Wind power’s dirty secret 25 years ago, we drew almost all our power from weather-independent sources such as nuclear, coal, and gas.

🍃💡Our Associate Fellow, Tim Gregory, is in
@thespectator1828.bsky.social today, covering the hidden costs of wind power: spectator.com/article/wind...

Excited for @brightblueuk.bsky.social & @thefabians.bsky.social's major tech summit

In addition to keynote speeches, there will be 5 panels:

🔹 Scaling up tech
🔹 Regulating tech
🔹 Tech and public services
🔹 Tech and the future of work
🔹 Democracy and tech

RSVP: fabians.org.uk/event/tech-s...

For International Women’s Day let’s tackle deepfakes I became the victim of AI-enabled harassment generated using Grok.

📱"In other words, [AI] allows misogyny and abuse to be industrialised"📱

@brightblueuk.bsky.social 's Associate Fellow, Isabella Wallersteiner, argues that the government can and must do more to protect women online in the age of AI.

Article link👉 centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/for-internat...

Comment from Richard Fuller, Shadow Chief Secretary to HM Treasury 👇

Read the report in full (including our 8 policy recommendations) here 👇

brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Alternatively the government could move policy costs off electricity bills and onto gas bills.

🏭Policy costs make up 18% of electricity bills and 8% for gas bills. 💷

🌲Shifting these costs entirely onto gas would make electricity cheaper while also helping the government’s environmental targets🌳

🔋We found that one progressive way to address some of the non-commodity energy costs would be to go further in transferring the policy costs from energy bills onto general taxation.🪫

This would further distribute the financial burden more evenly across income groups.

Households in the two lowest income quintiles are
considerably less likely to hold a mortgage, with only 11% having one in England as of 2024.

Conversely, they are far more likely to rent, with 31% being social renters and 21% being private renters.

💷In this report, we focused on reducing costs rather than boosting incomes.💷

This is because:

1) We believe that the centre-right must be more interested in supply-side reform.
2) Whilst incomes stagnated across the board, costs for low-to-middle income households have uniquely risen.

Reeves is outrageously complacent on economic growth The dust has settled on the Chancellor's pointless Spring Statement and it looks even worse in the rear-view mirror than it did in real time.

‼️Our latest report on living standards covers by
@cityam.bsky.social ‼️

Link👉 www.cityam.com/reeves-is-ou...

Reeves is outrageously complacent on economic growth The dust has settled on the Chancellor's pointless Spring Statement and it looks even worse in the rear-view mirror than it did in real time.

Spring Statement forecast only modest improvements in living standards

We argue that instead of just focussing on boosting incomes, we also need to cut essential costs to boost the living standards of low-to-middle income households

Covered in @cityam.bsky.social

www.cityam.com/reeves-is-ou...

📣 OUT TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social launches a new report on how to boost living standards

This report offers:

🔷 2 distinctive centre-right principles to guide policymaking: abundance and certainty
🔷 8 new policies to reduce the costs of housing and energy

www.brightblue.org.uk/portfolio/hi...

🚨 Join @brightblueuk.bsky.social for our Members' Meet Up

Sir Tristram Hunt, Director of V&A, will be discussing 'Art and the future of Britain.'

🕖 Thursday 5th March , 7pm
📍Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, SW1P 4RW

Join us as a member to attend. Sign up here: www.brightblue.org.uk/support/#Mem...

My letter to @thetimes.com today on how to reform the student loans system

www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

📺Bright Blue's, Executive Chair,
@ryanshorthouse.bsky.social on @cnbc.com covering the Gorton and Denton by-election📰

🍺 TONIGHT @brightblueuk.bsky.social hosts our Drink Tank with @labouruk.bsky.social MP Peter Swallow, Chair of the APPG on Social Mobility

🕖 7 PM - 8:30 PM
📍Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, London SW1P 4RW

Sign up here: www.brightblue.org.uk/drink-tank-w...

📺 Watch @brightblueuk.bsky.social latest Ludgate Lecture with Professor Eric Kaufmann from the University of Buckingham

“What comes after Woke?”

More here: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Great to be on @cnbc.com this morning talking about the upcoming, unpredictable Gorton and Denton by-election

Andrew Copson and Dan Hitchens: Would legalised assisted dying devalue the lives of the sick, the old and the suffering? I don’t deny that there will always be at least some people who want an assisted death to relieve their suffering. Andrew presumably doesn’t dispute — and hasn’t in this exchange — that a law like…

I recently sat down (virtually) w/ Dan Hitchens for a long-form debate on the ethics of assisted dying f/ @brightblueuk.bsky.social. While we have diff perspectives, I found the exchange to be a great example of how we can disagree agreeably. You can probably guess which side of the debate I was on!

Government adopts Bright Blue recommendations on wood-burning stoves - Bright Blue Bright Blue responds to the Government's Leeds Reforms, including a review of lending rules to potentially allow a prospective buyer to get a...

Two @brightblueuk.bsky.social policy wins announced by DEFRA:

🔹 Introducing mandatory labelling on new wood-burning stoves
🔹Tightening emissions standards on new wood-burning stoves

Read more here: www.brightblue.org.uk/stoves-win-2...

Lowering the voting age won’t fix political apathy Just 18% of this newly enfranchised group would actually vote if there was an election tomorrow

One of our @qmulsse.bsky.social students writing for @brightblueuk.bsky.social 👏

📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social publishes a major new report on reducing victims and abuses of modern slavery in the UK asylum system, proposing 8 new policies.

📘 Read it here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🗞️ Read about it in The Guardian: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ludgate Lecture with Pedro Serrano: Strengthening the relationship between the UK and the EU YouTube video by Bright Blue

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Gn...

Bright Blue promotional banner. Reads: "Ludgate Lecture with ... Pedro Serrano European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom 'Strengthening the relationship between the UK and the EU' Thursday 4th December 2025 | 16:00-17:00"

‼️TODAY at 4pm ‼️

💷💶Listen to the EU Ambassador to the UK discuss how to strengthen the relationship between the UK and the EU.

👇 Link to the livestream is in the reply 👇

Hegel’s thoughts on rabble explain populism Liberals and conservatives have been fighting each other for a long time over the right to bear the mantle of Adam Smith and Friedrich von Hayek. That, alas, has kept them from looking over their…

Writing for us today, Benedikt Koehler suggests that the response to populism lies in Hegel.

@brightblueuk.bsky.social

Read Benedikt's article on Centre Write 👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/hegels-thoug...

Why haven’t we ended poverty forever? In the last 40 years, the spread of capitalism to Asian ‘tiger’ economies and then India and China has meant that the number of people living in poverty has dropped dramatically worldwide.

In today's CW, the Chair of the Conservative Policy Forum, John Penrose, explains why our current definition of 'poverty' is outdated.

@brightblueuk.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

👇Read John's full article here 👇
centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/why-havent-w...

My letter in The Spectator today

@thespectator1828.bsky.social

www.spectator.co.uk/article/lett...

Bright Blue is hiring for a Communications Manager.

Deadline: 1st December 2025

Position can be full-time or part-time.

Full details: www.brightblue.org.uk/who-are-brig...

@brightblueuk.bsky.social

My letter in @thetimes.com today

www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

Very interesting publication from think tanks & experts across the political spectrum, on tax reforms that can drive growth. centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-... Includes @jrf-uk.bsky.social @ippr.org @brightblueuk.bsky.social @cps.org.uk @neweconomics.bsky.social @danneidle.bsky.social CenTax & others