Ed Morgan
@autolychus.bsky.social
Director of Policy & Public Affairs at the UK Warehousing Association. Ex-Institute of Directors, dabbled in vertical farming.
That’s literally the logic of your statement. Good luck winning people over with your approach to discussion.
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
That’s literally the logic of your statement. Good luck winning people over with your approach to discussion.
I was thinking about this last night - are character names intrinsically fitting, or is it just the power of association? Moriarty is just an Irish surname, but it sounds like a villain because of Conan Doyle. Dana Scully could just be someone who works in accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
I was thinking about this last night - are character names intrinsically fitting, or is it just the power of association? Moriarty is just an Irish surname, but it sounds like a villain because of Conan Doyle. Dana Scully could just be someone who works in accounts.
You’re suggesting people in the UK are having fewer children because of immigration?
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
You’re suggesting people in the UK are having fewer children because of immigration?
You’re saying we could turn the birth rate trend around with higher taxes and transfers? I’m not saying the proposition is impossible, but it’s a long running trend across high income countries.
January 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
You’re saying we could turn the birth rate trend around with higher taxes and transfers? I’m not saying the proposition is impossible, but it’s a long running trend across high income countries.
I should have said the combination of lower immigration and higher taxes will reduce growth (as a political response to lower birth rates in the original discussion), but I agree that the structure of taxes and what they’re spent on is more important that the precise level.
January 6, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I should have said the combination of lower immigration and higher taxes will reduce growth (as a political response to lower birth rates in the original discussion), but I agree that the structure of taxes and what they’re spent on is more important that the precise level.
When are you talking about? I’m not saying there’s some ‘correct’ level of taxation, but lower birth rates-lower immigration-higher taxes is surely a downward spiral?
January 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
When are you talking about? I’m not saying there’s some ‘correct’ level of taxation, but lower birth rates-lower immigration-higher taxes is surely a downward spiral?
And neither are independent of economic growth. You can argue about the impact on growth of raising tax (plus what it’s spent on), but over the long term, lower immigration and higher taxes both reduce growth.
January 6, 2026 at 10:17 AM
And neither are independent of economic growth. You can argue about the impact on growth of raising tax (plus what it’s spent on), but over the long term, lower immigration and higher taxes both reduce growth.
Has she borrow the Liz Truss lettering from Stranger Things?
January 6, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Has she borrow the Liz Truss lettering from Stranger Things?
I’ve never seen someone trying to make their eyebrows work so hard in a headshot. Do you think he has different pics depending on the tone he’s taking in the articles?
January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
I’ve never seen someone trying to make their eyebrows work so hard in a headshot. Do you think he has different pics depending on the tone he’s taking in the articles?
Is a mild zombie apocalypse like Shawn of the Dead? Doesn’t last very long, the zombies get put to work in supermarkets afterwards…
January 5, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Is a mild zombie apocalypse like Shawn of the Dead? Doesn’t last very long, the zombies get put to work in supermarkets afterwards…
Does feel a bit like those recurring “you should really try to get 8 hours of unbroken sleep in your 30s and 40s or you’ll die young” stories which seem particularly cruel to parents of young children.
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Does feel a bit like those recurring “you should really try to get 8 hours of unbroken sleep in your 30s and 40s or you’ll die young” stories which seem particularly cruel to parents of young children.
Oh, well would skew things!
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Oh, well would skew things!
Turned 18 in 2003 - turns out my
memory of London being more violent then is true! Remember someone getting killed on the road next to mine in not-especially-rough Forest Hill.
memory of London being more violent then is true! Remember someone getting killed on the road next to mine in not-especially-rough Forest Hill.
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Turned 18 in 2003 - turns out my
memory of London being more violent then is true! Remember someone getting killed on the road next to mine in not-especially-rough Forest Hill.
memory of London being more violent then is true! Remember someone getting killed on the road next to mine in not-especially-rough Forest Hill.
Knowing a bit about the ‘stakeholder engagement’ process, I don’t think it’s an easy task to balance all those voices and work out where the truth lies (and where govt is prepared to take to the hit to advance its priorities), but not listening to external voices will certainly make policies worse
January 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Knowing a bit about the ‘stakeholder engagement’ process, I don’t think it’s an easy task to balance all those voices and work out where the truth lies (and where govt is prepared to take to the hit to advance its priorities), but not listening to external voices will certainly make policies worse
They preferred it when St Pancras hotel was derelict, kings x cross station had that horrible awning that obscured the original frontage? st P/kings x/coal drops regeneration is some of the nicest in London.
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
They preferred it when St Pancras hotel was derelict, kings x cross station had that horrible awning that obscured the original frontage? st P/kings x/coal drops regeneration is some of the nicest in London.
As someone who has to read these things, often many times, I couldn’t agree more.
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
As someone who has to read these things, often many times, I couldn’t agree more.
25 and 50 are such nice round numbers
December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
25 and 50 are such nice round numbers
The analogy made my head spin, but within seconds I thought, yeah he’d have talked Merry and Pippin into ploughing their savings into Crypto. Sam would’ve been talked into it too, but Frodo stopped him.
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The analogy made my head spin, but within seconds I thought, yeah he’d have talked Merry and Pippin into ploughing their savings into Crypto. Sam would’ve been talked into it too, but Frodo stopped him.
I think it might be the other way round - there are many (most?) CEOs etc who are very cagey about politics, it’s the few who express strong views publicly who get the attention (and are prominent in the sense of sticking out).
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I think it might be the other way round - there are many (most?) CEOs etc who are very cagey about politics, it’s the few who express strong views publicly who get the attention (and are prominent in the sense of sticking out).
I agree the Brexit process was very poorly handled, but probably not for the same reasons as Marshall
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I agree the Brexit process was very poorly handled, but probably not for the same reasons as Marshall
“We wanted to be governed from Westminster and not from Brussels, for good reasons” - ironic given it’s a complaint about how Westminster governs
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
“We wanted to be governed from Westminster and not from Brussels, for good reasons” - ironic given it’s a complaint about how Westminster governs
Just make sure you put the story of the punching on LinkedIn in an honest, vulnerable, yet somehow uplifting way. Bonus points for including what it taught you about starting a business.
December 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just make sure you put the story of the punching on LinkedIn in an honest, vulnerable, yet somehow uplifting way. Bonus points for including what it taught you about starting a business.
I remember there being a lot in 1066 and All That about the Normans overrunning places with ‘fire and the sword’, so that tracks
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I remember there being a lot in 1066 and All That about the Normans overrunning places with ‘fire and the sword’, so that tracks
Why’s he smiling about it?
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why’s he smiling about it?
I’m listening to that now!
December 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m listening to that now!