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Matt Day retweeted
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!
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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…
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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.
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Cc: @andyburnham
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.
Matt Day retweeted
It was an honour to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph this morning.
This Sunday we remember all those who never came home, the families who never stopped waiting and we pay tribute to all those who wear the uniform today.
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UK military satellite Titania has successfully launched into orbit.
Alongside Project Inaros, we can see threats sooner, making the UK safer.
Titania & Inaros are British-built and designed, meaning more highly skilled jobs, a stronger industrial base and a more secure UK.
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"Just before it was nationalised 94 per cent of its [c2c's] trains arrived within five minutes of the scheduled time. The latest available data from this August showed this had dropped to just under 71.5 per cent of trains."
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Andrew Bailey: Just under a fifth of GDP growth this year has been accounted for by AI related activity
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Economic self harm on a grotesque, almost parodic, scale.
UK government to outlaw new North Sea drilling bbc.in/4iyVSUO
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Shall we charge foreign visitors an entry fee for museums, like literally every other country in Europe, so they fund themselves?
Nah. Lets shaft business travellers instead.
Tourism is vital to our economy and our communities, and I want to make sure the cultural institutions welcoming millions of visitors can feel the benefits too.
That’s why the government giving local leaders the power to introduce an Overnight Visitor Levy - to raise and reinvest money in much-loved high streets, public spaces and attractions.
I spoke to @TristramHuntVA, Director of the @V_and_A what the levy could mean for tourist destinations across the country.
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Sequoia leaving London is a big blow. Seemingly an indictment of the European scene as a whole rather than just the UK, but still, hardly a sign of confidence in the direction of travel for European startups.
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Amid all the EU rest discussions, one of the biggest things that we’re worried about is tech regulation.
It seems impossible that Burnham would look at the EU and think ah yes, that hub of innovation and growth.
But, stranger things have happened. It would be a damaging error to align ourselves with the EU on tech regulation, specifically the EU AI Act, as well as more broadly.
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The rise of @KemiBadenoch is nothing short of remarkable.
This is the measure of someone who doesn’t chase headlines, rush for judgment and is making a case from principles. It’s also about professional conduct and behaviour too - these things matter.
