Loved Baby’s Breath so looking forward to reading this one

Your diary is correct. Saw him on Friday and he was fabulous!

@tomcalver.bsky.social You talk about richest tax payers here where you actually mean highest earners. These are two very different groups.

I think the pandemic broke the social contract. Or expectation. Kids learned that sometimes you stayed at home even if you weren’t ill. Or weren’t so ill you couldn’t get out of bed. I don’t know if you can put that genie back in the bottle. Or if you’d want to.

Heard the trailer for it. It sounds great! Will be listening!

Agree - but do donations to parties matter any more? Couldn’t you achieve the same by funding posts and articles and adverts normalising the povs of those parties without directly funding the parties? Ofcom doesn’t police bias and fairness in social media.

Perhaps he should also press back on the criminal offence of hacking that I understand Badenoch has publicly admitted to

I suspect he could buy Farage - and probably a UK election - for a lot less than $100 million

A lovely piece and a sensible aim: we would all benefit from becoming more familiar with the process of dying.

“…another right-wing bandwagon” with a lot of money behind it.

So if UK productivity is low, is this due to lack of investment (in machinery, IT etc.)? Or is it totally unrelated? Or another misrepresentation?

Yes. The current situation either takes away agency, or forces those who can afford Dignitas to relinquish their lives earlier than they might, and without friends and family around them

This right here is an example of how Bluesky is bringing back the joy. This is the kind of thing I used to love on twitter before it got drowned out by angry people I’d never heard of. This morning bluesky is reminding my why I love people

Also the palliative care argument is a red herring. You could easily legislate for assisted dying and then fix palliative care. If the argument is correct, the number of people wanting assisted dying would then fall as good palliative care becomes more widely available. It’s not an either / or!

Do you have a similar graphic for say 2013 i.e. pre Brexit referendum? Wondering if the EU relative size has changed.

Yeah you’re on an interesting people list. No pressure.