Jonathan Ford

This is objectively nuts. We are literally dismantling the Royal Navy at the same time as claiming to be doing the opposite, while giving other countries (possibly not even friendly ones) valuable naval capabilities on the cheap. It's infuriating!

Navy Lookout @NavyLookout

Ex-RFA Wave Ruler moved from Seaforth Dock, Liverpool yesterday (where she has been laid up since 2018) to @CammellLaird Birkenhead. Now earmarked for disposal - unclear if she has been sold to a foreign navy. Via: Dan Francis https://t.co/7pRQjeuxWn

Great to get the brilliant Dan Todman on @ALTIFpodcast to discuss the economics and politics of rearmament. We're a long way from matching their seriousness, patriotism and clear eyed logic @Keir_Starmer

A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast

Generals calling for rearmament often talk about the UK facing a "1937 moment". But what actually happened in the late 1930s, are there similarities and what can we learn? We talk to historian Dan Todman about the economic & military parallels.https://t.co/yW1PkdJ2BW https://t.co/5kZydv353J

I'm mystified by Vance's comment about UK/France being "right" on Suez. I thought the MAGA lot were against forever wars. Suez surely a forever war par excellence. What was the post war plan for occupation? A return to the days of the consul general? Suez was the model for Iraq. https://t.co/yKwLGsduEv

The return of the few.. @ALTIFpodcast

A Long Time In Finance @ALTIFpodcast

Warning: our next episode may contain SPITFIRES. Coming up, we'll be talking about the economics of rearmament with Prof Dan Todman and looking at what lessons we can draw from the 1930s https://t.co/UXhv2vrS1B

RT @s8mb: Fantastic essay in the Telegraph about one of Britain’s most vexatious NIMBYs. It includes my proposal to bankrupt him. https:/…

Should the UK nationalise British Steel after Jingye opted to close it rather than take the taxpayer's £500m subsidy? The question to my mind is why it didn't demand an equity stake in the first place.

UnHerd @unherd

'It’s hard to see how depending on China fits with the doctrine of “securonomics” that the Starmer administration so proudly endorses.' @Grepsul on British Steel 👇 https://t.co/aUTqK6jRZ7

RT @ALTIFpodcast: For those who enjoyed the podcast, here's more on the greatest minerals carve-up of all time - in the post WW1 Middle Eas…

My latest substack https://t.co/oOmUQNyunF https://t.co/c4KWnaH96h

My latest on Business Adventures is about mineral deals, and why they're not always what they cracked up to be, even if your concession is sitting on oceans of oil as the British, French and Americans were with the carve up of post-Ottoman Iraq https://t.co/oOmUQNyunF https://t.co/XJ7aPh3H5p

If this story about moving steel production to China is true, it is hard to believe that Jingye, owner of British Steel, is negotiating in good faith with the government. https://t.co/egstO127pg

RT @dolphinsands: RIP Jeremy Swift, a lovely, thoughtful, funny, clever, original, who knew more about nomads than Bruce Chatwin. https://t…

RT @MsMountebank: What an incredible life Jeremy Swift obituary: ornithologist who developed a love for the African desert https://t.co/…

RT @RealJimChanos: Don’t know if this deal happens, and it’s not particularly big, but trying to buyout your resellers is usually a huge re…

RT @MichaelCGlasper: Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat. https://t.co…

Obit of my friend, the anthropologist and all round good egg Jeremy Swift in today's Times https://t.co/bRIC8Z8TzJ

Three super transformers failing at once. What was it that Goldfinger said? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. https://t.co/4vpEwgDi37

Doesn't Heathrow have back up generators? https://t.co/4HamsUXN10