When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case' When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

We hear a lot about privatisation, but rarely are the numbers laid out so starkly: £193bn paid to shareholders and private equity firms, a £250 premium for every citizen. Only Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have shed public wealth faster than Britain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Since privatisation in the 1980s, we the public have paid *almost £200bn* to shareholders Your household has paid £250 extra a year since 2010 for this ideology Excellent new study from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇 Time to take back OUR public assets 💧💡🚌🚄📮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Financial media is unable to see Larry Ellison's wealth surging by $100 billion in a day as the sign of a bubble and economic sickness that it is.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Strange how legal experts keep concluding the same thing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The trend has alarmed job-market watchers. “Such an increase is unprecedented outside of recessions,” said an economist of the steady worsening of the long-term unemployment rate. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Is it a good sign that Nvidia can't find enough customers for their cloud compute service? Also, pretty cool to sell GPUs to Amazon then immediately pay to rent them back, also shows a strong and healthy industry

every article about young men getting radicalised is like “what’s up with young men? They’re almost a quarter as extreme as their dads!” The dads should be the focus then!!

I do wonder what people did in elite universities such that years later they believe university is or should be "debate me,bro" for 4 years

As Stafford Beer said "until you are conclusively sure that part of your research budget was wasted, you cannot prove that any of it was well spent at all"

Just a complete misunderstanding of how research works

As NHS waiting lists are nowhere near the 12 million predicted from a Covid backlog. ‘The NHS waiting list might be highest on record, but it might be lower than it should be’ “there could be a lot of unheralded clinical risk sitting out there” www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Public service is incredible. The opportunity to run a country. To make things better for ordinary people. To achieve at the very highest level. But you won't get rich from it, and neither should you. This is taxpayers' money. If you want wealth, do something else.

I’m absolutely fascinated by weight loss medications Short term effects & ripples of change from individuals to supermarkets, restaurants & culture It could be a minor ripple or a cascade of dominoes creating widespread changes Here’s my research & thoughts! priteshmistry.ghost.io/jabs-waistli...

Herzog has been a consistent cheerleader for Israel's campaign in Gaza. His assertion that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza is key evidence in the genocide case being heard at the ICJ. Basic facts in the biggest news story in the world, of which Balls displays blithe, swaggering ignorance.

Sentiment analysis on four decades worth of FT newspaper articles. 🥳 Rreally cool stuff from @joelsuss.ft.com. on.ft.com/4n2TVBq

Oh please just try to be serious.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

Israel is holding 6,000 Palestinians without charge or trial. The majority are non-combatants. Some have been picked up at so-called aid distribution sites. They include young, elderly, sick & disabled people as well as medics & journalists.

graham linehan is currently accusing his own defense lawyer of being a part of a conspiracy to get him. ( she’s a known terf 🤷‍♀️ )

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

Bari Weiss is literally going to run CBS news while complaining about being silenced

Open to correction, but fairly sure Stumbling and Mumbling was the first serious UK economics blog, and certainly the inspiration and model for many who followed, including me. Anyone remotely interested in thoughtful UK economic/policy/political analysis should follow @chrisdillow.bsky.social

This is a no-brainer - scrapping the two-child limit is the quickest and simplest way to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty. We found that scrapping the would also reduce the economic cost of child poverty by £3.2bn a year. neweconomics.org/2024/10/capp...

least surprising heel turn in history

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something? www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

Right now, Sky News are platforming Richard Tice and allowing him to say "They're [the government] are more interested in protecting the rights of people who've come here illegally - therefore they are criminals - than looking after the rights of British citizens..." Seeking asylum is NOT illegal.

🧵NHS mental health services have a long-standing relationship with the independent sector. Our recent analysis shows that in March 2025, over 28% of NHS-funded mental health bed availability was in the independent sector.

This is not good news. We can't wait for a convenient moment before taking climate action. The time is now. "the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The problem with austerity is that eventually we will run out of public assets to sell off. Councils can stagger through another year by selling off sports fields and care homes, but once they're gone, they're gone. It's unsustainable, and vandalises the public realm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What has London’s Bakerloo line got to do with the government’s ability to invest in the North? Put simply, if we let London raise more money from high land values to pay for its infrastructure, this frees up more government spending for the rest of the country. Read below to see detail 👇

I see the author - @robert-booth.bsky.social‬ - has an account here, but rarely uses it. on off chance he looks in today, I have a deeply serious question: why does this piece refuse to examine what LLMs are and how they work - especially when that categorically answers this "unsettling" question?

Most people/groups who call themselves YIMBYs seem to have totally forgotten about the M part of the acronym. If you are campaigning for more building in some place you don't live, how different is that from NIMBYism really?

The latest Chotiner interview is horrifying, but we should also ask why so many of our moral appeals center around the mental image of “women and children” when considering why someone would assume it's okay to mark a whole category of people as worthy of death.

Aside from anything else: the political class have learned precisely zero lessons from the Windrush scandal.