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@policylaila We know this is a photo of the green belt because there is virtually nobody there. By sacrificing just 20% of the unvisited green belt, you could solve the housing crisis over-night. Support young people, not the gerontocracy.

In Havering admiring our beautiful Green Belt. Reform will always protect this 🩵

What is the optimum solution to this self-evident truth? #NCG

Here it is: an explainer that the Government doesn't run the government. The absurd convention of the Blair-Cameron years to take politics out of politics by giving civil servants political power, is fulfilled in this story: the decision by an official not to tell the PM or

Chair @EmilyThornberry has written to Sir Oliver Robbins @FCDOGovUK, requesting he appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday 21 April to give evidence on the vetting process for former Ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson.

Britain could have deregulated, cut taxes, rolled back the planning regime and let entrepreneurial capitalism drag us out of the mess we're in. Instead, we're banning pastry adds and discussing capping CEO salaries and if £35k/ year is a high income. We're doomed, aren't we?

Our current system is configured for the elite insiders to protect their positions, NOT to promote the well-being of citizens. Flip the script, choose Networked Commons Governance

@IV0R_MECTIN @AngloHistorian @Loquacian I agree that The Great Restoration is virtually inevitable, but it won't solve our problems. networkcommonsgovernance.substack.com/p/why-david-st…

@AngloHistorian @Loquacian I think you're quite wrong. The way we are already going, The Great Restoration is virtually inevitable..! 🌝

I just wanted to be a history account, not political. But I am so fucking Restore. I do not think Restore Britain will win. I do think that a labour/green alliance will win the next election. When they do, they will irreparably destroy Britain as we know it. But that happens eventually if Reform win too - when they lose the 2032 election to a far more radical left. I don’t even think it’s possible to undo what’s been done to this country. But Rupert Lowe has shown bravery, integrity and courage. He exemplifies every quality that made Britain the most outstanding, overachieving nation on earth. I will show him the same level of integrity that he has shown us still exists. Even if voting is bullshit, even if it helps the greens. It is the total absence of these qualities that has led to the situation we find ourselves in. Sell outs, grifters, career politicians with a copy/paste moral compass. I am voting for courage and integrity so that it may live on.

Taiwan has just overtaken the UK in total stock market value, becoming the world’s 7th largest market. It’s a powerful reminder of what a small, democratic island can achieve without relying on authoritarian control.

@AcademicAgent_X He was bass player in a hard rock band that were heavily tipped to become massive in the 1980s. I expect that you have some of their work in your collection. youtube.com/watch?v=8PiSxT…

Buchanan actually sold this show to about 120 countries and apparently became very rich. This in theory means he’s famous around the world but I don’t know if each market got localised versions with “their own Buchanan”.

The UK hasn't seen this level of power and wealth concentration since the 16th century and we are all feeling the pain. It's time to replace the governance substrate. networkcommonsgovernance.substack.com/p/the-uk-polit…

Why, unlike almost every serious thinker about geopolitics today, has Starmer, Hermer and Foreign Office leadership not woken up to the fact that the “Rules Based International System” has ceased to exist, if indeed it ever did so? The foreign policy brain of the past four PM’s, John Bew, gets it. Writing recently, he pointed out “the idea of a rules-based order is treated as an almost theological abstraction, as a God-given gift from which dissent cannot be contemplated.” But “to make fidelity to international law the organising goal of our foreign policy and the premise of every decision we take” we risk being left as the only one with our pants down. Rather than getting serious about investing in our military capabilities and holding onto prized assets like Diego Garcia that will help us to navigate the the dangerous world we face, Starmer has prioritised the setting of an empty moral example. It is less the ethical foreign policy expounded by Robin Cook; more an exercise in supercilious virtue signalling on the world stage.

Just published my first book - Wordsearch for Brutally Honest Women. Dipping my toe in to see how this all works! Would make a great stocking filler for a brutally honest woman (mainly nurses!) @AmazonUK: amzn.eu/d/8O2g8n9 c/c @jk_rowling @ThePosieParker @Serena_Partrick

@SBarrettBar OK

Please stop tweeting fucking essays.

@CharlotteCGill Just changing the actors will make no difference whilst the stage remains the same. Upgrade the stage, then make citizens the actors. networkedcommonsgovernance.org

Often I’m in “fighting mood” about the UK Today I’m in a bit of a despair one though Everything is just so ghastly And the Right are way too fragmented It’s also house prices and practical things The UK feels so hostile to Brits How do we defeat the baddies? (Don’t jail me)

Truly transformative change has historically come from outside the governance system, but that same system fiercely guards against outsiders. Real change can only come after we have changed our system of governance.

Politics has expanded so far in the UK, that it now seeks dominion over the most intimate aspects of citizens private lives. This is the inevitable result of an increasingly top-down and centralized system of governance. This must end NOW!

There's a crisis hiding inside British local government right now that almost nobody is talking about. And it connects to almost everything else that's going wrong. Since 2018, seven councils have effectively gone bankrupt. Northamptonshire. Croydon. Slough. Thurrock. Woking.