David Soskin

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“Food you can feel good about”… imported from overseas with a giant carbon footprint? Why does the National Trust source apples, damsons, sloes, blackcurrants, rhubarb, and onions abroad for its products “Made in the UK”? Is the National Trust on the side of British farmers?

Bond markets don’t have political views. They think inflation is going up and the finances look dodgy, and they want a higher premium to lend to us as a result. It’s not a constraint of ‘democratic choice’ if the people you’re begging for money impose conditions on the lending.

@liamcunningham1 Moron. Have you any idea who invented the spreadsheet?

Take a note of who’s advertising during this Eurovision debacle. And boycott the products. Hit them in the spreadsheet.

Maybe we don't want politicians with 'inspirational' backstories, we want people who won't lie to us and constantly make our lives and finances worse?

We have good news for the MP for Westminster - her new Conservative Council has just appointed a cabinet member for enforcement after years of the previous administration not taking this problem seriously @westminstertory x.com/RNBlake/status…

@RNBlake @limebike Excellent. Navigating the pavements of Westminster currently requires the hurdling skills of David Hemery.

I’ve just met with @limebike to share residents concerns around the reckless use of e-bikes on our streets and pavements. Residents in the Citiesof London and Westminster deserve Safer Pavements🚲

If you like high mortgage rates and rents, you’ll love Burnham

I made us into Lego @James1940 @SpitfireFilly ….! Two of my favourites at two consecutive Petworth literary festivals …!!

Some corrections: You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that? Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done. Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7. Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant. UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

A King's Speech so tired, empty and illogical... It has an Energy Independence Bill that stops us drilling our own oil and gas... A Regulating for Growth Bill - a slogan up there with copulating for virginity and drinking for sobriety... A Removal of Peerages Bill, aka Peter's Law... A Civil Service Bill, aka Olly's Law... A Northern Ireland Bill that will persecute our veterans... A Conversion Bill that will persecute parents who talk kids out of going trans... Votes for sixteen-year-olds, which they regret now the kids don't like Labour... Digital ID cards that will be voluntary - any illegals likely to apply? A Courts Modernisation Bill that brings back the attack on jury trials... A Police Reform Bill that will abolish local forces... A Social Housing Bill that bars the tenants from buying their home... A Hillsborough Law they dropped once after promising contradictory things to families and to MI5... A European Partnership Bill so they can ram through future give-aways without a vote... And a Remediation Bill ... but no remediation for taxpayers, to whom Labour lied and shafted as soon as the election was done. No welfare reform, no reduction in spending, no defence investment plan. If Starmer thought that was enough to save his skin, he is sorely mistaken.

How dare you, bugger orf! Besides, presidents of the Cambridge Union are irrelevant to British politics and always have been.

@NickBryantNY Deeply shocked.

Britain would benefit from a law stating that no one who had ever served as the president of the Oxford or Cambridge Union should be allowed within a 100 meters radius of Downing Street and, ideally, the Houses of Parliament. A ban of PPE graduates would help too.

Net migration of Dalmatians to the U.K. plummets

You can’t “regulate for growth” any more than you can spend your way to prosperity. This is mad. The government even boast their "Regulating for Growth Bill" is “not about deregulation." They’ve lost the plot. Conservatives set out plans to deregulate in our alternative King's Speech. - Repeal the job killing parts of the (Un)Employment Rights Act - Scrap the Climate Change Act - Scrap dozens of non-financial ESG reporting regulations.

@JAHeale Her husband is probably the funniest peer ever to be a member of the Upper House.

Reupping on State Opening of Parliament day

If our national debt interest repayment were a department it would be the fifth largest in Whitehall. Bigger than all the billions we spend on education! Mad anti-growth policies by Rachel Reeves and Labour economic cluelessness have caused this ongoing national tragedy.

@thequentinletts Not an expression you would normally find in the King’s wheelhouse.

Poor old King is obliged to say 'at pace'.

@mattwridley @EdConwaySky £2.9 trillion in debt. A figure rarely, if ever, mentioned by Labour politicians. Maybe the number is too large for them to comprehend?

Characteristically excellent analysis from @EdConwaySky. UK has slow growth, high public spending, record tax burden, high energy imports, political chaos = markets demanding high premium to lend to us.

"After accepting a job at Cambridge on the promise of free speech, I was betrayed the moment the administration determined that free speech was inconvenient for them. I was effectively driven off campus with threats of violence against me brushed off as not a big deal. I was forced to resign from my paid position as undergraduate examiner." In 2020, the University of Cambridge issued a statement on freedom of speech which said: "The University will ensure that staff are able to exercise freedom of thought and expression within the law without placing themselves at risk of losing their job or any University privileges and benefits they have." Yet this was not the case for Nathan Cofnas. As Dr Cofnas says, many universities make lofty expressions of support for free speech and academic freedom — but the reality is very different. Dr Cofnas, a member of the university's Faculty of Philosophy, is at the centre of a legal battle over a controversial blog post he wrote about race and genetics; he also had his research affiliation with Emmanuel College terminated separately. Nathan's blog post prompted outcry on campus after being reported in the student newspaper. A petition denouncing him as "bigoted" and a "eugenicist" and calling for his termination soon gained over 1,000 signatures. Threats of campus protests followed, and he began to receive threats of violence privately. The University of Cambridge defended his right to academic freedom and exonarated him, but Emmanuel College claimed that he had breached its Diversity, Equality and Inclusion guidelines. The Free Speech Union has supported Dr Cofnas throughout and helped him bring legal action against Emmanuel College for belief discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. While Cofnas lost at the County Court, the fight is not over. The Free Speech Union is supporting Dr Cofnas in appealing the decision at the High Court. Read Nathan's story in his own words below 👇