Dan Wilson Craw
@danwilsoncraw.bsky.social
Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent
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Coming round to this view myself. Even if the money raised from the billionaire wealth tax is negligible, you need to do it to get political buy-in for broadening the tax base and increasing the taxes everyone pays.
1. Taxing billionaires more by itself is not enough to raise the funds for a robust welfare state. You have to also tax upper middle and middle income people more.
2. To have any chance of getting the political buy in to do point 1, you have to make a big show of massively taxing billionaires.
2. To have any chance of getting the political buy in to do point 1, you have to make a big show of massively taxing billionaires.
December 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Coming round to this view myself. Even if the money raised from the billionaire wealth tax is negligible, you need to do it to get political buy-in for broadening the tax base and increasing the taxes everyone pays.
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it feels weird to memorialise a wonderful actor just for being good at saying the word "shit", but also he was perhaps the best person at saying "shit" ever and that is no small thing
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
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December 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
it feels weird to memorialise a wonderful actor just for being good at saying the word "shit", but also he was perhaps the best person at saying "shit" ever and that is no small thing
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New rights for renters are coming on 1st May 2026 📢
From the end of Section 21 evictions to the right to request pets, The Renters’ Rights Act will change renting in England.
Sign up for email updates on what the new law for you: www.generationrent.org/rra-updates/
From the end of Section 21 evictions to the right to request pets, The Renters’ Rights Act will change renting in England.
Sign up for email updates on what the new law for you: www.generationrent.org/rra-updates/
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
New rights for renters are coming on 1st May 2026 📢
From the end of Section 21 evictions to the right to request pets, The Renters’ Rights Act will change renting in England.
Sign up for email updates on what the new law for you: www.generationrent.org/rra-updates/
From the end of Section 21 evictions to the right to request pets, The Renters’ Rights Act will change renting in England.
Sign up for email updates on what the new law for you: www.generationrent.org/rra-updates/
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An instructive and enlightening interview for those few who still think positively about the UK Labour Party. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: ‘There Ain’t Much of a Democratic Party’
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
An instructive and enlightening interview for those few who still think positively about the UK Labour Party. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Many of us rely on social security to pay our rent, and often face some of the worst accommodation. For too long dodgy landlords have got away with providing squalid homes that make their tenants ill, so it's excellent news that MHCLG and DWP are now cracking down
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Taxpayer cash protected as crackdown on rogue landlords expands
Hundreds of thousands of people will benefit from an expansion of a trial to tackle poor housing and protect taxpayers’ cash from rogue landlords.
www.gov.uk
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Many of us rely on social security to pay our rent, and often face some of the worst accommodation. For too long dodgy landlords have got away with providing squalid homes that make their tenants ill, so it's excellent news that MHCLG and DWP are now cracking down
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
In the UK the Tories' downward spiral in the polls was set off by illegal lockdown parties in Number 10. It helped that Starmer went after them relentlessly and it eventually took down Johnson. Question for Dems is if they can make Rep lawbreaking resonate as deeply with the public
The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In the UK the Tories' downward spiral in the polls was set off by illegal lockdown parties in Number 10. It helped that Starmer went after them relentlessly and it eventually took down Johnson. Question for Dems is if they can make Rep lawbreaking resonate as deeply with the public
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BREAKING: Our Renting Wrapped 2025, including some huge wins‼️
➡️ The Renters' Rights Act finally became law
➡️ Rent controls coming in Scotland
➡️ End of the two child benefit limit
➡️ Over 50k people signed our petition calling for limits to rent increases in England
➡️ The Renters' Rights Act finally became law
➡️ Rent controls coming in Scotland
➡️ End of the two child benefit limit
➡️ Over 50k people signed our petition calling for limits to rent increases in England
December 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
BREAKING: Our Renting Wrapped 2025, including some huge wins‼️
➡️ The Renters' Rights Act finally became law
➡️ Rent controls coming in Scotland
➡️ End of the two child benefit limit
➡️ Over 50k people signed our petition calling for limits to rent increases in England
➡️ The Renters' Rights Act finally became law
➡️ Rent controls coming in Scotland
➡️ End of the two child benefit limit
➡️ Over 50k people signed our petition calling for limits to rent increases in England
Pressures on current tenants in terms of evictions and rents are easing a bit, but competition for new tenancies is still tough - check out the findings from GR's latest survey
We run surveys of our supporters to take the temperature of the renter population, and understand the biggest issues you’re facing.
