Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused. (*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.) archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...

Which begs the question: if even the cheerleaders for Brexit can see the damage it's causing, why can't Labour? (If Labour were utterly honest about Brexit's impacts they wouldn't be fiddling around the edges of our EU deal making microscopic adjustments that won't make a shred of real difference.)

A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

He lives in a French chateau, it seems. The Gaul of these people is breathtaking.

Saint Nicholas church in Hérémence, Switzerland by architect Walter Maria Förderer (1962-1971) r/brutalism

I'm sure anyone 👀ing Project 2025 "developments" across the Atlantic is eagerly anticipating them being replicated here. 🤡😨😱

Had a huge arcing railway curve to enable trains from Scarborough and (before it closed in 1965) Hull to run North up the East Coast Main Line instead of just South. The curve was already severed by the construction of the York Power Signal Box. @garethdennis.uk

Husband of one of someone I know scores 7.5 on the Gleeson scale. A surgeon has warned him of the draconian consequences of having his prostate out. It's a last resort for men strong enough to withstand the operation. He was apparently told he'd face the rest of his life incontinent and in a nappy.

Millions of middle-aged men will be denied routine prostate cancer checks, with a new NHS screening programme instead focusing on 30,000 with a cancer-causing mutation

Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for

Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"

22.2 million impressions, mostly by Eastern European troll bots, apparently qz.com/1429892/twit...

The new 3p per mile electric vehicle tax has lots of details still to be worked out bit.ly/3Koku5P and it could end up an even bigger mess than the provision of fast, cheap, clearly priced charging points

'The manifesto said no increase in National Insurance. This is an increase in National Insurance.' @helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...

New substack; how talk of "the country" often serves a right-wing purpose: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-country

This looks v awkward for Reeves - or at least for the narrative created by HMT: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I always find it interesting how changes/future changes in the City's skyline can tell you a lot about changes in the City itself about politics, regulation and the economics of finance 👇 www.ft.com/content/6fe3...

The King’s brother, Prince Edward, enjoys his Surrey mansion at a peppercorn rent, it can be revealed, after The Times forced the disclosure of documents held by the Crown Estate. www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

Quiet Piggy.

No asbestos risk from all that boiler lagging I'm sure. 🤔

No tears should be shed for the OBR but interesting it has decided to expose the lie of Reeves' ridiculous claim that "I have a hole" because my fiscal rules say so... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Templars played a pivotal part in this. I rather like the concept of warrior monks.

Grade 2 listed Sheffield's Old Town Hall, a former council & courthouse building at Waingate which has been empty since 1995 fails to sell at auction after being marketed for sale at £498,000. 👇 BBC News - Sheffield Old Town Hall fails to sell at auction - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

Because I was there all day, the owner of a local cafe brought me food and looked after the camera when I needed the loo. It was an epic day and there was a sense of being imprinted by the light.

Commuters in Manchester, November 1938. Exchange Station in the background (Getty Images).

I have an used last wall poster timetable for Manchester Exchange station - period ending with the station's closure on 3rd of May 1969. With it went destinations like Monton Green, Worsley, Tyldesley and Leigh.

Who doesn’t get excited about a curved corner (and decorative brickwork)?! 🤩 Newark, Nottinghamshire.

I'm not saying the leader of the Conservative party's approach to politics is infantile, but she's just defended her latest attack on the Chancellor by saying "she started it"

Hungary's Orban defies EU partners and meets Putin again in Moscow

ChatGPT users’ personal details exposed in data breach, OpenAI reveals

Not surprising. It was bonkers that the EU demanded billions of € as an entry fee to SAFE for UK firms. It shows the disconnect between the shared imperative of increasing Europe’s military power and what looks to be a calculated move by some to keep UK out of SAFE. www.politico.eu/article/eu-u...

Yes UK firms will still be able to bid for up to 35% of contracts. But I wonder how many will want to be subcontractors to EU-based primes? My guess is that the main effect of failing to get this deal is that UK firms will now go for bilateral projects with EU members. Shortsighted by the EU.

Trump’s niece explains why ‘rattled’ president is lashing out at female reporters

Grim news for Ukraine and terrible timing. But also the sign of a pluralistic system with functional checks and balances.

Homes of residents caught in dispute catch fire on same day

"Nigel Farage’s youth is not quite as irrelevant as he would have us believe. Because the past has a nasty habit of intruding into the present – and future." Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Six thousand military lorries have been removed from service over safety issues with the bolts holding them together, leaving the British Army unable to resupply its troops with fuel and food.

As political scandals go, a grubby backroom deal to, errrr, lift 450,000 children out of poverty is at least a novel one.

Total bollocks

everything about this is awful

Rachel Reeves's mansion tax will affect fewer than 1% of properties in England, highlighting the pointlessness of the exercise

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No barrel left unscraped.

If there’s one thing Trump can’t abide it’s a woman asking him questions

If you haven't heard of them @intergenerational.bsky.social do great work on this stuff. Young people are dealt a shit hand by govt after govt. I am increasingly wondering whether compulsory voting from 16+ could be a good first step to redressing the pensioner bias

We will do any amount of self-harm to avoid seeing what our real problems are

The irony is that one of the reasons Harriet Harman decided not to pursue Badenoch for hacking her website was a belief that more black women in politics was a good thing. So, in a small but salient way, Badenoch owes her position to the very solidarity she now mocks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All giving and no thanks. (Source: encompass-europe.com/cartoons)