Very good thread. Jeremy Grantham always worth listening to for a contrarian market view.

I really love how Ipsos presents error bars in their polling!

Evening Light, Isle of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, painting by John Lowrie Morrison, Scottish artist.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... What bond markets want from Andy Burnham giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “UK gilts resting on a bed of nitroglycerine”

Nerdy, interesting investigation on why US statistics cant use supermarket sales data - but UK, CAN can.

This is really superb from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social in the FT. Feels like 10 years of experience distilled into sharp insights.

Checks: a technology proudly unimproved in America since the founding

Revive the Economist’s proposal (from 1962) for “Elizabetha”, a new governmental town in Yorkshire. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/595...

Super thread by former bond portfolio manager on his immediate approach to the Brexit referendum.

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

No journalist followed Andy Burnham more closely than @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social for ten years at the Manchester Evening News and the FT. The Queen of the North on the King... as.ft.com/r/3ef31e1e-7...

Very probably my favourite ever thing to have researched and written: going to the Galapagos in the footsteps of Darwin. Unlike him, I did not ride a tortoise. Or drink its urine. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Londoners have won the prestigious 2026 Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize. This global award celebrates how we’re changing life in London for the better - whether that's cutting journey times on the Elizabeth line, cleaning up our air, or building vibrant new neighbourhoods.

Very interesting investigation.

Temps are high, beer supplies are dangerously low but the vibes for Scotlands first World Cup match in 28-years are perfect. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Boston 💙 The Tartan Army

we should be proud of this British success story

Helpful for the World Cup

Scams on X posing a challenge to the UK financial authorities.

Interesting thread.

Good FT Alphaville article summarising findings on activist returns (not many are actually activist). Love this line: “activism is largely goal-hanging”.

Best goals of the Premier League season. (Obviously the best goals of the year are Scott McTominay’s and Kenny McLean’s…).

Good article by @lexiter.ft.com. CPPIB is the main target of criticism here (understandable as it’s for the whole country). A big change at CPP came a decade of so ago with a moved more active management - may be part of the issue.

Very good thread on Labour’s difficulty responding to the recent police incident.

William Wilberforce - evangelical Christian committed to abolishing slavery.

“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say that you did not know…” William Wilberforce (1759-1833), English Member of Parliament, philanthropist, powerful advocate for the abolition of the slave trade. Portrait by John Rising, 1790. Wilberforce House Museum, Hull

Interesting discussion on role of consumer and producer surplus in slavery. (None of it excuses slavery).

These podcast episodes on various journalistic investigations in the UK are really super.

Magic Palace. An inspired year. 🎉

Good thread

Good comment.

Good to see @andyburnham.bsky.social engaging here (fwiw this seems a perfectly reasonable response to me).

My review of Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland on challenges of how we know think/talk about Empire if we did want to understand the history of how we, the British, became us: this multiethnic society that is a product of Empire + decolonisation, immigration + integration capx.co/we-need-to-t...

Narrowly wrong about distinct modern curry 'invented' in UK 50-60 years ago - eg Birmingham's Balti. The inadvertent 'bigotry' is to just imagine the British as white ( 'British colonisers, stealing spices'). This renders the Asian, black British invisible - or also somehow 'theft' + colonisation?

If Mr Farage wants people to believe his phone was hacked by hostile actors “almost certainly linked to Moscow”, normal practice would be for the experts who examined the phone to be named (or at least their company) alongside some published technical evidence 1/2 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

This is very good

Love this from Aberdeen FC.

Boys done good.

Sadly true… if you’re French.

Ukraine’s resilience has been extraordinary. In a better world, the role of UK-European cooperation in helping them when a Russian stooge took over in Washington would be a huge point of pride.

Keep on thinking about this chart & column from @chrisgiles.ft.com www.ft.com/content/0b2b...

Made me chuckle.

Talking of Labour economic thinking, punchy blog here from Reeves's former chief economic adviser John Van Reenen, suggesting her approach is starting to bear fruit in terms of productivity, and lamenting "the media’s obsessive negativity towards the government": blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Good thread on cyber risk & LLMs. Short answer: the risks are from the usual vulnerabilities (people! simple mistakes!)

Very good blogpost on BlueSky and social media from @davekarpf.bsky.social

Good article. It’s clear foundations to make govt work exist (civil service, think tanks, coordination externally, etc). Interesting reasons *why* leadership is missing: parties shift to members picking leaders; house prices vs MP incomes; media attacks (Paxman vs Howard unfair?); social media

Very impressive data visualisation. Shows the power of simple, considered ways of presenting analytics.

Excellent blogpost. With a comment from the great Martin Wolf at the bottom too…

As Martin Wolf, Paul Krugman, and other top economists said at the time…

latest update: three parliamentary private secretaries (lowest level of ministerial bag-carrier) have quit this evening another half dozen expected later this evening adding to pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to quit as prime minister

Masterful understatement by @georgewparker.bsky.social here: “The appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson, another New Labour grandee, was less successful”… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Gordon Brown returns to No 10 as global finance envoy