Lasantha Wijesinghe

Officials advise - Ministers decide but I am not sure I would be celebrating failing to convey the uncertainty around the tax revenue, the negative impact on the rural economy and farmers’ futures. In every fiscal event I was exposed to this option was laid on the table - we said…

Warning! The @DailyMail is carrying an article by me that contains numerous errors, introduced by editors while I was without access to a phone signal or internet, hiking in the Rockies. Below is the correct text that I submitted to them: The climate boondoggle is one of the…

@TheFixtureMan had a team pull out for Sunday so are looking for a game. Can host and do teas. Can also travel. Located 30 minutes from Bournemouth

LABOUR - A record number of farms have shut down… because nothing says food security like taxing farmers out of existence and land owners throwing tenant farmers out, in order to rent out their fields as solar factories for subsidies. What a total shambles 🤡

When tolerance begets tyranny 'It is the fetishization of identity at the expense of liberty. It is the ideological pacifism of a society too terrified to assert its own values, lest it be accused of “racism” by those who mistake ideology for ethnicity.' pfriesen.substack.com/p/the-crescent…

This is indeed a truly magnificent essay in all senses: exquisitely well written, ferociously well argued, devastatingly persuasive, admirably courageous.

Superb piece by Paul Friesen. Tolerance is a virtue but should not be extended to tolerating violent intolerance. In particular, why does the liberal West give a free pass to the intolerant medieval bigotry of Islamism? Please read the whole article. pfriesen.substack.com/p/the-crescent…

Can a broken economy be fixed.? Yes. Here is one very good example. thefp.com/p/niall-fergus…

A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:

Worth being on X just for this

Higher borrowing, higher taxes and poor growth. Isn't this what economists call a doom loop?

Also where local can’t provide BUY NATIONAL BUY BRITISH Support British workers

From my MoS column this week

Consultants, if people are telling 'you we've all suffered, now is not the time', read this post by Matt at least twice! If old style CEA's existed in the 2008 form UK consultant top pay point pay would be roughly same level as pay in Ireland/Australia for state work.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

A month on from the Commons vote on assisted suicide, it’s clear that quite a few MPs were confused about the bill or influenced by misinformation. Here are 10 examples:

"The mass immigration of communities who define their political membership in religious rather than secular terms; the transfer of sovereignty from parliament to unelected officials in foreign countries and foreign courts of law; the disruption of the common law by the abolition…

A fantastic day at Chilmark CC. What excellent hospitality and good cricket.As promised, the teas were 1st class, and they even let us win. #hospitalservicescricket

Why did we throw the book at two men who chopped down a tree but declined to even pursue a member of a now proscribed terrorist group for this act of wanton destruction?

Just after filming this we got the latest updated numbers for October-June and it is 86,000 and counting instagram.com/reel/DMQLXliia…