Tom Clark
@tom-clark.bsky.social
Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
An unsparing assessment
Presumably EU/UK can’t just pretend a little finessing & all will be well?
Presumably EU/UK can’t just pretend a little finessing & all will be well?
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
An unsparing assessment
Presumably EU/UK can’t just pretend a little finessing & all will be well?
Presumably EU/UK can’t just pretend a little finessing & all will be well?
Even though I’m enjoying this, my main take-away is that a big part of their “greatness” was choosing the tip-top version to release originally. Almost none of the versions quite as good as the ones you already know.
REVIEW: The Expanded ‘Anthology Collection’ Is a Treasure Trove of Beatles Greatness
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ + 1/2
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ + 1/2
Expanded 'Anthology Collection' Is a Treasure Trove of Beatles Greatness
The Beatles' 'Anthology Collection' has been expanded to 191 tracks, including the new 'Anthology 4'
rollingstone.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Even though I’m enjoying this, my main take-away is that a big part of their “greatness” was choosing the tip-top version to release originally. Almost none of the versions quite as good as the ones you already know.
Swingometer = deffo a bit dicky
2 by-elections, just 20 miles apart, both in traditionally Tory areas… totally different stories
2 by-elections, just 20 miles apart, both in traditionally Tory areas… totally different stories
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Swingometer = deffo a bit dicky
2 by-elections, just 20 miles apart, both in traditionally Tory areas… totally different stories
2 by-elections, just 20 miles apart, both in traditionally Tory areas… totally different stories
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
One surprise in this profile ... confiding in predecessor
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
One surprise in this profile ... confiding in predecessor
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We have a new report out on health & employment in people's late 50s and early 60s. One key finding is these widening gaps in the share of women experiencing depressive symptoms by wealth - likely to be an important headwind for a government looking to boost employment rates.
NEW: Depressive symptoms have risen among women in their late 50s and early 60s, particularly among the least wealthy women.
📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]
📗 @beeboileau.bsky.social and Jonathan Cribb's new report examines health, wealth and employment in the run-up to the state pension age: [THREAD]
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We have a new report out on health & employment in people's late 50s and early 60s. One key finding is these widening gaps in the share of women experiencing depressive symptoms by wealth - likely to be an important headwind for a government looking to boost employment rates.
Inflation down - phew
Have a look under the bonnet of this much-needed good news with this 🧵
Have a look under the bonnet of this much-needed good news with this 🧵
UK CPI inflation begins its long march back to 2%, falling from 3.8% in September to 3.6% in October. This is a welcome decrease but the BoE says it will be a long path down and families are still struggling with the high cost of living. The Chancellor shd act at the Budget. Thread to follow...
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Inflation down - phew
Have a look under the bonnet of this much-needed good news with this 🧵
Have a look under the bonnet of this much-needed good news with this 🧵
Yes, “the books” are in a frail way
But many Budgets have been harsher
So why is the PM in such peril?
Not because of the fiscal arithmetic, but his own political calculations
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
But many Budgets have been harsher
So why is the PM in such peril?
Not because of the fiscal arithmetic, but his own political calculations
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yes, “the books” are in a frail way
But many Budgets have been harsher
So why is the PM in such peril?
Not because of the fiscal arithmetic, but his own political calculations
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
But many Budgets have been harsher
So why is the PM in such peril?
Not because of the fiscal arithmetic, but his own political calculations
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
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In which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER…
80 years after Trinity, we’re 89 seconds from nuclear midnight…
@pghoskin.bsky.social reviews the brilliant new books that strip away the mythology and show us the cold reality of the bomb, including Serhii Plokhy’s THE NUCLEAR AGE:
@pghoskin.bsky.social reviews the brilliant new books that strip away the mythology and show us the cold reality of the bomb, including Serhii Plokhy’s THE NUCLEAR AGE:
How the nuclear age bombed
Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER…
“Residential buildings, greenhouses, sheds, factories, you name it—it needs to be flat. That’s the order”
Chapter & verse on the physical destruction of Gaza
Chapter & verse on the physical destruction of Gaza
The flattening of structures is where the various drivers of Israel’s Gaza onslaught meet: ostensible military aims, a messianic ideology that wants Jewish settlement in the Strip, and the desire for revenge after 7th Oct
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
My piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Residential buildings, greenhouses, sheds, factories, you name it—it needs to be flat. That’s the order”
Chapter & verse on the physical destruction of Gaza
Chapter & verse on the physical destruction of Gaza
Budget preview: it's the politics, stupid
Past PMs have survived dishing out more intense fiscal pain
The reason this Starmer is in mortal peril is because few voters know who he stands for, or understand what he's trying to do www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
Past PMs have survived dishing out more intense fiscal pain
The reason this Starmer is in mortal peril is because few voters know who he stands for, or understand what he's trying to do www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Budget preview: it's the politics, stupid
Past PMs have survived dishing out more intense fiscal pain
The reason this Starmer is in mortal peril is because few voters know who he stands for, or understand what he's trying to do www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
Past PMs have survived dishing out more intense fiscal pain
The reason this Starmer is in mortal peril is because few voters know who he stands for, or understand what he's trying to do www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/716...
