New report: Taxing landlords more is good, actually. Since 2016, tax reforms helped slash the growth of the private rented sector and boosted first-time buyers—without hurting existing tenants. A big housing story hiding in plain sight? ⬇️

More people than ever are clapping along to the far-right soundtrack. For me, it’s not a particularly compelling one…some of the loudest voices could use more vocal coaching… With all the noise, I was prompted to respond to a wonderful piece by Rohan Sathyamoorthy. Read below 👇 @theguardian.com

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Amid all the reshuffle chatter, genocide in Gaza continues

The answer is "no". And to add more: "no, and what's the real (economic) reason you are asking this question?"

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

This is why I have become the sort of person who politely taps on the windows of drivers stopped at traffic lights and on their phones to remind them that being on their phone while driving is illegal

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

"We did a review of all of the studies globally, which included half a million road traffic injuries, and that found that if you are hit by an SUV compared to being hit by a passenger car you are 44% more likely to be killed. Among kids it's higher - it's 82%” www.bbc.com/news/article...

"already outpacing efforts to adapt"

“Journalism is the first draft of history and killing journalists can allow history to be rewritten by their murderers.” ~Sally Hayden The Irish Times ☕️

Latest report from me below, and here's the Guardian's coverage (thanks to the environment team for covering it). Current policy won't deliver the emissions reductions from transport needed by 2030 and risks widening inequality. Prioritising fairness is the key to unlocking faster climate action.

I can't see a story about retail theft without thinking about this episode from @ifbookspod.bsky.social As they say in the ep, using 2020 as baseline will obvs lead to huge % increases! (No one was shopping in 2020!) www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/epis...

Say their names: Mu'adh Abu Taha, Maryam Abu Daqa, Muhammad Salama, and Hossam Al-Masri. Israel killed FOUR journalists today, as they bombed Nasser, as they have bombed every hospital for two years now. They’re among 275 journalists murdered by US-Israel

think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working

Gaza is officially in a famine as Israel starves 2 million people to death. This level of suffering is completely unimaginable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/w...

This is the direct consequence of mainstream elites like Starmer legitimising far right politics This is as much if not more on their hands as it is on Robinson's www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Israel has acknowledged that Anas and his crew were deliberately targeted. Palestinian reporters are being systematically picked off and slaughtered as the West stands by, issuing anodyne statements and tacitly (or directly) supporting a genocidal campaign. Journalism is not a crime.

This was the initial story on the Reuters coverage of Anas' murder. Compare to the new version on the right. The default was to cite the IDF. When they got proper writers in to rewrite the story, we get actual journalism. Reuters' default source was the IDF.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

Horrible story. Apologising because a trans employee had the temerity to interact with a customer. What are we becoming? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

My love of planning started in a project I did in central govt on intl. case studies - back in 2020 when the debate about zoning was hot We found that the UK has a discretionary system & has gradually introduced rules, elsewhere, zoning/rules based systems have gradually introduced discretion 1/🧵

Israel keeps firing "warning shots" at people waiting for aid; Palestinian civilians keep being shot dead www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

"In Gaza, the share is 100 percent. The risk of famine is total." Read this by @adamtooze.bsky.social Shame on everyone who has let this happen, shame on those who equivocated, shame on those in positions of power who have done nothing adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

I know I'm a day late posting about this, but stories like this one in @theguardian.com yesterday are exactly why we've been saying we need more strategic planning, not less! (As we argued in our report from earlier this year: www.ippr.org/articles/str...) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting-looking new study from the UK finding that being hit by an SUV (as compared to a regular car) "considerably" increases the risk of death for children, and even more so for young children doi.org/10.32866/001...

the talmud says "whoever destroys a soul, it's as if they destroyed a whole word" and how many worlds, how many thousands upon thousands of worlds have we destroyed

What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine going into journalism to argue that not enough civilians have been killed in a war crime.

UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025) 18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose 81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide Large margins in favour of: - trade embargoes (48% to 20%) - financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%) - suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 93 reported killed by Israeli fire while waiting for food

Think this is a pretty detailed problem-definition piece, correctly identifying the scale of the challenge. I'm curious to read how their solutions to the 5 "giants strangling Britain" balance/address some of the following when they publish it. - How do they propose to redistribute wealth? 1/🧵

“These deaths were not a mistake. They were a tragedy… And yet the bodies of children pile up. Children killed as they sheltered in former schools; children killed as they fled Israeli forces; children killed as they slept at home.” We must keep building political pressure to end this genocide.

Really pleased to publish 2 pieces of work today: 🚌 The 1st is on making transport work for people living on low incomes 💨The 2nd is a piece in LCEF's essay collection on clean air 1/🧵

HEY here's a new piece for @crikey.com.au! Sparked by David Suzuki's recent comments, but more broadly in response to the recent rise of performative fatalism: the reassuring, widely popular and lazy idea that fighting back against fossil fuels is worthless www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/14/c...

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

In its criticism of Raynor's plans, this quote shows the issues with the current system & why her focus on social housing is correct: "... 840,000 new homes will be completed over the next five years, with the property firm blaming low demand from buyers" 1/🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Rebecca Paul MP — who at the Women and Equalities Committee last week spoke so much about women's rights (in order to undermine trans people's) — is now speaking in Parliament against the decriminalisation of abortion. You couldn't make it up. These people are not feminists.

This violence is the predictable outcome of a militarised, ethnonationalist regime, backed by Western governments and fuelled by decades of impunity and arms trade profits.

The Board of Deputies and Chief Rabbi once again offer uncritical support to a rogue state currently committing a genocide. In aligning with Israel’s far-right government, they enable apartheid, military aggression and mass civilian death.

A real joy to be in Liverpool today to launch our buses report today with the Minister for Local Transport @simonlightwood.org.uk and the Mayor of Liverpool City Region @lcrmayor.bsky.social

I'm old enough to remember anti-trans activists saying "no-one is talking about taking rights away from trans people" and here we have an EHRC commissioner saying "yup, we've correctly taken away their rights"

What's happening to trans rights in the UK is truly terrifying What sort of joke is this, having the commissioner of the *EHRC* say that a group of people will just have to accept reduced rights? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

At least three people were killed and dozens injured when Israeli forces opened fire on starving Palestinians.