Britain is an island 🇬🇧 So why don't we have a Coastal Minister? Today, I've written to the incoming PM repeating my calls for one who can fight for the investment, jobs & opportunities our coastal communities deserve. It's time the coast had a voice at the heart of Government.

The Brexit vote was ten years ago, was it? Well, the results of that have been shit. No redeeming features at all. Just shit. Shame on everyone involved.

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

We’ve provisionally recorded the UK’s highest daily minimum temperature for May on record 🌡️ Temperatures didn’t fall below 19.4°C at Kenley Airfield overnight, provisionally breaking the previous May record of 18.9°C set back in 1944

“Voluntary” price caps in a ruthlessly competitive and low margin sector, while loosening sanctions on a murderous regime. Good day for the grown ups are back in political charge, sensible and calm economics, etc

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Failed legal challenges have delayed major infrastructure projects like new roads and power stations by a collective 32 years. Labour recently changed the law to cut the time it takes to throw out anti-infrastructure lawsuits. And it's working. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-planni...

Land Value Tax would solve this. Tax land not income.

The fuel shortage has left me depressed about British politics in a way I never have been before, in that not a single party has avoided either saying or doing something incredibly stupid and completely removed from how anything actually works.

The greens out here with their anti environment policies again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The Hormuz crisis has a real chance of causing energy shortages in the UK. The government is insisting it's business as usual, and opposition parties are arguing for fiscal measures that will stoke shortages. Neither is serious. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

nobody is allowed to pay market price for anything, and you cannot explain markets to voters. refusal to explain this and pretend it is about greed means voters will blame the govt in 2 weeks when your fake policies don't change things.

oh cool, we're at the "I have this knot of anxiety in my chest which I can't do anything about because it's entirely due to the overall geopolitical situation" stage again, nice, happy Monday everyone

Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:

RIP “I feel liberated. We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” - you had a great run as the best quote in the FT from people who really would benefit from reading the FT, there's a new sheriff in town.

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NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵

Finished “Service Model” by @aptshadow.bsky.social last night. Loved it and laughed out loud multiple times. Particularly at the description of the “Conservation Farm Project”.

I've written about Type Driven Design in Python. No, it isn't as mad as it seems. bengale93.github.io/2025/12/07/t...

Not sure how “Somebody I used to know” ended up as my most listened track. Top artists are as expected though.

The Blue Labour right have become the Militant of 2025 - a tiny but hyperactive and densely networked sect working relentlessly to drag Labour towards their niche pursuits and away from the values and priorities of core Labour voters.

The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!

It's all so supine and pathologically risk averse. A government trying to survive day to day, too scared to take the kindness of big decisive action which would repair the country and win an election. An unbelievable wasted opportunity.

🎶 Backbenchers to the left of me, bond markets to the right. Keir I am, stuck in the middle with you 🎶

Pensioners have a patriotic duty to downsize

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

We should abolish stamp duty: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/09/s...

"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!" "Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!" - and loop.

As we've seen across history, the populist playbook used by Farage is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don't stop it.

Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.

We need land value taxation www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

🌊 Coastal communities are facing rising tides, crumbling cliffs & shrinking services. They're on the frontline of the climate crisis - but too often overlooked in Westminster. We need a dedicated Coastal Minister. Here's why 👇 #ProtectOurCoast

Benfieldside (Durham) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 28.3% (+17.3) 🌹 LAB: 27.4% (+0.8) ➡️ RFM: 25.6% (-6.6) 🙋 Ind: 15.7% (-8.0) 🌳 CON: 1.6% (-5.0) 🌍 GRN: 1.4% (New) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

6. Why did long gilts hate PMQs? Possible answers: a) Reeves seen as a fiscal hawk within Labour; PMQs raises chance of a new deficit-loving ChX; b) Govt seen as likely to collapse, and have you seen Reform UK's plans? c) UK revealed as fundamentally unserious country

I think the British public should be held responsible

More from me about why the wealth tax is DOA, and how we could and should tax wealth more effectively, on the Making Money podcast: buff.ly/BE3Ujsw

Tuesday's @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

But populists can't be the only ones telling compelling stories. There has to be a progressive narrative too, but you can't build credibility overnight. Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses. ENDS

Wondering if these changes to immigration are our equivalent of tariffs. Voters need to “touch the stove” to understand why the Tories kept immigration so high. Rejoining the single market would be the better solution but that’s never going to happen 🙃

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire

Holt (North Norfolk) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 41.8% (+2.9) 🌳 CON: 29.0% (-2.3) ➡️ RFM: 23.8% (New) 🌍 GRN: 3.9% (-8.8) 🌹 LAB: 1.5% (-4.5) No Ind (-11.3) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2023.

“Attacks winter fuel decision” It’s 2060. The UK government only spends money on pensions and interest. No one can change this out of fear of the pensioner backlash.

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Love waking up to good election news. Well done the Liberals. Dare say Friday won’t be the same…