@2ndalexhiggins.bsky.social
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
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the modern internet in a nutshell:
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
the modern internet in a nutshell:
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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a couple of years back I looked at the data and one in four PIP applicants with literal amputations had their application refused by the DWP
but yeah this benefit is too easy to claim obv
but yeah this benefit is too easy to claim obv
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
a couple of years back I looked at the data and one in four PIP applicants with literal amputations had their application refused by the DWP
but yeah this benefit is too easy to claim obv
but yeah this benefit is too easy to claim obv
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I am consistently amazed the Building Safety Regulator isn’t a much bigger story. It’s brought house building in London to a total halt, but it’s also brought cladding remedy works to a halt, too. Which is costing leaseholders FORTUNES, halting sales, and leaving people living in unsafe buildings.
... at the Building Safety Regulator - which has lead to 9 month delays at this stage alone:
www.building.co.uk/news/nine-mo...
www.building.co.uk/news/nine-mo...
Nine month wait to get building safety sign-off for new builds, regulator admits
When new regulations were introduced 18 months, planned target was to get decisions made with 12 weeks
www.building.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I am consistently amazed the Building Safety Regulator isn’t a much bigger story. It’s brought house building in London to a total halt, but it’s also brought cladding remedy works to a halt, too. Which is costing leaseholders FORTUNES, halting sales, and leaving people living in unsafe buildings.
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Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd
Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?
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I keep getting flashbacks to my Vietnam: Myleene Klass attacking Ed Miliband over the mansion tax.
the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I keep getting flashbacks to my Vietnam: Myleene Klass attacking Ed Miliband over the mansion tax.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Every median voter is beautiful and valid
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Every median voter is beautiful and valid
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It's wild how "our intellectual elite are a bit morally smug" warrants the same article being pushed out saying as much for a decade, but a global paedophile ring in which many of our richest and most powerful and leading minds all took part is, you know, uncouth to talk about.
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It's wild how "our intellectual elite are a bit morally smug" warrants the same article being pushed out saying as much for a decade, but a global paedophile ring in which many of our richest and most powerful and leading minds all took part is, you know, uncouth to talk about.
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How many times exactly does Trump have to hand billions to rich people or destroy the safety net before the media stops calling him a populist?
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
How many times exactly does Trump have to hand billions to rich people or destroy the safety net before the media stops calling him a populist?
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This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. Until the next one.
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is the craziest thing I have ever seen. Until the next one.
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
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We cannot progress till we acknowledge the fact that this country has a serious political violence problem on both sides of the aisle, whether it's Republicans trying to kill Democrats or Republicans trying to kill Republicans
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We cannot progress till we acknowledge the fact that this country has a serious political violence problem on both sides of the aisle, whether it's Republicans trying to kill Democrats or Republicans trying to kill Republicans
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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This is true, in the sense that it is a web of very real scandals reactionaries will try to claim are fake through the power of repetitive bare assertion
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This is true, in the sense that it is a web of very real scandals reactionaries will try to claim are fake through the power of repetitive bare assertion
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Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Weird how conservatives didn't mention all those years that they think it's fine to fire people for their beliefs! What an unfortunate misunderstanding we've had around this. Oh well!
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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Sometimes journalists and media outlets have real reasons for not running things they know, but that doesn't require them to cut out the part of their brain that knows the information
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Sometimes journalists and media outlets have real reasons for not running things they know, but that doesn't require them to cut out the part of their brain that knows the information
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these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach
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Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
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Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...