Chris Bayliss
@baylissbaghdad
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I work on infrastructure project finance and fuel supply. Most recently Kyiv and Baghdad.
Joined January 2023
I've written for The Critic about the risk of blackouts, and about Ed Miliband's real strategy to keep the lights on under Net Zero.
The establishment must wake up to the scale of British energy insecurity, writes @baylissbaghdad
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@Peter88902568 @WarCrimUbrDrivr Some years ago I was lodging around there, and my landlady casually announced she was getting married that afternoon. The reception was at the Anchor, with a buffet brought over the road from Maggie's. It was great.
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RT @arisroussinos: The US is undergoing a form of bloodless regime change, dismantling the apparatus of global empire, and birthing an Amer…
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This is every bit a simplistic as the "international law doesn't really exist" takes that have been knocking about lately. And in terms of the origins of the 'international system', its far more delusional and naïve. Good to see it spelled out so clearly, though.
Farage is following Trump's attempt to replace the rules-based international system with a 'might is right' Machiavellian order. It's un-British. The UK was at the forefront of creating key components of international law. Dismantling it makes our world more unjust & dangerous.
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@twells_twit Given the apparently mutually exclusive relationship between understanding the Law of England & Wales and understanding anything else, this should give him an advantage over many of his peers.
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@e_dampier @Will___lloyd I'm so embarrassed of the city centre, I always tell visitors to get the train to Smethwick and change there, rather than take the post-apocalyptic walk from New Street to Snow Hill.
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@SimonMagus @PlinthBotherer5 @AntBreach It seems to be treated as a massive lark when they come into the pub to sell it. Particularly among the most middle class people in there, buying their cheese and chicken at 50% the retail price.
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@defossardf Well said Fred. It might have taken years for people in this country to come to terms with the scale of the problems we face in the way they have over the last few months. People want it fixed. There's everything to play for.
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@siphuncle Reasonable point - but it's twice as carbon-intensive as burning coal. Why on earth aren't the greens shouting from the rooftops for it to be shut down tomorrow or even revert to coal?
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@modadGeoP @ibrahim_zla @tomhfh @Tauroctonia @wasnt__me_ The easiest way to explain it is that he has (on foreign policy only) the political equivalent of a humiliation kink.
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@ibrahim_zla @tomhfh @Tauroctonia @wasnt__me_ @modadGeoP I almost wonder whether Starmer is goading the US into forcefully annexing the islands. I think his objective is to humiliate national security conservatives in the UK (whom he loathes) - losing the islands to the US and then still paying the money to Mauritius would do that.
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RT @UnderSneege: The era of middle class ability to escape from state collapse is rapidly coming to an end.
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@SimonMagus @kevinf567 It's substantially more than zero, which is the threshold for an investigation being reasonable.
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@toadmeister The objective of the Covid Inquiry is to launder fatuous media narratives into an official finding. Examining scientific evidence would require challenging the basic assumptions of those narratives, which wouldn't stand the most cursory scrutiny.
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RT @arisroussinos: Worth noting that in Sands’ own book about his Chagos Islands crusade, The Last Colony, he simultaneously claims possess…
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