Probably too progressive to raise enough for what the public expects! Hello from Denmark: the taxes here are high on everyone, but it works well. (The racism isn’t great though).

Plus on tax, Labour (wrongly) 'ruled out' tax rises pre- election. That's unsustainable, but without a tax raising plan they've reverted to either pre packed Treasury plans (like employer NI) or slightly random ones. Progressive taxation is "left wing", but tax increases per se are not "left wing"

Also the tax thing is not exactly right: broad tax take is still super low by European standards which is why health and social care desperately underfunded

It’s unseemly and undignified. If you want to replace someone who lacks any apparent driver apart from wanting to be PM with a copy, then Wes is your man.

I cannot emphasise enough how Faragism rests on the idea that 'the good old days' were better.

bsky.app/profile/pete...

Anthropic and Google now seem to get that the primary value people get out of AI is doing annoying work they don't want to do (coding, basic research, drafting emails, etc), OpenAI/XAI/Meta seem to still think image/video slop and search replacement are the future

All this begs another question: the Cabinet Office is supposed to be responsible for ethics and integrity in government.

Can Starmer really retain a Cabinet Office minister who commissioned a PR firm to investigate journalists on the flimsiest of pretexts?

Simons’ other defence is that Labour Together asked “a PR company” to investigate a suspected “illegal hack”.

But if you think you’ve been hacked, you call cyber security experts, not “a PR company”....

Evidence seen by Democracy for Sale shows the authors of its reports were not tech experts

Neoliberal workforce models in social democratic parties and the decline of long-term vision, in this TED talk I will...

uber-wokes, net-zeroists, rejoinerists, corbynites, neo-corbynites, crypto corbynites, Chinese restaurants, why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?