SteveBakerFRSA 3 months ago

😱The next election could be rejoin vs no deal 🎙️How Alain Tolhurst summarised points of agreement between me and Anand Menon 🚨This is serious

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The Rundown by PoliticsHome: Could the UK rejoin the EU?

With the idea of rejoining the European Union suddenly back on the agenda after Andy Burnham's selection for the Makerfield by-election and the...

SteveBakerFRSA 4 months ago

🫣 “The biggest story in climate science in decades has been mostly ignored” – Roger Pielke Jr

Media Coverage (or not) of RCP8.5 RIP

The biggest story in climate science in decades has been mostly ignored

SteveBakerFRSA 4 months ago

😳A shock to enjoy being interviewed by Matt Forde, who asked all the right questions - hope you like it

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Show 401. Steve Baker

Podcast Episode · Matt Forde

SteveBakerFRSA 4 months ago

💡Rule 1: survive to fight. 📣That means complying with the rules, however tedious, in letter and spirit. Never expose a flank. Ask how it will look… 🤦🏻‍♂️Everyone errs but politicians can’t afford to, especially when likely to be PM.

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage was given undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire in 2024

Reform leader changed his mind about standing as MP after gift from Thai-based crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne

SteveBakerFRSA 5 months ago

😳Reform UK's candidate for London Mayor Laila Cunningham was incredibly impressive on the podcast. 🤷🏻‍♂️I won't have a vote... 📣Other candidates welcome!

SteveBakerFRSA 8 months ago

🎄Tonight, dinner with Glint - such lovely people! 💡 “Gold as Money – Buy, save, send & spend real gold instantly with Glint” glintpay.com

SteveBakerFRSA 8 months ago

“The Church of England’s suspicion of Tommy Robinson’s conversion revives, unwittingly, a very old heresy: Donatism. St Augustine confronted the claim that the moral failings of a minister could nullify the gospel itself.” The UK‘s other Christian Libertarian and a former police officer, my friend Fr. Dan Stork Banks, writes about the carol service organized by Unite The Kingdom:

The North American Anglican

Not a Merry Ding-Dong | The North American Anglican

To use an English working-class phrase, there is a bit of “ding-dong” between Christians this month. Christmas carol services are not usually f...

SteveBakerFRSA 9 months ago

“In the Commons today, MPs gathered for the great constitutional question of our age: should Britain voluntarily re-enact the bit of Brexit everyone agreed was a terrible idea?” With apologies to @RobDotHutton, this evening, I idly asked ChatGPT to lampoon today’s tied vote on a customs union. It’s really quite good, so here it is.

Should the UK voluntarily re-enact the bit of Brexit everyone agreed was a terrible idea?

A SKETCH of todays tomfoolery in the Commons by ChatGPT

SteveBakerFRSA 9 months ago

📢Economic central planning has always failed and Net Zero rests upon it. 💡No government, even a capable one, can acquire the knowledge required to direct our lives and investments. 🤯The consequences are predictable: declining prosperity, growing coercion and ever more difficulty pursuing happiness. 🗽My paper, out today: Net Zero and the Threat to Human Liberty https://static1.squarespace.com/static/656f411497ae14084ad8d03a/t/693707ea74cab922802d3d69/1765214186269/BakerTheWayDown.pdf

SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.

The Chancellor's "scene-setter" speech was hopeless

A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.

SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

😤Hubris: the intoxication of power 💉Power is a drug. Politicians and their courtesans are addicts. Hubris and failure follow. 💡Clinging to humility could make a big difference.

Hubris: the intoxication of power

Power is a drug. Politicians and their courtesans are addicts. Hubris and failure follow. Clinging to humility could make a big difference.

SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

📣This government won’t get away with blaming Brexit in the face of quality journalism like this.

Would UK be better off without Brexit?

Ministers may be tempted to use it as an excuse for tax rises, but there’s far more to it than that

SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

🗽Who will be the UK’s Milei ? 📣“Argentina's Milei wins big in midterms with 'chainsaw' austerity”

Argentina elections: Javier Milei and his 'chainsaw' austerity win big

Milei's radical spending cuts have won favour with Donald Trump, but also attracted widespread criticism.

SteveBakerFRSA 10 months ago

🗽Thank you so much to everyone who has expressed support for the Fighting for a Free Future project: you are hugely appreciated!  ✊🏻Everyone who supports FFF is part of the movement for free markets and freedom – and there is plenty you can please do to help.

How you can help Fight for a Free Future  – Steve Baker FRSA

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

📣Finally, the PM announces an inquiry into grooming gangs.

Immigration, integration and social cohesion

Crime, culture and immigration: we must uphold justice and the principle of equal treatment before the law, reject racism and collective guilt, and...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: money needs reform.

Money needs reform

Reform are today enjoying a massive win as voters lose faith in both main parties. This could be seen coming in the aftermath of the Global Financi...

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

😡People can be extremely hostile when they disagree. 💡That’s why I’m so excited about Professor Paul Dolan’s new book “Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with”

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Amazon

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

🪫Via Energy Dashboard, this morning’s generation mix:

Energy Dashboard

Live GB Electricity Generation, Carbon Intensity & Demand – Energy Dashboard

Real-time half-hourly data on GB electricity generation, renewable vs fossil fuel mix, power flow visualisation and carbon intensity from National ...

🔥We need gas. Plenty of it. 💡And a strategic policy of gas to nuclear:

Conservative Home

Steve Baker: Wanted - a politically and economically viable path to low emissions | Conservative Home

We need to think a little less about the targets, and much more about what people can afford.

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

🤝I am delighted to join Axiom as an advisor. 💡Find my paper for Axiom here:

Axiom

Honest Money And Social Progress — Axiom

Why Bitcoin Infrasructure Matters A Great Deal - Rt Hon Steve Baker, FRSA

🗣️”The importance of a social safety net which works is obvious. The consequences of one which is chronically unaffordable should now be heaving into view. The importance of sound money to a just and equitable market economy deserves further elaboration.”

SteveBakerFRSA 1 year ago

🫡 Many thanks to those who have asked after my new business interest in Bitcoin - all will be revealed in @CityAM and on social media tomorrow morning. 🗽I’m excited about it - I hope you will be too! #BTC View quoted note →