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Andrew Jones

@arj2024.bsky.social

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Programmer since the ZX80 days when a computer came as a kit you had to solder together yourself (and so long ago it was in black & white). Never been to pick up my A Level results, only ever worked for my own company.🇪🇺 ⬆️ Front garden, FR ⬇️ Cambridge

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 11h

Just wait until you see the clubhouse he built for his daughter's ski club.

www.theguardian.com/news/2023/ja...

Watchdog investigates charity set up by UK billionaire over £16m ski clubhouse

Exclusive: Jim Ratcliffe Foundation helps fund exclusive facility at club where he and his daughter have skied for years

www.theguardian.com

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who has ever wondered how great civilisations fell apart can now witness it unfolding in real time.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 12h

What we have today comes from two decades of effort. Quadrupling the offshore fleet while developing, commercialising, and installing grid-scale electricity storage technology is pretty unlikely to happen.

Why can't we have engineering honesty from our politicians?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 12h

Working in the wind farm industry I struggle to see how the UK will honestly get from 15 hours of contiguous renewable supply to 8,760 by 2030.

Even if the UK could requisition all global manufacturing output and all installation capacity we'd not meet the target in just 50 months time.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 16h

What languages did Marx speak and write in? Considering he lived in Prussia, France, Belgium, and London, he must have been fluent in several?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed, as was his previous series Talking Politics and Talking Politics - History of Ideas

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 16h

Not only should your youngest do it so should all potential MPs!

My daughter did it 4 years ago and my son is halfway through. Works well with economics and sociology.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 16h

My son, who is also studying A-level politics along with economics, and sociology, is completely fed up with how Marx seems to dominate all his subjects.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 17h

How is it possible that both Labour and the Tories have managed to lose touch with reality at the same time?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 23h

Who on earth believes that projects involving 10,000 new jobs are developed and agreed on a 72h trip to India?

These projects, if they exist at all, will have been planned and worked on for years.

To spin it as huge success for Starmer is simply dishonest.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick's ventriloquism act is the highlight of the Tory conference, keeping the oldies thoroughly entertained!

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Last June I took my Mum over to see my daughter at Jesus College in Cambridge. It was as they were setting up for May Ball, hence the orange carpet covering their precious lawn.

I've just noticed on Google Maps that they have a photo of me taking this photo of Mum!

Wow, what a coincidence!

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly, so how does Jenerik think he's going to get rid of any judges he doesn't like?

I assume he's just copying Trump in the hope it will attract some of the far right US funding?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Can a UK politician sack Judges or is it simply copy-and-paste Trump?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Presumably Jenrick hopes to attract a bunch of US money by replaying Trump's Project 2025 playbook?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 2d

Yet Labour appears to be making every effort to align themselves as closely as possible with Reform policies.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

A government made up of ex-civil servants with minimal business experience appears unable to see how the extra post-Brexit costs, bureaucracy, and delays are choking exports and stifling growth.

It's particularly an issue for exporting SMEs, but this is an area where they have even less experience.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

Brexit was a huge success leaving the UK isolated from Europe, its international reputation ruined and a UN Security Council and NATO member seriously weakened.

That's precisely why the supporters of Brexit invested in the project and exactly what they achieved.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I agree ALL kids should do politics and economics until 16, particularly if the voting age is dropping to 16.

The difficulty is there is insufficient time in the timetable for more compulsory subjects - unless the school day is extended.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from being the only way to kickstart growth, it seems to me that Labour (and the Tories) need to stand against Farage, which surely means doing the opposite of whatever he does.

Moving closer to Reform so there's barely any difference just pushes people to vote for the real thing.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

My son is in his second year of A Level Politics, and I completely agree that he shows a better understanding than many MPs.

It really makes you think - should A Level Politics (and maybe A Level Economics) be a requirement to become an MP?

After all, what other job needs no qualifications?

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 3d

The only route to Labour surviving as a political party is for them to ditch Starmer/McSweeney and pivot immediately to become a pro-EU party pushing hard for EU membership starting with SM+CU.

If they continue marching to Reform's agenda they only make it easier for Farage to become PM.

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 4d

You wouldn’t think things could get any worse for the Tories, but Badenoch seems determined to push the party to total oblivion.

Unbelievable!

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 4d

I suspect the Tory test criteria will be pretty simple.

www.pantone.com/uk/en/produc...

Andrew Jones @arj2024.bsky.social · 4d

A tool to make it easy to open the salt container lid on a NEFF dishwasher. Due to the lid's large diameter it can be challenging to unscrew, especially when salt sticks it tightly shut. Attach to a short bit of wood and rotate 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
www.thingiverse.com/thing:7163555

NEFF Salt Lid Opening Tool by arj2021

A simple tool design to make it easier to open the salt container lid on a NEFF dishwasher. Due to the lid's large diameter and awkward location, it can be challenging to unscrew, especially when salt...

www.thingiverse.com