Tense few minutes with in-laws crowded around the phone listening to BBC 5 Live Sport in Spain!

There are only 260 chalk streams in the WORLD. Yet mismanagement, underinvestment and lack of accountability could see one of the best examples irreparably harmed. I’m no NIMBY but this is just wanton destruction by a company that is held to account by no one and nothing.

I think we need to gatekeep patriotism. Unless you know the words to Jerusalem, Land of Hope and Glory, I vow to thee my country and Rule Britannia, know how to fold the flag and can tell the different between a Union flag and a Union Jack you can’t call yourself a patriot. 🇬🇧

So today, not for the first time, Reform UK have been moaning about our electricity imports from Europe suggesting that it risks our energy security and is the fault of Renewables So let’s add some facts and a huge dose of reality to this populist nonsense 🧵

Do we ask the same about politicians from middle class, wealthy backgrounds? No. Angela is a working class woman who has done well so she MUST be corrupt apparently. These people want social mobility, but not too much.

The British Constitution?

👀👀 Jones moving one step closer to No11?

Why are UK borrowing costs rising again today? It seems to be a slow burn from the welfare u-turn when Labour signalled to the markets that it couldn’t stomach spending restraint, plus renewed inflation concerns, and some doubts about who’s in charge after yesterday’s reset,

I’ve written today for the The Times and The Sunday Times on why our shortening attention spans are bad for our politics.

Laurie Magnus found Rayner had breached the ministerial code “I believe Ms Rayner has acted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service. I consider, however, that her unfortunate failure to settle her SDLT liability at the correct level,

Nothing quite like watching a government be bounced into a reshuffle to make you confident the country is being ran well.

Probably one of the best appointments they could have made.

Thought we’d got rid of this basic class analysis when Corbyn lost Labour’s leadership. More proof, in case you needed it, that all populists are the same, just depends on which group they are hating on.

Britain’s ‘moderation’ isn’t virtue, it’s engineering FPTP filters out extremism by design, strangling parties without concentrated support That stability has held for a century, but the system that blocks extremists will entrench them if they slip through

The situation in France makes this even more relevant. Voting systems around the world are crippling under the pressure of servicing government debt, uniting socially divided communities and dealing with the world regressing to its historical Great Power equilibrium.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

In a display of unity across the political aisle, the Young Democrats of Connecticut and Connecticut Young Republicans have issued a joint statement offering prayers for Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence:

I never agreed with Charlie Kirk, but his assassination is heinous. He had a children who will grow up without a father and a wife that has had her world torn apart. Calling this “democrat violence” is horrendous. It perpetuates the attitudes that led to his death. This should

Claims that there were 3,000,000 protestors today are mathematically impossible. Each person takes up about a metre squared, meaning 3,000,000 people would take up the entirety of the City of London…if ALL the buildings were flattened. It’s the equivalent of 417 football pitches