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Here are the isolated vocals to the end of God Only Knows. Brian Wilson wrote and produced this at 23 years old

"For once, London is short-changed by the government" > a very good piece on the geography of the spending review, all the imagined things the Treasury's Green Book forbids (it doesn't), and government looking beyond London for growth (about time I think). economist.com/britain/2025/0…

"The most interesting Democrat"? Could be... ❌️ Planned obsolescence ✅️ Local economies ✅️ 'Trade education'

Some end-of-week thoughts on the spending review, now up on my S*bstack. ⬇️

Emergent Ventures UK Tranche marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Here is Harry Lambert on Tom McTague's profile of Keir Starmer somethingdistilled.substack.com/p/what-he-does…

Thames Water "should be placed asap in special administration, bids invited (and there will be many) for the parts – split between London & the rest, and water & sewerage – and the bids judged against the public interest."

I was delighted to meet Lt Lily-Mae Fisher recently in Parliament. Lily mae fisher💙 is the Royal Navy’s only serving female Commando, now part way through training to become a RN helicopter pilot. Her journey to get there is one of courage, persistence, and service. Lily is

Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude

Addio all'attrice Lea Massari. Ha lavorato con Antonioni, Monicelli, Leone e Risi. Aveva 91 anni.

Here's to 2025 offering such a bumper crop of UG dissertations 🤞

Thanks to my old pal Lewis Atkinson MP for the mention in parliament today. An excellent contribution 🫡 hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-0…

Anyone who can't see the value in Beamish Museum's recreation of a vanished world just needs to read this little bit of Trevor Horn's memoir.

Today we have published HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Annual Report 2024-25. Read the report: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_report… And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/chief-ins…

Give people more money to compete for the few properties available and they'll use that extra money to out-bid one another resulting in the same number of sales just at higher prices.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Guess where I've just been 🙂 First time ever! Won't be the last...

"We went hundreds of miles out in this inhospitable sea and built this incredible energy infrastructure... so many families were involved in building that... This was an emotional story about Scotland and I don’t think people have really got that.” There's a novel in this 🙂

EXCLUSIVE 👗Billions of pounds of imports... ↗️Rising by more than 50% a year... 🛬Planes stuffed with cheap clothes... 🇨🇳And a loophole saving Chinese companies from £billions of UK taxes. Behind the scenes of one of the biggest stories in the modern economy: e-commerce 👇

Energy in Britain has gotten scarce—and thus expensive. Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European average than any point in at least 40 years (barring the 22/23 shock). What's behind this, and is it crimping growth? I took a look for The Economist. (🧵)