Steven Morley

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

There are now over 200 constituencies were Labour isn't even projected to be the largest left wing party.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@93vintagejones They can't really stop people defecting to them, (and even bad defections provide momentum), what is critical is what (if any) candidacies they are offered.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@spiccarella Slow burn so intense we are 46 books in and still just establishing context

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

Name a single general better than Norman Schwarzkopf

Pro tip: you can't

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

Name a single general better than Julius Caesar.

Pro-tip: you can’t

[The Eras Tour @TSTheErasTour]

🚨| Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged!🫶

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

This is the real East and West London.
Hounslow is East London, I don't care what anyone says.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is.

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000.
Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

[David Algonquin @surplustakes]

Remarkable that ONS figures show real wages in London are today at the same level they were in 2002 (i.e. pre-credit bubble) and are 8% down on their 2008 peak. This is the second worst performance of any UK region (after East Anglia).

Two lost decades and counting...

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

People think that Boravia and Jarhandpur in Superman were about Russia and Ukraine or Israel and Palestine, but we really know it was about Azerbaijan and Armenia.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

There’s been too much doom in our politics of late. Too much fatalism about our future.

So, why then, am I bullish on Britain? My confidence isn’t due to a lack of awareness or complacency about our present malaise. I see it, like so many it pains and motivates me.

The lack of real wage growth since 2008. The highest industrial energy costs in the world. The record high taxes, government spending, and debt interest payments. The two million more people on out-of-work benefits than five years ago. The 7 million on the NHS waiting list. Or one in five students actually earning less for having gone to university. That’s not to mention the record shoplifting and court backlogs, and the endemic, so-called ‘petty’ lawbreaking.

Our present malaise is explicable. In recent decades, those in charge have traded out the fair, decent and efficient instincts of the British people as the guiding force behind our policy for their own supposed ‘rationality.’

All too often they disparaged public opinion as “populism”, choosing instead to work against the grain of sentiment of the British people. Our political and bureaucratic class would say one thing in public to placate the public, but do another in practice.

We’re confronted with manifestations of this madness on a daily basis. A foreign terrorist’s right to stay here trumps the public’s right to walk safe streets. We won’t drill in the North Sea, but we will import oil and gas from Norway – who drill from the exact same sea. We’ll trade a car made in Sunderland, for one made in China. We’re for free speech, but Islam should get its own blasphemy law. We must give-away the strategically important Chagos Islands to Mauritius to preserve our reputation at international law conferences.

Those are the results of the so-called rationality of those in charge of our country. It’s a joke – and the joke is on us.

But - and this is the crucial thing - we’re not a patient who’s ill and the doctors can’t understand why. We’re not a patient whose treatment requires the invention of some complex new drug. We are poorly, but the medicine we need is clear.

Most of our challenges stem from a relatively small number of very big things we are getting wrong that our compounding each other. If we start to get them right – like we have for so much of our history – we can turn things around.

We have built homes and infrastructure quickly and cheaply before. We have harnessed cheap and reliable energy to power forward British industry before. We have operated a lean and efficient state before which attracted the very best and took pride in delivering for the British people. *Before the turn of this century, we mostly had sensible, controlled migration.* The answers are common sense: they are possible and within reach.

The times are changing. The old order is collapsing - and its architects like Tony Blair are yesterday's men and women. Keir Starmer doubled down on our failed consensus, tinkering here and there, and his political honeymoon has ended faster than ever - if it even began. After a wasted year he is in office, but increasingly not in power. The public’s patience has snapped and they will no longer tolerate it.

We live in a political interregnum. The period between two orders.

Interregnums like this are periods of stasis, of managed decline, but they end. And what follows is often exciting, new and totally reinvigorating. Latent, suppressed creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation, suddenly flowers and lifts the whole nation. In the words of George Orwell, “nothing ever stands still. We must add to our heritage, or lose it. We must grow greater or grow less. We must go forward or backward.” We have no choice *but* to go advance, and embrace the new order that is coming.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

Add Hippocrates to that: it’s on Adler’s list but a complete waste of time.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

I love the idea of reviving classical education, but let's be serious: Euclid & Archimedes for your math requirements? That's just cargo-culting, adopting the form not the spirit of classical education. If the ancients had modern math textbooks, they would've read them instead.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@LandsharkRides Sed contra: Sansom

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@echetus ‘No cyclist would survive the apocalypse’ is a very profound point

[James Graham @jamesnigraham]

Reform have taken control of Durham Council and will soon discover how deeply embedded the policies of decline are.

The Durham pension fund has £4bn under management, it is currently being weaponised for Net-Zero aims.

Here's the problem and what Reform should do 🧵

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@anglofuturist The number of Conservative voters who choose or consider Green is insane.
I often see them complain that they aren’t given coverage but I think it would be best for all of us if they were.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

@yuanyi_z 'Tis one thing to forfeit your soul for the whole world, but for £60 million over 10 years!'

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

Removing social housing from anyone who commits a crime seems like an obvious policy win for Conservatives/Reform.
It would probably have majority support from social housing tenants themselves.

[Steven Morley @PrograseevLaft]

The only explanation for Tony Blair being ahead of the curb now despite creating the modern ‘UK’ dystopia is that his confirmation as a Catholic and the rush of grace illumined his mind.