November 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
‘(Friendly reminder of rule number four in Iain Mansfield’s excellent seven policy rules of thumb: “Banning something reduces its prevalence, but not to nothing”.)’
‘Why the small boats won’t stop’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/42f2...
‘Why the small boats won’t stop’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/42f2...
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
‘(Friendly reminder of rule number four in Iain Mansfield’s excellent seven policy rules of thumb: “Banning something reduces its prevalence, but not to nothing”.)’
‘Why the small boats won’t stop’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/42f2...
‘Why the small boats won’t stop’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/42f2...
“A zombie government, with zombie policies, following a zombie agenda” @iandunt.bsky.social
“Cowardice today. Punishment tomorrow.” iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
“Cowardice today. Punishment tomorrow.” iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“A zombie government, with zombie policies, following a zombie agenda” @iandunt.bsky.social
“Cowardice today. Punishment tomorrow.” iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
“Cowardice today. Punishment tomorrow.” iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...
“Obsessed with identity and victimhood like its left-wing counterparts, this trend has split the Maga movement — and it’s coming here” Danny Finkelstein
“Welcome to the woke right” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“Welcome to the woke right” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“Obsessed with identity and victimhood like its left-wing counterparts, this trend has split the Maga movement — and it’s coming here” Danny Finkelstein
“Welcome to the woke right” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“Welcome to the woke right” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“Quite what Nandy believes the role of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport actually should be remains mysterious” @roberthutton.co.uk thecritic.co.uk/the-culture-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“Quite what Nandy believes the role of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport actually should be remains mysterious” @roberthutton.co.uk thecritic.co.uk/the-culture-...
‘There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons’ @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
“Both are case studies in the problem of coordinating public goods in a climate of mistrust” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Both are case studies in the problem of coordinating public goods in a climate of mistrust” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
‘There’s a missing link in British public life – and it underpins crises from the BBC to our prisons’ @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
“Both are case studies in the problem of coordinating public goods in a climate of mistrust” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Both are case studies in the problem of coordinating public goods in a climate of mistrust” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Week: The government WhatsApp group*
*according to @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
*according to @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Our Week: The government WhatsApp group*
*according to @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
*according to @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“The manhunt for David Lammy went on all day. Where had he gone?” Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
“The manhunt for David Lammy went on all day. Where had he gone?” Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“This is a column about political honesty… I have an inkling that our politics is about to come back down to earth”
@hugorifkind.bsky.social “What a relief that would be. Because reality, I think, is quite scary enough” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
@hugorifkind.bsky.social “What a relief that would be. Because reality, I think, is quite scary enough” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“This is a column about political honesty… I have an inkling that our politics is about to come back down to earth”
@hugorifkind.bsky.social “What a relief that would be. Because reality, I think, is quite scary enough” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
@hugorifkind.bsky.social “What a relief that would be. Because reality, I think, is quite scary enough” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“working people” is the new “blue-collar” isn’t it?
Labour is taxing www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Labour is taxing www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“working people” is the new “blue-collar” isn’t it?
Labour is taxing www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Labour is taxing www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“Obviously we should make everyone sit a test before they can use a mobile phone on public transport or use a hire bike in central London. But what are the other permits the nation needs?” @roberthutton.co.uk
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Obviously we should make everyone sit a test before they can use a mobile phone on public transport or use a hire bike in central London. But what are the other permits the nation needs?” @roberthutton.co.uk
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“The problem is that, even after a decade in which Trump has dominated US politics, Democrats are still not sure how to confront him, or even, more fundamentally, what they should really be”
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The problem is that, even after a decade in which Trump has dominated US politics, Democrats are still not sure how to confront him, or even, more fundamentally, what they should really be”
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Changing a leader carries considerable political risk.
“When the country is beset by problems and just after you got a massive majority… Voters are likely to think: you’re the fucking government. Govern”
@iandunt.bsky.social ‘A world without Keir Starmer’ iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
“When the country is beset by problems and just after you got a massive majority… Voters are likely to think: you’re the fucking government. Govern”
@iandunt.bsky.social ‘A world without Keir Starmer’ iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“Changing a leader carries considerable political risk.
