With some talk on Twitter and elsewhere of Israel using high altitude EMP weapon on Iran, allow me to clarify. EMP warheads are either nuclear or non-nuclear. To my knowledge, high altitude EMP warheads, which are intended to knock out comms and the electrical grid over ...1/6 ..large geographical regions are always nuclear, because the NNEMPs don't have anything like that necessary energy yield.

In NEMPs, the EMP is a secondary effect from the huge gamma radiation flux from the nuclear detonation, both directly and indirectly through the .. 2/6

@AndrewBrookLdn @Eyeswideopen69 May I tell my Owen Jones story at this juncture? @AndrewBrookLdn @Eyeswideopen69 I'd like to repeat my @Owenjones84 story. Some years ago, when I tweeted in an earlier incarnation, I responded to one of his 'we must respect the referendum result' tweets by asking how he would feel if there were a referendum on re-criminalization of male homosexuality 1/n

@Luckio12 Cohen asks if Israel is guilty of genocide.

Cohen, a scholar of the Talmud (Judaic law), and his 3 friends are arguing about whether the killing of thousands of civilians is genocide. Cohen insists that it undoubtedly is. The others disagree violently. 1/n @Luckio12 .. Cohen prays to God for a sign that he's right. As he finishes, a bolt of lightning hits a nearby tree, which bursts into flames. Cohen turns triumphantly to his friends: "You see. I was right!". They don't agree, arguing that it is a coincidence. Cohen is angry now. 2/n

@EylonALevy In the Jewish joke, Cohen, a scholar of the Talmud (Judaic law), and his 3 scholar friends are arguing about Israel's action in Gaza. Cohen insists that it's a Talmudic crime. The others disagree violently. Finally Cohen offers up a prayer to ask God for His answer. 1/5 @EylonALevy ..At the end the sky goes momentarily black and a bolt of lightning emerges and hits a nearby tree, which bursts into flames. Cohen turns triumphantly to his friends: "You see. I was right!". Levy, spokesman for the other three, doesn't agree, arguing it was a coincidence. 2/5

@biscuitsgod @chrisgreybrexit @haroldthimbleby Perfectly true. But, persuant to Lisbon treaty, there has to be a decision to leave EU in accordance with the leaving member state's own constitutional requirements. Miller tells us that, since leaving necessarily involves loss of rights, that means an act of parliament. 1/3 @biscuitsgod @chrisgreybrexit @haroldthimbleby The act in question was clearly the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017. But that Act wasn't a decision to leave. The UK govt. represented to parliament, and to the EU, that the decision was the referendum result. The Act was the authorisation to the PM to notify the EU. 2/3

In the Jewish joke, Cohen, a scholar of the Talmud (Judaic law), and his 3 scholar friends are arguing about Israel's action in Gaza. Cohen insists that it's a Talmudic crime . The others disagree violently. Finally Cohen offers up a prayer to ask God for his answer. 1/n ..At the end the sky goes momentarily black and a bolt of lightning emerges and hits a nearby tree, which bursts into flames. Cohen turns triumphantly to his friends: "You see. I was right!". The other 3 don't agree, arguing that it was a coincidence. Cohen is angry now. 2/n

@damien_page My only dealing with OFSTED was a laughably shameful matter. There was, almost next to my house, a nursery school run by a synagogue. It was very convenient and had a good reputation and claimed to be "multi-denominational" according to the OFSTED listings. As it happens .. (1) @damien_page ..while my son wasn't one of the "chosen people" (my wife, his mother, wasn't), I most certainly am 100% (I have a black belt in judaism). But that didn't matter, because they were multi-denominational and approved by OFSTED on that basis. So I applied ..(2)

This would be the same @MarkJLittlewood who welched on paying the £100 bet that he lost to me, very publicly, on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/JohnJCrace/status/1639324220038447111

https://twitter.com/Laurence_in_EU/status/1571678878346739840?t=kwr7w89FuN7LNoD_osM4Xw&s=19

Your Brexit lies cost us our nation
Your Brexit lies cost us our pride
Your Brexit lies lost us our nation
Oh bring back my Blighty wot died.

Bring back, bring back
Bring back my UK to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Bring back my Blighty to me
(1/n) Last night as I froze in the gutter
Because the economy failed
Last night as I froze in the gutter
I dreamed that your Johnson was jailed

Oh, damn the Tories and their uplands
And damn them all eternally;
Oh, damn the Tories and their uplands
And bring back the EU to me.

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This and the other reported security compromises (and many more that haven't been), are part of a wider picture, in which Putin has successfully subverted the UK govt by a series of information battles and bribes, starting with direct interference in the EU referendum campaign.

https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1586392267497127940

It's easy to treat this and other incidents, as the press has done, as isolated intelligence battles won by Russians and Chinese, but to me the war itself has been won. By exploiting technology and the UK establishment's greed and gullibility, the UK has been wholly compromised.

@AJS77 @juliasuzanne76 He's the left's Darren Grimes. Here is my Owen Jones story: @AJS77 @juliasuzanne76 I'd like to repeat my @Owenjones84 story. Some years ago, when I tweeted in an earlier incarnation, I responded to one of his 'must respect the referendum result' tweets by asking how he would feel if there were a referendum on re-criminalization of male homosexuality 1/n

@seanjonesqc @EdwardBedivere Aren't you making it too complicated. Starmer is, of course, a remainer, like Johnson and Truss. All, for reasons of their own, pretend otherwise. Starmer's is that he's persuaded, by himself or by others, that future policy must be formulated around being out of the EU. 1/n @seanjonesqc @EdwardBedivere Just as, after losing a business, close family member, marriage etc., you eventually make new plans that take that loss on board. There is no covert plan.

Problem is that the EU continues to exist and the option to rejoin it or its institutions remains open to the UK. 2/n

I'd like to repeat my @Owenjones84 story. Some years ago, when I tweeted in an earlier incarnation, I responded to one of his 'must respect the referendum result' tweets by asking how he would feel if there were a referendum on re-criminalization of male homosexuality 1/n ..and there had been a majority in favour. Would he be insisting that we had to respect that? He didn't answer directly, but instead scribbled in the Guardian about his views being attacked by use of this analogy, which sought to "weaponise his sexuality". His answer was .. 2/n

I know more than a little about the UK's historical civil emergency preparations, which were based primarily on the threat of nuclear war. The underlying idea is very much to play down the threat, on the sound basis that you achieve no benefit by causing widespread panic. 1/n I suspect that mightl be what's now happening with COVID, and helps to explain why govt doesn't even try to counter Pearson-like nonsense.

It's roughly correct that, in a nuclear war, arming the public with accurate information would make little difference. However, ...2/n

@acgrayling There's an old Jewish story about being wrong. I have adapted it below:
4 Talmudic scholars meet regularly to discuss the finer points of Jewish law (S.A.T.A). 3 of them generally agree, but one - call him Cohen (no relation @nickcohen4)- usually takes the opposite view. 1/n @acgrayling @NickCohen4 ..On this occasion, they disagreed violently about a particular subject (let's call it the tractate of Brexit). As usual, 3 of them, led by the highly pompous and affected Rab.Mogg, took one position, and Cohen held the diametrically opposite one. They argued heatedly and. 2/n