Duncan Stott ποΈπ°πΊπ¦
@DuncanStott
Former director, @pricedoutuk | geeky liberal | YIMBY
Farage is filth. The existence of this job causes exactly no harm to our country or its values. There's no excuse for this blatant whipping up of Islamophobia.
Our country and its values are being destroyed.
Literally today
Could you imagine this in the UK? The shopping centre would be closed down within 24 hours for being racist and far-right. This is what I love about Thailand and its people. Patriotic and proud of its heritage and history.
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The #OnlyConnect Killer Sudoku does have a unique solution, I've put it in Sudokupad if anyone wants to try solving it sudokupad.app/ady4jf43w8
The worst manufactured fad is the one where religion is used as an excuse to subdue women into second-class citizenship.
I would encourage Muslim women not to get involved in this manufactured women's football fad. It's totally unbefitting for Muslim women to compromise their modesty like this, and also quite embarrassing for them to show the world how useless they are at football. Much betterβ¦
The tail end of Conservative government got fixated on top-down state intervention. Online Safety Act Building Safety Regulator Digital Markets Unit Football Regulator Are we really any better off as a result?
Nothing exemplifies the failure of our modern politicians than the Online Safety Act. It was nodded through parliament - objections dismissed, with the only MPs voting against doing so because they thought *it didn't go far enough*! Utter, unmitigated failure.
'Lanyard class' is such a meaningless phrase, like fair enough if you're a bricklayer or a struggling gig worker and you want to call me an out of touch lanyard wanker cos I have a crappy email job, but what does it mean coming from someone whose career looks like this
Maurice Glasman - founder of @blue_labour - on excoriating form when it comes to the lanyard class:
The way out of our economic malaise is building lots of housing in around London and the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. Who knew?
Spiralling housing costs in the South East of England have cost us 3.1% of productivity. Great new report by @HomesEngland
Spiralling housing costs in the South East of England have cost us 3.1% of productivity. Great new report by @HomesEngland
I think this chart from the FT is key to understanding the mentality of our politicians for the past 17 years. Those in power are convinced - in part because theyβve been told by technocrats - that a βreturn to normalβ is coming soon. All they have to do is hang on, keep theβ¦
Tony Benn photo is interesting.... we'd still be digging up masses of coal if he'd had his way.
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While Donald Trump has attacked wind farms during his Scotland trip, only 24% of Britons share the president's view that they are unattractive - 28% think they look good, while 41% think they look neither good nor bad Results link in final tweet
Henleyβ―&β―Partnersβ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't. Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
Countries where VPNs are illegal: North Korea Belarus Iraq Turkmenistan
EXC: Labour Could Ban VPNs After Online Safety Act Surge order-order.com/2025/07/28/excβ¦
Nothing exemplifies the failure of our modern politicians than the Online Safety Act. It was nodded through parliament - objections dismissed, with the only MPs voting against doing so because they thought *it didn't go far enough*! Utter, unmitigated failure.
This is madness. New homes should be considered more important than a common London pigeonβs nest. We should fix this! From @timleunig:
If your baby had been born in the days before we had vaccines, they would have had a 1 in 5 chance of not making it to their 1st birthday