The reason we are in the shit is because too many people think we’re not in the shit.

I find it staggering how far Britain has fallen. We were the top of the free world a hundred and fifty years ago. Now I'm sat here wondering if there's any real precedent for a nation squandering as many strengths and opportunities as we have. And it's all to do with governance. Britain has been buried under decades of political mismanagement, pet projects, and bright ideas. It's been a total disaster. And it has destroyed this country. What really stings is that we've been so influential in developing these technologies. We helped invent half of it. But we've had successive governments hostile to business, and so the talent and the breakthroughs have been captured by other countries. And now we don't even have a sovereign model of our own to fall back on. When the US decides to switch off the best models in the world, we just sit in the dark and lobby Washington for an exception we're never going to get. That's how little leverage we have left. The US must be laughing at us. And not because they beat us. Because they didn't have to. We educate the brightest minds on earth in our world class universities, then wave them off at the airport to go and realise their potential somewhere else. And what are we left with… a government banning technology, feeding breakfast to poverty-stricken children because their own families can't manage it in our hollowed out economy, and raising taxes every budget to pay for decades of its own mismanagement. And don’t get me started on the state’s failing project portfolio. It didn’t have to be this way. But the political establishment in this country chose this path, and continues to choose it. The state we find Britain in is a tragedy. And it's going to get a lot worse, because now we have to pull ourselves back up from a much weaker position. We haven't even begun that journey yet. And we're still going in the wrong direction.

The biggest passive S&P 500 funds now hold over $2.6 trillion between them. VOO alone just became the first fund in history to cross $1 trillion. Nobody at any of them is asking what a single company is worth. Apollo’s chief economist said it plainly this week: prices are now set by mechanical flows, not by anyone judging value. When the buy side admits the market has stopped thinking, it has stopped thinking. Here is the part that should frighten you. Michael Green puts the line we cannot cross at 83% passive. We are at 54%, and we added 4 points last year alone. That is 5 to 7 years. A single PE fund’s holding period. Then the machine that only knows how to buy learns how to sell, with nobody left underneath to catch it. He has made this call before. In 2018 he modelled the volatility complex hitting its limit and it died in one afternoon. He got paid. I wrote the whole thing up. What it means, and what you actually do about it 👇 open.substack.com/pub/anglof…

In case you missed it: The New Horsemen - Malthusian modernity and what comes next. My new substack, following on from Malthusian Fetters, where I analyse the implications on British living standards of our economic malaise and sketch a possible future. qcmp.substack.com/p/the-new-…

You can ask Grok some great questions and get some excellent answers I'd forgotten about our blubbing Gazza! x.com/i/grok/share/bb4734add…

The authorities didn't want to challenge the two queers that murdered that baby did they? Another death notched up to the Equalities Act

The latest social media ban is all part of an ongoing catalogue of hysterias caused by a toxically feminised society

Has the @DailyMail done any Reform paid for hit jobs on Restore today? Rothermere getting ready for some payoffs in 2029 This is how the media game gets played

In a century’s time when the real history is written of our era, it will be concluded that from the early 60s western culture had a mental breakdown that lasted 70 years

For the same reason that the authorities are scared to challenge blacks and muslims or even increase the statistics They are scared to challenge homosexuals too It all falls out of the appalling Equality Act It has created a tyranny of pluralism This is the direct inverse of Nazism

Boom! He was wrong We can make informed judgments about content of character from skin colour

Parents who were so weak they were happy to let their children have unfettered access to social media will not suddenly become good parents now their children don't have access to social media.

The adoption agency should have been in court with them

This one too theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…

Pakistani Muslim a Home Office employee was caught “fixing” the visas for his fellow countrymen for cash..

Once considered a ‘victimless crime’, fraud squads are now cracking down on council tenants illegally subletting their homes ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

Two decades of Miliband's energy policy have got us here. Cameron, May and Johnson all accepted the core tenets of his climate justice doctrine. They all stood on manifestos that committed Britain to a massive expansion of low-density, weather-dependent power - regardless of the economic and security consequences. Worse, Theresa May, by accepting the CCC's 2019 recommendation for Net Zero, and Boris Johnson, by including the target in the 2019 manifesto, accepted the principle that Britain should decarbonise faster and further than the world average because of its historical emissions and alleged ability to set an example to the rest of the world. In doing so, they moved away from an egalitarian approach to decarbonisation and committed the country to the CCC's equity-based interpretation of the Paris Agreement (see page 19 of the CCC's May 2019 advice) - which places a disproportionate share of the burden on advanced economies such as ours. Great work.

All they know how to do is scrounge from others That’s why their countries are shit holes The desert and jungle peoples are humanity’s plague of locusts

This should have been red flagged by council auditors in year 2 The fact it wasn’t says the auditor is getting kick backed in the scam somewhere in the food chain Even a 10% CAGR should be questioned This shit is going on at huge scale across the country

Factory bosses prepare to shift jobs abroad as ‘patience runs out’ 'A quarter of the UK’s manufacturing base is threatening to shift operations overseas, and more than one in four fear they could run out of cash in the next 12 months if ministers don’t do more to temper soaring [energy] costs.' telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

The best way to understand the split on the right is house prices. Reform is a boomer party - they want illegal migration dealt with and woke stories removed from their DailyMail feeds.. but they also want their property values to continue to rise, which only happens with a growing population and more maximum NIMBYism. Restore doesn't care if house prices collapse bringing down the economy with them - this is the hardship and pain they promise in their first announcement. THIS is the true Reform/Restore split.