I say this not as “shouldn’t build the tram” but one thing badly wrong with Reeves’ approach is that it has confused “the good stuff you have to get re-elected to keep doing” (building more infrastructure) with “stuff that gets you re-elected”.

It came to me in a dream

his back to the wall response to a massive defeat and the biggest ever challenge to his leadership: give two has-beens non-jobs a content free speech

The real takeaway from this is just what a disaster statutory obligations are for democracy. An attempt to hide where the costs go that has screwed over all the most visible bits of government and has empowered popularism by forcing councils to make choices no one in their right mind would vote for.

Time for your weekly Polanski scandal www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Lambeth Green party are still delivering leaflets featuring their candidates who are accused of anti-semitism.

UK tech optimism

Also these guys seem like they know what they're talking about so why not preorder it here... US: www.amazon.com/How-Win-Trad... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/103509018...

All hail the Temu Range Rover www.economist.com/britain/2026...

"smears" again is it

A perception of unsafety or actual unsafety? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

we should *really* try to capture as big a chunk as possible of the AI industry

Green members don't know what's hit them www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

People need to learn to read before commenting. Embarrassing www.gov.uk/government/p...

great piece

Turns out a lot of people are mad they're not in the group chat. get over it!

People being normal on Bluesky again

Yepppppp

Excellent, persuasive* piece. *i.e. it has persuaded me

The battle between the Pentagon and Anthropic couldn't have come at a worse time. AI safety is no longer a hypothetical problem; it's a real concern for the world we live in today. And the US Government's demand? Move faster and break more things. My cover story: www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Sometimes you learn things when you do an interview with a chief executive. And sometimes, you learn things when you do not in fact do an interview with a chief executive:

It was fantastic to be joined by Housing Secretary, Steve Reed, to officially break ground on 900 new Passivhaus homes at Bollo Lane in Ealing. Delivered by a partnership between Places for London, Barratt London and MTVH, 50% of the homes will be affordable with funding from @london.gov.uk.

Quite funny/frustrating that everyone is saying the focus should be on their pet voter group when the truth is instead that a number of voter groups are important because FPTP electoral politics is about constructing coalitions

Bit weird we're not bombing Iran now no?

could it be, perhaps, that she's come to believe that it's right and necessary?

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