I find this so much more annoying from Davey than the other leaders, because unlike the others, I just don’t think he, at any level, believes this stuff.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Simply as a matter of messaging, it strikes me as curious for the party that's most identified with being pro-government to propose affordability policies that implicitly frame government as the cause of unaffordability, as opposed to say unfair corporate practices.

NEW: The government has asked its new employment rights watchdog, the Fair Work Agency, to reduce regulatory burdens on business. This is at a time when the UK has among the fewest labour inspectors in the OECD & workers face billions of pounds in unpaid wages. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Misleading normalization.

You will however struggle to persuade me that people keeping their central heating at 22C all summer rather than wear a jumper is a public good. Honestly we probably should just tell everyone no central heating until 1st November until we see how gas supplies shake out.

At exactly the time China is massively ramping up R&D investment.

@neilgibbons.bsky.social - you’ve been outplayed here.

trains are pretty full at rush hour, I don't think more fare subsidies can help modal shift. the less said about fuel duty the better. there is simply less oil to go round. we need policies that make us use less of it, you can't solve the problem making things cheaper by fiat.

Have said this before but it feels indicative of Britain's approach to a lot of stuff that commercially produced and sold e-scooters are basically illegal to use, yet our roads are full of dubiously modded bikes that are a traffic hazard and also incendiary bombs.

There's a group of heavily armed countries with large numbers of servicemen, exceptional regional knowledge and invested national interest who are ideally placed to take action on Hormuz. But they won't. I'm talking about the GCC, of course. arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-gulf-b...

He's repeatedly insulted our country, our leaders and our military, is pushing up our prices and threatening our national security, yet the self-proclaimed 'patriotic' right-wing press still finds a way to put themselves on his side

Thanks to the i for picking up my interview with Reform’s housing spokesperson >> inews.co.uk/news/grenfel...

Oh so now copyright matters.

I would like to hope the reason for this is a sense among American voters that what inflation is hitting the global economy - and derailing growth prospects - is directly Trump’s fault.

One is a sinister, dark-helmeted monster feared by children…and the other…

Could really use this messaging in the UK rather than blindly thinking we can get through a supply crisis by pretending the issue is just prices and not the supply.

USD 1.27tn, up 23% vs last year. Global M&A enjoyed a stellar start to 2026 but the outlook is obscure amid Iran uncertainties. All eyes are on energy, electrification, defence, hyperscalers, SaaS - one column to rule them all, by me, for Mergermarket (no paywall). ionanalytics.com/insights/mer...

So, not criticising Luke, but I think from a purely political perspective MPs should be linking this far more aggressively to the damage the Tories did to the public sector. You shouldn't require MP support to get you a GP appointment! Citizens advice should be helping with debt! 1600 cases is bad!

USD 1.27tn, up 23% vs last year. Global M&A enjoyed a stellar start to 2026 but the outlook is obscure amid Iran uncertainties. All eyes are on energy, electrification, defence, hyperscalers, SaaS - one column to rule them all, by me, for Mergermarket (no paywall). ionanalytics.com/insights/mer...

Until recently, the argument was that the US-UK relationship continued to function as usual on the working level. This is a first public sign that long-term damage is being done, and a cautious process of separation on the working level is also starting to appear.

How Reform is starting to make inroads into universities around the UK - top reporting by the @ananditaabraham.bsky.social, currently interning in the FT opinion team www.ft.com/content/2104...

uh no thanks

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

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Aside from the amusing cringe in the Goodwin thing, I just want to push back on this notion that "every" journalist is using AI to write copy. That's bollocks.

Florida dumbs down some more www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Predictably, Matt Goodwin's GB News debate was a disaster. He opens with defending the idea "everyone" uses AI tools for research now, and it's entirely legitimate. So the book is undeniably a product of using LLMs on some level. 1/

Just 50 years of geopolitical stability? Should have the courage of his convictions and go for 100

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

What's the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iran war? Trump had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War.

Wow. As little as that.

I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in this establishment

Traders are wrong. The Bank is many things. It isn’t insane.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Somebody should show these guys a newspaper www.ft.com/content/1198...

An update on the British NEOM. Sorry, HS2. www.ft.com/content/e0ec... Ministers set to order HS2 to consider slower trains to save billions

It's only force majeure if it comes from the Majeure region of France. Otherwise it's just a sparkling shitshow.

There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below

Aside from all the many other ways this is self defeating stupidity, I don’t think it is going to do wonders for our effort to reboot relations with the EU when our government is stranding teenagers with dual British-EU nationality abroad.

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I wrote this on 10 March and yeah. Valid, I think.

If politicians aren't calling higher energy prices the Trump tax, they should find different careers.

This is what taking responsibility as a public servant and showing leadership looks like.

It’s so funny (it’s not actually funny) how the commodities guys and economists and IR scholars and military analyst are all passing a communal bottle of bleach around while the equity dipshits are universally like “hrm, I might have to delay my Lamborghini purchase by a few weeks”

1. Britain has very much *NOT* always tolerated minority faiths. Just ask Jews and Catholics. 2. The idea that religious expression should be "in conformity with our values, our norms, our beliefs" should worry every faith group, starting with Christians.

Let's imagine what this tweet would have looked like if a left-winger had said Jews praying in public was "an act of domination".

Spot on that the battle for the right is not Tories vs Reform but liberalism vs grim authoritarianism.