He needs new friends!
06.03.2026 07:53
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He needs new friends!
We’re in one of those situations where reporting and analysis of what has happened is really useful. And where “here’s what could happen next” will get a lot of clicks but is fundamentally almost useless.
Antitrust have never stopped people paying over the odds for companies that are bleeding money and they never will
The problem is that a psychopath is in the White House and his rich buddies want to seize control of the media at any price
Quite a major political choice by the UK. There are precedents for the UK refusing to let the US use its bases for military operations, but not many.
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
Lol
Haigh?
Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Beyonce and Ricky Martin performed at Bush's 2000 inaugural is a thing I think about a lot when considering how much more culturally isolated and extreme the right has become.
Strongly agree!
More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
CrazyRossStrat just put windmills on Greenland then he won't want it anymore
Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
Iceland?....
This was always going to happen
Reform promised to cut wasteful spending but never had any proper plan for how to do so. Instead, it was all populist nonsense about "DEI" programmes and lazy council staff
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So pleased you said that as it strongly reflects my opinion and experience of it but my Instagram + (to a lesser extent) Reddit algorithm is full of people shitting on it
We have so much good evidence for cash transfers but so many just refuse to accept that those in poverty can make good decisions.
"Every time I pull a lever" says the Prime Minister.
This dead metaphor is killing his ability to get things done.
There aren't any levers. There's only leadership.
howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/there-aren...
A graph that tells you everything you need to know about why British politics is in the state it is in.
A policy from the last decade which you wish you were involved in? P.S. Happy birthday 🎂
"Heat pumps devalue properties" is a good one given it is more likely to have the opposite effect!
"A strategy is a concrete, realistic plan..." 🤔
An interesting use of personas to highlight the impact of the Budget
The (obvious in advance) limits of the government's strategy since it took office: a budget in which the majority of individual items poll well, yet people think it is the most unfair budget since YouGov started polling on this question.
The SAHP will (sort of) do the first one
The parallels with Biden...
Really pleased to see a new commitment to place-based budgets today. Further progress towards the implementation of 'Total Place' principles as urged with @jesstud.bsky.social a couple of years ago. www.newlocal.org.uk/publications....
Distributional analysis published alongside the Budget shows that the poorest will benefit most from the measures - particularly due to welfare and public service improvements.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
