Tom Harwood

Crisis after crisis after crisis. But what has led us to this doom loop? And how do we get out of it? Until we wake up to the fact that the spiral began in 2008, we can't escape it. My latest newsletter👇 tomharwood.substack.com/p/persistent-k…

The three things stopping Brits from installing AC.

Javier Milei’s approval rating has soared to 63%, with 70% of Argentinians saying they now support Libertarianism. Mileism is sweeping through Argentina and Free Market Capitalism is winning the day.

Europeans often think high-rise is necessarily ugly, which is actually an illusion resulting from almost all European high-rise being built after 1945. I wonder if 'streets in the sky' are subject to a similar illusion, associated by bad luck with postwar planning.

Much more in favour of 20s Boris-Brick than 00s Blairwave Quay slop.

Start treating ManSheffLeedsPool like a single economic cluster and watch growth 📈 (Green belt reform, railways, and new motorways necessary to make this happen)

I see kids riding around on stolen lime bikes all the time. No idea why they’re designed to be rideable when not hired, with only a meek beep to highlight illegality. Surely the easy non mechanical solution is just allow under 18s to hire the things. Would slash illegal riding.

There’s no such thing as an atheist Muslim. Defining ‘Islamophobia’ isn’t about protecting a people. It’s about protecting a set of ideas. In what world should a set of ideas be protected in law?

.@SteveReedMP has been out today trumpeting a goal to cut sewage spills 50% by 2030 against 2024 levels But Ofwat said last year that water co spending would cut spills 45% by 2030 against 2021 levels Reed goal gets you 225,199 sewage spills in 2030 Ofwat gets you 204,893!

Solar has smashed expectations. A genuinely remarkable technology that is going to do an astonishing amount of heavy lifting in the years to come. Way more than the experts predicted. The International Energy Agency has been totally cooked here. Left in the dust.

Article 8 of the ECHR has been cited as a reason behind the generous visitation rights that British prisoners enjoy. These visitation rights have traditionally been the biggest hurdle to using overseas prison places to alleviate domestic capacity issues.

Stunning statistics. Not unrelated is that in 1947 the government effectively made most private investment illegal without arbitrary political consent.

Is criminalising a belief (however disgusting that belief is) something that a free society should really be doing?

The Vatican has come a long way since declaring heliocentrism as heresy.

It's actually wild how much of what we now think of as pleasant pastures green is new land we created out of thin air. In the ninth century, much of what is now eastern England was boggy swamp and marshland. Much of it wasn't land until the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries.

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.

The moon landing was only universally popular once it became a nostalgic symbol of the 'good old days.'

July 2025: now.

Labour Yimby are disappointed by the Government’s decision to concede to the Nimby lobby on the planning reforms this country so desperately needs. For the first time the Labour Government is backing the blockers, not the builders. 1/

Woman brags about getting a Motability car for NARCOLEPSY! "I can't do public transport as I fall asleep randomly and miss my stops" "No worries, here's the keys to your new death machine!"

We mandate insane things, of use to no one, and it only makes homes more difficult to build. Afuera.