"the stronger the vision of Palestinian statehood grows on the outside, the more it fades within" - www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Non-zero chance that Your Party never polls above Change UK

Wrote about why it will be hard for the government to turn things around when food prices keep going up: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

"The insinuation of those who see population decline as a disaster is that human societies cannot flourish without expanding. The evidence for that is flimsy" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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My column in tomorrow's paper:

Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps

www.economist.com/science-and-... come work with me

Impressive enlargement of his vote.

keyless ignition is one of the all time worst technological trade-offs ever

Superb piece on the rapidly changing British countryside. economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist

"look beyond AI and much of the economy appears sluggish. Real consumption has flatlined since December. Jobs growth is weak. Housebuilding has slumped, as has business investment in non-ai parts of the economy" www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist

Wrote about the deficit-populism doom loop. Imagine you are the finance minister of a European country. You lie awake at night worrying about bondholders. Your colleagues fret about the electoral success of the hard right. What are your options? www.economist.com/finance-and-...

I have 3 pieces in this week's magazine looking at the global criminal business behind the rise in car and phone theft 1. On the new geography of stolen goods -- why Britain has become world leader & why the model is likely to spread www.economist.com/interactive/...

Sunder is right - the way this story is being reported is bizarre. See also "PM returns from holiday to a country at breaking point", per Times news-wrap today.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a... Encouraging signs. Looking at a @timleunig.bsky.social report...

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

This was a great excuse to do a lovely section of the coast path. I was less keen on the book… The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller  economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist

One of the most obvious things the police could do about phone theft is apply the law on e-bikes. If you allow loads of unrestricted ones on the street, you just end up with cities in which any 18 y/o can easily evade the police.

Follow the prime minister’s rhetoric about building a high-wage, high-security, low migration labour market to its logical conclusion, and Deliveroo as we know it would surely die. It probably won’t. Starmer versus the burrito taxi economist.com/britain/2025...

If you're wondering who Reform's latest defector is, this 2011 profile by @chriscook.news is the one you need: www.ft.com/content/34bf...

Great piece

One megawatt-hour of offshore wind from the last round costs a few percent more than one from Britain’s existing gas fleet, even at today’s still-high gas prices. August’s round will fix prices into the late-2040s. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Wrote about Nigel Farage's Bukelian turn: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

“You can fit 10 bikes into a single car parking space. So, you can imagine a world in which residential streets have two, three, four, five car parking spaces given over to bikes. You have lots of places to park bikes safely around the city and you can pick one up very easily.” @tomsasse.bsky.social

The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Wrote about why crime has become harder to solve: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption in the New Statesman: Israel's conduct in Gaza is a war crime www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

Good piece on how votes at 16 plays out: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“If Sir Keir wanted to get really radical about electoral reform, he might flick through a new paper by David Klemperer of the Constitution Society” Thank you to @matthewholehouse.bsky.social for this exceedingly generous write-up of my report!

6. Test cricket is the pinnacle of sport, because of the combination of tactics, athleticism (at least recently), psychological drama and skill.

Commiserations in advance to the long-suffering girlfriends and partners of every nerdy centre-left man in London who will have to endure being taken around this. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

The clearest analysis I have read of how to move towards a more functional asylum system ft the work of ‪@alexanderbetts.bsky.social‬

Ukrainians give great quotes exhibit 5001: "The Russians are slow-roasting us over a low flame,” despairs one senior official, “while we are playing at idiotism with very serious consequences.” www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Excellent and thoughtful column from @spignal.bsky.social on Denmark and current debates over migration policy www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

India has done brilliantly by balancing America, China and Russia. But the second Trump term has Indian policy-makers off balance. My column, The Telegram, reported from Delhi and Mumbai. Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump economist.com/internationa... from The Economist

New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.

yeah alright, you try being named after a woodland mammal for 32 years and avoiding mentioning nuts in all your quotes

Wrote about why Britain’s draconian approach to pro-Palestine activism is likely to backfire, and politicians should try not to have opinions on punk musicians: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Our leader on Labour's first year in office: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...