Brutal and enjoyable piece from @willdunn.bsky.social on Clegg's return from Silicon Valley with Views to Share on standing up to the US and how to save the internet (errr) www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

NEW: “I’m not going back into politics”, Nick Clegg tells an audience of political party members, before espousing detailed political views, at a political party conference, while promoting his book about politics. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

What if she has a point? Really great interview revising the Liz Truss legacy by @willdunn.bsky.social: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Three years on from the Mini-Budget, @willdunn.bsky.social persuaded Liz Truss to talk to the New Statesman and it's worth reading. In which she: - Suggests Bank governor Andrew Bailey may have financially benefitted from her downfall - Restates her praise of Tommy Robinson

New: does Liz Truss still have a lesson for the UK? Within the cloud of grudges and paranoia in her thinking, is there a real point about who holds power? I spoke to the former PM about why she failed, and what she believes www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Release the pigs! It’s pannage time in the New Forest. But is the land more threatened by man or beast? 🖼️ @willdunn.bsky.social's sketch

Been banging on about this for a while now. It’s the end of days.

This is correct.

“Queuing in pubs combines the worst elements of communism – yes, the very worst elements – without any of the good stuff, like free housing or hastily built nuclear power stations.”

I wrote about the most frightening and dangerous trend in Britain www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

🚨🚨RRRELEASE THE HOGS 🚨🚨 www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

🚨🚨RRRELEASE THE HOGS 🚨🚨 www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

As the president visits the UK, we are a mouse sharing a bed with a walrus 🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social: Trump visits his vassal state

Brilliant fun piece by @anooshc.bsky.social on the EFFING LIME BIKES (which I also ride sometimes, will probably use one later) www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...

I spent yesterday at Europe's biggest arms fair: www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

There are two ways to trust a politician: 1. Believe they are good (trust their integrity) 2. Don't care if they're good, but believe that they will do the thing you want (trust their competence). Labour offers option 1, Reform offers option 2 www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Landlords bring in £56bn per year, but £26bn of that is profit just landing in their bank accounts and doing very little for the economy (except being taxed at lower rates than employees). Great piece from @willdunn.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

It's partly to do with the fact that the Tories are not currently seen as worth lobbying:

I've been speaking to lobbyists who are going to Reform's conference about who's going, and why: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

One in-house corporate lobbyist told me the Conservatives “look completely useless” and “have extremely limited influence”. 🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social: Why the lobbying industry has its eye on Reform www.newstatesman.com/politi...

The landlord industry is doing too well: www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

The landlord industry is doing too well: www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

"The prices of long-term bonds are not an indicator of Rachel Reeves’ competence. They are bets on the shape economies will be in in decades to come." 📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @willdunn.bsky.social: The bond market should not write the Budget

There's no toggle for the AI button.

Fuming, I just tried this and it took AGES

We’ve got to stop saying “paywall”. Unless we start applying it to everything. “The new menu at Greggs offers spicy Mexican chicken slices.” (£paywall) “This production of Guys and Dolls is unmissable.” (£paywall) “Broadband internet is now super fast.” (£paywall)

I've been allowed to write even more of my deeply silly political sci-fi: www.newstatesman.com/culture/fict...

Is there any ship so seaworthy, and so welcome a sight in port, as the Pret a Manger miniature cheese boat

If you're a big-shot TV producer and would like this written up as this generation's West Wing, let me know?

The population increase in England and Wales since 2021 is pretty wild when taken in longer-term context. The years 2022-24 saw the largest population annual increases, by some way, outside of the two world wars. Natural change was close to zero, so the increase was all from migration.

I wrote about Donald Trump's visit to Scotland www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

The president took in the natural beauty, which he so loves to bulldoze for golf courses. @willdunn.bsky.social's sketch: Donald Trump, the king of Scotland

Eight years after it came out, I have come to the important and relevant conclusion that I did not enjoy The Emoji Movie. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

The truth about junior doctors’ pay

I went to see Jeremy Hunt giving a talk about Jeremy Hunt and afterwards signing copies of his book about Jeremy Hunt www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Yep - HMRC have taken down more than 4,000 scam Winter Fuel websites, often linked to texts. More here: www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...

Winter Fuel Payment now the focus of scam text campaigns

Sparkling, hugely enjoyable profile based on months of reporting by the great @willoyd.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

How does this sell airline tickets? Who picks the airline after seeing this?

Will Unite abandon Labour? Will they fund the Sultana-Corbyn party? All Graham will say is that she wants to focus on building a "strong, independent workers' union".

The triple lock does NOT properly account for the rising cost of Fever-Tree and Evian spray www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“Sharon is not interested in personality cults”. Unite source on why they won't back a new Corbyn-led party if they disaffiliate from Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Did the UK ask Facebook to take this data down? Or did Facebook refuse? Incredible story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Has-Car-Ban

HMRC does not appear to know how much tax our billionaires pay. 💰 @willdunn.bsky.social: Britain’s billionaire tax problem

The magic of outsourcing: a company which provides school dinners, which takes most of its income from the taxpayer, can pay its owner about six times as much as the Prime Minister. The people actually serving the food get min wage. www.newstatesman.com/business/202...

School catering firms make millions while children eat Bad Pie. The quality of school meals has been falling dramatically in the cost-of-living crisis – and the proof is in the pudding. @willdunn.bsky.social

What's the argument from the Centre for Social Justice here? That people with disabled children are unreasonably fortunate? The NHS can spend millions treating a single person. It doesn't make that person a lottery winner. Quite the opposite.

Morning! Like a bottle of JP Chenet in a boiler cupboard, the UK is not ageing well. www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...