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What does a long-termist do with the idea that guaranteeing seniors’ retirement income substantially reduces fertility.

I hear a lot of people talk about Zohran's supposed political instincts, but someone who was ruthlessly focused on becoming mayor of New York would not die on the irrelevant-to-the-job hill of "intifada just means struggle"

Reform says "everything is up for debate" on the Bank of England, if they win the election... thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Mystery surrounds popular Cambridge restaurant as doors closed for weeks cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge… << Sad!

It's a mistake to understand anti-supply rules as a zero-sum transfer in this way. As with almost any policy there are winners and losers, but quantity restrictions on new housing is a negative-sum policy generating losses that are much larger than the gains.

My first Spectator piece: * The inside story of how the govt is dealing with Iran * Starmer’s hands tied by Hermer’s legal advice * What Labour’s national security strategy next week will say and why Labour MPs might not like it spectator.co.uk/article/starme…

Sigh.

Stop saying “liberal” when you mean “left-wing”. insider.iea.org.uk/p/is-it-time-t…

A lot of people are once again confusing high polled support for positive foreign policy outcomes with deep support for whatever means are required to achieve them. This is how foreign policy falls into the last political ditch where 80 percent of people polled “support”

I have to admit that I didn't have "the fact that Trump is hesitating to bomb another country proves that he's a fascist" on my bingo card, but you can always count on Bill to surprise you.

Marcus Walker The intellectual capacity of the current cohort of MPs is very low. I think we are seeing that on full display here. They are functioning on the level of Student Union politics.

Wait, the UK doesn't just not have air con by choice and inertia, but apparently *bans* it for new builds?! Insane, degrowth etc.

"lebensraum" means living space, as in providing homeless people living space through affordable housing and rent control but I get that German words sound super scary to you.

And there we go. You are all going to live in a country where the health service deliberately & knowingly kills people.

During COVID, politicians routinely defended extreme restrictions (and large resource transfers) to save a few weeks or months of life for elderly care home residents. That revealed a belief that life, even brief and compromised, should be preserved almost at any cost. Yet now,

New paper irelandp.com/papers/moneypo…

Unhinged Reactions: Federal Lands Edition cato.org/blog/unhinged-… via Cato Institute

A new strategy to fight inflation grumpy-economist.com/p/a-new-strate…

My piece, with Thomas Berry, in Bloomberg Law: Aggressive use of executive power is part of a broader trend. Except for a 14-month window in the 1970s, the US has lived under one or more declared national emergencies continuously since 1933. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

"Last weekend, many Americans — mostly progressives, surely — staged “No Kings” protests against what progressivism has done much to produce: today’s rampant presidency." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…