I’m not sure, if we’re honest, that there is any reasonable predecessor for Truss. “Barberism”, surely a phrase already invented, comes closest. (View Post)

Finished that Liz Truss podcast. Fascinating to be reminded that the first “resigner” - and the person whose resignation made Truss realise it was all over - was that notorious Sunakite wet…Suella Br… (View Post)

New Centre for Cities research piece just dropped. Compared to the average European country, Britain has a backlog of 4.3 million homes. https://www.centreforcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the… (View Post)

What I like about the USA is there’s no expectation that cities need to go cap in hand to Washington to tell them what to do. And the diversity of the broader ecosystem means that when and if New Yor… (View Post)

Britain’s economic model collapsed in 07/08. Who is responsible? Blair and Brown, sure. But also Thatcher if one is to be truthful. Since then the Tories have taken a broken model and proceeded to sh… (View Post)