Today we’re publishing findings of the latest survey, run in the final months of the Renters’ Rights Bill’s passage through Parliament 🧵
Today we’re publishing findings of the latest survey, run in the final months of the Renters’ Rights Bill’s passage through Parliament 🧵
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Pressures on current tenants in terms of evictions and rents are easing a bit, but competition for new tenancies is still tough - check out the findings from GR's latest survey
Excellent work to map rents/sqm. I find it particularly interesting how much more expensive 1-beds in London are per sqm than 3-beds (presumably driving up demand for HMOs) - but not in Wandsworth or Tower Hamlets, which have been building a lot recently
As a Christmas present to renters, we’ve build a new public zoomable map of rents per square metres in England and Wales! Have fun browsing and please share:
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
How much space can you afford to rent? - YIMBY Alliance
A map of rent per square metre for renters in England and Wales If you rent, you probably don’t think in square metres. You think about how many bedrooms and space you can actually get for your monthl...
yimbyalliance.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Excellent work to map rents/sqm. I find it particularly interesting how much more expensive 1-beds in London are per sqm than 3-beds (presumably driving up demand for HMOs) - but not in Wandsworth or Tower Hamlets, which have been building a lot recently
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
We don't usually weigh in on planning reform @generationrent.bsky.social but there's no more obvious place to build new homes than around train stations in the green belt. Really good to see this ambition from the government
1. Homes within walking distance of train stations well-connected to jobs will be allowed so long as they have a minimum density of 50 homes per hectare. This also applies across the green belt! This will have a huge impact:
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We don't usually weigh in on planning reform @generationrent.bsky.social but there's no more obvious place to build new homes than around train stations in the green belt. Really good to see this ambition from the government
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Every month renters send a huge chunk of their income to their landlord. It creates a sense of an economic system rigged against us. Labour must stop soaring rents from crushing the very voters that put them in power.
My article in @labourlist.bsky.social ⬇️
labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...
My article in @labourlist.bsky.social ⬇️
labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...
'Labour’s blind spot on rents is becoming a political liability' - LabourList
Rents are rising faster than wages pushing working renters into insecurity. Without rent caps, Labour risks failing its core voters.
labourlist.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Every month renters send a huge chunk of their income to their landlord. It creates a sense of an economic system rigged against us. Labour must stop soaring rents from crushing the very voters that put them in power.
My article in @labourlist.bsky.social ⬇️
labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...
My article in @labourlist.bsky.social ⬇️
labourlist.org/2025/12/labo...
The Yimby movement faces its sternest test
NEW: Iconic Finsbury Park bowling alley and nightclub Rowans is facing demolition as part of new plans to build a 190-home development.
More details in today's briefing, plus the war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its wealthy neighbours.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
More details in today's briefing, plus the war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its wealthy neighbours.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
Beloved bowling alley Rowans is under threat from a 190-home development
Plus: Dalston's best hidden pub, a war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its neighbours, and more in our Monday briefing
www.the-londoner.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Yimby movement faces its sternest test
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
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Exactly. It's one reason why people with big houses and comfy pensions might want to stop sneering at the young and accept that the fact that many of them can't ever hope to buy a house is a problem. You want them to fight for the country? Stop making them rent a room in an HMO for half their income
You can’t defend everywhere unless everyone is onside. This is one of the reasons why social democracy works and Thatcherism, warmed up by Farage or Badenoch, doesn’t.
Everyone in UK 'must step up' to deter Russian threat of wider war, armed forces chief to warn
Separately, the new head if MI6 will warn the "frontline is everywhere" as the UK faces a "new age of uncertainty". news.sky.com/story/everyo...
