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4.4 Million households in the UK rent from private landlords, if you force all those landlords to sell up where do those tenants go? Yes, if prices come right down some of them can buy, but there are numerous reasons why we need a healthy private rental sector 🧵

No, the balance is not right. Taxes are at a 70-year high. We are borrowing £150 billion a year, of which £110 billion is simply to pay interest on past borrowing (you read that right). To get back to Blair-era spending levels, we need to cut total expenditure by around 35%.

From this week’s Spectator

We’ve confused the idea of energy efficiency with lower energy use. We should aim for the former, not the latter

Reforming public sector pensions is one of the most obvious sources of savings. We could save 50% of this £47bn, give public servants a massive pay rise and put them on the same rules applied to private sector peons. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Oh, you mean the stupid, zero-sum assault on second homeowners hasn’t actually worked as intended!!? telegraph.co.uk/money/property…

Who wants to listen to Sade at breakfast?!

Once more for the slow kids: migration has made the housing crisis worse, not caused it. Yes, we need to slash migration drastically to ease pressure on housing stock. But we have been under-building since the war.

The Online Safety Act debate was a lonely place for free speech advocates. Anyone who dared to question the law was treated as a child-hating pariah. Yet as key provisions have come into force our warnings have proven eerily accurate. Institute of Economic Affairs Insider today:

Community notes now showing that the public has failed to understand the law of unintended consequences

England are going to fall 100-150 runs short

Not to sound ‘I told you so’ but I didn’t believe for one moment Labour would do those things. And I suspected that their planning reforms would fail. Labour have far too many vested interests in the status quo to bring about positive reforms.

That Labour continues to poll at about 25% tells you that public choice theory is real.

Ok well that was wrong! 🫣

What was Bethell doing? Idiot

Now in Latin America so will be posting about some of these countries for a while. Cuba especially will talk a lot about because I think by any reasonable standard except among the diehard “it’s the trade embargo” people it really is proof of failure of concept

What a complete c**t he is. Thank goodness he was never PM

“A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.” — Friedrich Hayek

Absolutely sickening that, 332/5 ffs should not be losing that

Sorry England that is not good enough, for all the heroics. We need to be winning home series. Poor selection (Bethell, Overton), poor fielding and failing to take advantage of winning the toss. A massive failure #ENGvIND