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If you look closely, you can see an America First bro in the doorway yelling, "why aren't you wearing a suit?" and "did you say thank you?"

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

good and important thread. gets to the one of the critical flaws of Starmer as a politician

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

From a purely realpolitik perspective, if you're a middling country trying to navigate allegiances in a now multipolar world watching that meeting, why would you not take up with the Chinese?

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Delays aren't free—they increase the cost of housing, and delay its availability. NIMBYs should have to pay when they use frivolous litigation to delay projects.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Good thread here on why GenZ think they're worse off than their parents but mostly aren't. But measuring housing by the proportion of income spent on it isn't the right approach. You need to look at what that buys you - and it's buying less today (eg a room in a shared house, not a flat).

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I think Shapiro is completely wrong here. Europe is not “necessary” only if aim is to cut & run at all costs. If the aim is to build & use leverage towards a good deal, then you do in fact need the bloc which is providing 60% of aid to Ukraine & which would provide key part of future guarantees.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

interesting that I'm not the only one hearing this

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Our new briefing sets out how to make the Government's planning reforms big enough to get 1.5 million houses built. The three essential steps are below - together these could be used to replace our discretionary planning system with a brand new flexible zoning system:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"The British state enforces the obligations of a rich country with the means of an increasingly poor one" Brilliant line by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social His piece is on Leeds, but that line applies more broadly to our welfare state. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

This is a good piece although I dont agree with all of it. Take the USAID cuts as an example. If Dems arent able to win the political argument for USAID on its own merits then they're stuffed regardless

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

You know what we need to build, build, build? The grid, pylons, wind farms, solar farms and the rest that are essential to decarbonising our economy. If you’re serious about tackling climate change you have to be serious about building (not something the Green Party seem to have noticed)

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

funny thread

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Impeccably timed article from the man @hern.bsky.social www.economist.com/briefing/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

not great if Trump engineers one of his allies to buy TikTok and then they control the algorithms of two major social networks. Would be a huge own goal by the Dems

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

the richers are absolutely scamming us

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I think a big driver of left wing economic doomerism is because between the end of ZIRP and the anti-DEI push, it’s a really bad time to be in leftish non-profit circles in a lot of places, and those people tend to have loudish megaphones

submitted 71 days ago • 15 comments

this is a lovely piece

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

yeah boiiiiii

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Kemi’s attacking sandwiches Nigel’s going after semi-skimmed milk Labour? We’re getting homes built

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most corrosive tropes in politics is “politicians- they’re all the same”. Whatever the personal or legal considerations that led to this decision, the immediate political impact is surely to destroy any claim to the moral high ground by Democrats when criticising worse abuses of power.

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

If you don't hear outraged screams about the government's building plans--from local councils, from environmentalists and quite possibly from housebuilders--you can be assured that nothing is happening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

I guess Biden doesn't care about his legacy then

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Good Duncan piece today www.economist.com/britain/2024... “Substantive policy achievements simply don’t have much electoral resonance,” writes Ben Jackson, a professor at Oxford University Ben Jackson hand back your degree

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

it’s pretty crazy how all these people who have posted constantly about war in the middle east for over a year have just not mentioned the ceasefire at all. just full on pretended it hasnt happened

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

"Oh no I have to make a decision". Yeah you ran to be a member of parliament

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments