I gave a presentation to a lot of corporate affairs folk… unsurprisingly, on trust! www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-we...

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

A debate Labour badly needs to have:

This is great news - Ally would be a brilliant deputy leader, providing thoughtful and constructive challenge within government AND taking the fight to the Labour’s opponents with gusto

Last night I finished The Art of a Lie by @laurasrobinson.bsky.social - highly recommend, reminded me of Robert Harris and even Graham Greene, maybe her best yet.

Forgot this. Was a good piece by errr me

A short blogpost while I've got a little time on my hands - Eight Myths About Trust www.linkedin.com/pulse/eight-...

Great that the governmen's talking about trust. But (at least as it's been written up in this article) it sounds like an amorphous 'nice to have' rather than a specific thing they are going to move the dial on.

Little further push for this one: me, writing for the @smfthinktank.bsky.social on trust in the Labour Government - it's a bit more complicated than people seem to think, but no less urgent for it www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

Building trust is hard - but even so, the government hasn’t moved the dial enough in its first year www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

Trust was meant to be this government's big battle, but how has the first year of trust-building gone? I revisited something I wrote a year ago and thought about how Labour could move the dial.

Great piece by @philipjcowley.bsky.social (with a hell of an opening anecdote!) For those interested, Phil is drawing on Miori and Green's piece from the @politicalquarterly.bsky.social special issue on the 2024 GE politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-mos...

Re-reading No More Champagne. A financial biography of Churchill. And it really is exceptionally good. Multiply the amounts by about 50x for modern equivalents. This bit is late 1939, with Churchill - in the war cabinet - desperately finishing an overdue book.

There it is again: "It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth." Featuring our very own @benansell.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Fish and chips and the Brexit vote. Brilliant work by @stevepickering.bsky.social and Seiki Tanaka in Geoforum. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's Pancake Day! Time to EAT PANCAKES in HONOR OF MACHIAVELLI! What do pancakes have to do with the founder of modern political science? Our boy Nick was obsessed with pancakes! & wrote about them at length in his "Art of War." Why pancakes? He'd been studying the ancients of course! 1/?

Last push for this from @benshimshon.bsky.social and I for those who were on half term last week - we didnt guess which manifesto pledge was most at risk, but we found out some interesting stuff about how risky breaking manifesto pledges might be www.politicshome.com/news/article...

I wish Jesse Marsch would stick to politics and leave opinions about football to others. #lufc

A little extra push for this from me and @benshimshon.bsky.social - can the government build trust when the policy environment makes it ever harder for them to keep their manifesto promises? With a tentative yes from us… www.politicshome.com/news/article...

2024 Conservative and Reform voters care more than Labour voters about whether this government is sticking its promises. Some “noodling”* on trust and promises from @stevevr.bsky.social and me on @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article... *Steve’s term

Bit of Saturday morning musing on trust in the Labour government and the role of manifesto promises? Look no further… www.politicshome.com/news/article...

[email protected] and I wrote piece on @politicshome.bsky.social on trust and Labour's election pledges - with the idea that winning trust is about more than just keeping your promises www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A few insights from @stevevr.bsky.social and my investigation into how far (broken) election promises matter to voters: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The three economic ideas that show Reform are not serious players and that the Conservatives should expose (but probably won’t). My piece for ConHome. conservativehome.com/2025/02/10/d...

Good piece re Labour's approach to growth.

'There is a trend for pundits, reaching January and short of better ideas because nothing much is happening, to resort to writing “five trends for the coming year” articles.' @robertshrimsley.bsky.social nails it: these are just his top four. www.ft.com/content/c9a6...

happy december 27th to all who celebrate youtu.be/VRU2ujV2fDw?...

🚨OUT TODAY: Can the UK pursue growth and strict competition? Some businesses are concerned that strict competition rules might scare off investors. Former CMA Strategy Director Stuart Hudson explores the trade-offs, and how to navigate them smf.co.uk/publications...

👨‍👦‍👦 A Labour MP who took more than the minimum paternity leave has said it was still "not enough" and called for “massive reform” to paternity rights 👇 @jon4highpeak.bsky.social told @zoecrowther.bsky.social shared parental leave “just hasn’t worked”

It’s that @anthonypainter.bsky.social again and his rule of three…

Tepidly trust obsessed take: delivery matters, but less as a report card on Labour's effectiveness, and more as proof that the party should be trusted with a second term.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Worth noting the main conclusion from a useful new @theifs.bsky.social briefing on inheritance tax and farms.

Enjoyed this from @katemaltby.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Now there’s loads more people on here, thought I’d post this again - a pamphlet I wrote on political trust and what a trust strategy for the government might look like www.smf.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Should a villainous bureaucratic class be brought back down to earth? In a new Substack I explore the Badenoch thesis, shared by Musk and Ramaswamy, and explore where it might lead politically. In a risk-laden society it's a brave thesis. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

We’ve been here before…

[guy who got a guitar out at a party] HEY COME BACK YOU CAN’T GO TO ANOTHER PARTY YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE AND HAVE YOUR VIEWS CHALLENGED BY WONDERWALL

Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...

ME: how's the fortune telling business CEO: our profits are down ME: how are your employees taking it CEO: our prophets are down

How do we move 'trust' from being a rhetorical flourish into a political strategy? That's the theme of a new report I've written for the @smfthinktank.bsky.social, with an introduction from the great Pat McFadden www.smf.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Column. On Toryaoke - Conservative party as crap tribute act to itself. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

it must be so easy to cheat on an american political journalist. just bring flowers back after every time to stay out all nights with someone else and they’ll be like “oh, i see you’re striking a new, conciliatory tone! truly, today was the day you became my fiancée.”