Ed H

Former child

[Ed H @Ed_Hateley]

@joncstone @southwarkcycle @mcash there's always cars parked on the double yellows there

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

It has always puzzled me that politicians on the right, who want a smaller state and less regulation, seem to want more bureaucracy and rules for cycling.

https://t.co/37QmhokWkI

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Henry Bushnell @HenryBushnell]

Gianni Infantino, 2025: "It’s important to clarify this. There is a lot of misconception out there. Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year."

FIFA today: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 👉 🇺🇸

https://t.co/ee9AL6ZANG

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@AaronBastani On-street parking permits are an abomination. But that isn't the fault of the car or the motorist. It is the stupid practice of London councils to allow residents to use £100,000 worth of space for £100 a year.

[Tim Leunig @timleunig]

The proposal was for about 850 houses, of which therefore around 100 would have been social houses. Given the fall in London house values since the scheme was submitted, it is very unlikely that any new scheme will offer more, unless grant funded... 1/3

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

The twice yearly tradition of HMT lying to the OBR and the OBR pretending to believe it.

[Ben Harris @btharris93]

"beloved Aylesham Centre"

Won't somebody please think of our generic derelict shopping centre

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

The Peckham decision is even worse than you think. The council's permission was that 'on occasion profits must to some extent be hoped for rather than banked at the grant of permission'. In other words, you should build even if you have no idea you're going to make money! Mental.

[tom 🎸 @uncreativetom]

Manchester must bid for it then use it as HS2 leverage

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

100%. What the Westminster media won't tell you is that some of the most unifying policies are also the most pro-growth.

Here are a bunch of pro-growth policies that anyone from any Labour faction can get behind:

🌆 Densify urban areas through street votes/upward extensions/accessory dwelling, reforming national policy framework + reforming building safety
🚉 Allow mayors to approve + fund local transport projects
💷 Replace stamp duty with a proportional property tax
🔋 Implement the Fingleton nuclear recommendations
👪 Remove tax cliff edges to help carers + parents back into work
💡 Speed up grid connections for renewables + industry
🌱 Remove levies on electricity to support decarbonisation + lower bills
🔓 Reformulate the triple lock to save £billions every year
✈️ Expand high skilled migration through expanding existing exceptional talent routes
🚆 Use land value capture to fund new crossrails in London, Manchester + other major cities

I'm sure there's more, but the above would be a pretty good start for any Government looking to unite the party + kickstart growth

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

So triple-locked pensions and benefits rise with inflation -- but not tax thresholds or student loan repayment levels? That seems weird to me, totally unequal fiscal drag on working people vs recipients of state spending.

[Ben @BWoodzy99]

Financing an increase in Boomer pensions with the triple lock by taxing the salary sacrifice schemes of working age pensions is a little on the nose even for our gerontocracy

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

Congestion pricing coverage is peak economics

Every person is like, "I didn't used to bear the external costs of my behavior. But now that I do, I am adjusting along an infinite variety of least-cost adaptive margins that no central planner could have foreseen or designed"

[James Wise @Jameswise]

Natural England states no bat death is acceptable.

At a cost of £360K per bat protected, this decision costs us, PER BAT the equivalent of 10 years of state-funded social care for an elderly person.

PER BAT.

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Amazingly new government, new chancellor, same old ridiculousness. Still working to public finance forecasts which assume fuel duty will rise with inflation and "temporary" 5p cut will be reinstated. But if not this year, what chance that will ever really happen?