1. Wind and solar both keep me up at night, but for opposite reasons. Solar works and is winning the global race, Britain simply sits too far north to benefit. Britain is betting on wind instead, yet wind lacks the very traits that makes solar work.

The chairman of Labour’s “Islamophobia” working group has replied to me. I asked reasonable questions. Is he consulting Muslim Brotherhood affiliates? Is observing facts about the rape gangs “Islamophobic”? I got no answers, but he says he means well, so it will be fine 1/2.

Excellent from ⁦Hadley Freeman⁩ Our children ask about Gaza. This is what we say thetimes.com/article/b22a00…

Rest in Peace to the great Tom Lehrer, who helped put the periodic table of elements to song! 🎶

EXCLUSIVE 👗Billions of pounds of imports... ↗️Rising by more than 50% a year... 🛬Planes stuffed with cheap clothes... 🇨🇳And a loophole saving Chinese companies from £billions of UK taxes. Behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories in the modern economy: e-commerce 👇

Interesting that England women’s team seem more comfortable with overt expressions of English pride/identity (Chloe Kelly and Hannah Hampton straight after the game) than the men. Will it extend into the official celebrations today?

Useful counter to recent catastrophism bit.ly/4mnOr3s from Sam Freedman. A bit over-optimistic on integration, and Labour partly to blame for 'nothing works' story/sense of stagnation. No convincing reset on growth or fixing skew-whiff incentives and bond market making us pay

I disagree. In fact, I would go further: we don't appreciate how bad things have become over the last 20 years. One statistic that stuns: average real wages in the UK, exc. London, are less than in the poorest US state, Mississippi. Until we see the crisis, no chance of reform.

The GDP metric sends increasingly wonky signals to policy-makers and in an ageing society with more productive care work done in the non-GDP economy we need a rethink. My review of Diane Coyle's book now on my (free) substack A Goodhart is Hard to Find davidgoodhart.substack.com/p/gdp-do-we-ha…

Do we need to adopt fundamentally different ways of raising children? Or are parents the only people we can rely on to care for children, and is it essential that the family remains dominant? | iai.tv/video/kith-and… Join Harvey Whitehouse, David Goodhart, and Sophie

People aren't able to have the children they say they want to have. It's a huge problem we can't afford *not* to solve. A short film with me, (aged 46),Phoebe Arslanagić-Little (aged 29) and Emina (age 0).

Keynes's answer to Trump's tariffs as communicated through his biographer Robert Skidelsky (written in April but just as relevant today) robertskidelsky.substack.com/p/could-john-m…

A devastating critique of the Online Safety Act, and a good example of what happens when protection from harm (especially of children) becomes the driving force of legislation thecritic.co.uk/the-road-to-on…

Chandran Kukathas "[Illegal immigration] is the biggest failing, single, biggest failing, I would say, of the political class, both in my country and the US in recent decades... It's led directly to Brexit in the UK. It's led directly to Trump." - David Goodhart

David Goodhart's 2017 'Somewheres' and 'Anywheres' analysis was spot on. But Conservatives didn't listen. And the 'Anywheres' won, as one reader commented on this republished interview. conservativewoman.co.uk/the-kathy-gyng… via @theconwom

Pressure group power at root of so many of our problems, and to combat it Janan Ganesh daringly endorses one of main tenets of populism ‘liberal democracies could become a little less liberal and a little more democratic’

Just discovered 2 new Mandy (Diane Morgan) seasons on IPlayer. My imagination or is Mandy getting angrier/more political, especially in scenes with the job centre guy? In any case Diane the funniest thing on TV and Mandy carries some of the anarchic spirit of Little Britain

"We must stop people selecting us...it’s a Darwinian system and it's mainly young men." Britain must stop Channel crossings and focus on selecting the most vulnerable refugees through legal channels, says Policy Exchange’s David Goodhart. @StephenSackur | #TimesRadio