Two months ago the PM rallied Labour against Reform “we will fight you with everything we have”
Today his MPs click on their preferred newssource & get this headline
No 10 may try & reconcile with techy arguments abt stock Vs flow
But will anyone outside bunker actually hear a consistent message?
Today his MPs click on their preferred newssource & get this headline
No 10 may try & reconcile with techy arguments abt stock Vs flow
But will anyone outside bunker actually hear a consistent message?
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Two months ago the PM rallied Labour against Reform “we will fight you with everything we have”
Today his MPs click on their preferred newssource & get this headline
No 10 may try & reconcile with techy arguments abt stock Vs flow
But will anyone outside bunker actually hear a consistent message?
Today his MPs click on their preferred newssource & get this headline
No 10 may try & reconcile with techy arguments abt stock Vs flow
But will anyone outside bunker actually hear a consistent message?
It really is worth taking the time to hear from people like “Mary,” who fled from Zimbabwe 20 years ago, to understand what life is like when the law denies you the chance to call the country where you’ve made your life home
In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...
Destitute by design: trapped in the immigration system
Migration policy is not only failing people forced to arrive in Britain by
boats. In an extract from a new edited volume, Daniel Trilling reports on t...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It really is worth taking the time to hear from people like “Mary,” who fled from Zimbabwe 20 years ago, to understand what life is like when the law denies you the chance to call the country where you’ve made your life home
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Thresholds down, rates untouched after all?!
A long & winding road to pushing the planned tax rises down the earnings distribution if so
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Thresholds down, rates untouched after all?!
A long & winding road to pushing the planned tax rises down the earnings distribution if so
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Thresholds down, rates untouched after all?!
A long & winding road to pushing the planned tax rises down the earnings distribution if so
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Thresholds down, rates untouched after all?!
A long & winding road to pushing the planned tax rises down the earnings distribution if so
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Genuinely shocked by this story
If you needed a heart op, would it ever enter your mind that your cardiologist might be in hock to a (substandard) manufacturer?!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you needed a heart op, would it ever enter your mind that your cardiologist might be in hock to a (substandard) manufacturer?!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Genuinely shocked by this story
If you needed a heart op, would it ever enter your mind that your cardiologist might be in hock to a (substandard) manufacturer?!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you needed a heart op, would it ever enter your mind that your cardiologist might be in hock to a (substandard) manufacturer?!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵
For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵
For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
In past interviews Wes Streeting has been remarkably open about his strategy for a future leadership campaign
"Tack left"
Even invoked Starmer's 2020 platform as a "succesful" precedent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Tack left"
Even invoked Starmer's 2020 platform as a "succesful" precedent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In past interviews Wes Streeting has been remarkably open about his strategy for a future leadership campaign
"Tack left"
Even invoked Starmer's 2020 platform as a "succesful" precedent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Tack left"
Even invoked Starmer's 2020 platform as a "succesful" precedent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Israel’s slide continues www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Israel’s slide continues www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
Prison chiefs must face justice for such unbelievable ineptitude - Yahoo News UK
It’s happened again. A prisoner has been released by mistake. This time it’s understood to be Ibrahim Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian asylum seeker with a record of committing sexual offences. He was rele...
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Must have missed the explosive row & resignations over the claim, wrongly made by many including here in the Telegraph last week, that this prematurely-released prisoner was an "asylum seeker"
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
uk.news.yahoo.com/prison-chief...
Robbie Gibb wrote for @prospectmagazine.co.uk in 2020
He took on the cult of fact-checking
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39780...
He took on the cult of fact-checking
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39780...
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Robbie Gibb wrote for @prospectmagazine.co.uk in 2020
He took on the cult of fact-checking
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39780...
He took on the cult of fact-checking
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/39780...
Chancellor offers the first straightforward acknowledgement of the principled argument for abolishing the 2-child limit that we’ve had from Labour’s top brass since Starmer’s 2023 announcement that he wouldn’t change it
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Chancellor offers the first straightforward acknowledgement of the principled argument for abolishing the 2-child limit that we’ve had from Labour’s top brass since Starmer’s 2023 announcement that he wouldn’t change it