Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Just pulled this off the shelf again, from my economics prof at Lancaster Uni @geraintjohnes.bsky.social. The chapter on international trade - and notably tariffs - would make for useful reading for lots of people, I'm sure...

Agriculture and inheritance taxes - a topic that seems to be of interest to The Paper in Shanghai. With a quote from me that should rattle a few birdcages. m-thepaper-cn.translate.goog/newsDetail_f...

I seem to have arrived here. Thanks @mesnilman.bsky.social and @johnwestjaws.bsky.social for arranging the invite.