Henry George

32. Writer. Appear in @unherd @merionwest @TheCriticMag @EuroConOfficial @ChroniclesMag @amconmag @Telegraph. Disabled, not unable.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

Interesting.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***

David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU

The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”

Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU

As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit

“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says

The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations

“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says

“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”

“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”

Story by @ChaplainChloe: https://t.co/gKPvWA9LAu

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

"we can create an age of miracles". Getting That Hideous Strength vibes.

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"

“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."

"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."

"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."

"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

JQ'ers hardest hit by this.

[Justin Logan @JustinTLogan]

Robert Kagan: “Iran does not have the capability to strike American territory, and Trump's FP should be focused on national security: I don’t see how Iran threatens those interests..." [The war] "has been conducted essentially in Israel’s interest.” https://t.co/EzyTYUtybA

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@christopherrufo Absolutely. Lind did a great takedown of Trump's blanket, non-targeted tariffs at the time. As a more industrial strategy-type guy, I'm angry that Trump discredited industrial policy for a generation, especially as we've "de-developed" in Britain and need it to recover.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@FraserNelson @epkaufm It literally doesn't. This is completely wrong and suggests wilful misrepresentation.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@christopherrufo That's fair enough. Michael Lind might be worthwhile talking to, as of course is Oren Cass and Julius Krein.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

Really good piece by @rakibehsan on the proposed changes to the census to allow "Black English" and "Asian English" options, which threatens social cohesion and obscures data on different populations. https://t.co/K52ewvRYm2

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@FraserNelson @epkaufm You're basing this all on a misreading of Goodwin's paper. He simply used the "White British" category from the census.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@MorlandDemog @jamespriceglos @epkaufm Michael Anton's celebration parallax in action

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

David Coleman wrote Britain would be "majority-minority" by 2066, in far-right conspiracy rag Prospect Magazine, assuming much lower migration levels. Anthony Browne made the same projection in The Guardian in 2000. @MorlandDemog+@epkaufm have confirmed these projections.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

I am no fan of the racial politics being pushed by Reform UK. But the nonsensical claim that White Brits will be a minority by 2063 could have been debunked as such in debate, not censorship.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@jamespriceglos @MorlandDemog @epkaufm Thanks! Best to stick to the facts. Could also have mentioned that in 2025 53% of schoolchildren were White British. Demographic change towards "majority-minority" is happening now, no matter Fraser's objections.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

Houellebecq's life imitating his fiction a little too closely.

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Michel Houllebecq, the author of “Submission” - the international best-selling book depicting France folding to Muslim immigration - was just criminally charged by France for hate speech.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

We are in 2026, not 1986. We face very different problems in a deeply different world. Our countries are not the same. Conservatives in Britain need to move on from Thatcher as much as conservatives in America need to move on from Reagan.

[Damon Linker @DamonLinker]

Reaganism was tried. It was largely successful. Top income tax rates used to be 70%. He dropped them to 28%. They are 37% now. He won. He also brought the Cold War to a successful conclusion. The USSR is long gone. Stop looking backwards. We need fresh thinking.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

No support for the remaining local newspapers that provide a vital civic service by holding local govt accountable, but Labour will funnel over £260,000 to ByLines Networks, controlled by ByLine Times owners, a bunch hard-left nutters. Patronage disbursed to client media.

[The Spectator @spectator]

A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of public money to promote "trusted, high-quality local journalism.".

Bylines Networks Ltd is the second largest recipient of money from the Government’s new Local News Fund, receiving a total of £266,221 to "fund the future of local news."

Bylines Networks Ltd is closely associated with Byline Times, whose recent output is a mixture of hard-left attack, Jason Arday trutherism and the frankly deranged.

Byline Times and Bylines Networks Ltd are controlled by the same people, Peter Jukes and Steve Colegrave, who are directors of both. Bylines Network describes itself as a “partner organisation to Byline Times” and says that the two organisations “work closely together.“

✍️ Andrew Gilligan

Article | https://t.co/NmteI5Nzd8 | @mragilligan

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

As Rakib says, this is an insane proposal that'll do grave damage to the already extremely threadbare bonds between the ethnic majority and those in power. All this will do is increase the sense of "downgrading" aming significant parts of the majority.

[Dr Rakib Ehsan @rakibehsan]

This would be absolutely disastrous for social cohesion (would amount to state denial of an English ethnic majority) and will make it more difficult to understand differences *between* different Black and Asian ethnic groups (especially in terms of integration and identity).

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

@jewndahalfmen My f*ck-up. Andrew Sachs, not Jonathan Sacks. Now corrected. Many apologies.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

It was obvious that Russell Brand was a real wrong 'un for literal decades. His and Jonathan Ross's "prank" call to actor Andrew Sachs stuck in my young mind. Those on the right who bought his more recent Christian convert shtick made a massive, unforced mistake.

[Henry George @intothefuture45]

Holy blank-slatism, Batman!

[Katie Campione @katie_campione]

@olivertraldi The gender binary is made up. Not “on these things.” Just in general. It’s a social construct. Completely made up concept. You aren’t born liking different things because you’re a boy. Your interests are a direct result of your socialization and upbringing.