Flora Coleman

Prev @UKHouseofLords, @Wise, and @Klarna•Well out of the Westminster bubble & loving global tech•#fintech•#feminist•she/her/mx•#babyloss•#infertility 🌈

[Flora Coleman @floetry]

Wow @fintechf thank you! I couldn’t be more blessed to be amongst these amazing women #swashbucklers https://t.co/3UGqfy71Hy

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

Wes Streeting interview with @joshglancy has lots of policy:
- suggests cut in employers' NI for younger workers
- allow North Sea licenses (thinks Miliband will do so)
- supportive of Burnham on devolution & public control

All leadership policies here:
https://t.co/P4U2XIUKj6

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

An ex-Google DeepMind team has just raised $50m to build a new AI lab in London! 🇬🇧

@inherent_labs, founded by @edwardfhughes, @kallyaleksiev, @LouisKirschAI and @TantumSCollins is building self-improving AI.

Its AI system - named Faraday named after the famous scientist - allows humans and self-improving AI to work together and tackle what it says are some of the hardest problems in science.

It has just come out of stealth with a $50m round led by @dannyrimer and @GeorgiaS_IV @IndexVentures.

The team have worked across Google DeepMind, Microsoft and The White House, and @matthewclifford is an advisor.

@mhbergen has covered the round in an article in Bloomberg that talks about the rise of recursive self-improvement and the companies (like Inherent and Recursive) trying to solve it, which is a GREAT READ.

London is becoming of the densest AI hubs in the world and it is GREAT TO SEE

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Hot Essay Summer has arrived.

[Dan Tomlinson MP @Dan4Barnet]

Dan's point about tax simplification is a good one, he mentions that Nigel Lawson sought to abolish one tax a year. Well, last year we arguably abolished 3 taxes...we scrapped bingo duty; we got rid of the shadow Advance Corporation Tax rules; and also repealed the Diverted Profits Tax, folding it into CT. Will keep looking at what more we can do on simplification.

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

We have a new report coming out in a couple of weeks on *local* misinformation. We monitored Gorton & Denton + the local elections. It's one of the most concerning research projects we've done. If you weren't already convinced of the social value of local journalism, you will be.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Right. Nothing signals a fresh start like bringing back Sue Gray.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Starmer's ex-chief of staff Sue Gray joins team Burnham as key adviser - as Tories prepare for snap election https://t.co/TsqVbKeq75

[James Heale @JAHeale]

RIP Jeremy Hanley, local Richmond MP and inspiration for one of the great political lines after returning to parliament after the 1983 GE:

“Mrs Thatcher, I want to thank you. I won by just 74 votes and without them I wouldn’t be here. I think your visit to the constituency made all the difference. You are responsible for those 74 votes.”

“No Jeremy,” she replied gravely. “It is you who were responsible for the 74 votes. I was responsible for the 20,000.”

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

ANNOUNCEMENT!
Musical chairs in Downing Street don't matter when the real power sits next door at 70 Whitehall. Reform UK will scrap the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Secretary and restore power to No 10, to ministers and to Parliament. Full policy document here: https://t.co/nKbWGhVOHL

[Ed McGuinness @EJ_McGuinness]

Rishi’s desk admin is 👌

[Flora Coleman @floetry]

The juxtaposition makes it even more stark

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

I went to the same nursery school as Wes Streeting and grew up on the housing estate opposite his.

Here is a little thread on what the East End was like at that time.

Take it as the East End equivalent of those Johnson / Cameron era Old Etonians explaining what Pop was like.

[Robert Tyler 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @RGTyler]

I was a sceptic when they said they were doing a UK version of SNL - but my god is it delivering:

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Reminder: you've got until Thursday to apply to do the best job in Westminster. (Mine.) Job security considerably greater than a few streets over... https://t.co/EzPC7ZPA5D

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Great piece from @TomHCalver which uses some of our data to show how many of Labour's difficulties have become bound up in different elements of welfare and the difference between general preference for cuts and the specifics...

[London New Liberals @LondonNewLibs]

my food in the microwave

[Matthew @regionalthicko]

If this was 2014 there’d already be an account called Andy Burnham’s Slutty Little Shorts