Good regulation is good for productivity growth. Lack of regulation is driving inefficiency. Poorly regulated building markets led to debacles like the cracking in Opal Towers and flammable cladding being expensively replaced across the country My column thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own. Pathetic.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

I’m already bored by the 2029 general election and I’m looking forward to speculation about the one in 2034.

The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

So much doom around at the moment anout social collapse and civil war. Sam pushes back. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/britain-is...?

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This is good news, reversing a brazenly partisan change by the previous government. Whatever the merits of First Past the Post for parliamentary elections, it is manifestly unsuitable for mayoral elections, where the winner really does take all.

Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello?

The National Rejoin March is taking place in London on 18 Oct 2025. Keeping the cause of rejoining the EU alive and putting pressure on our government to go further & faster in rebuilding our connections with Europe. Please help make the march a success by donating: www.gofundme.com/f/national-r...

It doesn't end with the illegal immigrants folks, it's actually just the beginning.

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

White working class boys to be focus of education policy “reset” as tensions grow over curriculum and assessment reform - my latest piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch The Handmaid's Tale. Now. Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA. When a book becomes alive. Too quick. It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong. #TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

Hope the Trump era makes more people realise that whether people respect institutions and the rule of law is so much more important than standard ideological differences between left and right.

According to Stephen Miller, George Bush (senior and junior) and Ronald Reagan appointed a lot of radical Marxists to the judiciary.

The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

Extraordinary fight going on amongst the Dem senators with Pelosi now intervening too. (I think she's right)

And the next president can pardon them anyway, is that how it works now?

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

"The role of data, properly understood, is not to provide definitive answers but to support the asking of powerful questions." Love this. @malcolmg.bsky.social in www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Belie..., edited by @andrewdmorrish.bsky.social, from @johncattedu.bsky.social

"..to give a more coherent picture." @malcolmg.bsky.social on the relationship between inspection & advice, in 'Beyond Belief', edited by @andrewdmorrish.bsky.social, @johncattedu.bsky.social: amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Belie... 3/3

Excited to represent @haringeylp.bsky.social at this week’s & @schoolsoftomorrow.bsky.social & @wholeeducation.bsky.social Conference sharing how we build strong community connections, promote inclusivity, & strengthen ties between schools & their local communities.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Jeez. This is absolutely appalling & shameful from Trump and Vance. President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin

This hits hard… “Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.” You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I’m under no illusions at how difficult yr decisions must be (given the financial situation you inherited) @labourpartyuk.bsky.social but I’ve still not heard a convincing reason why you’re not taxing the rich 🤷‍♀️ Are you relaxed about losing yr core supporters?

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

"America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy"

First they came for the federal employees, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a federal employee ... You know the rest of the poem. Act accordingly.

Trump’s new world chaos offers possibilities for post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The UK's choice isn’t just between US & EU, it's about the new global divide, and it could finally change the stale politics of Brexit: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/trum...

Nobody is paying attention to things like this because the CDC no longer communicates. The current occupant of the White House broke government. He broke the ability to keep America safe. This is spreading, and this administration plans to pretend it doesn't exist. 828newsnow.com/news/228822-...

This is, by some distance, the most unforgivably stupidest thing the government is doing. An easily sellable proposal, which would actually help Brits, and unlocks meaningful negotiation. Irrational and anti-growth.

From @samfr.bsky.social on how to fix the NHS open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

BREAKING NEWS: It is much worse than previously reported: Not only were at least 30 federal attorneys who worked on January 6 cases fired, but all six of the FBI's most senior executives and multiple heads of field offices have been escorted out. This is terrifying.

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

This is brilliant!! 😂✊🏼

Netanyahu says Israel reserves right to go back to war after "temporary ceasefire" of 6 weeks. He means back to the ways of genocide 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Why is our taxpayer's money going to the Royals in so many ways? Empty Dartmoor prison pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year & has another 24 years left on its lease Charities which the Royals are patrons of also pay millions to them in rent Make it make sense www.thetimes.com/article/ddf3...