They are so fucking dumb it is unreal. They are the keeping the story in the news as much as Farage.

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...

Isn't this evidence against your thesis that encouragement and glorification of political violence is a "general scourge"? There's nothing remotely equivalent to this coming from prominent Democrats. Republican elected and media figures do this constantly.

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? ⬇️

Hoping to see all the major outlets cover this multi-million pound tax scandal as closely as they have Angela Rayner's £40k one.

The logic is that there’s a shortage of homes at affordable prices for owner occupiers. So the 2nd home surcharge aims to make ownership of multiple homes more expensive. Whether it’s effective is arguable, but the intention/logic is clear isn’t it?

My favorite earth fact is that there's literally no reason at all for eclipses to happen, and the fact that the sun and moon happen to be the same size in the sky is a cosmic coincidence

As we've seen across history, the populist playbook used by Farage is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don't stop it.

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Isn't journalism supposed to be about asking questions and following up? This whole piece just reads like anti-tax propaganda. Why does a 20% tax require selling 50% of the business? What other options are there like a mortgage to repay the tax? What about Trusts? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

I'm just tired of rich people playing at poverty. I have had times in my life where I couldn't afford food, and was told I didn't qualify for assistance. It's hard to sympathise with objectively well-off people, whinging that they can't afford to holiday in Tuscany because of the riding lessons.

Yes. This map showing how children’s right to roam free has been removed over four generations always makes me sad.

UVW: "At Draughts Bar, staff are fighting against exploitative, and insecure working conditions. Employed on zero-hour contracts, they report frequent last-minute shift cancellations that leave them without income or any work-life balance." They want on-site security and fixed-hour contracts.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

The alien fleet appeared suddenly and entered Earth's orbit. A message was broadcast, in thousands of languages "Greetings! We are the Interstellar Mobile Library. We have 4096 ships, please suggest landing sites for all." "Yes, of course it is free, and for all people." "Why? We are a library."

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...

Everything about this article just builds an impression of a broken country. Over a year of full-time unpaid work (across 3 years of training) to qualify. To go into a field with record shortages, that isn't recruiting. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

And people make arguments about why immigration *and demographic change* are good all the time. Not just the crude economics/service implications - but also just that it's nice to have differently coloured people with different backgrounds. Otherwise called liberal propaganda/family tv!

Why do government departments have boards of directors at all? Me, on my Abolish Westminster substack: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Poll after poll shows the UK public in favour of net zero and climate change mitigation. Will any vote with their wallet and close their bank account? Looks like that's my M&S credit card that'll have to go. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Last year Andrea* received this from HMRC. £9,595 penalties for not filing a tax return But Andrea suffered from mental health difficulties for years, earning almost no income. She owed zero tax Over the last 5 years, 600,000 penalties have been issued to people like Andrea

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This piece discusses what will happen over the 'next ten years' is this pointless? If it takes ten years to notice the current administration will blame the next one. What will happen in one year or three? Only these can move the dial on voter preferences.

All 17 companies involved in the latest four-day working week pilot, which lasted six months, have adopted shorter working patterns www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"I’ve been voting Labour for as long as I can remember. For the last few elections (at least three) I have had misgivings about their manifestos and leaders, but... I have voted Labour... I’ve recently written to my MP to say that this is no longer the case, and I want to explain why."

Tice either hasn’t bothered reading the legislation or he's deliberately lying. The law on medical abortions beyond 24 weeks is unchanged and still only allowed in specific medical emergencies. This just decriminalises women in extreme situations who end their pregnancies.

Is the answer free childcare? I feel sure it is. I'll click now and see. Can't wait!

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

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There is no money in sensible, reasoned information. We live in an age of monetised anger. See also: why Farage *alone* gets more publicity than the entire Lib Dem and Green parties combined.

Our joint polling reveals almost three-quarters of those polled (73%) agreed that all “children deserve a good childhood, even if it costs the government more to support families that need it”. @savechildrenuk.bsky.social @cpaguk.bsky.social @barnardos.org.uk www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

FT op-ed by Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: Citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish (a rare double byline oped in the FT) www.ft.com/content/dcc4...

NEW: Open letter by me & @alasianuti.bsky.social signed by 112 UK-based political academics & writers Starmer's anti-immigrant policies are wrong & won't work www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

In defence of "anti-supply measures" peteapps.substack.com/p/in-defence...

Let me PROVE to you that Labour can't win over the RW press by aping Reform on immigration, even when trying really hard to be EVIL. These are the most prominent immigration-related headlines on various RW news websites right now. Without exception, they're highly critical of Starmer and Labour.

Interesting interview with Tom Kerridge. After the various special interest groups trying to get VAT reduced to apparently help consumers, nice to see it referenced here as a way to help the industry. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

In Louise Haigh’s first interview since being effectively sacked as transport sec, she tells me Starmer must avoid a “simplistic and naive” response by lurching to the right after Reform UK’s success in the locals… 👇🏾 Very pleased she spoke with me www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Withdraw the whip.

*uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago* "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "

This article starts poorly with the 'outsmarting' in the frist paragraph and very much leaves you with the impression that we should take more seriously people equipping their cars to avoid enforcement. www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/motorin...

Who do you write to if you're unhappy with the direction of the government, but your local MP is an opposition party member and probably quite pleased with all the things you are most upset about?

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?

The Gillian Duffy affair makes an extremely compelling case for leading, not following, voters. "I respect her, she's entitled to her opinion, but I believe she is wrong - here's why," would have been a much better answer.

Not sure why Labour chooses to both alienate and take for granted its core vote. Since 2016, only the “left-behinds” appear to matter but the grim rightwing populism that seems to appeal to them, just worsens social inequality and causes great national harm. Could govt try something else now please.

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