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Hats off South Africa. Winning your quarter, your semi and the final all by a single point is quite extraordinary. Rassie Erasmus 1 - Rest of the rugby world 0.

I criticise NIMBYs a lot, so it's only fair to give praise where praise is due. 👏 Virendra Sharma I completely agree with this letter

Loved being at County Councils Network Annual Conference the last couple of days, talking about some of the challenges and opportunities facing county areas. Great to be able to talk through new Henham political analysis about why counties really matter for the next General Election too.

In July I published Retail Therapy with Centre for Policy Studies, outlining various measures to get more people investing in stock and shares. I called for a new Tell Sid moment & suggested the Govt should sell its NatWest shares to individual investors - great to see these ideas picked up!

Standing room only for Institute for Government event on devolution and regional growth. Insightful comments from Jim McMahon MP Oliver Coppard Sebastian Payne and Sophie White from Aviva Investors . All agree direction of travel is only one way and v positive - but much further to go.

Tom Hartley you beauty!!

Probably not quite the time for it… but imagine what would have happened if we had picked Ben Foakes for the Ashes.

Good to see the Chancellor embracing Centre for Policy Studies's proposals (via Nick King & John Redwood) for using NatWest share sales to drive ownership.

Captive audience at UKREiiF - Mayors, MPs, candidates and others listening to the PM announce the next General Election.

A pleasure and a privilege to be at #TroopingTheColour this morning.

Sunday night sport. Come for England in the Euros; stay for Rory McIlroy in the US Open. It’s going to be a nail-biting last hour and a half.

Pyrotechnic football writing on deadline by Jonathan Liew in trying to describe how badly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 played tonight

Thanks to Michael Lynas and Duolingo for a fascinating session with David Blunkett, camilla cavendish and Lord Mandelson this evening. Bashing the unions, criticising some university leadership - yet also offering a positive vision for the future of UK Universities. V insightful.

First realised how much I cared about the 4x200 metre freestyle three years ago. Can’t believe I had forgotten about that until now.

Today’s gold in eventing is a good example of our ability to combine our strength in sitting on things with our strength in bouncing on things, of course.

This is completely absurd. The CMA is holding up a £2.5bn merger in the property industry because of concerns about the housing market in one 11 mile part of Shropshire. gov.uk/government/new…

Since the Election, the Govt has cancelled plans to sell NatWest shares to the public & abandoned the British ISA. Now the PM has said that people with income from shares do not fit his definition of 'working people'. Not sure they're as keen on retail investing as I am.

This piece by the CEO of Timothy Taylor's Brewery brewery shd be required reading for politicians / officials who haven’t worked outside govt. A sad indictment of current and recent governments (including ones I worked in) failing to support the private sector thetimes.com/article/32992c…

Pleased to have written for CapX on pension reforms, what they mean and some ongoing issues: lnkd.in/eSWD8Arw They could have gone further but this is definitely a positive step. There are things to watch out for including everyone trying to get their hands on the cash!

Well, that has been an excruciating but absolutely incredible few hours of golf. Epic from Rory.