Poppy Coburn
@kafkaswife
Meritocracy fan. Acting Deputy Comment Editor @telegraph
“Disinformation” has basically zero explanatory power and is as authoritarian a concept as it appears
So much stuff in this debate. The female mayor @CarolineLucas said was waiting for the Taliban to come and kill her? Not only is she still alive, she went back to Afghanistan to make a documentary (she favourably compared the new regime with the American occupation)
There was a lot of mad stuff, the pinnacle of which might be a former Prime Minister demanding we re-invade without the Americans
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…
Sharp witty writing by Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife on Gen Z's disillusionment 'I’m sure Mao’s Great Leap Forward looks quite impressive when you consider we haven’t managed to dig a hole in the ground to store water for three decades.'
Why are young people so angry? Perhaps a better question to ask is why older people are so complacent. Me in the Telegraph:
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.…
‘Apparently a century ago Britain was the most powerful nation on earth.’ Britain’s decline requires radical changes.
Why are young people so angry? Perhaps a better question to ask is why older people are so complacent. Me in the Telegraph:
Poppy’s right👇 The UK is an *awful* country for the young. As @ukonward argue in The Anti Social Contract, the Left will demand redistribution. The Right must offer reciprocity to restore opportunity, combined with a huge reduction in immigration. ukonward.com/wp-content/upl…
Why are young people so angry? Perhaps a better question to ask is why older people are so complacent. Me in the Telegraph:
Great dispatch here
Why are young people so angry? Perhaps a better question to ask is why older people are so complacent. Me in the Telegraph:
153 migrants in three boats were picked up in the Channel by Border Force yesterday. Unusually, they were taken to Ramsgate due to an anti-immigration protest that was taking place in Dover.
When this is all over, Britain will have spent well over £10B of its scarce 'new things' budget for essentially no long term gain (likely a huge long term loss). No new infra, no economic benefits. Just a whole load of hotel rooms rented for a half decade and £10B+ more debt.
"YIMBYs," "Progress Studies," and "Abundance Libs" when they get rugpulled by the center-left for the 300th time:
Early in the week we get @RachelReevesMP saying all the right things on risk, regulation and the City. Now we get this bloody appalling surrender on housing and planning. I wish the govt would actually decide if growth is a priority or not.
Very disappointing to see members of the former cabinet seem to back the ridiculous narrative that the superinjunction was in any way justified
We shouldn’t forget the cover-up of the Afghan resettlement scheme. The lives of British people have been placed at risk - and yet, many in the previous and current government can’t even bring themselves to apologise, let alone pledge to reverse the granting of refugee status
"How is anyone going to be able to trust Government again?" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn says the Afghan data leak and subsequent super-injunction is the "biggest political scandal in living memory" #Newsnight
"How is anyone going to be able to trust Government again?" The Telegraph's Poppy Coburn says the Afghan data leak and subsequent super-injunction is the "biggest political scandal in living memory" #Newsnight
Martin Wolf of the FT has a similar quasi-corporatist vision. A year or two ago when this was written I might have expressed "concern", now I just laugh. Yesterday's men trying to carve out platforms and niches for themselves amidst the ruin of their own project.
Britain MUST be radical in its electoral reform. • A NZ style (part proportional) electoral system • Compulsory voting • Citizens Assemblies • Local Mayors with real financial powers • An appointed upper house of real credibility and quality Our model of representative…
The British public is becoming more and more anti-immigration with no end in sight. Even among 18-24s, immigration "too high" now leads "too low" and "about right" combined by 12 points.
The pathological system working as intended
This is a crazy revelation: 15 of the 20 primary hotspots for disorder during last summer’s riots had seen large secrete resettlements of Afghans. Cabinet ministers were briefed on this in October, after the riots, but the British public were never told.