Separately, the new head if MI6 will warn the "frontline is everywhere" as the UK faces a "new age of uncertainty". news.sky.com/story/everyo...
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Exactly. It's one reason why people with big houses and comfy pensions might want to stop sneering at the young and accept that the fact that many of them can't ever hope to buy a house is a problem. You want them to fight for the country? Stop making them rent a room in an HMO for half their income
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BREAKING: We've published our new manifesto: Standing up for renters in Wales.
With renters at constant risk of evictions & rent hikes, ahead of the Senedd election, all political parties must support 3 policies so renters can live in secure, affordable homes
www.generationrent.org/2025/12/15/g...
With renters at constant risk of evictions & rent hikes, ahead of the Senedd election, all political parties must support 3 policies so renters can live in secure, affordable homes
www.generationrent.org/2025/12/15/g...
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
BREAKING: We've published our new manifesto: Standing up for renters in Wales.
With renters at constant risk of evictions & rent hikes, ahead of the Senedd election, all political parties must support 3 policies so renters can live in secure, affordable homes
www.generationrent.org/2025/12/15/g...
With renters at constant risk of evictions & rent hikes, ahead of the Senedd election, all political parties must support 3 policies so renters can live in secure, affordable homes
www.generationrent.org/2025/12/15/g...
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Unarmed by-stander, Ahmed el Ahmed, a fruit shop owner challenged & took the gun from one of gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. He went to hospital after being shot in the leg & shoulder by another gunman. Doctors have told his family that he should be OK
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Unarmed by-stander, Ahmed el Ahmed, a fruit shop owner challenged & took the gun from one of gunman in the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. He went to hospital after being shot in the leg & shoulder by another gunman. Doctors have told his family that he should be OK
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
Fascinating look at the UK wool industry - our wool is coarser so mostly used for carpets and transport upholstery
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
What’s behind the revival in the price of British wool
Partly, happier sheep—but mostly pent-up demand and reduced supply
www.economist.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fascinating look at the UK wool industry - our wool is coarser so mostly used for carpets and transport upholstery
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Late to this but it's a big trade-off housing policy folks need to grapple with. Demand from singles is gobbling up family homes as HMOs and the kneejerk response is to restrict HMO conversions rather than make it easier to build smaller flats.
Interesting debate raised in this article about whether we should relax the minimum space standard for new flats - so that single buyers can afford a home of their own.
Seems odd to me that we ban new 30m2 flats, but allow young people to rent just a room in a shared house instead.
Seems odd to me that we ban new 30m2 flats, but allow young people to rent just a room in a shared house instead.
The housing market favours families, but loosening mortgage rules and building smaller homes could help single people to get on the ladder ⬇️
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Late to this but it's a big trade-off housing policy folks need to grapple with. Demand from singles is gobbling up family homes as HMOs and the kneejerk response is to restrict HMO conversions rather than make it easier to build smaller flats.
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Morning! Here's something exciting we've been working on: WriteToThem Insights www.mysociety.org/2025/12/11/n...
New report: WriteToThem Insights
What people are writhing to their representatives about? Insights from a new survey.
www.mysociety.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Morning! Here's something exciting we've been working on: WriteToThem Insights www.mysociety.org/2025/12/11/n...
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One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.
Thing is as Nepo parent, you’re in a bind, you aren’t going to hinder your kids professional progress to make a political point. But surely you just say yes, their background helped.
New BBC interview w/ Kate Winslet saying she doesn’t like the term nepo baby and doesn’t think that famous parents actually translates to jobs and respect. This in the year her daughter was lead in a Wes Anderson film and her 21yo son’s film is premiering on Netflix with her directing like ffs
December 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
One thing that rankles with me - slightly - about nepo baby discourse, is that seemingly 90% of successful actors in the UK have a massive structural advantage simply from being born rich. To obsess over the 1% who also have famous parents as if THAT'S the problem, misses the forest for the trees.