Tom Forth

Love a bit of democracy me.

1/ My front window. 2/ Leaflet through my front door. Fair play on this. Made me laugh.

Best enjoyed with an AOC protected European cocktail.

Is it even really a garden if you haven't got your washing line up yet? 🥰🎣

@europebarguide Cloudwater Porter you say? *checks charge on ebike*.

The Boathouse, Skipton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Fine choice for a warm afternoon on a Bank Holiday. Barges and canal scenes with an interior design that doesn't let you forget it. Local cask ales for £4.30 and one or two interesting keg options, eg. Cloudwater Baltic Porter. 🍻👍

One of my favourite reuses of the population around a point tool.

@emmaconcepts Yeah. That. Hopefully.

@thomasforth I said it in other words x.com/i/status/20510…

My intuition is that British voters won't like Reform openly saying "vote for us or else". We prefer such threats to be subtle. But,... I fear I'm being optimistic.

FML.

@rich_coward @annastansbury A more recent write up here specifically on how focusing on skills failed. tomforth.co.uk/graduatepremiu…

@rich_coward @annastansbury I must disagree. I think we've focused on education and healthcare far too much. "Human Capital" more broadly has been a fixation of British growth economists which has comprehensively failed and we need to learn from that quickly. All written up here. tomforth.co.uk/humancapital/

"Going for Growth: Can We Make Britain Wealthy Again?" I enjoyed @matthewclifford and @amolrajan's discussion on AI, British exceptionalism, and the chance for us to return to being the richest big country in the world again. 1/2 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@annastansbury @OpenInnovates @TheDataCity Maybe I should have gone too. Or Paris. Or Amsterdam. 🤷

@annastansbury @OpenInnovates @TheDataCity I bring up Stockholm again because four fantastic people I met in Bradford as part of that IoT UK Boost Programme now live in Sweden. At Spotify, building Minecraft, developing electric ferries, Global Innovation Lead at Ikea. So much talent gone which Britain could have kept.