"Industrial strategy has to be more than just a phrase."

In our latest podcast @georgefreemanmp.bsky.social discusses the upcoming national Industrial Strategy, the possibility of the UK becoming a science superpower and the role of R+D in levelling up.

Listen now 👇🎧

Three feuding cabinet giants fight to be PM….

Don’t miss #TheGangofThree 🎭 at the @KingsHeadThtr - a brilliant account of the defining personal & political battles between Tony Crosland, Dennis Healey & Roy Jenkins in the 60s, 70s & 80s.

I’ve been lecturing today at Manchester - special relativity - and for no good reason other than I want to post stuff here, here’s my lecture notes introducing the concept of invariant mass :-)

Whats the UK role in space🌌 as the global space race intensifies?

With 12,000 satellites🛰️ in orbit & 1m pieces/40 tons of debris🌌, Space is becoming the new WildWest.

We need a respected global regulator to set standards.

The UK🇬🇧 shld take the lead:

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#GrandNational Day @AintreeRaces @itvracing always a poignant 😢day I remember my late jockey Dad who rode the #MrWhat🐎 to win 🏆in 1958… before his life collapse from head injuries… in who’s memory I set up @TheBridgeOfHope⭕️: p

www.racingpost.com/news/mp-free...

This production of *Hamlet: an exploration of one man’s journey through loneliness, betrayal & rage to madness* by @fionalaird.bsky.social is breathtaking.

#TheRegenerationTheatreCo now taking it on outreach tour to prisons & homeless shelters.

Don’t miss it:

🎫 wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/the...

This is an extraordinary project, play & production by the hugely talented @fionalaird.bsky.social & team at #TheRegenerationTheatreCompany 🎭

🚩Suicide is now the biggest cause of death for men under 50🚩

V proud to have set up this not-for-profit project #RegenerationTheatreCo taking our new 1 man Hamlet & outreach workshops into prisons & homeless shelters.

Pls buy a ticket 🎫 to support: wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/the...

What is it about #BobDylan?

As a Dylan lifer in @ukparliament.parliament.uk the House magazine asked me to review the latest biopic

🎬 my ✍️ review of 'A Complete Unknown' | #ACompleteUnknown here

bit.ly/41l4uHD

"Don’t waste two and a half hours of your life on this self-indulgent biopic – stay at home and stream Scorsese’s Dylan films instead."

🎬 @georgefreemanmp.bsky.social reviews 'A Complete Unknown' | #ACompleteUnknown
bit.ly/41l4uHD

After listening carefully to the debate on the #AssistedDying Bill, I still have reservations about the detailed wording but I voted AYE because I believe the seriousness of the issues means it deserves a 2nd Reading and to go to Committee Stage for detailed scrutiny & amendment.

A change for this week’s #ConstituencyFriday - in Parliament for the 2nd Reading of the #AssistedDyingBill

Rightly not an issue for party politics.

A day for all of us in Parliament to make, and listen carefully to, the arguments on all sides of this issue & exercise wise judgment.

Hello @bsky.app

I’m so done with being told by Elon Musk who I should I follow.