Why won't Labour pledge to tax capital gains at the same rate as income? Good piece by James Meadway on a legitimate attack line against Rishi Sunak. newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0…

This was some steal from the seven-time World Champion! 💥 #CazooWorldChampionship | Gara Tam Kỳ Auto - Xe ô tô cũ, xe tải cũ Quảng Nam | Ronnie O'Sullivan

Latest The Mill: me and sophie atkinson on the surging popularity of Manchester’s signature spicy chicken burgers, and the secret sauces that make them so valuable. Like, hundreds-of-thousands-of-pounds valuable. manchestermill.co.uk/p/manchesters-…

"The government decided to amplify the failure of the private sector by contracting the public sector"—@AnnPettifor on the folly of George Osborne's austerity prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/auste…

2020-2030 , the decade of #Shipping? 2000-2010 shipbuilding boom means a lot of vessels are going to be needed to be replaced. Especially with environmental regulation kicking in... Shipyard capacity the bottleneck creating great profits for shipping companies?

My last column on #HelptoBuy and it's legacy of misery. No, we don't need more of it. ft.com/content/b08630…

⌛️THE WORLD'S MOST IMPORTANT SAND⌛️ This is the story of how we are all - all of us, human civilisation as we know it - TOTALLY dependent on a small town in rural America to keep the modern world turning. It's the wild story of the world's purest, and most prized, sand 🧵

Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like Turi Munthe and Diane Coyle. It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities. theguardian.com/media/2023/aug…

🚨 Little scoop in my UnHerd piece on Manchester and HS2 today, one that helps to explain the chaos-politics we're seeing: Rishi Sunak has been taking advice from Dominic Cummings. unherd.com/2023/10/the-br…

HS2: “It’s one certain thing taken away, and a load of highly uncertain things put in its place,” says Christian Spence, while Manchester's stations remain chronically congested Will we ever come closer to getting serious rail investment in the North? manchestermill.co.uk/p/will-our-tra…

Since 1980, the world population has grown 79.4%. Over that same period, resources became 420% more abundant. For the average person, resources became 190% more abundant. #SimonAbundanceIndex Learn more: humanprogress.org/the-simon-abun…

“Plymouth in the top 6 by 2028?” 🤔 “They can do it before then”👀 “I wouldn’t rule out Premier League by 2030” 🤩 Plymouth’s owner wants them in the Play-offs in the next 4 seasons! Ryan Dilks & Justin Peach are confident they’ll do it👇 🔗 lnk.to/secondtier #PAFC

At the age of 24, a property agent in Wolverhampton had an awakening at a Buddhist retreat and decided to end homelessness. This year, his companies collapsed owing £13m. What went wrong? My investigation for Birmingham Dispatch. birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/investigatio…

🚨"A disaster for democracy"🚨 Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the The Mill office and told me about the "huge problem" created by the collapse of local news. The strongest, clearest words I've heard from a political leader on this topic. He gets it.

🚨Some GOOD media news: We're using the money we raised last year to double the size of our team by the end of 2024, hiring journalists in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and... London. Yes, the time has come - as reported by today's Financial Times.

Passion 💚 #pafc

🚨 Major story from our new title The Londoner: The Labour MP Jas Athwal is the landlord of an appalling private care home where children have gone missing and been left at risk of criminal exploitation. Stunning reporting by Andrew Kersley. the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-the-…

Catch up on your news briefing 💋 Spearmint Rhino uses shell company to take over the lease of The Windmill 🔍 Worrying news from homeless charity St Mungo’s 🇯🇵 The Royal Albert Hall has been selected as host for one of the only professional sumo contests to ever happen