Bashir and Crawley are absolutely egregious selections of the Bazball era (which I love). Ignoring statistics is fine until you end up playing two people with some of the worst cricketing records in the history of the English game

White collar Britain is the next political dislocation. Must read from James Kanagasooriam on why AI might everyone might soon make everyone feel left behind. thetimes.com/article/a0649f…

Lots of commentary on votes for 16-17 yr olds. Opportunity for model tinkering + beltway analysis. Bigger point is that we’ve seen huge batches of seats change hands at the 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024 elections driven by at least one party losing /gaining double digit vote shares

Love this post by John Burn-Murdoch. My latest substack (co-authored with Patrick Flynn) covers some aspects of neuroticism (an amazing coincidence) and its political associations. But the post is mainly about the role that agency plays in politics today

So interesting from James, agency and how much of it you think you have is such a key societal cleavage and is shaping our politics in all sorts of ways, beyond traditional left right - lines.

This is an incredible piece of work from Phil Brown, capturing every member of the 2005 Ashes team telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a2d594f7…

This from James Kanagasooriam is brilliant on why agency could save Britain. Read if you want to feel some optimism for a change. We need high agency people but also high agency culture - this is what it might look like: politicalwhiteboard.substack.com/p/agency-could…

This is interesting

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

On your BBC Radio 5 Live today 🎙️Henry Zeffman on cabinet 💥David Blunkett and Therese Coffey on relaunches 🟢New Green leader Zack Polanski 📊 Pollsters Scarlett Maguire James Kanagasooriam Patrick English 🗳️ All The Small Things James Nation

New podcast: James Kanagasooriam on Britain's 'low agency' culture. New research which explains so much about the moment we're in. Via The Ruffian & all the usual podcast platforms.

Another banger piece by Charlotte Ivers on the UK’s lack of ambition and growth. “Living in Britain feels rather like being responsible for an intelligent yet lazy teenager. “You could be so great!” you want to burst into the country’s bedroom and yell. “You have so much