Ultimately the minimum wage is a brilliant tool, but it can’t compensate for “we haven’t built any housing”, “we have cut cash transfers to the bone” and “all the third spaces have been cut to pay for social care”.

Glasman: 'We will keep fighting the 1955 general election until you give us the RIGHT answer!'
The newspaper of British Conservativism: 'What a necessary voice!'

The difficult truth is that there is a clear national security element to social media information flows. It can't all be viewed through the single lens of free speech. Disinformation sabotage is a hostile act intended to destablise our societies. Our societies need appropriate protection.

Big organizations are buying it because they think they have to, as there is a decent chunk of money that’s made just swindling execs. But that isn’t even really working! Everybody is doing cargo cult shit. Tech companies only know how to spend money and send 3000 Patagonia apes into your inbox.

This isn’t institutional capture. It’s a parallel epistemic system built outside medicine, using influencer dynamics, curated anecdotes, and spiritualised autonomy to replace verification, deliberation, and accountability.

Loads of shabby crap badly-used late Victorian 2 storey blocks on almost every thoroughfare outside Central London, pull them all down and build 5 storey mixed residential above commercial ground floor. I've been saying it for a decade.

Quite difficult to be a good citizen, and do all the things a good citizen is supposed to stay on top of, if the civic institutions are falling apart.

But just you watch: if I paint anti-pee paint on a TFL station without permission I bet the justice system will spring into action!!

Ooh, good idea. Might do the same.