Very much this 👇

Very good from Joe and the team.

This is a terrible and deliberately divisive piece of reporting by the Times. Somewhere near the bottom of the article, they admit that actually Muslims prioritise the cost of living above Gaza. It's not even close - cost of living was prioritised by 50%, Gaza by 25% www.thetimes.com/article/5c7c...

We shall use the additional years of life expectancy we have compared to the US to ponder the question…

EXACTLY THAT FFS

Infuriating response from Natural England, showing just how broken our regulators and regulations have become. Until we fix this, we can't fix Britain. naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/03/h...

And there it is...the devolution bill is an Act. Hard to comprehend how big a deal this is for devolution. It is huge step forward, and something many of us have been working toward for some time - not least the minister! @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

Extracting land values to build a city with hundreds of thousands of affordable homes with trees and green spaces. What a novel idea, I think, as I look out of the restaurant window.

The most structurally radical and successful post war new town project embarrasses us. It’s as if we don’t want to win.

Great point in a great thread. I genuinely believe you can explain every pathology in British politics through “it’s considered acceptable, frankly even a sign of good taste, to be snobbish and ignorant about Milton Keynes”.

*sighs heavily* Almost every "Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor" event at UKReiif is just another opportunity for Cambridge to self promote, despite their appalling record of delivery. Once again, the entire project will be a failure if it ONLY focuses on Cambridge.

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

This is exactly why we need to take on the CIBABs. open.substack.com/pub/chriscur...

The Treasury saying a tram system could just be a bus instead, you say?! I'm shocked! (Good bit of journaljsm to get hold of the report, irritatingly predictable central government report for those of us who've seen the tram wars play out before.)

I love the photos of the old Warrington Corporation Tramways trams. Still holding out hope for a Metrolink extension out our way in the future! 🚋

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging. It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/young-men-...

You can criticise Goodwin all you like, but he now has one of the bestselling fiction books in the country.

I don't understand why Peter Hitchens has a problem with us changing the clocks by just 4.167%.

Labour cannot afford to write off the generations building Britain’s future. If the Government cannot reforge the link between effort and reward, then young people will go elsewhere at election time. @chriscurtis94.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/53f6...

UK governments have to stop treating young people "as the balancing item in every fiscal and political calculation and start rebuilding a deal in which effort is rewarded, housing is attainable and opportunity is not rationed by age."👏 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social

"We can't keep loading costs on to this generation and expect them to turn up for us". Excellent column by @chriscurtis94.bsky.social on why Labour needs a reset with younger people. www.ft.com/content/53f6...

Have written for the @financialtimes.com about how decades of government policy has pushed integenerarional unfairness, and the political and economic cost of us not fixing it. www.ft.com/content/53f6...

On financial insecurity and Labour's losses: We showed in Feb 2025 Labour losing young insecure voters to Greens, mid-life/older to Reform: www.jrf.org.uk/public-attit... And we explain how econ insecurity is a push factor, magnifying other reasons for vote losses: www.jrf.org.uk/public-attit...

Here @chriscurtis94.bsky.social tells the sequence, thinking and analysis actually behind ‘hero voters’, inc. how my research @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social on economic insecurity w/ @rosedegeus.bsky.social informed understanding of the economic basis of electoral coalitions pre-2024.

Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition. I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...

Great to see this issue getting attention from MPs. But also: look mum! There I am, in Hansard!

📣 "We no longer live in a two-party system, and if we continue to have an electoral system that doesn't acknowledge that fact, we will have, as Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social says, elections that lead to even more chaotic and unpredictable results." 👇 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social

Should the government reform student loan repayments? 🎓 + Are the Conservatives wrong to focus on voters lost to Reform? ➡️ Labour MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & Former Scottish Conservative Leader Ruth Davidson will discuss on the show tonight #Peston

Reform don't want to regulate your landlord. They don't want to regulate your employer. But they do want to regulate your sex life.

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Solving the student loan 'scam' 💰Labour MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social, economist Kate Ogden & head of education and social policy @danihpayne.bsky.social join @alaintolhurst.bsky.social to discuss the long-simmering row over student finance 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/4qof0H8

Good that my Labour MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social marked 60 years from Labour's White Paper on The University of the Air by telling OU staff and students that the OU's open policy remains 'vital'. Contrast with Reform which wants to cut educational opportunities.

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

It was wonderful to spend time with Hospice UK, Willen Hospice and their Chief Executive Kate Broadhurst in Parliament this week alongside fellow Milton Keynes MPs @chriscurtis94.bsky.social and @callumandersonmp.bsky.social

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now

Showing off MK’s robots to Treasury Minister Dan Tomlinson with @chriscurtis94.bsky.social @callumandersonmp.bsky.social and Pete Marland at Great Linford Local Centre in MK while chatting pro-growth tax reform for small businesses Read about it: www.mkfm.com/news/local-n...

Great to see my analysis below featured in @chriscurtis94.bsky.social article for @newstatesman.com Article: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Of course

When I read articles like this I remember when I popped into the local cafe in Stewartby the day after the announcement for a coffee. The owner said they had a journalist vox-popping in there the day before, trying to find someone who opposed the project... www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic...

Given the current debate, sharing my favourite cartoon from @stephencollins.bsky.social The Optimist Mouse

A day after the allotment society itself stepped forward to almost entirely debunk it. Is there a single NIMBY cause they won’t attach themselves to? We’ve yet to find it!

It's giving strong "my little brother stole my last KitKat" energy.

Looking for Edinburgh Fringe recommendations, if anyone has any thoughts for what I shouldn't miss.

Imagine buying a new-build and paying full council tax, only to find you must pay a private company to fix the road and streetlights - and the fees can rise at any point with no explanation. Also, you live by road full of potholes that apparently nobody owns www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

"I think a lot of things are shit. We need to un-shitafy it as quickly and as radically as possible." Labour MP Chris Curtis says Farage "could be running this country" if the gov't don't urgently address the public's concerns. @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

@chriscurtis94.bsky.social - Many thanks for helping my student Eleanor have an amazing day in Parliament!

@chriscurtis94.bsky.social is absolutely right - this is urgent. It's families in temporary accommodation and people struggling to pay their energy bills who are facing the consequences of our failure to build homes and energy infrastructure.

Reform DOGE is a very good thing tbh. It should be encouraged. Let them see where the money is actually going and then still pretend there are billions to cut on woke.

Good

Perfect example of why monorails are just dumb. You shouldn't need this much infrastructure at ever switch. x.com/HowThingsWor...