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Brian Cox

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Brian Cox

@ProfBrianCox

Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester

Somewhere in Spacetime

Joined December 2008

Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Feb 22, 2020
A passport is only worth the rights it confers. It means nothing inside ones own country. This passport is weaker than the one it replaces, symbolising the removal of our rights to move and operate freely across our own continent. It therefore represents abject political failure.
Home Office
@ukhomeoffice
Feb 22, 2020
Our new blue passports will be the most technologically advanced and environmentally friendly British passports ever. Read more about them here: gov.uk/government/new…
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Mar 14, 2018
Sad to hear about Stephen Hawking. What a remarkable life. His contributions to science will be used as long as there are scientists, and there are many more scientists because of him. He spoke about the value and fragility of human life and civilisation and greatly enhanced both
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
May 11, 2024
As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Jul 27, 2023
I keep being asked what I make of the UFO thing in Congress yesterday, so here it is: I watched a few clips and saw some people who seemed to believe stuff saying extraordinary things without presenting extraordinary evidence. Therefore I have nothing more to say, other than: It
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Feb 13, 2023
I've always suspected that an advanced alien civilisation with the technology to travel at close to light speed across interstellar distances would arrive in Earth orbit unobserved and proceed to dispatch a fleet of small, easily detectable balloons into our atmosphere.
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Jun 25, 2019
Sorry to tweet about politics - I’m trying not to - but I look at the news in the morning and I’m sickened by what has happened to our country. It’s a great place, about to be ruined by absolute charlatans.
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Dec 10, 2021
I’ve found someone to do all the long lens staring at the sky shots on top of mountains for the next series. Nobody will notice.
Seán Burke
@SeanBurkeShow
Dec 10, 2021
Every BBC series about the universe.
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Jan 26, 2020
There is an anomaly in the spacetime continuum....
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Aug 8, 2020
I’m so sick of this ‘The British People’ nonsense. It’s inflammatory and divisive and also errant vacuous nonsense with no meaning in a multi-party democracy. The phrase should be banned from political discourse.
Priti Patel MP
@pritipatel
Aug 7, 2020
Replying to @pritipatel
We also need the cooperation of the French to intercept boats and return migrants back to France. I know that when the British people say they want to take back control of our borders – this is exactly what they mean.
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Jun 26, 2022
The reason the UK will have the lowest growth in the G7 next year is Brexit. We're not going to reverse the decline until we begin to remove the barriers - economic, social, scientific - that we chose to erect with the rest of our continent. That's not rocket science. Just say it
The Labour Party
@UKLabour
Jun 26, 2022
Under this Tory government, Britain’s growth has ground to a halt. And they are too distracted by their own failings to deal with it. Labour has a plan to tackle the cost of living crisis and build a stronger, more secure economy.
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
May 18, 2023
You were lucky. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would
Peston
@itvpeston
May 17, 2023
"I remember as a child in South Wales swimming in sewage" Conservative MP @DamianGreen says water pollution from sewage dumping has always been an issue, but it used to be perceived as more acceptable #Peston
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Jun 23, 2023
Brexit is now, in a majority of voters minds, linked with high interest rates, trade friction, travel friction and general incompetence. The reality may be more complex, but that doesn’t matter - it’s about perception, and the perception is that Brexit is not only a failure but a
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Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
May 18, 2020
What you’ve also done, @pritipatel , is to end freedom of movement for UK passport holders across our continent. The citizens of 27 other countries, the great majority of Europeans, still retain it. That’s not something to fly our flag over in my book.
Priti Patel MP
@pritipatel
May 18, 2020
We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.
Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Mar 20, 2019
I’ve signed this petition to revoke A50 and deal with the consequences afterwards - referendum, election, whatever. I have no idea whether these things do any good but after May’s astonishingly irresponsible speech this evening I’ll give anything a go.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.
The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A People's...