“When the country is beset by problems and just after you got a massive majority… Voters are likely to think: you’re the fucking government. Govern”
@iandunt.bsky.social ‘A world without Keir Starmer’ iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
“When the country is beset by problems and just after you got a massive majority… Voters are likely to think: you’re the fucking government. Govern”
@iandunt.bsky.social ‘A world without Keir Starmer’ iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
“Avoiding and engaging..Often, both impulses coexist in people, especially when faced with something as simultaneously provocative and exhausting as hard-right populism. Periods of passivity, of apparent acceptance of the status quo, alternate with an urge to act” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Avoiding and engaging..Often, both impulses coexist in people, especially when faced with something as simultaneously provocative and exhausting as hard-right populism. Periods of passivity, of apparent acceptance of the status quo, alternate with an urge to act” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Both threat and opportunity.It is not schizophrenic or weak to recognise that the world’s second-largest economy, a country full of contradictions itself, home to almost a fifth of humanity, rubs up against the UK in myriad ways, both positive and negative” Cindy Yu www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
“Both threat and opportunity.It is not schizophrenic or weak to recognise that the world’s second-largest economy, a country full of contradictions itself, home to almost a fifth of humanity, rubs up against the UK in myriad ways, both positive and negative” Cindy Yu www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
‘Of course, it doesn’t have to be this hard… Our government did not arrive equipped to do this. It arrived as a group of “lifelong advocates and campaigners”. To become serious governors is an entirely different thing’
@charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
@charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
‘Of course, it doesn’t have to be this hard… Our government did not arrive equipped to do this. It arrived as a group of “lifelong advocates and campaigners”. To become serious governors is an entirely different thing’
@charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
@charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
“The question is whether, at her age, she’s young enough to still be around when the voters have decided it’s finally time to stop blaming the party responsible”
‘Katie Lam, Tories’ rising star, shows why the future doesn’t belong to Nigel Farage’ Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
‘Katie Lam, Tories’ rising star, shows why the future doesn’t belong to Nigel Farage’ Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“The question is whether, at her age, she’s young enough to still be around when the voters have decided it’s finally time to stop blaming the party responsible”
‘Katie Lam, Tories’ rising star, shows why the future doesn’t belong to Nigel Farage’ Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
‘Katie Lam, Tories’ rising star, shows why the future doesn’t belong to Nigel Farage’ Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
‘I just don’t believe that humanity’s collective tombstone will read: “Homo sapiens. Voluntarily exited the scene.” In nuclear fire, from a man-made pathogen or catastrophic climate change, maybe. Because we stopped having enough unprotected sex? No’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4fb3...
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
‘I just don’t believe that humanity’s collective tombstone will read: “Homo sapiens. Voluntarily exited the scene.” In nuclear fire, from a man-made pathogen or catastrophic climate change, maybe. Because we stopped having enough unprotected sex? No’ @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4fb3...
Our Week: Chinese Intelligence (UK division)*
@hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
@hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Our Week: Chinese Intelligence (UK division)*
@hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
@hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“They want the truth that no one else dares tell them, even if the reason is because that it isn’t actually true…
“The revolution will not be televised. It will be monetised”
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ffdd...
“The revolution will not be televised. It will be monetised”
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ffdd...
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“They want the truth that no one else dares tell them, even if the reason is because that it isn’t actually true…
“The revolution will not be televised. It will be monetised”
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ffdd...
“The revolution will not be televised. It will be monetised”
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ffdd...
We could’ve been anything that we wanted to be,
But don’t it make your heart sad
That some decided no one’s really tried it
To become the best at being mad
But don’t it make your heart sad
That some decided no one’s really tried it
To become the best at being mad
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We could’ve been anything that we wanted to be,
But don’t it make your heart sad
That some decided no one’s really tried it
To become the best at being mad
But don’t it make your heart sad
That some decided no one’s really tried it
To become the best at being mad
“Just how deep does the Donald’s disappearing hair obsession go? Clouded in an ozone-threatening cumulus of industrial-grade fixative, for decades Trump’s hair has been a meticulously contrived middle-age piece-process.” www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“Just how deep does the Donald’s disappearing hair obsession go? Clouded in an ozone-threatening cumulus of industrial-grade fixative, for decades Trump’s hair has been a meticulously contrived middle-age piece-process.” www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
