Richard Musgrave

Rent controls are a really terrible idea, they never work as intended and just cut supply of properties available. It’s like a lot of ideas on the left these days - it runs on vibes and nothing more.

As I always say, people always reveal their true selves. As Polanski has done in calling @nicolelampert a parasite - which is classic fascist language. Even if she was entirely undistinguished it would be a foul thing to say. That she is one of the most distinguised and brave fighters against racism, who has done more to tackle it than political grifter Polanski ever will, shows only what sort of a man he really is.

Never in a million years did I imagine sharing a Tony Blair article approvingly but this is on point and an important and brave intervention.

The UK Together rally in London today is being sold as a march of love, unity, and hope - against racism and the far-right. But a quick look at who’s backing it reveals a very different story. 🧵

When the leader of racist party calls a Jewish journalist - me - ‘parasitic’ simply for reporting that his Jewish family are scared by the direction his ‘Zionism is racism’ party is going in. This is the true face of the nasty Greens.

Reposting.

If your anti-fascist march has people holding the image of the Ayatollah who slaughtered thousands of peaceful protesters then you’re on a fascist march.

Depressed about the energy crisis? Cheer yourself up by watching Alok Sharma ahead of Cop26 dynamite an energy plant, only a year ago. Love this video.

Well done to the Chancellor for stamping out petrol profiteering.

Good to see reality starting to bite in the legacy media. An “oh sh*t moment” is clearly coming... We are in this mess because a generation of complacent politicians convinced themselves the world was permanently benign and that strategic planning no longer mattered. It is the same mistake made before 1914 and again in the interwar years. After 1991, they simply decided this time was different. As Dr Fiona Hill recalls in her excellent book on Putin, Alexander Grigoriev, former Director General of the State Reserves Agency in Russia, put it bluntly: “Underappreciating the state reserve has always led to serious consequences.” Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves can blame Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin as much as they like on our problems. But as Margaret Thatcher argued in her last book, foreign and security policy demands that “the far-sighted statesman” considers the full range of risks and uses power to secure national goals. We have done the exact opposite. Two decades of green policymaking, sold as a route to independence and security, have left us more exposed than ever. We have fewer strategic reserves and less surge capacity than we did in 2022. There are no easy answers or quick fixes, but the way out is straightforward: 1) Expand North Sea production. 2) Bring coal back into the system where needed as emergency back-up, as Japan has done. 3) Greenlight fracking for shale gas. 4) Re-open Rough as a strategic gas storage facility. 5) Turbocharge new nuclear - the only serious long-term foundation for a reliable power system. 6) Stop vandalising our agricultural and manufacturing base in the name of Net Zero. Anything less is not a strategy. It is managed decline and permacrisis.

Milei is right. Rewarding the unproductive and the inefficient in exchange for political support is one of the main causes of European decline.

Absolutely In 2020, to employ an 18 year old for 40 hours a week on minimum wage, it cost my business £17,000 a year, including employers NI. It now costs £29,000.

This slogan sums up twenty years of British stagnation.

I’ve been asked to share my statement from our evidence at the Inquiry yesterday. So here it is. Thank you to all who listened, and continue to listen. 🫶 #nottinghaminquiry 💚💛

***Calling my Horsey Twitter friends*** Post an old photograph of you with a horse 🐴. I'll start ...

It's been a long, lonely country lane but we finally have a National Trust director who accepts that my ethnicity means I'm too thick to know what to do, wear or how to behave in the countryside. How very condescending, I mean understanding, of her. Bravo! apple.news/AtTXYiBzJRlORc…

‘My dad’s life was an ‘afterthought’: Families give evidence at Nottingham attack inquiry channel4.com/news/my-dads-l…

Thank you @cathynewman and @Channel4News for having me.

Barnaby Webber’s mum on ‘abhorrent’ police WhatsApp messages about her son channel4.com/news/barnaby-w…

Summer 2025 😔 Constitution Hill and Sir Gino pictured on their holidays @HillwoodStud Photo via @sevenbarrows