legitimately crazy that legalising Cannabis isn't in the conversation for the UK. Expected 3bn a year in tax revenue, £40bn increase in GDP, 100k jobs created. relieves burden on the justice system etc. would fill a lot of Reeves supposed black hole

To complete #HS2 2a to Crewe would cost £3.27b in CapEx (Borrowed on the basis of economic & social returns) For context, refurbishing #Westminster Palace is costing £22b in OpEx. (Money spent with no returns expected) Maybe time to think about that you lot in Whitehall?

'Andy Cooke, VWHDC's water champion, said Thames Water has "still failed to make a plausible case" for the reservoir.' ... they have a "water champion" whose job is blocking reservoirs hahahaha we're doomed bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Luxury flats start ‘moving chains’ freeing up housing lower down the ladder. Luxury flats don’t create people out of thin air. If you don’t build these apartments, high flying Manchester executives will outbid someone for another gaff nearby.

this isn’t how triage works and an absolutely insanely irresponsible thing to say to the press 👍

😭but why are UK electricity prices so high😭

Why are campaigners allowed to write news headlines? Hinkley Point will have a net biodiversity gain for wildlife. It will not “decimate” fish stocks just because a “wildlife campaigner” says so.

NEW: 🇩🇪 Elon Musk suspended the account of the terrorist from the Christmas market in Germany on X, to restore it again but with deleted history and posts where he supports Netanyahu, Israel and attacks Islam.

NEW: British infrastructure projects waste billions on fish discos and bat tunnels because of dumb environmental rules. These rules make it harder to build new infrastructure, but do almost nothing for nature. Here’s how to solve the bat tunnel problem. samdumitriu.com/p/how-to-solve…

G_mble I’ve been reading through Tweets to try and work this out for myself. The problem with rightwing accounts is that they don’t really tell you what they are cross about. Just that they hate the Government and they have been covering things up. From what I can discern, this is

Ofsted has a new interim chair. He's a trained teacher, became a head, led schools in tough areas, his schools that are now THE BEST in the country for social mobility. Incidentally, he's a muslim. What bit do you think the Telegraph decided to focus on? Utterly disgraceful.

If Ofcom and the Secretary of State decide to impose Category 1 duties on Wikipedia, it will be one of the biggest and most egregious acts of censorship on free expression in the history of British law.

Thank you Britain, truly an incredible tax system. Definitely couldn't be improved. (This is what's so annoying about the UK. There's so much low hanging fruit that could be picked (development regulation, basic infrastructure, tax system) that politicians just don't act on.)

This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.

It’s a testament to both the incompetency & petty authoritarianism of HM Courts and Tribunals Service that they destroyed one of the most valuable artworks they own, but they did it so badly that you can still see the shadow of the work, which conveys its message perhaps even more powerfully than

Nothing snarky to say about this. Just unambiguously good. Entire thing is an economic nuke

Barack Obama Obama’s words at the United Nations in 2012 sound like they were spoken for this very moment in our country. Such a far departure from how our current president ranted his way through the United Nations this week.

‘The rise of base, reflexive racism in this country is disturbing.’ @Lewis_Goodall hits back at social media accounts stoking talk of ‘civil war’ after quoting an unnamed ‘academic’.