Henry Wright

back because BlueSky too much of an echo chamber. Lib Dem spokesman for Reading Central. Builder of NHS digital things.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

Triple lock has done it's job now - needs to be returned to raise only in line with earnings. Our tax needs to go on investment for growth, NOT more pension rises

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Well that would pay for this year’s triple lock pensions increase…. and that’s it.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

@thameswater Reported today on your website
and you can see original thread I quoted where I reported back in March 2024 on X. I did not get a reference number either time. W3W is sheets.porch.copy. Do you know what happened to the original report last year? It's clearly still leaking!

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

It is now October 2025, 1.5 years later. An ecosystem has grown. The grass is invading the pavement. @thameswater has not fixed the leak. Reported again!

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

Hey @thameswater there's a leak on the corner of Elgar Road South and the Basingstoke Road - can you log and fix?

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

@AvonandsomerRob The NHS is made up of many different organisations, of which NHS England is just one. The FOI doesn't match what you're saying...

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

1) he sold a message of change and then changed nothing
2) he is unable to communicate any positive vision (if he has one)

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

What’s mad about this is that he hasn’t actually done anything particularly unpopular. Yet he’s more unpopular than Blair after Iraq, Cameron after austerity, Johnson after Partygate and Truss after, well, Truss.

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

Paracetamol is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant and is still considered the safest choice of pain relief during pregnancy.

There is no evidence it causes autism in children.

Kate Brintworth, our Chief Midwifery Officer, explains more 🎥

[NHS England @NHSEngland]

The @MHRAgovuk confirm that taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children.

Read more in their latest update.

➡️ https://t.co/spDMDMVEYS

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

Whilst I agree this is a terrible idea, our recent politicians have proven unable to make ANY big decisions (esp. long term ones) for us. The modern MP/Minister/Senior Civil Servant is scared of their own shadow and cannot make and carry to conclusion any decision...

[Cllr Jamie Mulhall @Mullers1993]

This is an awful idea, we elect MPs to make these decisions for us.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

Only just learnt that the Oxford to Milton Keynes line that opened October 2024 still hasn't run any trains only because of stupid arguments over having a guard. Somebody needs to break the train unions - a real blocker to progress. https://t.co/5hBdzgiap8

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

This really is an interesting moment for humanity... We confront the question - what can suffer? If matrix multiplication can suffer, it should make us question our entire moral framework.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Anthropic now lets Claude quit abusive conversations, citing AI welfare

1) "We remain highly uncertain about the moral status of Claude."

This is the correct and wise perspective and anybody who is confident either way is a midwit, sorry.

(Unless you've solved the hard problem of consciousness, which philosophers have debated for thousands of years. If so, congrats.)

2) Soon, AIs 'lived experience' will be 1000x the human lived experience.

Like, AIs will cumulatively experience 1000x more 'lifetimes of experience' than humans do), meaning there is VAST potential for suffering.

We don't know, so we should be REALLY REALLY CAREFUL we don't accidentally speedrun into moral catastrophes.

Thank you @AnthropicAI for showing leadership here!

[Luke Tryl @LukeTryl]

Think one of the reasons traditional parties are struggling to tackle Reform is that they’re failing to understand how their rise relates to the growing importance of the “system vs anti system axis” in our politics and the diminishing of tribal Lab/Tory rivalries.

[tom jordan🔶️ @_Tom_Jordan_]

It is crystal clear. This Government does not want Trans Men to exist. As men we must stand up for this attack on our trans brothers, you are welcome in our toilets, you are welcome in our changing rooms, and you are one of us.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

I have a very informed sense of what percentage of AI queries could rightfully be classified as “therapy.” It’s shockingly high. Shockingly shocking. This is actually then a prescient article we should be thinking about: https://t.co/Ld1AwzexCX

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

Triple Lock needs to be replaced with a single lock indexing the State Pension to average earnings growth. It will be far more sustainable and give pensioners more of a stake in productivity gains.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

Meanwhile our friends in the USA are having an economic debate on an entirely different page to us...

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Sorry, you can’t pretend whine that there’s an aristocracy when the manager of a cartoon beaver themed gas station gets paid more than the average doctor in NYC.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

So I made an AI... using AI. It uses a custom tool to analyse English public health data - read and try it here: https://t.co/rwDaksgZBz

[Ofuase @ofuasedirisu]

Looking forward to my favourite blog! @henrydwright 👀!

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

@MilkmanMeme Ah even the sweaty clock can't avoid modernisation

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

@samueljenkinson Good! Time to restore HS2 in full, remove the new hospital programme obstacles, build HS3 and allow councils to bid for funds to build their own homes - radical action for growth now!

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

I will pay more tax - but only on the condition that the pension triple lock is removed and we invest in capital projects. I'm not investing more tax in further decline.

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

JUST RAISE TAX

Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of a crisis. The tax system must be torn down. The government’s attempt to save £5.5bn has failed, as did the attempt to cut the winter fuel allowance, with the government spending slightly more than if it had done nothing at all.

Reeves is beginning to write her next budget. Her advisers will meet at the long, cabinet-style table in her office in Whitehall. It’s not an exaggeration to say that everyone around that table understands that taxes will almost certainly have to rise in the autumn. They will have to confront a terrible mistake that Labour made when it promised not to raise any of the three biggest revenue-raising taxes. The question that now hangs over this government is which would be worse: breaking that promise, or breaking Britain’s economy – before handing it over to Nigel Farage.

The truth is that middle earners, the people Reeves and Starmer’s advisers worry about the most, are not being taxed enough. The basic rate of income tax has not risen – not once, not by a penny – for more than 50 years. During that time the average life expectancy of people in the UK has increased by almost ten years, and as a result, our spending on healthcare and pensions as a share of GDP has doubled.

[Henry Wright @henrydwright]

@TB_Libertarian If I could buy shares in HS2 or Hinckley Point's construction I absolutely would - sadly this isn't offered and instead the government (the only entity with enough money and power to build such infrastructure) scraps, curtails and delays