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“If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field, that is forever England”
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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The fourth plinth stuff is a neat crystallisation of what's gone wrong with British governance.
Who chooses its ugly artworks? A committee of random lanyarders who have been beguiled by transient ideology and are completely unaccountable to the public.
A new mayor could very straightforwardly sack them all. So could Parliament. Raise Athelstan!
But no interest-free loans to non-Muslim students? Name and shame the universities thinking about or conducting this two-tier system.
British universities are preparing to offer interest-free sharia-compliant loans to Muslim students, with repayments used to fund others joining the scheme rather than going to the Treasury.
The plans have sparked concerns that they could create a “two-tier system” in higher education.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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So ridiculous, and such an easy win for a government.
Reflective, I think, of a zero day view of history within the Labour Party. All power to @NeilDotObrien - let’s get this campaign moving!
“There are no plans at present for the Government to mark the 1,100th anniversary of the unification of England.”
Great 👍
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I will cut these costs so young Londoners can get onto the housing ladder.
London must be safe and aspirational, but also affordable.
Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.
Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.
While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.
Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.
Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.
As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.
If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.
Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.
Read the full report: cps.org.uk/wp-content/upload…
And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
Fantastic work by @Ben_A_Hopkinson and team here. Thoroughly depressing to see though and the effect this is having on building.
Lots of work for @Katie_Lam_MP to get into and fix it when the Conservatives are back in Government!
Government imposed policy costs make up 57% of the clearing price of a new flat in London and 42% of a new home in the Home Counties.
Despite a big housing shortage and positive planning reforms, new home starts in England are declining from 182,000 in 2022 to under 125,000 last year.
While the macroeconomic context has worsened with build cost inflation and high interest rates, the Government is imposing more burdens on new homes, not fewer.
Taxes, levies, planning, and mandates add over £440,000 to the cost of delivering a home in London and nearly £225,000 nearby, with several of these imposed recently like the Second Staircase, Future Homes Standard, Building Safety Levy, Biodiversity Net Gain and Residential Property Developer Tax.
Individually these may be justified, but together they are making new homes unviable.
As a result, large developers are buying less land and small builders are going out of business; nearly 4,000 construction firms went bust just last year.
If we want to build more homes, we should be easing the burdens on them, not adding more.
Making housebuilding viable again is the most important issue in housing policy and my co-author, Edward Donovan, has completed excellent modelling showing how big the challenge is.
Read the full report: cps.org.uk/wp-content/upload…
And simulate what changing the policies does with Edward's modelling here: easing-the-burdens.cps.org.u…
Basically @rcolvile is right here. What amazes me is how well Britain’s start-up and AI sector is doing *in-spite* of all these things.
Imagine what is possible if our policy and tax environment supported them.
We can do this 🇬🇧🚀 @Conserva_Tech @PeterTFortune @JuliaLopezMP
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Matt is right.
Piecemeal digitisation has left us with a government that’s fragmented and difficult to navigate.
Our latest @Conserva_Tech paper aims to put that right: one person, one government, one record – and HMRC without hold music.
conservatech.io/research-and…
An early morning example of broken digital government.
Why do I have to search and navigate all the HMRC pages for this? Why isn’t it linked? Why isn’t it easy to log in?
There are some big problems in digital functions of government - as @LewisOrmston pointed out in our recent @Conserva_Tech paper, but some of them are so much easier to solve.
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Sacking Ed Miliband must be worth at least 0.2% GDP growth by this point.
Cabinet locked in bitter row as Ed Miliband and key ally try to block £49billion plans for third runway at Heathrow trib.al/XsBR5aS
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If you believe any of this, when why are you here in the UK?
We are not an Islamic theocracy.
You will always be unhappy with the fact we can celebrate Diwali, have gay men running for parliament and women running FTSE 100 businesses. If you hate all this - why stay?
A question for Muslims who think wishing Hindus “Happy Diwali” is fine because you don't believe in it yourself and are just being nice.
If you saw a non-Muslim drinking alcohol, would you say, “Have a good one, mate”? If you saw someone entering a betting shop, would you say, “Hope you win big”?
Of course not. Because alcohol and gambling are haram, and we don't encourage people to engage in haram.
Yet anyone who has read the Qur'an knows that shirk is a far greater sin than drinking alcohol or gambling. Indeed, it is the one sin Allah says He will not forgive if someone dies without repenting from it.
Call me a killjoy if you like, but this is simply about taking Islamic teachings seriously.
If you're not bothered about those teachings, then go ahead and wish people Happy Diwali, Merry Christmas or whatever else.
But if you genuinely care about following Islam, then surely the appropriate course of action is obvious.
I'm not preaching from some position of perfection. I'm far from perfect myself, and I don't expect perfection from other Muslims.
But surely, as Muslims, we should at least make an effort to understand the rulings of our religion and reflect them in our public conduct.
May Allah guide us all, insha Allah.
This really does reveal a lot about Burnham and (in fairness) some others that have made it to Number 10.
Being PM should not be a goal. You should have a guiding mission and ideas that you want to do that being PM will enable.
It’s like they run the race, win and reach the finish line and then say - now what?
Same goes for MPs and want to be future candidates too.
Covet what the office enables you to do for others, not the office itself.
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0…
An early morning example of broken digital government.
Why do I have to search and navigate all the HMRC pages for this? Why isn’t it linked? Why isn’t it easy to log in?
There are some big problems in digital functions of government - as @LewisOrmston pointed out in our recent @Conserva_Tech paper, but some of them are so much easier to solve.
This Government is spineless. There’s huge fraud in the system - unless you believe half a million more people are now disabled since GE24 and worthy of PIP.
Labour are the party of those on welfare.
If you get up at a 6am and work hard at your job or business, they don’t represent your interests.
Only the @Conservatives are backing you.
🔴 Healey scraps crackdown on welfare fraud
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telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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we finally have something the eu doesn't. the frontier labs made london their european base, not paris or berlin.
and the plan is to give that up to "align" with brussels? why would we sign up to their regulations, their fines, their cookie banners, their 400 page acts for software that doesn't exist yet?
there's a reason the labs aren't building in europe. the ball is in our court. don't throw it away.
Matt Day retweeted
we finally have something the eu doesn't. the frontier labs made london their european base, not paris or berlin.
and the plan is to give that up to "align" with brussels? why would we sign up to their regulations, their fines, their cookie banners, their 400 page acts for software that doesn't exist yet?
there's a reason the labs aren't building in europe. the ball is in our court. don't throw it away.
