Happy summer!

60% turnout in under 34s is actually a bit better than the last few elections, and not much below overall turnout which was around 65%.

"In my experience, high-achievers focus a great deal on becoming the person they want to be at work—and far too little on the person they want to be at home." - Clayton Christiansen

Just a reminder on 4th July if you’re planning to vote Tory!

Today is the day. In some countries people don’t get this opportunity or freedom to vote.Some are fighting for peace, democracy, equality and safety. The opportunity to walk into a polling station unhindered by war, intimidation or the impact of weather events is our right.

Think voting doesn't matter? The mayor who kept the beaches open in Jaws is STILL the mayor in Jaws 2. Don't make the same mistake as the people of Amity... #GeneralElection24

Try explaining this image to someone who isn’t British. Take your time. I’ll bring snacks.

Well, yeah, you could do that I guess. But if you do you can kiss goodbye to the idea of winning back any of those seats you just lost to the Lib Dem and, you know, ever getting back in to government.

Fox in the henhouse: “Someone untrustworthy placed in a position of trust in which they will be harmful, damaging or detrimental for their own personal gain.” en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fox_in_th…

Yes, this. A week may be a long time in politics but it's still not long to build a new prison or two.

The idea that health spending won't need to go up (and keep going up) is just reality avoidance.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Stuff like this excellent thread is why I’m still hanging on here - despite all the noise, now and then I still come across something genuinely informative and learn something I otherwise wouldn’t have.

Badenoch: “You may think Blair and Brown were defeated in 2010 but the left never left.” She says the British state needs to be “reprogrammed.” This is a key plank of the right’s diagnosis of their own failure. They were undermined from within. The left is embedded everywhere.

Maybe it’s because they make random assertions without citing their sources…

One of the most important maxims in public opinion is Britain isn’t the US (good case in point Brits say they’d have voted Harris by 2-1 margin). That is especially true on climate change: net zero is much less polarising here and fewer than 1/5 want us to go slower to reach it

Scattered thoughts on the worst of all days tinyurl.com/yc32s6k2

The hardest thing to accept is the cruelty. People saw what it was. And they voted for it anyway tinyurl.com/5bud875t