Luke Johnson
@LukeJohnsonRCP
Luke Johnson: investor and entrepreneur
Here’s a description of the French Revolution by Tocqueville I’d never seen: “Half-way down the stairs, we threw ourselves out of the window in order to get to the ground more quickly.”
🚨Our fears appear to have been vindicated on the very first day of the Online Safety Act's enactment. Some footage of protests taking place this evening against illegal immigration is unavailable on X for at least some UK users, with a warning about a restriction due to ‘local…
Young healthy people were always at minimal risk - but still the destructive school closures, universal lockdowns, masking were enforced. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…
Just one of Sam Altman's 5GW AI datacentres will consume more electricity than 1.5 Hinkley Point C's. We need to get real. See link below.
This reminds me of what the brilliant John Bew said before Xmas in the New Statesman when he argued that "productive force" (inc in AI) will be the central determinant of power in the post-rules-based global order. We need to get real on energy. newstatesman.com/politics/2024/…
This is where you can ride in a robotaxi TODAY!
Lord Richard Hermer is the best attorney general we've ever had. He understands what all these moaning democrats don't. That lawyers always know best, says Lexington Hemsworth KC buff.ly/cH1AyuK
Exclusive: World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab engaged in a pattern of workplace misconduct over the past decade, an internal probe found on.wsj.com/4lTotVi
Gas is incredibly cheap. In the USA, it's currently trading at less than £0.01 per kWh. Anyone who claims that high energy bills are caused by gas prices either has absolutely no idea what they are talking about, or is barefaced lying. On UK markets, gas is £0.0272/kWh.
Papers today jammed with stories showing the beginning of the end of the age of entitlement. And the return of a focus on needs over wants.
Today I learned that in 1944, the UK had a working population of 24m against a total of 48m, and today has a working population of 28m against a total of 69m. In the 80 intervening years, worker productivity growth has exceeded 2% per year, on average, for a total of over 5x.…
Ed Miliband has pledged to stop noise rules blocking the installation of heat pumps – as his wife joins a protest against a new block of flats where his neighbours are objecting to the noisy heat pumps. dailysceptic.org/2025/07/22/mil…
Our LondonCentric piece this morn shows how Asif Aziz’s company repeatedly rents some of the UK’s priciest retail spaces to students who vanish without paying millions in tax. There’s so much money for HMRC in the WestEnd if it just enforces compliance. open.substack.com/pub/londoncent…
Interesting article
Is the PE Machine Broken? institutionalinvestor.com/article/pe-mac…
"As Britain’s Leftist puritans enforce rationing, America lives in abundance" I've written in the @Telegraph tonight about our establishment's refusal to adopt an abundance mentality and their fundamentally disdainful attitude to economic growth. 👇 telegraph.co.uk/gift/e8f85378b…
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
This is compounded by the point that when Britain sets up a welfare system and pays taxes to look after its own, MPs decide it's their duty to bring the world's poorest here to be subsidised by us. We end up with redistribution from the native population to immigrants and their…
The pension is welfare. It costs £146bn a year and by 2073 it'll take up 8% of GDP. It isn't affordable.