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To take my tongue out of my cheek, the joy of having worked on a daily newsletter for the best part of 12 years now is having a physical reminder that I am not being nostalgic - the dominant question from 2013 to 2021 really wasn’t “how will this play electorally” EVERY DAY.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I'm sorry but it is blindingly obvious that the retirement age will have to go up to at least 70. Anyone entertaining any other idea (other than truly unparalleled levels of sustained immigration) is delusional.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I’ve ever posted on NIMBIES, housing crisis etc there they are in the replies, the simpletons going “use empty homes”, as if there’s a magical cheat code to fix this problem that everyone else inexplicably ignores. An example of left populist thinking if ever there was one

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

American British National (Overseas) visa needed immediately.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Responses to this really proving that a significant chunk of the British left do think the "Tax the rich and everything will suddenly work" button exists.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The thing I despair of is that it is absolutely commonplace on the left and centre-left to think exactly this. That governments are just sitting there, deciding “no, I won’t do this politically popular tax that will raise tens of billions” for malign reasons. It’s toxic.

submitted 24 days ago • 67 comments

Child poverty shamefully increased over the past 15 years - met with no policy response. Yet, wealthy pensioners force govt to retreat - and invoke the Pandemic - to save a bung paid for by workers they treat as cash cows. As ever, pensioners must always win, regardless.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

God I hope not.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

One reason why the winter fuel U-Turn is a mistake is, even if government were going to go 'these tax-and-spend commitments are mistake, need to increase taxes', you are still looking at fairly hefty tax increases to get the extra public services need - 'winter fuel' is still not a good priority.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

We are literally unable to, even in a minor away, look at benefits for the retired. At the same time we're going to reduce immigration. Hurtling ourselves towards disaster.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I see we are having another round of "Should the entire economy suffer so the French don't have access to our fish" again.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Debate on fishing needs to start from some facts. What has done huge damage to the UK fishing industry? The Tories’ Brexit deal - which risked knocking a staggering 30% off fishing output by creating huge barriers for a sector dependent on exporting to the EU

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Why does Fallout 3 have like 10 different 8 hour videos arguing about whether it is good or not? What is going on with that.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The greens again and again remind us that they are not serious. They are a joke. Voting for them is voting for a child's view of the world.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Lmao. They truly will never learn. Support of NATO is an anti-Trump position. Greens are still a loony party. Next. Unserious, unfit.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Why are we accepting Trumps language and economics? Cheap imports are good! Saying the deal is what raised US tariffs is dumn. They were raised unilaterally a month ago and we've got some key sectors exempted. Please UK media, start being more serious.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Wait Starmer actually rinsed them ahahahah. Immense work lad. If we can also get some leniency on the film stuff we got most of what we wanted.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Dude he's going to lose his mind - unchanged interest rate again.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This has become absolute cast-iron fact throughout Bluesky. Surely the issue is that the Conservatives... didn't do this? They talked about it a lot but immigration rose a lot over the fourteen years! Talking about something a lot and actually doing it surely can't be considered the same?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Has every political presenter forgotten the 2019 European parliament election. Or the 2015 general election? Or the 2022/23/24 local elections Fragmentation IS NOT new. Disillusionment with the 'big two' parties IS NOT new

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

My 2c on the “what should the UK government’s economic plan be?” is basically that the actual existing economy isn’t too bad - we know some things we can do to improve underlying dynamics (reduce trade frictions with Europe; repair public sector; lean into successful sectors) and likely raise taxes

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

Theres started to be a few things on Blue-sky that have become just accepted as fact that... really aren't. It would be nice to have some more dissenting voices on here.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Why the US will lose against China - Martin Wolf oped here. No one distills and dissects an issue like Martin. Great piece. 1st 300 clicks free to read enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/a6f72...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Agree with Sam, but can I just add that it is just wild that 'if you have any system at all that tells parents if a school is good or not, you are going to cause deaths' is considered an acceptable and sane contribution to public policy discussion?

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

Why are we not doing this? Never seen a more "no brainer" policy. Even people who are the most strongly opposed to immigration tend not to object to top scientists coming here.

submitted 51 days ago • 103 comments

Don't care if it's illiberal. Use headphones in public. Tbh... use headphones at home (if you live with others)! Noone wants to hear what you're listening to and we don't need to anymore.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates

submitted 58 days ago • 41 comments

This is a loophole that ought to be closed at once – revealed by Will Dunn at the New Statesman morningcall.substack.com/p/morning-ca...

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

I get the impression they are setting the stage for a big announcement on EU trade following the May Summit. The language feels like it is moving notably in the last couple of days.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

After yesterday's euphoria, investors realise that Trump is still -and apologies for my technical language - fucking insane. The S&P 500 is already down by almost 5%

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

submitted 66 days ago • 254 comments

Based. Japan and South Korea should definitely be part of NATO if they want to join.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Who's ready for market opening tomorrow?

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

Funny that he knows so little even if he claims to prepare so much. Classic case of a man playing adult games with actual consequences but being unable to take any criticism. Being a weak ignorant coward is the new alpha for MAGA and Putin fans

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

We need to prioritise the EU… …and the rest of the world. Dump Trump.

submitted 70 days ago • 33 comments

Please explain how Germany, with a debt to GDP of 63%, can be reasonably compared with the UK, with a debt to GDP of 95% - 100%, when it comes to undertaking huge new borrowing. Taxation is fine, but fiscal rules is really silly.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

submitted 71 days ago • 76 comments

If he fires Powell during this we really are in market armageddon. We've all become US accelerationists at this point so he should hurry up and get it done already.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

lmao wallstreetbets

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Watching the markets today.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class

submitted 72 days ago • 33 comments

I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)

submitted 72 days ago • 11 comments

"The journalist looked at 2% tariffs and 56% tariffs and said, solemnly: these things are the same, you worthless plebs. I am a WaPo contributor"

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

What the fuck? This isn't even close to right lmao. Americans tell themselves so many lies about the Revoluntionary War man...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Not even remotely accurate. You'd learn more by watching Animaniacs.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments