Daniel Woolf

Head of Policy & Govt Relations @e_nation | Former @AECOM, @CBItweets, @LondonAssembly | Middle Eastern History grad | Reposts *don’t* = endorsement

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[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

A crucial win on the final day 👊

[Paul O Keefe @pokeefe1]

Overwhelming sense of relief not jubilation. A disgraceful season that can't be forgotten just because they got away with it. Totally unacceptable and heads must roll this summer amongst the hierarchy. This can never happen again.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Exclusive from @eleanorhayward

Britain is facing an “economic catastrophe” as young adults “rewired” by smartphones are becoming trapped in worklessness, a government review has found

A landmark report into why one million young people are off work says businesses must adapt to this “anxious generation” by offering greater flexibility and mental health support

Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, was appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to investigate the 946,000 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training, known as Neets

His interim report, to be published next week, says that a “rising tide of mental ill-health, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity” is the main reason for high economic inactivity

Milburn said that these young people “are not snowflakes or faking it”, adding that their heightened distress and anxiety is linked to growing up in a digital age on social media

The review team held focus groups with young people, which revealed smartphones had led to poorer sleep and mental distress. “Every one of a group of ten 12 and 13-year-olds told us they went to bed between midnight and 3am because they were scrolling on their phone,” the review says

Milburn said: “This is a bedroom generation. They are sort of living in their bedrooms. They are on all the time, they’re never off. [Social media] is leading to some evidence of functional impairment, changing their sleep patterns, concentration levels. That is having an impact on their ability to work “

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[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

BREAKING:

Rachel Reeves announces a temporary cut in VAT for 'summer attractions' from 20% to 5% over the holidays

This applies to ticket prices for adults and children

It includes fairs, theme parks, zoos and museums

It also includes children's tickets for cinemas, concerts, soft play and the theatre

It will cut the cost of children's meals in restaurants and cafes from 20% to 5%

The savings will apply from 25th June through to the 1st September

Reeves brands it the Great British Summer Savings Scheme

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Wes Streeting has this morning set out his tax plans - specifically bringing capital gains tax into line with income tax

He says that the current system is unfair because it penalises work

Higher or additional rate taxpayers will pay 24% on gains in the current financial year. Streeting said that the rates should mirror income tax bands - so 40% for higher rate taxpayers and 45% for additional rate taxpayers

He says that the approach could raise £12billion a year

Streeting said: “A member of my family is a cleaner in Lancashire. She pays a higher tax rate on her salary than her landlord pays for the growing value of the home she lives in. She slogs her guts out, he puts in far less effort, yet the state rewards him more than her. And we wonder why people are angry.

“The system is penalising work. It’s not fair and it’s bad for our economy. We need a wealth tax that works. A pound made from simply owning assets should not be taxed less than a pound made from a hard day's work. We can do it in a way that is pro-growth, pro-entrepreneur and pro-work.”

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Keir Starmer has decided not to announce a departure timetable unless and until Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election. I will explore what this means for the government and Labour Party later today

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King’s Speech 2026: What small business owners need to know https://t.co/wiUgMcDxjH

Includes reaction from @emmaljones @SB_Commissioner @e_nation @DanielWoolf16 @StarlingBank @fsb_policy @CBItweets @ConstantContact

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Allies of Wes Streeting say he is preparing to resign and trigger a leadership contest tomorrow

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[Nuddering @NudderingNudnik]

Some will know that i have a long history with Owen going back to 2016 when i unearthed his nasty history of Wikipedia edits & much more.
So to see one of my intellectual heroes of the moment defenestrate Owen so beautifully today has brightened up an otherwise awful week.

[Matt Forde @mattforde]

Golders Green is my local high street. It’s a great area, full of different cultures.

It’s a predominantly Jewish area and it’s a privilege as a non-Jew to live alongside such a warm and friendly community.

Since October 7th, there has been a visible increase in hostility towards the Jewish community. ‘Missing’ posters of relatives were torn down. Yellow ribbons removed from railings. ‘From the River to the Sea’ stickers plastered on lampposts. Verbal abuse in the street.

I’ve seen the fear grow in Jewish friends and neighbours, driven by political activists who have revelled in creating that fear. Enabled by others who are indifferent to the impact of their political bedfellows.

I hope they now appreciate the awful impact of their behaviour.

Saying ‘globalise the intifada’ isn’t just something that immediately identifies you as a dickhead, it is also a form of incitement.

If you say it, you are deliberately intimidating Jewish people.

Stop it, it’s vile.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The problem with answering, Owen, is that it's long.

Because you aren't a little wrong, but spectacularly wrong in kind of evil ways.

But you told me not to evade. So let's do it.

1. “No protests in British history have been bigger than opposition to the American and British slaughter of Arabs in Iraq, so what now?”

Let's let the twitterati judge.

February 15, 2003, London. Police estimate of 750,000 participants in anti-Iraq War protest. Organizers claim as many as 2 million.

The biggest one-off protest ever held in London.

But here's what I said: "The slaughter of Arabs has never triggered anything remotely similar in scale and regularity and consistency in the history of British marches."

Because there were literally *millions* who marched over Gaza, cumulatively, week in and week out, across the entirety of the UK. And many millions more throughout the West. It was everywhere. ACLED recorded 48,000–51,000 protests from October 2023 through 2025 over Gaza, across 130 countries.

A third of the city of Amsterdam marched. Hundreds of thousands in Toronto and New York. A million in Pakistan, a million in Algiers, hundreds of thousands in Rabat and Jakarta. Countries that have no connection whatsoever to Israel, aren’t allies of Israel and don’t arm Israel saw the identical phenomenon.

And still your best analysis is “you’re a WESTERN ALLY?” Just as an analyst, you really think that encompasses the phenomenon?

And even that’s not the truly remarkable part. The remarkable part was the repetitiveness itself, the regularity, the duration and stamina of weekly protests for months and then years. There’s never been anything like it, not for any war, not in the history of Britain. Not even close.

That’s a simple fact. Denying that fact is therefore a bad strategy on your part. A better strategy would be to try to explain it.

Maybe it’s not nefarious antisemitism – or at least not *just* an obsession with Jews embedded deep in progressive and Muslim-world politics and identity. Maybe it’s because people could see the victims on their TikTok feeds, something they’d never seen at that scale from any previous war.

Maybe. I suppose we’ll know in the next war if this is a profound shift in consciousness inaugurated by changes in how we consume information – which would be a beautiful discovery, because it would mean it isn't a surge in antisemitism, and it would also mean that it will be harder to fight wars in future, because everyone everywhere will see the pain of war up close. That would be a beautiful and redemptive outcome, a huge silver lining flowing from the catastrophic tragedy of Gaza.

Or maybe none of that will happen, the only images that will ever flood anyone's feed will be of Jewish criminality, and it really is in the end just a new version of the old civilization-organizing bigotry it was of old, once again, like it always does, masquerading as righteousness.

2. “No British columnist has written more about the Saudi war on Yemen.”

Holy shit, Owen, it isn’t about you. What a strange and irrelevant claim.

Coverage and exposure for Gaza was and remains orders of magnitude – multiple orders of magnitude – larger than it ever was for Yemen or Sudan or Syria or all other conflicts underway everywhere put together in the last three years. It’s vastly greater than Yemen ever got in the darkest moments of that conflict. Even when tens of thousands of children were dying of hunger.

Not three-fold or five-fold, not even 100-fold. We're talking 1000-fold and more.

3. “There has not been a Western facilitated war on the very right of Yemenis to exist as a people going back GENERATIONS”

You think you're helping the cause of Gaza here, but you're just minimizing the evils of the Yemen war.

There has not, in fact, ever been a Yemeni campaign to erase Saudi Arabia. You notice?

Nor a pan-Arab and Iranian campaign that launched multiple annihilationist wars and built vast and sophisticated terrorist movements to destroy the entire Saudi people – which might have led the Saudis to take seriously a Houthi commitment to annihilate them.

I voted repeatedly for a Palestinian state. My own politics didn’t destroy those attempts. It was the annihilationists on the other side that did that.

Up till now you’re just hedging and wriggling and telling half-truths. Here you get kinda evil. And ironically, over the very thing you think gives you moral weight: Yemen’s suffering.

4. “the thousands slaughtered by Saudi bombs over many years in a Yemeni civil war with multiple armed actors is a) a hideous crime b) not even approaching the number of Palestinians slaughtered either in absolute or proportionate numbers, and certainly not in the time scale of Gaza. About 9,000 Yemeni civilians were killed Saudi air strikes in the space of 7 years."

Jesus Christ, Owen. The famine. The fucking man-made famine, Owen.

Once again, it isn’t about you. You know there are 377,000 dead from that war and you cherry-pick the sliver of statistics that will downplay that into nothingness just to win an argument on twitter.

Tell me again how much you cared about Yemen.

Just the deaths from military action were over 150,000. And the blockade wasn’t carried out with Western military hardware? It was, dear Owen.

“Do you agree that’s a terrible crime?”

Yes, you man-child. One of the greatest ever committed.

“(Let’s see if you even do or if you supported the Saudi war - spit it out!)”

I’m a big fan of bombing the shit of out the totalitarian, slavery-legalizing Houthis. But the famine, holy shit, man. The famine should have shaken the foundations of the world. It never did.

Because Jews weren’t involved.

Ball's in your court, buddy.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

I am, like most British Jews, growing really frustrated with this vague talk about “division and unity and hate.”

We have a very specific problem here. An IRGC cut out is recruiting disaffected Islamist-radicalised men, many long known to the police and negligently left ambling about, to a conduct a targeted intifada against the London Jewish community. And both our counter intelligence and counter terror forces are failing to intercept them.

I don’t need a mass London rally of well wishers or cultural luminaires to post their wishes — nice as that is — I need an actual security strategy to clamp down on this so my community can go about our lives in peace as is our absolute minimum right. And I need politicians to call the problem for what it is — not good vibes.