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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

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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…

As someone in a terrible time zone for watching ice hockey, these gifs are so fun to watch in the morning. What a hit. #goleafsgo

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

US bonds getting Trussed (I think this is now the technical term).

Trump Derangement Syndrome never existed. It was just moral clarity.

INSANE market action right now. Market exploded higher on a headline attributed to Kevin Hassett. And now nobody can figure out where it came from and the markets are diving again. An 8% surge and then a 3.5% plunge in a matter of seconds

Decline is a choice. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Lol, and furthermore, Lmao. on.ft.com/4cddkuC

Directly elected judges are not a good idea. But let us take our pleasures when we can. The winning judge’s speech is a boon you need at this otherwise dreadful time. If things turn, this is how they start.

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The slashing of growth is a hammer blow to the Chancellor’s economic credibility. But this Government is simply fiddling while Rome burns instead of fixing our trading relationship with Europe.

The median voter:

👇 Second homes that sit empty for six months of the year are damaging all too many North Norfolk communities. This isn't about stopping second home ownership. Instead, it's about finding ways to ensure affected communities get something back to offset the impact.

I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.

That glory try at the end was absolutely brutal. Amazing stuff England

Two headed tries from England. What a match.

This sort of quote is something else man. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say other global elites see the American elite that were enthusiastic about Trump as total rubes. [gift link] on.ft.com/3XTyeJb