This is a brilliant letter written by my colleagues, sent to The Economist. The letter firmly debunks the magazine's misguided take that "the world must escape the manufacturing delusion."

The EU's "Chat Control" proposal is horrifying. There's no way to implement this safely. It will destroy private communications online entirely. If you're in the EU, please fight this.

A bit of holiday trivia...if we re-ran the Battle of the Currents today, would Edison win? watt-logic.com/2025/08/11/ac-…

🚨1,200 UK schools are now part of the Schools of Sanctuary network, where children are asked to make “Valentine’s-style” cards and pledges of welcome for asylum seekers. This includes pupils as young as 5 years old. No parental consent. No public debate. Whatever your view on

🚨 THE WAR IS OVER AND AMERICA JUST SECURED THE MOST POWERFUL FINANCIAL RAIL IN HISTORY 🇺🇸 The SEC’s surrender to Ripple is the closing act in a multi-year covert op to bring the XRP Ledger under U.S. strategic control. And the next phase? It’s not what you think… 👇🧵

Will any be recorded and on YouTube, or elsewhere?

Crazy…absolutely crazy…

A KC friend sends me this for my amusement. That it has become a recognisable joke speaks volumes. Only a short while ago, we would all have responded, "I don't get it. What's the joke?" Now, we get it. That presents a big problem for the government.

Ed Miliband’s net zero push has helped a French energy giant win a legal battle to decommission a key North Sea energy hub – killing off five oil fields in the process. Judges relied on Mr Miliband’s net zero targets as justification to close the site.

Patrick Blower patrick blower @telegraph on #shoplifting #shoplifter - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

The Times has fully turned against this woeful Labour administration. "As a response to a crisis of national security on this scale they are pitiful" "The public cannot be taken for fools" This government is now on life support. thetimes.com/article/068a95…

BREAKING - More than 75% of all prisoners released early under Labour’s ‘overcrowding scheme’ have been recalled to jail after reoffending or breaching licence conditions (via The Telegraph) telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/1…

Afraid reality / physics interferes with Labour’s reality distortion glasses

Cursor's Problem docs.google.com/document/d/1q3…

I feel sick. Labour councillor told crowd to “cut their throats” found not guilty. He didn’t mean it literally. Lucy Connolly didn’t mean it literally either. But Lucy is white and married to a Tory councillor. 2-tier justice. 😡 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/1…

Grateful to Chris for this thread - it’s excellent (I would say that but seriously!)

I still think about this video

Plaid Cymru globalists want to make Wales a Nation of Sanctuary for asylum seekers. Plaid is an anti-Wales party.

Dan Hannan: “If tobacco taxes reduce smoking and carbon taxes reduce emissions, what did they suppose jobs taxes would do?”. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/1…

Where’s Starmer? He wet the bed again?!