Every reference to 'welfare' ever should have 'including pensions' or 'excluding pensions' in parentheses next to the word.
All interviewers/articles should clarify at first use whether the word includes or excludes. Interviews should be stopped if unclear.
Because frankly it's getting tedious.
The Strategic Defence Review, which Robertson spearheaded, came out in September 2025, as I was writing the last chapter of my book, which is focused on foreign policy and strategy. I read that entire document and interviewed a number of experts about it. A few thoughts. 🧵
I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]
I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.
This time with better cropping
Fully agree. Could pick any paragraph but this one in particular struck me as a word perfect encapsulation.
Just a knock and should be fine in a couple of weeks according to the club medical department
Johnson! Again!
Hi @dannycarrier.bsky.social ! It has indeed been a very long time … Do share nostalgia inducing pics of the glory days when we were young enough to have got into the Spurs team last night… Congrats for all the good work you do at CNJ - will pass on your best to Dan
www.dezeen.com/2025/01/23/a...
Very sad news, and my deepest condolences to his family, friends and former colleagues. I will remember Dennis very fondly from our time teaching together at the @thebartlettucl.bsky.social .
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"
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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
Cartoon of three buildings by the architect Le Corbusier, top to bottom: Notre Dame du Haut La Tourette monastery Unité d'Habitation Captions: Below the top one: Le Corbusy Middle: Le Corbusier Top: Le Corbusiest
I misread this sentence in the Guardian ... Would LOVE to watch an Alan Bennett zombie film...
"I see a train wreck approaching - and not in slow motion". My Swamp Notes newsletter on whether Musk and Trump are destined to fall out. Free to read. on.ft.com/491H9N6
I've created a starter pack for colleagues and graduate students at the #Bartlett #UCL Faculty of the Built Environment including @timwaterman.bsky.social @willjennings.bsky.social @djdunc.bsky.social @adamdennett.bsky.social and others
- who am I missing? Suggestions welcome
go.bsky.app/8tVcce6
“From three friends in high places to essentially zero is quite the feat of statecraft.”
Ouch. Janah Ganesh in FT today:
How Britain squandered the best hand in the world on.ft.com/3AP6eOO
A satirical cartoon of a passenger on a plane saying the pilot has lost touch with regular passengers before adding: “who thinks I should fly the plane?” Everyone puts their hands up.
cartoon of the day
Hi. Yes please!
