Felix

Everything could always be far worse

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

I think we have entered a weird post-truth moment in Britain, where it apparently doesn't matter if books and speaker bios are literally true:

https://t.co/NS1xZ3NORF

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

There were a few British leftists who initially refused to join the bandwagon and pretend that Arday was some kind of black Dreyfus victim of a racist witch hunt, as opposed to a con artist whose lies finally caught up with him, but the window during which that kind of disagreement was still possible has already been closed and we have reached the stage where people are forced to engage in struggle sessions.

I don't want to be too hard on them, most people who will criticize them would do the same thing in similar circumstances, but the way in which this story has developed in the UK has been a useful reminder that anti-racism is truly a religion at this point. Even otherwise intelligent people will suddenly lose any kind of critical faculty when it comes to that stuff, because fundamentally truth has nothing do with it. Those people just committed blasphemy and they had to recant.

[Felix @FBLiberty]

Great idea - do it!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is strongly considering replacing council tax and stamp duty with a 0.48% annual tax on a home's current value

[Felix @FBLiberty]

Interesting...

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

BREAKING

John Healey is the Chancellor

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

People feeling cost of living crisis because earnings have barely grown in two decades.
Only sustainable way to tackle this is through growth.
Subsidies won’t be sustainable and may hinder progress.
New PM must focus on long term solutions not short term sticking plasters.

[Felix @FBLiberty]

Total narrative contradiction for both left and right. The last conversative government presided over big tax increases for the rich, while cutting taxes for lower earners. Very under discussed

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

There’s a tacit conspiracy to never discuss this.

The Tories don’t want to admit they presided over redistribution from high earners to low earners.

And Labour doesn’t want to credit the Tories with it.

Right? Wrong? You decide. But it happened.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Police officers in Surrey are required to write 500-word essays on how to build an "anti-racist police service" as part of their DEI training

[@Telegraph]

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Who decided this policy? When was it debated in Parliament? When did the electorate vote for it?
We cannot carry on being run by activist judges who legislate from the bench.

[Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson]

On May as Britain’s first and last woke prime minister

[Felix @FBLiberty]

When populist nonsense collides with actual expertise

[Adam Wren @aswren]

Oh man what a satisfying video, brutal stuff

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The Atlantic: "How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi."

Highlights:

-The NHS backlog is six million patients, 10% of the population

-Dental care is so out of reach that 10% of Britons report "do it yourself" dental care like extracting teeth

-Junior doctors went on strike, their starting salaries are $44,000 a year. The average civil servant makes $41K a year

-Keir Starmer faced a scandal for going to a "luxury" hotel, which was $230 a night.

[Beachmaster @b3achmaster]

@kunley_drukpa >120 people die of sepsis every day in the UK
>108 of those in the NHS
>If Palantir reduced them by 68% that would be 76 less deaths a day
>By banning Palantir, Burnham will be directly responsible for 86,564 deaths until the next general election
I ❤️ the norfen lumpenprole

[Felix @FBLiberty]

They don't though. This is just absolute bollocks. The city broker pays through the nose and subsidies everyone else 5 times over (if not more). More left wing populist slop totally disconnected from reality.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

"I think it's crazy that the person cleaning an office pays a higher effective rate of tax than the city broker."

- @nowak_paul on @TheNewsAgents

[Felix @FBLiberty]

Good to know that we will be governed by leftwing populist slop, and it people die as a result, too bad

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Andy Burnham is set to ditch Palantir from the NHS, The Telegraph can reveal.

Labour MPs and unions have demanded that the Government strip Palantir of its deal because of concerns about its work with the Israeli military and the US immigration authorities.

🔗:https://t.co/bbct0KXwtD

[Felix @FBLiberty]

The story of my lifetime has been on of British decline. Something big needs to change to avert it: https://t.co/POTsyAwslj

[bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect]

- The City of London spends years putting together its 2040 plan, includes 1.2m2 of net new floor space

- Blob & charities (I repeat myself) moan about already addressed issues around views and want to lop off 320,000 sqft of development

- Labour’s housing minister has intervened at the last minute to delay the plan, siding with the blockers.

- The Chairman of the City of London Corporation Planning and Transportation Committee pulls no punches, calling it: "unnecessary and anti-growth… it beggars belief.”

Maddening. I hope that people who campaign for government getting out of the way of pro growth local governments like @thomasforth can jump on this

[Felix @FBLiberty]

This would be a genuinely good reform. Both Stamp Duty and Council Tax are very bad taxes (for different reasons) and a property tax would be a big improvement

[MB @MBdaytrading]

Andy Burnham is backing a proposal to scrap Council Tax and Stamp Duty, replacing them with a Proportional Property Tax (PPT).

📌 Rate: 0.48% of current property value
📌 Cap: £1,200 per year initially
📌 Supporters claim 77% of households would save an average £556 annually

A major reform if it ever gains traction. Winners and losers would depend heavily on property values and location.

#Property #HousingMarket #CouncilTax #StampDuty #UKProperty #RealEstate #AndyBurnham

[Tom Chivers @TomChivers]

the mental thing is: British electricity demand is highest in winter. We have spare capacity in summer PLUS that's when solar panels work best. So air conditioning should be fairly easy to accommodate given current supply! We should ENCOURAGE it!

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

There is only one “change” that will work for Burnham. A genuine, relentless focus on growth.

Two decades without earnings growth. That’s why electorate is fed up.

Only growth will repair contract between generations and allow social ills to be tackled

https://t.co/2H68i2d0JG

[Alfie Ramshaw @33JustBrowsing]

The UK borrowed almost as much in May 2026 alone (£23.3bn), as it did during the entire 2018/19 fiscal year (£23.5bn).

This is a slow motion disaster and almost no one is talking about it.