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Jan 10
We live in 'interesting times'.
Jan 10
We are rejecting the outdated model of multilateralism that treats the American taxpayer as the world's underwriter for a sprawling architecture of global governance.
President Trump's withdrawal shows that the era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over.
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27 Dec 2025
Around the introduction of GDPR: US investors stopped investing in Europe, but increased their investment in the US. European investors stopped funding startups both in Europe and in the US.
26 Dec 2025
The EU's shift from innovation to litigation during the AI boom has become one of the most costly mistakes in history.
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23 Oct 2025
Belated recognition that creating a category called “affordable housing” is counterproductive?
23 Oct 2025
EXC:
Steve Reed and Sadiq Khan tell me why the “crisis” in London housebuilding justifies slashing affordable homes targets
I challenge the Mayor over claims of amount of housebuidling “started”
Produced by @JoeCookJ
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15 Oct 2025
This Select Committee evidence from the “Big Six” energy companies gives the impression that we've been making some huge policy mistakes.
youtube.com/live/O--JS5_FC0o
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29 Apr 2025
In the 1700s and 1800s, English and Irish developers laid out hundreds of garden squares, though there was no planning requirement that they do this, and though they never made any money on them. Why?
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3 Mar 2025
We begin our analysis with a simple observation - that the decline in UK electricity availability, which started in 2006, coincided with the start of structural weakness in UK productivity growth (2/16) #productivitypuzzle #ukeconomy
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15 Jan 2025
This map is very revealing for what it says about how the US sees Europe.
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5 Dec 2024
One of the most striking themes in Keir Starmer’s speech today — his frustration with Whitehall
For weeks I’ve been asking Labour people what they make of their time in government and one sentiment comes up again and again:
“Dominic Cummings was right”
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12 Oct 2024
Donald Tusk has just called for the suspension of the right to territorial asylum in Poland. Says he will "demand recognition" of this decision with European partners.
12 Oct 2024
Premier @DonaldTusk w #Warszawa:
Jednym z elementów strategii migracyjnej będzie czasowe terytorialne zawieszenie prawa do azylu. Będziemy domagać się uznania tej decyzji w Europie.
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12 Jul 2024
New GDP per capita PPP data from @WorldBank suggest that, based on the current growth projections from @IMFNews WEO April 2024, Poland's 🇵🇱 PPP income is likely to exceed that of Japan🇯🇵 by 2026. Unbelievable data.worldbank.org/indicator… @Noahpinion
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8 Jul 2024
Bam!
And that, my friends, is how you deregulate.
No endless consultations, no turgid white papers, no 'stakeholderism', no imperceptibly nuanced changes that in practice means nothing changes.
Just sweep it away.
Build, baby, build!
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17 Jun 2024
nice expensive paving you've got there... would be a shame if successive utility companies were to dig it up and not bother replacing it 😏 (2009, 2017, 2021)
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7 Jun 2024
I want to offer a short theory of why this has happened, not because I'm sure I'm right but because I want to test it more broadly. Fundamentally, it's about the structure of the State and how the Conservatives have failed to reform it. /1
7 Jun 2024
Millions of words written about the apparent collapse in Tory support, but so much of it just glosses over the fundamental reason. The government has overseen the worst real wage growth in centuries and collapsing public services. It's economic project has objectively failed.
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21 May 2024
As Labour looks for new town sites, and how to make HS2 work, might I suggest Calvert, where HS2 and EWR cross? 5km radius population is only 7,000. Land rated poor for farming. Huge transport capacity. You could fit a city the sized of Rennes (250k) here. @s8mb, as discussed!
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9 May 2024
Very interesting. Is social eating the key to combatting obesity?
9 May 2024
With a few exceptions, that's the obesity rate chart reversed
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27 Mar 2024
unpopular take but 800k for <niche humanities project> looks bizarre because it *is* bizarre, and comes from treating hums like STEM, i.e. concentrating funds on a small % of research 'teams' to address narrow questions over multiple years, while most hums research gets /nothing/
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11 Mar 2024
Wow. It’s surprisingly easy to make Waterloo station look actually nice! This can’t happen soon enough 😍
1,900m2 of new green space around what is presently, to be frank, a dump.
networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
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6 Mar 2024
Maybe the green bit never really existed, puffed up statistics from over extended banks?
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18 Jan 2024
This is appalling. It’s as if by focusing on ‘process’ and ‘best practice’, we’ve lost sight of humanity and common sense.
18 Jan 2024
A few days ago I found out my 86yr old mum with dementia had had a fall & been admitted to hospital
I didn’t know which hospital so had to cold call the ones in the area
No luck
I thought this can’t be so called them all again
Fortunately I got a different receptionist at one….
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