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Rather than deal with criminality - rather than imprison career criminals, investigate each crime and move cases through our courts faster - instead there is debate on blunting all kitchen knives. We shouldn't have to make our lives worse because the gov won't Crush Crime

Since 1988 good schools have been free to grow, without councils stopping them. That enabled parental choice, which in turn drove up standards. Phillipson is ending that.

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Note that GDP per head - which is what matters - was down 0.1%. But that's not the number that gets the headlines.

As a SpAd in HMT who helped negotiate the move to 2.5% by 2030, it's clear that it isn't sufficient now. Of course the fiscal position is tight, but Hegseth comments show that this is existential for NATO. The UK HAS to step up spending. The costs of inaction are FAR higher.

For all the reaction to the JD Vance speech, I have to wonder...why aren't we announcing emergency budgets across Europe and the UK? We are on our own. We have to up our defence capability extremely rapidly. We can't sit around for another year and hope for the best.

Russia is about to annex large parts of Ukraine, aided by the US. Germany's economy is in ruins, and it's unclear which European states have the will and capacity to answer a Article 5 call from the Baltics, let alone if the US would. And still, prominent European politicians

Brian All Europeans should be hugely grateful to the US for the money and materiel it has provided to Ukraine, and the US has no obligation whatsoever to fund a war that it doesn't believe is in its interests. But it's now helping Russia to win the war – saying Ukraine started the

A lot of people are acting as though the US has turned its back on the UK. Some really interesting polling in US by Public First showing completely the opposite - and providing good arguments for both UK and Canada to use in tariff row. (1/?)

A new quirk in the history of British infrastructure has presented itself. Say hello to the ghost motorway. And like most ghosts, it has a message for us.🧵

Thrilled that Adam Bell Michael Dnes and others at Stonehaven are now colleagues.

I wrote this piece for the The New Statesman on local opposition to energy infrastructure, and whether or not it's misrepresented. newstatesman.com/spotlight/sust…

Amanda would make a great member of the Lords - thoughtful and knowledgeable. I hope this happens.

Thrilled to have Shivani on board. So many of her former colleagues have congratulated me on managing to hire her!

Britons' verdict on the past decade—nationally and in their own neighbourhoods.

and once again, no one thinks these elections have anything to do with local government and its performance (because it doesn’t, because we’re stupidly centralised)

Wrote in Politico today about what will happen next. There’s a risk of massively over complicating something very simple to diagnose and very hard to fix. politico.eu/article/shock-…

Huge thanks to Ian Leslie for quoting this before I got round to posting about it...really enjoyed writing for the newly rebranded Re:State alongside some v illustrious and interesting authors!

if only the Tsar knew!