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NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
Labour are finally taking the housing shortage seriously
Is the new National Planning Policy Framework Labour’s biggest pro-growth move?
www.samdumitriu.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NEW: Labour just announced the biggest change in planning policy in 80 years.
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
My breakdown of the key measures and whether they will succeed.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Joel Haley
Reposted by Joel Haley
New post: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
Whether we call the Trump regime fascist or not is in one sense just semantics. Trump clearly has similarities to the archetypical fascist ...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New post: Fascism, Rivers of Blood, and today’s political and media elite
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/fasc...
Spreading disinformation about minority groups is as old as civilisation itself. Once our political and media elite would call this out for what it was, but not any more.
Reposted by Joel Haley
This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
July 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
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I remain amazed how political commentary on the bond market still winds me up, because it so often treats that market like a political actor rather than the market that it actually is. So I've just read, from one of the best political commentators in the UK, that 1/4
July 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I remain amazed how political commentary on the bond market still winds me up, because it so often treats that market like a political actor rather than the market that it actually is. So I've just read, from one of the best political commentators in the UK, that 1/4
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Great essay by Cory Doctorow on the politics of cheaper guard labour: pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/a...
Pluralistic: Surveillance is inequality’s stabilizer (26 Jun 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Great essay by Cory Doctorow on the politics of cheaper guard labour: pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/a...
Reposted by Joel Haley
Blogged: why we shouldn't debate immigration: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Not debating immigration
How should we debate immigration? Here's my advice: don't. Debates don't work, at least not as they should. They don't favour the truth, but plausible liars and for those who can best appeal to prejud...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Blogged: why we shouldn't debate immigration: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
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I just don’t see how an Executive Order saying Mike Love was the real genius in the Beach Boys could be legally binding
February 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I just don’t see how an Executive Order saying Mike Love was the real genius in the Beach Boys could be legally binding
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2025 is set to be a record year. More tries are currently being scored in almost every single competition than ever before. And it's all down to 2 tiny tactic changes, stretching across the game. So, who and what doubled the number of tries being scored across all of rugby?
youtu.be/prrkU9cjeDU?...
youtu.be/prrkU9cjeDU?...
So what doubled the number of tries being scored across rugby?
YouTube video by Squidge Rugby
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
2025 is set to be a record year. More tries are currently being scored in almost every single competition than ever before. And it's all down to 2 tiny tactic changes, stretching across the game. So, who and what doubled the number of tries being scored across all of rugby?
youtu.be/prrkU9cjeDU?...
youtu.be/prrkU9cjeDU?...
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I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit.
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Afternoon plug for my lesser-spotted Substack. On the prosecution of Kneecap’s Mo Chara, and the dull literalism of our time open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...
On Kneecap and knee jerks
Literalism makes fools of us all
open.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Afternoon plug for my lesser-spotted Substack. On the prosecution of Kneecap’s Mo Chara, and the dull literalism of our time open.substack.com/pub/padraigr...
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The absolute state of the EHRC leadership. Really encouraging to see a Commons committee and in particular staff standing up to its mendacious legally illiterate bullshit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK equality watchdog to extend gender guidance consultation, say insiders
Exclusive: Six-week deliberation asked for by Commons committee expected to be granted after internal backlash
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The absolute state of the EHRC leadership. Really encouraging to see a Commons committee and in particular staff standing up to its mendacious legally illiterate bullshit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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ICYMI: The mistakes that have led the Conservatives towards annihilation, and Labour copying them mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
By using Farage's rhetoric, but failing to change things, the Tory government lost large numbers of votes to Reform. Will Labour follow in their footsteps?
By using Farage's rhetoric, but failing to change things, the Tory government lost large numbers of votes to Reform. Will Labour follow in their footsteps?
The mistakes that have led the Conservatives towards annihilation, and Labour copying them
Despite what you read, we have been here before. In the 2019 European Election, Farage and his Brexit party won over 30% of votes , with L...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
ICYMI: The mistakes that have led the Conservatives towards annihilation, and Labour copying them mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
By using Farage's rhetoric, but failing to change things, the Tory government lost large numbers of votes to Reform. Will Labour follow in their footsteps?
By using Farage's rhetoric, but failing to change things, the Tory government lost large numbers of votes to Reform. Will Labour follow in their footsteps?
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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...
