Zack Polanski in April 2016 citing San Francisco as a prime example of why rent controls don’t work and stifle housing supply 🕊️

TPA tax briefing: CGT is a double tax that causes economic problems. It weakens financial incentives to reallocate assets when the current owners are no longer the best people to own them and it discourages investment by reducing post-tax returns. taxpayersalliance.com/capita…

BREAKING: Andy Burnham u-turns on his desire to rejoin the EU “I am not proposing rejoining the EU” “I respect the decision that was made at the referendum” “The last thing we should do now is re-run those arguments” Flips his view from just 7 months ago when he backed rejoin

From @Elksy91: Last year, a record 4,733 council employees earned over £100,000 conservativehome.com/2026/05…

Hugely proud to be elected as the one of two Conservative councillors for Hyde Park ward in @CityWestminster Years of hard work have paid off, and it will be a privilege to serve the residents of the greatest part of London, the area that I call home, over the next 4 years

Europe is not losing to the US because it lacks engineers, capital or universities. It is losing because every layer of its system rewards the gatekeeper and punishes the builder. In medicine I see it weekly. A primary care AI that triages, documents and flags risk gets deployed in months in the US and runs into a years long compliance maze in Europe. By the time the European version is approved, the American one has been retrained twice and is cheaper. In energy it is worse. Spain ran 60 percent of April on clean power, then keeps shutting down nuclear plants that work. France stays stable on its grid. Germany burns lignite to compensate for a political decision made in 2011. Industry quietly leaves. In capital markets, an EU founder still raises across 27 fragmented systems while a Texan founder raises once and sells across a continent. None of this is about culture. It is about rules. The continent that gave the world Pasteur, Fleming and Marie Curie is now the one that consults itself to death while others ship. If Europe wants to matter in 2030, it needs less harmonization theater and more permissionless building. Otherwise the talent will keep voting with its feet, and the speeches in Brussels will keep arriving on time.