Sensible and measured piece - these two caveats are critical

sorry what?

I don’t love this chart but it shows what the market is thinking imo

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

Meet one of the LGB Alliance's 'youth ambassadors' who also happens to be boasting about joining up with the far-right Restore party. Funny how this just keeps happening to transphobes - sorry, I mean 'sex realists'... 👀

every time representatives of this bank appear in public, I think it would be fun if interviewers insisted on them explaining in detail exactly how they reached this number, and refused to continue until adequately convinced

It took the X system just 22 minutes shortly after midnight to decide to defend & protect each of these pieces of racist content by one user, who is among its regular perpetrator of unlawful hate crimes, that the platform has legal duties to remove and to prevent.

It's quite interesting to imagine what historical world leaders would have said, and made, of Trump. Thatcher? Reagan? Churchill? De Gaulle? Or further back Marcus Aurelius...

Oh, i see the issue now.

It goes against the crowd but I genuinely think that Burnham will deliver us a Reform government; if he wins he's 100% going to get caught out by the vast quantity of nonsense in his campaign and if Labour try to switch him out they'll end up being punished like the Tories.

I don’t think it’s anything to do with not understanding the UK’s fiscal position, but his desire to please everyone. It’s why his record in GM needs much more scrutiny than it’s getting. Buses are GM politics in easy mode. He’s consistently avoided the third rail of congestion charging.

This from Wes Streeting does a decent job of outlining an agenda: expand high-skill migration, Brexit/EU, energy, housebuilding, and tax reform. Overlaps with my suggestions (see next post). Also very "Blairite" - much more so than Blair's own reactionary twaddle www.ft.com/content/83d1...

I think we are in danger of underestimating quite how evil Elon Musk is. 🧵

My garden robin just had an ‘everything’ bath-watch to the end bc she’s drenched, spiky haired & in need of towelling down. One academic study shows that when we watch footage of ‘cute’* animals it dials down stress levels-my small pal’s bathtime is for yr brain. *actual word used in the experiment:

She was right!

One way of putting it: virtually every week since late 2015, something has happened that I would have thought, based on my pre-2015 understanding of US society and culture, would cause mass revulsion and condemnation from leaders in civil society, politics, and business. And they just ... didn't.

Starmer has got many things wrong, but not this. It really doesn’t reflect well on Burnham’s ability to take “tough decisions” www.ft.com/content/1021... Andy Burnham pledges to back pension campaigners claiming billions

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

When Trump says things like this, you kinda assume that it's because he's concerned that we're NOT using forced labour rather than because we are... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

This man is good at politics.

Think the public hasn’t really changed that much, this is more about the Tories going from 40% to 20% and Tory MPs correctly analysing how that changes the incremental target voter in an issue that is broadly 60-40 with the public.

Ossoff is running, and I would not be at all surprised if he wins...

Ok so don't borrow from them then, that's fine. Do it all with taxes, knock yerself out

Belatedly read this by @samirashackle.bsky.social . The collateral human damage of university marketization and mounting costs is so much greater than usually reported www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Wes Streeting on what Tony Blair got wrong, responding to Blair's essay on what everyone including Streeting is getting wrong, & if you hate them both then move on but for the 3 of you left...https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/27/tony-blair-labour-wes-streeting-markets-democracy

Half a million Russians killed in the Ukraine war. That's probably about 1.5 to 2% of the country's military aged men (i.e. 18-49 yo)... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I’m surprised to see this from YouGov. It’s a perfect example of how not to ask a polling question. “Clean energy” can be – and in most instances is – “cheaper energy”.

Blair's fully emersing himself in his curmudgeon era it seems. I disagree with him on Net Zero and Trump (naturally) but think that he is right in a broader sense about the UK's growth model being very fragile. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is basically the entire thesis of the Mythical Man Month. The last 20% somehow consuming as much effort as the first 80%.

Time to get off of Google folks

Soooo many unforced errors.

In Italian we would call this "can't we just all get along and stop arguing?" attitude "volemose bene". Sometimes, especially as a political leader, you have to take a stance and defend minorities under attack. Burnham is showing he doesn't have what it takes.

Knitters be taking none of your shit.

I've gone 360 in the last week or so on the Lab Leadership and it's a weird feeling. I've always been extremely suspicious of Streeting, and basically thought him untrustworthy (particularly re trans rights) but watching him and Burnham make their pitches I find Streeting so much more persuasive.

OMG, flashbacks to childhood.

I am lefty enough to want a more redistributive tax system to give people in need more money to spend as they see fit But I am not lefty enough to think that Government caps and controls on something as complicated as food prices is a good idea; I think it will lead to bad outcomes

It’s…….. a lie. It means your drop has been scratched from the delivery schedule. Happens to me all the time as I live out in the sticks.

What's the best analysis of where this is coming from? Social media? It doesn't fit with my personal reality of how most folk are, but I recognise that I live in the proverbial bubble.

Part of the story here is that the relative status of young people in general has gone down. Things partly careers peaking much later in a service heavy knowledge economy, partly costs paid earlier in life like childcare and housing going up a lot.

1 - 0 to Streeting here, methinks.

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

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This on the 'viability crunch' from the Home Builders' Federation is interesting. The tax impact looks low but I suspect that it's indirectly a decent component of the first labour and materials category too...

Stand by my theory that Labour's main problem is that they see governing as secondary to politics

At the risk of sounding like a broken record a lot of this is related to the decline of the public realm and the retreat of the state as a visible force for good. Tony Judt pointed out this danger in Ill Fares The Land. See also this piece I always come back to www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is really grim, whichever party you're interested in: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reeves responded angrily by telling Bessent she did not work for him and disliked how he had spoken to her.

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