This!

Yup.

If London wants to compete with NY/SF, it needs to radically increase housing, or salaries

Charm offensive

Important!

Yet another mind-blowing graph from the UK The total number of people on out-of-work benefits is significantly higher now than during COVID Unsustainable doesnt even begin to describe it

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The Conservative Party that was shaped by the nation-building of Sir John A. Macdonald, the moral conviction of John Diefenbaker, the bold ambition of Brian Mulroney, and the steady discipline of Stephen Harper is far greater than any one man. It is a party rooted in history,

I’m a former senior aide to Stephen Harper. Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, trustworthy Conservative Party we tried to build, writes Dimitri Soudas trib.al/knrtOlq

We are poorly governed

Yup.

Extra 1.1bn barrels of oil found in North Sea We could be rich, but we arent allowed to extract it telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

Even the smartest people in the world fall for scams See if you can detect this one (explainer in the thread below)

rn (lowercase r + n) is nearly indistinguishable from the m in microsoft

Billionaire Bill Ackman is having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that there are some politicians you cant buy

Brilliant response from Curtis Sliwa here Bill Ackman & Nate Friedman are in panic mode

People like Bill Ackman & Nate Friedman really dont understand that some people have principles & cant be bought

Bill Ackman's attempt to be a political consigliere is going about as well his failed attempt to be a pro tennis player

The NYC mayoral race is turning into one of the best elections Ive ever seen

hard to overstate the sea-change happening in politics right now establishment parties (Tories/Labour/GOP/Dems) which have been around for hundreds of years cannot stop serving their donors or evolve — in response the general public is moving on