Here's a project I've been working on recently: a vision of what happens if Europe doesn't take AI seriously, inspired by AI 2027 europe2031.ai/

Londoners really saw homebuilding in their city collapse and then said "what if we also stacked our councils full of NIMBYs"

This is a blatant lie. In July 2024, the energy cap was £1,568. It's now £1,641. Bills have gone up under this Prime Minister. The £117 he talks about has just been moved from your energy bill to your tax bill. And yet he claims he’s saving us money. It’s outrageous.

One of the things I feel most let down by with this government is the breaking of Starmer's pledge to form a government that would "tread a little easier on people's lives". This is the most nanny state government ever and I'm sick of it.

For everyone who values Parliament and the Palace of Westminster, Nicholas Boys Smith's criticism of the hugely expensive restoration proposal is a must read.

70 MPs and Lords (including Jeremy Corbyn) have written to Ed Miliband to oppose reforms to make it easier to build nuclear plants. Let's be clear. The letter is based on misinformation. The letter claims that the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce used flawed evidence and massively exaggerated the £700m cost of Hinkley Point C's fish protection measures. They argue that only the £50m spent on an 'acoustic fish deterrent' counts as fish protection and that the other measures, including special low velocity intake heads (£500m) and a fish recovery-and-return system, should be considered 'plant protection measures'. There's one big flaw in their argument. None of the existing nuclear power stations built in the Severn Estuary (Hinkley Point A, Hinkley Point B, or Oldbury) used either low velocity intake heads or a fish return system. Flamanville 3 in France and Olkiluoto 3 in Finland use the same European Pressurised Reactor design as Hinkley Point C. I called up EDF to find out if either of them use a fish return systems or low velocity intake heads. So do they? No, they don’t. samdumitriu.com/p/when-700m-…

Only per capita you say Rach?

What do the former UK Defence Secretary, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, retired Admirals, retired Generals, former NSC staffers, former Congressional Commissioners, politicians from across the British political spectrum, (including Nigel Farage, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Baroness Hoey, The Earl of Leicester and Baroness Foster), a bunch of US Marine Colonels and US Navy Captains, academics like Dr. David Starkey and legal experts, including from the U.S. Naval War College, all have in common? They all "strongly support [@POTUS] position that the British government’s proposal to give the Chagos islands to Mauritius is 'GREAT STUPIDITY'". Eighty serious Americans and Brits just released a public statement making it clear opposition to the proposed UK - Mauritius deal over Diego Garcia/Chagos is not a passing storm - it is a growing whirlwind. Full statement and list of signatories is here: presentdangerchina.org/publi… Press release is here:

The Prime Minister should listen to what the President actually said. The Chagos deal is an “act of great stupidity” and a sign of “great weakness”. But we didn’t need President Trump to say that. I’ve been saying it for a year.

Why are politicians allowed to lie like this again and again? It's getting genuinely alarming how much misinformation this man spews. By massively increasing subsidies, he has proved the doubters right.

An energy minister who has no idea what he’s talking about. His price comparison is so ridiculous it’s hard to know where to start. But we can begin with this: the price he quotes for gas is a massive exaggeration to suit his renewables narrative.

"Gary Stevenson thinks that he has discovered the root cause of Britain’s malaise: wealth inequality. [...] Gary has assembled a mass following on the basis of this thesis, so it is clearly persuasive to a lot of people. It is also completely wrong" capx.co/wealth-inequality-is…

He just talks gibberish. Every time you think he might address the question he deflects or resorts to a meaningless cliché. He’s an actual NPC.

God help the uk

The Americanisation of Australia has been happening slowly but surely over the last couple of decades. Kinda depressing but it was always inevitable. I hope the true Aussies push back.

YESTERDAY the Prime Minister committed to implementing ALL the recommendations from the Nuclear Taskforce. TODAY you can track departments’ progress on implementing the PM’s priorities. nuclear.britishprogress.org/ @britishprogress is launching our Nuclear Taskforce Tracker – see exactly which recommendations are complete, on track or at risk of getting lost! It’s also a searchable, filterable database of everything the UK needs to do to become a world leader in nuclear power again. Implementing these is one of the most important things Britain can do for long term growth. It’s vital that Government departments and regulators keep up the momentum.

The BIGGEST change to nuclear regulation in the history of this country. Government was set to bottle it. YOU pushed for it, you tweeted, you shared videos, you signed letters and you didn't let up. Govt gave in. They accepted these RADICAL CHANGES. Now we hold them to it.

"There are two deeply contrasting moods in the room: a despair about growth and living standards, and a puckish optimism about the possibility of changing that." @h_chandlerwilde captures the LFG vibe for @BloombergUK 🚀

Two things: 1) Nuclear uses the least land of any major power source – ~20–50× less than solar or wind per kWh. 2) Decommissioned sites are cleaned to strict limits and often reused. The idea of permanently contaminated nuclear land is just wrong.