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So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
Shocking stuff. The EHRC didn't think it was worth pointing out that gender reassignment discrimination in providing single sex services is only permitted when it is proportionate to do so. Quite telling of the attitudes held by its leadership
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
An interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment | EHRC
www.equalityhumanrights.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Shocking stuff. The EHRC didn't think it was worth pointing out that gender reassignment discrimination in providing single sex services is only permitted when it is proportionate to do so. Quite telling of the attitudes held by its leadership
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Madness. These exports help fund our own students and funnel £ into the university towns and cities outside London. We should be looking to expand capacity to take in foreign students who would previously have chosen the US.
Home Office once again seeking to reduce UK exports of higher education. As if the sector wasn't in enough trouble already (and not getting the attention such as important one should get). www.ft.com/content/f441...
UK Home Office’s reform of graduate visas runs into opposition
Education department at odds with plan to curb number of overseas students allowed to stay in Britain
www.ft.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Madness. These exports help fund our own students and funnel £ into the university towns and cities outside London. We should be looking to expand capacity to take in foreign students who would previously have chosen the US.
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Y'days post: Labour’s strategic error on tax mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/labo...
The failure to raise taxes further reflects the absence of any serious analysis of what will be required to allow a noticeable (to voters) improvement in public services before the next election.
The failure to raise taxes further reflects the absence of any serious analysis of what will be required to allow a noticeable (to voters) improvement in public services before the next election.
Labour’s strategic error on tax
Two things have become clear to many people since Labour came to government. The first is that the party had done less preparation work fo...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Y'days post: Labour’s strategic error on tax mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/03/labo...
The failure to raise taxes further reflects the absence of any serious analysis of what will be required to allow a noticeable (to voters) improvement in public services before the next election.
The failure to raise taxes further reflects the absence of any serious analysis of what will be required to allow a noticeable (to voters) improvement in public services before the next election.
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Blogged: one difference between left & right today lies in what they believe to be the constraints upon government action: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Constraints
Econ101 says that individuals maximize utility subject to constraints. There are many problems with this - like, have you ever actually met a human being? - but there's one that is under-appreciated. ...
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Blogged: one difference between left & right today lies in what they believe to be the constraints upon government action: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
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New post: Mediamacro melodrama
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi...
Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi...
Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?
Mediamacro melodrama
The UK macroeconomy was one of the big stories of the previous two weeks, so you might think this blog post should have covered it earlier...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New post: Mediamacro melodrama
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi...
Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/01/medi...
Just a week ago the UK media was speculating that Reeves was about to be sacked and who might replace her, all because of largely global movements in interest rates. How and why did the media get things so wrong?
The 'markets' are not sentient and do not have nerves.
Bond yields have adjusted to reflect expectations of successive short term interest rate decisions, in large part due to Trump's latest escapades www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Bond yields have adjusted to reflect expectations of successive short term interest rate decisions, in large part due to Trump's latest escapades www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
UK economy latest: Chancellor Rachel Reeves facing MPs amid market nerves
The chancellor, who has defended a trip to Beijing at the weekend, is delivering a statement in the Commons.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The 'markets' are not sentient and do not have nerves.
Bond yields have adjusted to reflect expectations of successive short term interest rate decisions, in large part due to Trump's latest escapades www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Bond yields have adjusted to reflect expectations of successive short term interest rate decisions, in large part due to Trump's latest escapades www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
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The markets haven't "lost confidence" in the UK. They're pricing guesses on the future path of inflation and interest rates.
sure, but sacking your Chancellor after six months isn't very "full confidence of the markets" either
January 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The markets haven't "lost confidence" in the UK. They're pricing guesses on the future path of inflation and interest rates.
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How do we know the market jitters are about Rachel Reeves? Why do we connect these two things when Reeves hasn't said or done anything market relevant in weeks (months?)
Who, exactly, at the BBC has the job of divining what market jitters mean or who is responsible for them?
Who, exactly, at the BBC has the job of divining what market jitters mean or who is responsible for them?
January 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How do we know the market jitters are about Rachel Reeves? Why do we connect these two things when Reeves hasn't said or done anything market relevant in weeks (months?)
Who, exactly, at the BBC has the job of divining what market jitters mean or who is responsible for them?
Who, exactly, at the BBC has the job of divining what market jitters mean or who is responsible for them?