People need to learn to simply say they disagree rather than impugning the other person

I have now considered it.

Alienated the public sector workers by nationalising industry, giving them a huge pay rise and improving employment protections

On British state slowly becoming Martin Lewis with nukes The cost of the cost-of-living obsession economist.com/britain/2026... from The Economist

Burnham turning up to the Manchester mayoral office on Monday:

this is the correct line from Bernie since he's aiming to win American elections not soothe Europeans (which should soothe Europeans)

If the basic project is expanding and straightening the American empire, everything this administration has done - destroy soft power, wreck alliances, abandon shared ideals, withdraw for the intl institutions America built, and general erratic behavior - will have the opposite effect.

i cannot get my head round people genuinely suggesting the dems push abolish ice after the experience with abolish the police

The enemies of progress are everywhere

Forced to post like this because i've been silenced by this member of the lib mob who doesn't respect my freedom of speech but @theangelofhistory.bsky.social has ignored the meaning of the words "*you* may believe"

I think this still

Personally I think if you're going to criticise the government increasing IHT on farms and you stand to inherit a farm then you should declare that but I suppose that's not in the NUJ code of conduct

www.ft.com/content/30a4... Very good frame from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Couple of questions for @joshbabarinde.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... regarding this somewhat unusual story: 1) Is the woman a beneficiary of her partner’s estate? If so she has “lost out” up to £50k of inheritance tax she could have avoided

Even ignoring the subject of the post this is nonsensical. Can something that's bad get worse? Yeah I reckon it can Jolyon!

Turnout figures from the New York mayoralty: I think Susan Hall really could do it, you know: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Turnout isn't worrying at all. 170k voters (when the membership might be 300k max) for an incredibly low stakes election is absolutely fine. People being very silly about this

“Infamously”!

MHCLG SoS in his “build baby build” cap at conference

Good reshuffle

the scolding will continue until the user base increases

One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.

Essentially every core understanding a Labour leader needs to follow to succeed is contained within Tony Blair’s 2011 foreword to the Unfinished Revolution.

People being remarkably dismissive of the possibility of extensive riots given they last occured a whole 12 months ago

Need a serious unserious big things small things political compass

This stuff is so maddening. The top part says 10b litres *a year* and then later there is a 5bn/a day shortfall. Ie data centers are irrelevant. 10b litres a year is trivial! A single reservoir will be 100-150bn litres! Later it says we don’t even know if the data center one is solid!

incredibly funny watching the americans drive themselves insane debating the ethnicity of a ugandan asian

[posts same tweet but with positive connotation]

Seems fine. Nothing to worry about whatsoever

if you cant find anything interesting to talk about with Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bezos then I think the reflection should be directed inwards

Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots. I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...

It's time to get over the eco-austerity mindset and embrace the technology of air conditioning. On hot, sunny days, the grid runs almost carbon free. We have the power to stay cool, you just have to get over yourself.

Progressives not using and not supporting the proliferation of AI is not going to end well I fear

V interesting from @dantomlinson.bsky.social and @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social on reform of the ECHR - very much coming onto the radar of Labour MPs www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

embarrassing

counting is very important but so is public perception and telling people that actually they should be satisfied with a certain level of crime... well, good luck I guess

So only thing you can do is improve people’s experience of the status quo to the extent they don’t think system needs tearing down - show government can deliver on cost of living, nhs, immigration and also address regional inequality and community neglect/decline.

I'd love people to try this on the doorstep

tbf without Brockwell Park there is no local green space for families to use

Our latest report looks at five 'anti-supply measures' that are a major bottleneck on urban housebuilding and the 1.5m new home target - a quick thread below on what they are, why they're a problem, and how to fix them:

an additional 100k is loads!

it better be Cardinal Pizzaballa Stromboli or I'm going to kick off

fascinating piece

My column this week is on Charles Kindleberger and the economics of when a hegemon falls. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it? We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data. A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.

the idea that AI is "completely useless" for doing research is, if not a minority opinon among professionals, at least highly contested

trolling Bluesky is like those videos of Lionel Messi taking on some children in a game of street football

I adore Bluesky

Great article - You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.