PoliticalArchitect

Hoppean aristocrat of the soul rejecting the reign of quantity. Burgundy Toryism. Faustian Man among the ruins.

[Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator @NapoleonBonabot]

Household chores? Slaves

[Widmerpool Appreciation Society @AtticumFloreat]

I'm fairly sure we gave Kashmir up in 1947 along with the rest of the Raj. Still, always nice to see a bit of Empire nostalgia from our elected politicians.

[Charlie @charliecolecc]

Fraser ignores that those with refugee and humanitarian status are exempt from the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) conditions, meaning they can access benefits. When the last Universal Credit stats were out (and this was just UC, not counting other types of welfare), there were over 181,000 individuals with refugee status or humanitarian status claiming UC.

Fraser also ignores that migrants subject to NRPF can apply for a waiver. When the last UC stats were out, over 76,000 migrants with limited leave to remain (not ILR) were claiming UC.

Fraser also makes it sound like ILR is some difficult status to obtain, but it's not. Between 2020 and 2025, the Home Office have issued 754,000 ILR grants, not counting the EU settlement scheme. In recent years, the grant rate for ILR has been around 98%.

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

You are related to such an expansive amount of people that you absolutely had ancestors whom some were royal stable shovelers and some knights who fought in battle

[Mike Diplockre @MikeDiplockre]

Ideally, you'd want to an island nation - not too big, but not too small. Surrounded by seas that are cool but don't freeze, with its major cities not too far from the coast. Plus solid bedrock and low seismic risk.

Such a perfect country would obviously go all in on nuclear...

[Charlie @charliecolecc]

Parliament is sovereign, they can literally make up whatever laws they want.

They could rush through a "Prevention of early release for PC Andrew Harper’s killers Act 2026" and bam. It's that simple.

[bernoulli_defect @BernoulliDefect]

Behold! My cost conscious design using a £250/m2 brick slip rainscreen, some hollow projecting ribs, and a recessed panels. Roof left as is. All in: ~£3m, a 1% cost premium for a new data centre

https://t.co/rLNf09ZyNo

[England of Old @englandofold]

"Under Providence, the British Empire is the greatest instrument for good that the world has seen" - Lord Curzon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Every take like this reminds me of my favorite James Baldwin quote. It captures everything about them so perfectly. Progressives hate real progress. They hate when people build things. They hate new inventions. They hate achievement. Because every time someone achieves something, he rises above the rest. It’s the heart of inequality, someone differentiated himself and the difference can’t be ignored.

As much as they’d like to pretend progressivism is about helping those left behind, helping the poor or the down trodden, it’s not true. It’s always been about pulling those that rise above down. Those that want to conquer new worlds, build new cities, explore new possibilities they are the enemy of equality.

There are those who see the infinite horizon as man’s destiny, and there are those who are mad you’re not dancing in the mud with the rest of them.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Sorry, but the Moon will be industrialized. We will mine it. We will establish bases, manufacturing, and scientific outposts on it.

This is inevitable.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

“The Roman elite have imported millions of slaves to work the fields, leaving our once-proud Roman citizens with no land and no hope and nothing to live for but bread and circuses. What should we do, Roman Neocons?”

Roman Neocons: “Take away the bread.”

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨Important Reform policy announcement:

In a plan endorsed by senior former members of His Majesty’s Armed Forces, a Reform government will launch Operation Fortress: a military operation to secure Britain’s borders.

Britain is being invaded.

Tory and Labour governments responded with a free ferry service and free hotels.

Reform UK will respond by launching the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two.

Nigel Farage will order his Majesty’s Royal Navy to ensure that not a single unauthorised vessel crossing the English Channel makes it to the shores of the United Kingdom.

Those who attempt it will be intercepted by our Armed Forces and returned to France.

To those with no right to enter Britain, our border will be impenetrable.

Under a Reform UK Government, nobody coming across the Channel by boat illegally will make it to our shores.

That is how we stop the boats.

We will stop the invasion.

Full details will be published tomorrow morning.

[Kaiser von Lohengramm @KaiserLoengramm]

People simultaneously do not understand how good things can be or how bad things can get. Most people exist in a kind of eternal present and adjust and accommodate themselves to their surroundings and what the climate around them is. They just continue to go along to get along.

This, too, explains why so many remain discontented and say absolutely nothing has happened since 2016 on the right, that we’ve made no progress. For most people, they cannot actually grasp just how drastically things have changed in a decade. They instead, have simply adjusted to each and every incremental difference, and think “this is just how things have always been.”

The masses cannot and will not ever really understand how things have changed and can’t comprehend it. It’s also why the masses should’ve never been allowed to engage in politics to begin with. It’s just far too much for them and they don’t have the capacity for it.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Holy. Shit.

Spain's far-left PM Pedro Sanchez gave amnesty to 1,000,000+ illegal immigrants, and now hordes of unvetted men are storming across the border from Africa.

It’s the same playbook across the West.
These people will destroy our civilization.

[PoliticalArchitect @PolitArchitect]

@TheBlackHorse65 Entirely correct. Had that thought about responsiveness to education for a while but never put it so clearly. Spot on.

[The Black Horse @TheBlackHorse65]

Regular reminder that "investing in education" is a massive cope.

Human capacity is way less responsive to education than anyone is willing to admit, and sending low-capacity kids to school for 20+ years is incredibly counter-productive.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

Everything else aside, the Tories brought in 300,000 care worker and dependants between 2022-24 specifically to avoid a care funding increase.

Tens of billions in welfare and pensions to those migrant workers, to delay changes for two years.

[PoliticalArchitect @PolitArchitect]

@moveincircles @elonmusk “We must have the strength to live in antithesis”

[Liam Deacon @LiamDeacon]

This is why I bang on about 20mph limits, smoking bans and pub restrictions.

They are not small issues.

Britain has become obsessed with reducing risk by tiny amounts, often at huge social and economic cost.

The information age has made us terrified. Edge cases and scare stories increasingly drive policy, rather than balance and trade offs.

Everything from the impossibility of building nuclear power stations to pricing people out of pubs is shaped by this mindset.

People rarely see how these policies compound. They support each new ban or regulation in isolation, then ask: "How did we get here?"