Virtually every time I go out knocking on doors now, someone declares "I hate this country" and you can instantly see they are someone who spends most of their time alone indoors and just isn't really integrated with society anymore.

*sound on* This is Andrea Jenkyns's ACTUAL singing entrance to the Reform UK conference.

Utter crackpots. And anyone who thinks this kind of idiotic look-at-me amateurs are how this country will "rediscover its pride" needs to have a lie-down.

The most middle class UK marker is if your parents didn’t let you watch ITV.

The most disturbing thing about the winter fuel debacle is the chilling effect it'll have on any government which tries to think rationally about pensioner benefits and intergenerational fairness.

We really are in the Nanny State now. New writing from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

New: Britain's economic stagnation has gone on for too long.

So, Sam Bowman (@sambowman.co) and I have produced a list of 11 policy ideas that would really shift the dial on growth.

www.sambowman.co/p/growth-is-...

Crazy. 4 years after the initial rejected proposal, planning committee goes against officers’ advice on the revised, reduced application. The site remains a Travis Perkins blocking the towpath in the shadow of the Westway. Could be 830 student rooms by now.

Screenshot from the 1951 film ‘High Treason’. Taken on Lambeth Bridge, the building in the background is the drab Lambeth Bridge House, with Lambeth Palace out of shot on left. In the 1990’s it was replaced by the swirly Parliament View flats.

Deleted Twitter after ten years. Pleasing to disassociate myself from that man.