Really like this from @morganwild.bsky.social.

Lots of attention on the immigration implications. But not enough on the radical potential on social policy - counting unwaged work like care as contribution, proper income protection, long-term care funding.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

This from @morganwild.bsky.social and @peterhyman.bsky.social is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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Quick, rank these monkeys by their population size.

Primatologist: no wonder our orangutans are so endangered with a public thinking there's so many of them

✈️ Britain’s talked about a third runway at Heathrow for two decades. Our new report with @BritishProgress shows how a flight could take off before 2029 - if Parliament chooses to speed up the process through a Public Bill.

Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.

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In a volatile world, we need an economy that is firing on all cylinders - but regional imbalances are driving overheating and stagnation in different places.

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In the last 5 years, there have been 23 mentions of Oasis tickets, 5899 mentions of Debt, 1634 mentions of National Debt, 1026 to British Debt, and 434 to Household debt.

This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on the big state capacity problems and where they came from is so excellent. I find it gives me an intellectual permission I didn't realise I needed to think past public choice theory:

hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/taming-the...

when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.

Unless your appetite for periods of sustained disruption is very high, this is the way. Having sat on energy code reviews, it is still burned into my brain as the single most tedious thing I have ever done in my life.

Doctor Who predicting 2000 years of absolutely riotous public planning committee meetings.

Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story.

Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵

They should be offered the opportunity to avoid the fine by handing back the Postcode Address File to the government.

On the other hand, the terribleness of non-US efforts provides an important function, which is to gatekeep the ability to do analysis to financial journalists who can use them. A vital social role.

Incredibly cool work. One (bad) conclusion from it would be politicians should give more time for evaluations. My (correct) conclusion is that voters expect results and it follows we should really limit our epistemic ambitions and just make decisive policy with imperfect information

Only one solution to this - put major ONS surveys on the same compulsion as the Census and jury duty. Consequences for people’s lives are much more important.