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Tim Andrews retweeted
Sooooo Bishop Barron was right and +Vescoโs defenders were wrong, +Vesco sucks at his job, and we should probably put someone less compromised in such a difficult post and retire Vesco to cappuccino duty. Good to have that cleared up.
Terrific response by Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco to @BishopBarron disgraceful attack on his integrity. Vesco speaks from the Church, Barron for himself.
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Don't miss today's interview with @Tim_Andrews โฌ๏ธ
Australia is a textbook example of what NOT to do.
250+ firebombings. Murders. Criminal cartels taking over the nicotine market. Breakdown of society.
This is what happens when governments embrace prohibition.
Our spokesman @Tim_Andrews discusses Australia's policy disaster at @GFNicotine
youtube.com/watch?v=G06g0s03โฆ
Me talking about the "bizzaro clown world" of Australian nicotine policy - and the lessons for the rest of the world
Australia is a textbook example of what NOT to do.
250+ firebombings. Murders. Criminal cartels taking over the nicotine market. Breakdown of society.
This is what happens when governments embrace prohibition.
Our spokesman @Tim_Andrews discusses Australia's policy disaster at @GFNicotine
youtube.com/watch?v=G06g0s03โฆ
Tim Andrews retweeted
Fusionism goes global! I enjoyed this conversation with @lukasleuzinger of @SchweizerMonat, a Swiss free market mag: schweizermonat.ch/the-americโฆ
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Australia is going to have to roll over & give up on the ciggies/chop-chop.
Yes, I know that stings when youโre a country famous for getting its policy settings spot on, but this is a big olโ fail.
Own it, fix it, move on.
[Also, my old boss & I were right in 2015.]
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-28/pโฆ
Tim Andrews retweeted
Tomorrow on GFNTV Interviews, @Tim_Andrews joins @brentstafford to discuss Australiaโs booming illicit market, the consequences of vaping restrictions, and why prohibition can come at a devastating cost to public health and society.
Donโt miss it!
Tim Andrews retweeted
It really pains me to admit Obama has a point because I find him pretty fucking smug and insufferable but he has a point.
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Sen. @tedcruz in March: "I don't believe that what is happening in Iran will be front and center in November. If it extends that long, we've done something wildly wrong... The president said at the beginning this is going to be a matter of several weeks."
Tim Andrews retweeted
Normalize NOT CHATTING THE BOOKS.
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Allie was the picture of a typical 12-year-old girlโpink-and-white-striped shirt, blue jeans, and a PINK backpack, blond hair askewโthe day she was taken. She later told police she thought she was meeting a 15-year-old boy, whom sheโd first spoken to online and with whom she expected to be in a relationship. Instead, when Allie (whose name Iโve changed for this story, and whose image I've anonymized with @grok for this post) climbed into the black Chevy Malibu that afternoon, she found 31-year-old Brandon Britten. He drove them across three states, to his home in Independence County, Arkansas. Britten and his wife Sierra had conspired to abduct Allie, police allege, talking with her online for a month and even soliciting nude images. Upon returning home, Sierra told police, Brandon had โtaken the child back into their bedroom while she slept in their young sonโs bedroom.โ
Back in Woodruff, North Carolina, law enforcement began a fevered hunt for Allie. They thought she had gone to Arkansas or Texas, Spartansburg County sheriff Bill Rhyne told me, but were at โa dead standstillโ until they found a surveillance-camera image of Allie entering the car. They fed a description of the vehicleโthey had no license plateโinto Flock Safetyโs license plate reader database, which can track cars based on their appearance. โWithout [Flockโs] technology, we would be at a complete standstill,โ Rhyne told local media.
After a few hours of combing the results, investigators found further images of Brittenโs car, driving south through Alabama and into Arkansas. At 3 p.m., Spartansburg called the Independence County Sheriffโs Office; 90 minutes later, police had arrested the Brittens and recovered Allie.
โI was able to locate the minor in a back bathroom with her face and hands against the wall shaking,โ Lt. Zach Rawlins wrote in a sworn statement. โAfter telling her who I was, the minor thanked me for coming to get her, and said she wanted her momma.โ
America is gripped by a panic over Flockโs network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), driven by stories of abusive cops and people wrongly jailed because of what critics call a creeping surveillance state.
Largely absent from this discussion are stories like Allieโs, which is not unique: dozens of other children have been returned safely to their parents thanks in part to ALPR technology.
Read about those children in my latest @CityJournal:
city-journal.org/article/floโฆ
๐ค Made with AI
Tim Andrews retweeted
To get in touch with the Real America, I'm here at a diner in rural Ohio on journalistic assignment with The New Yorker. Next to me is an alienated, hard-working woman on assignment from the Atlantic and a crusty father of 4 on assignment from Harper's.
Tim Andrews retweeted
The WHO meets in Copenhagen today to discuss Europe's health future.
Here's a lesson it should learn:
๐ซ Banning nicotine products doesn't eliminate demand.
๐ฐ It hands the market to criminals.
๐ It undermines efforts to reduce smoking.
Europe needs evidence, not ideology.
prohibitiondoesnotwork.com/nโฆ
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Another beautiful walk to school where almost every person we get stuck behind is smoking marijuana. How do these people function at work??
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๐บ โWe reported events one-sidedly for yearsโ: Serbian TV apologizes to viewers after Vuฤiฤ's party loses the election
Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) opened its news broadcast with footage of celebrations following the Student List's election victory โ scenes it had failed to show the previous evening.
โFor years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,โ news anchor Goran Eror said.
Following the controversy, RTV's acting editor-in-chief Nenad ฤaฤiฤ resigned.
A similar incident occurred in Hungary, where state television also apologized to viewers after Viktor Orbรกn's election defeat.
๐๐ Serbia celebrates Vuฤiฤ's defeat all night โ now he's warning the country about sanctions against Russia
After 14 years of Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ's political dominance, his bloc has lost the snap parliamentary elections. The opposition Student List, which emerged from mass anti-government protests, has claimed victory.
According to preliminary figures from Ipsos and CeSID, the students secured around 53% of the vote, while Vuฤiฤ's coalition received approximately 39%.
The former president acknowledged defeat. He estimated that the winners could secure 135โ140 seats in Serbia's 250-member parliament.
But he couldn't resist issuing a warning about Russia. Vuฤiฤ claimed the new government could impose sanctions on Moscow as early as March or April.
Meanwhile, Belgrade and other Serbian cities celebrated the student movement's victory throughout the night, with car horns, singing, and crowds cheering in the streets.
Final election results are still pending.
Tim Andrews retweeted
holy crap this is so awesome. you can just buy a car cover and then park wherever you want forever?
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Not perfect (I disagree with a few measures) but seems pretty good overall?
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
Thatโs why Reformโs Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures Iโd take if I were Chancellor:
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฎ
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
๐จ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ๐
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britainโs full potential is waiting to be unleashed ๐