Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Neoliberal Centrist Dad, hoping British politics sobers up eventually. Author of several books. Research Director @TheJobsFndn.
I just don’t understand what the point of this exercise was. It seems counterproductive to me, but if you disagree, tell me what I’m missing.
Confirmed: Mel Stride, Priti Patel and Chris Philp are all keeping their jobs. Robert Jenrick also keeping his role That's all the main jobs unchanged, other than James Cleverly coming in to shadow Angela Rayner
These things are not mutually exclusive: that there is a far-right in Britain that is obviously identifiable, but that calling everyone who protests about something that doesn’t fit with a left-wing agenda far-right is spurious, annoying and dangerous.
One of the strangest memes on this site is the right-wing coupling that goes “woman with large breasts = anti-wokeness”. Don’t understand the connection. We still have women with large breasts. Wokeness is weird but it has not altered basic human biology.
Really disappointed in the Observer’s cowardice on this. Being bullied by an independent MP is a bad look for a mainstream outlet.
Editor's note on the removal of the SAF cartoon from our 20 July edition: We are genuinely sorry for causing offence, and we are taking the cartoon down. bit.ly/46g5b7P
RIP to the one and only Ozzy Osbourne. There will never be another like him.
I get why James Cleverly would want to be shadow housing secretary. I see what’s in it for him, particularly as it’s shadowing Angela Rayner’s brief. But I don’t get why it’s in Kemi Badenoch’s interest for him to be there, though.
Michael Gove is the one who is right here.
Kevin Maguire "Are you really blaming what Israel is now doing, killing Palestinians in huge numbers, on Hamas? Are you really doing that?" Michael Gove: "Yes" Gove isn't just an apologist for genocide. He's cheering it on #GMB
I think 50 years from now, people in the west will look back on how we let these countries sportwash themselves with no restraint in absolute, deep, existential horror.
Qatar has confirmed it is in talks to host the 2036 Olympics and Paralympics and bring the games to the Middle East for the first time 🔗 Read more trib.al/CHbcpYj
This is the 2025 lefty version of “Yes fascism has some downsides, but they do make the trains run on time, don’t they”.

All of the rumours make it look like Badenoch’s shadow cabinet reshuffle is going to be as much of a shitshow as one would expect.
We should scrap the triple lock. The time has come. You want to cut spending and the size of the state? That’s a good start.
People have been asking me exactly why I think votes at 16 is a really bad idea for a few days now. Well, I've gone into it here, in detail. An in-depth look at why votes at 16 is a bad idea:
Suddenly controversial take: phone theft is not a “semi-victimless crime”. Given how much new phones are worth, it should be treated as a fairly serious crime, in fact.
In the abstract, I see the appeal of this, yet there is one major problem: no one, not one other country in the “Anglosphere”, is remotely interested in such a concept.
The Anglosphere would be a more coherent polity than the EU. We learn culture through language. And we're far more likely to want to watch a US presidential debate than a European one.
I have zero desire to watch Mehdi Hasan argue with the Nazis because what’s the point, I will just want everyone involved to lose as badly as possible.
That GB News clip attempting to humiliate an autistic black Brit has badly backfired. The young lad struggles to answer questions about Afred the Great, but he comes across as good-natured and patriotic. He should be treasured, not mocked, says Rakib Ehsan buff.ly/A8NcpAP
The WEF didn't need to rig anything to make Brexit look like a disaster. That's abundantly clear to anyone who lives in this country and isn't biased about it already.
If your solution to everything is "We just need to tax the rich a little more", then you don't have a solution that makes any sense. Even in Marxist terms, that idea makes no sense, never mind in actual, real terms.
📰 On Friday, our Research Director @NicholasTyrone wrote for City AM on how 'Businesses stand ready tackle long-term sickness – if only we let them'. 💬 Nick writes "Fixing the issues within the British economy was always going to be a difficult task for the incoming Labour…
Every word of this from Lowe is 100% correct. Pains me to say it a little, but there is not a false word here.
Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it. You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe. Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked…