Rolls-Royce's small modular reactor (SMR) programme - the numbers: ▪️ Three new factories ▪️ 40,000 British jobs ▪️ £52bn economic benefit ▪️ 80% of components built in UK ▪️ £250bn export potential As part of its commitment to maximise UK involvement in its ground-breaking

6/ We don't listen enough; we tell people what's good for them. And when progressives like Bernie aggressively go after the elites that hold people down, they are shunned as dangerous populists. Why? Maybe because true economic populism is bad for our high-income base. 😬

"No bat death is acceptable"

No it wasn't a 'vibecession' bankrate.com/banking/federa…

When people ask how young men were radicalised, it's worth considering the idea that they weren't and we're just not good at recognising liberal pathologies. If an object appears to be moving away from you, it could be stationary while you're in motion. Chart ages 18-29 via Financial Times

After last week’s election, this 2022 report from Andrew Perez looks like one of the most prescient pieces of reporting of the last few years. Look at the graph (that nobody else reported). He called it. levernews.com/ending-pandemi…

My prescription was to differentiate between different groups and not think of them all as minorities who are scared of racism, focus on economic issues, promote meritocracy but also shared American prosperity, chill on the anti racism equity stuff in those areas.

I can't believe that Ed Miliband is still using that £300 figure, but here is a quick recap of why it is hugely misleading - in fact, nakedly dishonest. (1/?)

This is a remarkable clip. Ezra Klein effectively admits what we’ve been saying for years: Democrats have utterly failed to govern major cities well, and it should be no surprise that the country moved right.

You do not have to like Allison Pearson or even oppose the principle of hate crime laws (though I struggle with "non-crime hate incidents") to think that if police rock up at your door and demand an interview that you are entitled to know exactly what you are accused of doing.

I will never forget the ‘studies’ put out by academics and non profits that said that Asian swings to the right were because of ‘disinformation.’ When you looked at what they were taking about it was stuff like ‘admissions policies that discriminate against us are bad’

I'm sympathetic to Harris, but she was a mediocre candidate. And I think the evidence points toward this being a winnable race for Democrats with a better one. natesilver.net/p/kamala-harri…

This one was written straight from the heart at 4:32 am..

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

The Budget employer national insurance increase will mostly end up being passed to employees in the form of lower wages and reduced employment. A thread on why I'm disappointed by the Budget, and why this chart makes me sad.

👀There may now be only a 3% chance of meeting net zero & meeting the 1.5ºC climate target, says independent analyst ThunderSaidEnergy. Countries still "seeking net zero at any cost are now mainly just imperiling their own competitiveness without achieving beneficial global outcomes"

Ha! This popped up just now Edward Graham, will read later

Contemporary Britain in a nutshell.

Tough Iranian female protest Rap. It also good.

The UK triple lock is the singlest stupidest policy in the entire Western world, and the most damaging to the future of a country. Of course, it is also untouchable and almost undiscussed in the UK press. Matthew Yglesias does a big favour to the UK public here.