Julia Willemyns
@jujulemons
Co-founder @Britishprogress / Working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world / Views my own
When someone next asks me what I want from my career, I’ll just show them this.

"Installing AC is bad for the planet" This might have been true when Britain's grid was mostly powered by fossil fuels. A new paper from @BritishProgress shows it isn't anymore and explains why installing AC could accelerate the shift to Net Zero britishprogress.org/articles/air-c…
Scarcity has consequences 😰
☀️🇬🇧🥵 NEW RESEARCH from @BritishProgress on the true impact of Britain’s air conditioning ban. As covered by @Victoria_Spratt @theipaper today, this has real consequences for the elderly, vulnerable and pregnant. 🧵
The conservatives put forward significantly worse conservation amendments to the planning bill than the (also bad) Labour ones everyone spent the first half of this week freaking out over, before spending the latter half of this week celebrating them having a better housing vibe
politics is increasingly just rebranding by wet marketing firms change your policies! you can’t Canva your way out of decline!
Think US courts might reject AI training as fair use? It could be a short‑lived win, because if they don’t back it, President Trump is almost certain to push a law that does.
Trump during his AI speech calls for making America's intellectual property laws more like China's
What makes a house affordable? Turns out, it has little to do with how nice the house is, and entirely to do with market dynamics. This means we can’t just build ‘affordable’ housing without fixing the market – how many homes and people are in a given location.
Democratic consent in Britain is at breaking point. Either this govt takes radical steps to turn the economy around or we face a profound collapse. Politics must to respond to the needs of the British people. We're going to do everything we can to make that happen.
The British people sense a “revolutionary” moment is at hand - this is what @LabourGrowth wants to do about it. By @MarkMcvitie, @Lola__McEvoy and @chriscurtis94 newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
🇪🇺 New Episode "Europe's Most Ambitious Startup": Factory farming is reaching its breaking point with inhuman treatment of animals, antibiotic resistances, hormones that end up in your food and diseases that can jump from farm animals to humans. I visited @HoxtonFarms who…
a timely new report from @BritishProgress ! I think highly-capable AI agents have the potential to transform the way militaries are run over the next decade, so there is huge scope for impactful defense + AI work that ATI can tackle by narrowing its focus
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 The Alan Turing Institute has visibly struggled, and is now at a critical juncture. The Secretary of State has intervened. What happens next? A new report for @britishprogress by me and @jujulemons sets out a plan: 🧵
.@ersatzben & I on the Turing
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 The Alan Turing Institute has visibly struggled, and is now at a critical juncture. The Secretary of State has intervened. What happens next? A new report for @britishprogress by me and @jujulemons sets out a plan: 🧵
it's been clear for a while that @turinginst is punching below its weight, but I've been waiting for someone to set out the detailed, constructive case for what should come next look no further. great work from @ersatzben and @jujulemons:
🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 The Alan Turing Institute has visibly struggled, and is now at a critical juncture. The Secretary of State has intervened. What happens next? A new report for @britishprogress by me and @jujulemons sets out a plan: 🧵
This was a failed "gotcha" attempt. The lads says Britain is his home and that his life has been amazing. Good on him. As for not having a clue about Alfred the Great and The Duke of Wellington - I suspect that would be the case for most young people across the ethnicities.
'What do you think are British values?' @StevenEdginton finds out from South London locals what it means to be British.
god nuclear cooling towers are so sexy
really love these photographs of Sellafield nuclear site, by Barry Lewis
Britain stands at a revolutionary moment. For too long politics has failed those it was meant to serve. A year ago we came together to change that. Today we set out a bold vision to rebuild the economy and restore the democratic contract with the British people. 1/
Read our essay in today’s @NewStatesman on why Britain desperately needs a politics of strategic disruption, and how we aim to deliver that through a ‘modern Beveridge report for Britain’s economy’ the National Renewal Compact. 2/2 newstatesman.com/?p=494019
1. Wind and solar both keep me up at night, but for opposite reasons. Solar works and is winning the global race, Britain simply sits too far north to benefit. Britain is betting on wind instead, yet wind lacks the very traits that makes solar work.
Incredibly disappointing
NEW: Government accept changes to the planning bill put forward by MP Chris Hinchliff, after they suspended him on Wednesday Hinchliff had spearheaded a rebellion against the planning bill - with his amendment also supported by the three other suspended MPs 1/3