military is so so yesterday… I would like as many people as possible to visit the Lord Ashcroft Gallery before it closes so

🏆The Scottish Gas Scottish Cup Round One fixture against Cumnock Juniors FC ⭐️⭐️⭐️ has been chosen for live television on BBC Scotland This means the game will now be played on Friday 26th September #eppp

Such an amazing anecdote. Enoch Powell: “I would fight for this country even if we had a communist government”. It’s a brand of conservatism that is basically dead. The idea that what matters is just people and place, and not ideas. Thatcher was an American Republican.

This is how we should do law reform in Scotland - commissioners and researchers preparing consultation documents to provoke discussion. The Not Proven verdict put Scotland ahead of the rest of the world - today it will be binned by politicians without any consideration by the SLC

Great to see UK Labour delivering $150 billion in investments to UK tech. This is a huge boost for jobs, skills & innovation. At Asanti data centre in Hamilton, I saw how this kind of investment supports the infrastructure we rely on and will benefit my constituents 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📈

seriously, #Holyrood should be shut down, permanently these people are so 3rd rate they don’t even work a full week , yet tax the actual workers to the hilt so they can live that pathetically empty lifestyle

I just remembered the time when Ernest Rutherford’s cousin, a no-nonsense nun, told me she wasn’t at all impressed by his monkeying about with the atom

The sound of 15 Spitfires and 7 Hurricanes in the sky

Maybe if you allow people to drive around Jewish areas threatening to kill them and rape their daughters and don't prosecute them, and you allow Imams to get away with preaching death and hellfire to Jews, you didn't care that much about Jewish lives in the first place

The Palestine Action protesters have been characterised as warm, decent, cuddly. I went to talk to them and the mask slipped. Just a question or two about what they really think exposed the increasingly potent and assertive antisemitism in the UK thetimes.com/article/650ab7…

We end up owning practically nothing of importance in our own nation, other than the localised provincial parts of our economy. All of the significant wealth, assets & equity is owned by US corporations & rich CCP-aligned Chinese. And the revenue & profits flows to our colonisers

My wife saw this post while I was scrolling through the TL and said “Hittite steel” and I was like what? And she said “Hittite steel” and we did this for an entire minute, thought she was having a stroke

A farmer couldn't attend his aunt’s funeral, so he put out heart-shaped food for his sheep so that she could see it from heaven.

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