mark jones

Economic data needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. markjones955934.substack.com/p/what-if-ever…

The 2025 UK news cycle, in one chart

Thank you @EditorsUK for naming @Telegraph's 'Ukraine: The Latest' their 'Podcast of the Year.' It was a happy but bittersweet moment, as @DomNicholls and I felt someone was missing up there on stage. David, wherever you are: this one's for you.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

🚨This is the story of how UK & EU goods are STILL going into Russia in vast quantities, despite sanctions. Of how the economic war waged by the G7 is failing. Of how I witnessed sanctions rules broken in plain sight. But above all else it’s the story of a chart... 🧵

Mr Knowles’s father said his eldest son ‘loved life and he lived it just as well as he could’ Read tributes from Peter Knowles and the Editor👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0…

This is a smart proposal - don’t change planning law; just change incentives:

Dad reflexes 😮 #HappyFathersDay

In the last 24 hours, two of our leading media sources (NYT & WSJ) have produced research pieces with hard data on why the U.S. should ban TikTok. Here is the NYT's killer chart. Tiktok systematically censors 80-99% of posts on certain viewpoints, relative to Instagram. 1/3

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

This is broadly the picture across pollsters right now, but important not to forget how unprecedented this is. In 1997, Tories still led on some key issues (economy, Europe). Today, they lead on no issues and are far behind on the ones people care most about.

The paradox of immigration preferences in a nutshell -Majority of Conservative voters support large cuts to immigration, but most also oppose cutting the specific migrant groups who drive current inflows - in fact they want *more* migration from these groups

Killer quote from one participant in @LordAshcroft's Thanet and Portsmouth focus groups: conservativehome.com/2024/03/22/lor…

Jeremy Hunt is the first Chancellor to undersell a tax cut. Someone earning £50-60k claiming child benefit on three kids has seen their marginal tax rate cut from 71% to 57%. Quick thread:

There have been questions about the involvement of lawyers in the #postofficescandal. The evidence of Warwick Tatford, the barrister who prosecuted Seema Misra @SeemaMisra7, at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry was especially eye-opening and shocking. A thread. /1

Exclusive 💥: Scotland Yard confirms Post Office is under criminal investigation over the wrongful prosecution of postmasters for the first time. Watershed moment in the Horizon scandal following #MrBatesvsPostOffice Top of the website & p1 tomorrow 👇🏼 thetimes.co.uk/article/091281…

COP28: Five reasons for optimism on climate - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

I think I have found a genuine story in @NadineDorries's book, The Plot, out today. It concerns manoeuvrings to get the “right” person in to chair the supposedly independent media regulator, @ofcom (thread) (1/9 )

"I’d long been aware that when you search for news related to politics on Google, it is predominantly Left-wing publications that top the list of results." —Nadine Dorries That's not what we found economist.com/graphic-detail…

Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…