A young person signed off work today with anxiety could lose £1 million in lifetime earnings if they never go back. That’s not support. It’s a trap we have to end now. Today we Tony Blair Institute for Global Change are calling for an emergency handbrake on the UK’s welfare system - not wholesale reform

His activity on social media shows how the eco-populist bristles at criticism economist.com/britain/2026/0…

People underestimate this. The British monarchy is one of the most powerful soft power assets in the world. When King Charles III speaks on a global stage, he does so above party politics, with history, culture and credibility behind him. You can’t manufacture that. You can’t

Rent controls are indeed common in Europe.

.Zarah Sultana MP I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

🚨 NEW: Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley says Zack Polanski’s "misinformed commentary" is "contributing to rising tensions" It comes after he reposted criticism of the Met officers who detained the Golders Green terror suspect

There are few things economists agree on more than opposing rent control. A survey of top economists found almost universal agreement that rent control: 1. Wouldn't make middle-income Americans better off 2. Would reduce apartment supply 3. Wouldn't reduce income inequality

Reform UK ran a council for a year. Things went badly ft.trib.al/z2CIRGO

The suggestion that poverty makes people racist is such a giveaway too.

Sir Mark Rowley: “Israeli foreign policy, however much you may like or dislike that, that is not relevant in terms of attitudes to British Jews, who should be treated like any other British citizen.”

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have

Oh look someone with a brain.

Zack Polanski is discovering you don’t need hypnotherapy to make a massive boob.

Words literally cannot express how utterly insane and tasteless this aesthetic really is.

People talk about Rail privitisation like it was an unmitigated disaster

Robert Jenrick What happened to Operation Warm Welcome, Bobby?

Excruciating

Tax for growth, drink for sobriety, eat cake for weight loss etc.

A very appropriate question on QT, with a very inadequate response.