Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Many of the properties (sold under RTB) are now rented out privately, often to tenants on housing benefit at a cost to local authorities of more than £20bn year theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

Ecstatic to announce that Trauma Industrial Complex: How Oversharing Became a Product in a Digital World is BBC Radio 4 Book Of The Week - next week! You can preorder now from Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop and support an independent book store x

Pure British misery in councils selling off allotments. Especially seeing as most city properties have no access to outside space. Really a sign of "the end of joy". No one is allowed hobbies anymore. We'll all just go to work then come home again.

Plenty of tickets for today. And also...a surprise for anyone who attends edfringe.com/tickets/whats-…

Plenty tickets available for today's show. We now have physical copies of the new book too - signed! edfringe.com/tickets/whats-…

Some ⁦Private Eye Magazine⁩ editions are only moderate. Others are for the ages…

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I thought this was parody but he really did say this. Beyond sickening.

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🗣️ "What a goal. What a finish. What a player!" Kieron Bowie scores a stunning goal for Hibs, and they are back in command in their Uefa Conference League tie with Partizan Belgrade. It's 1-2 on the night, but 3-2 Hibs on aggregate. 📺 Watch live on BBC Scotland #BBCFootball

Record salaries for UK chief executives as pay rises for third year in a row The median pay of a FTSE chief executive climbed to £4.58m in the last financial year, up from £4.29m a year earlier, an increase of nearly 7%. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Hilarious Double Dose of my brother ⁦lewis macleod⁩ at ⁦Edinburgh Festival Fringe yesterday 🤣Firstly with ⁦Dead Ringers⁩ ⁦Edinburgh Playhouse⁩ then ⁦Gilded Balloon⁩ at the #appletontower where he definitely was not himself but a magical mix of characters …Brilliant🤩🤩

Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns doesn't like workers having more rights.

AMAZING result from a 10-year study: a one-time $1,000 cash transfer to households in rural Kenya cut infant mortality by 48%. One of the biggest gains EVER seen in global health. “The best way to save a child’s life is to give a mother money when she needs it most.”

Lack of affordability is what’s killing sectors like hospitality. People do not have the disposable income to create meaningful economic growth that’s properly spread across important sectors. If we don’t address that, we’ll not fix what previous governments wreaked.

"Jeff Bezos flying into space for fun, while nurses, through their taxes, make up the wages of Amazon workers" - Matthew Wright

Fascinating to see so many right wingers argue against my position that taxes should be reduced on work in exchange for increased taxes on inherited wealth. Normally they’re the first to argue against hand outs? Curious!

You don’t need to be an economist to work out that the way to get the economy in a better position is to create the conditions where people have money to spend. For millions of Brits, that is just not the case.

My supremely talented, ever busy wife is in the final stages of completing her PhD, while working full time as a lecturer, planning songwriting retreats for up and coming artists, and being an awesome mum to our kids. She has a new album out and you'll probably like it x