I don't think calling the people who voted for the nice woman who thinks working hard should grant you a decent life unhinged extremists is going to work out brilliantly for Labour.
As discussed in this post it's a perfect example of elite consensus across the political spectrum - which is now the most powerful way to shift the news agenda.
samf.substack.com/p/the-signal...
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I don't think op eds are dead yet but the politician op ed is fully fully dead.
Pleased to see this written up by the FT, and to see my driving analogy make the cut. We need to look beyond just the fiscal speedometer.
www.ft.com/content/c88b...
It's a small thing but one of my take-aways from their party conference is that they have a long way to go in making their brand look and feel not weird
We have our Nesta reaction to today's Warm Homes Plan up!
What does it mean for heating, fabric and electrification? What funding is available? What gaps are there in the plan?
Read all about it here:
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/how-wil...
I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.
Sometimes people ask me - where do you think is doing some really interesting local development?
Often I respond Barnsley.
Here’s why!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrnkwjvlgo.amp
Yesss
The way to go viral on twitter now is to complain about quality street
Merry Christmas one and all x
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An insane seven days and I'm finally getting to lay on my sofa with the cat
The best thing about having a cat is when he’ll walk in the room carrying a slice of ham but you don’t have any ham in the house. Where’d you get the ham little guy?
This is a good thread! Every week someone reads out a London Centric story on TikTok without credit and does big views. This isn’t a wah wah moan… more that when a big news outlet steals, they know what they’re doing. I think a lot of content creators sincerely think “reading words” *is* reporting?
This dynamic is in part why Keir Starmer should have a good, regular Substack, because so much of important media is what I think of as 'derived' these days, i.e. it is TikTok or Facebook thread from someone who actually reads journalism repurposed or driving their opinions.
Defo. Could be very interesting if part of a broader strategy to "make legacy media come to me for a change", but it does not look like that.
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
A hundred times this
I never ever want to hear the word smorgasbord again, thank you.
Festive tradition of my cat immediately trying to toss the tree
If the OBR document is correct, this seems to be the energy bills package:
Government taking 75% of the Renewables Obligation levy off electricity bills, at a cost of £2.3bn per year. This is good!
The ECO levy (£1.7bn per year to upgrade fuel poor homes) will *end in April 2026*.
I agree with GT here on the actual impact, but if you want to compete politically you need to be a lot less fussy about the rabbits you chase. Do it all.
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
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Hard to know if asking your MPs to defend seizing jewellery from asylum seekers will improve morale
Said this a lot before, but there is no politician conveying any sense of what they think the country should look in 2040 or 2050, so no sense they are taking steps to get there.
