Virtually no new houses are being sold in London right now - the current & previous government's policies have utterly failed.

Quite extraordinary behaviour by Labour in Lambeth:

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/10/lamb...

3. Lots more green energy > lower energy prices.

To unlock these you need the political courage to:

a) Make the planning system less of a block on building.
b) Get closer to the EU
c) Be comfortable with immigration from the builders we would need to build on this scale.

Fixing the cost of living crisis isn't easy but it is fairly obvious how to make some progress:

1. Lots more housing > lower rents & house prices
2. Rejoin the Single Market > lower food prices & lower overall prices because the inputs to everything are cheaper.

Kind of interesting that it hasn't taken off more already given the high returns.

My solar, currently being installed, is projected at 8% returns - and that's tax free - so an extraordinarily good rate.

Presumably, by now we can look back and get a sense of what the actual risk transfer was?

Starlink is harder because the competitive alternatives are lacking...

The British government has lots of points of pressure on him - which are currently entirely unused:

a) Advertising money from Twitter, b) Sales of Teslas, c) Starlink sales from the UK.

All of these can be targets given his incitement to criminality.

Two of these are easy too.

A while back the NAO quantified this for HS1.

If I remember right it was about £50m for the privilege of keeping it off balance sheet.

If you doubt we have the power, consider that he gets a) Advertising money from Twitter, b) Sales of Teslas, c) Starlink sales from the UK.

All of these can be targets given his incitement to criminality.

The cowardice, or incompetence, of the British government on Elon Musk is incredible.

We have the power to stop him interfering in our politics - we just need to do it.

"Everyone who protested, wrote to their MPs, shouted at the TV...we have to work towards that two-state solution."

@LaylaMoran.bsky.social

Nice to see some actual research on young people - rather than prejudice.

On the whole, Gen Z is a liberal generation - keeping with the pattern of society getting more liberal over time.

This morning I stumbled on the Google Maps reviews for the Lib Dem HQ - and it does not disappoint.

Interesting fact in that article: £50m reseller fee is probably going to mean that they pay zero UK tax, given the revenue figures you reported.

Some people might perceive that as tax evasion.

Ok that's true - but I think my shorthand was a reasonable description - which is that *if you are asked today* then you need to provide some sort of ID to satisfy your landlord / employer - which is either your immigration status documents, passport etc.

An ID system wouldn't really change that.

... And I think it's fair to believe that they've started with the comms and worked back to the policy, hence the mess they are in.

That's sort of my point.

Not many people will argue with simplifying how the public gets to use government services, subject to appropriate safeguards (which aren't simple, but are possible).

But the government here is trying to simultaneously imply two contradictory things....

If you want a classic of the NIMBY local press genre, this is it.

This is a brownfield (ex-hard stand caravan park) site, in the very centre of Bristop, where 40% of homes will be affordable. Its basically the dream development NIMBYs demand.

And this is how work is written up.

The government say there's misinformation about ID cards.

Yet their core reason doesn't make sense - because ID is already needed for employment, and they say that it won't be compulsory to carry cards....

I really don’t know how a British-Palestinian like @laylamoran.bsky.social, someone so close to and personally affected by everything that happened, finds those reserves of empathy, while people with much less skin in the game take it upon themselves to strike the most strident pose.

Actually Alexander was a soy boy!

Am I doing this right?

Jonn's point has always nagged at me. He'd missed most of India, let alone China.

And it's not like there weren't empires at that point.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300s_BC...

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...