Fascinating piece on why HS2 is the most expensive per mile railway ever built. Featuring a chart that made me yelp 'Christ alive!'
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"A phrase I have heard a lot from people in business since 2022 is “this stupid war”, as though it is all a sort of accident or misunderstanding, and not the choice of an implacable state." Terrific column, this: [www.ft.com/content/36c2...]( )
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Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
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Terrific weekend essay by @henrymance.bsky.social
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Being ill the right way = ordering a curry and watching “Xena: Warrior Princess”.
Today’s newsletter: on the GK Chesterton rule of regulation and why government needs to provide digital ID not outsource it to third parties:
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There's a lot of 'the spendthrift PLP versus the Iron Downing Street' about, which ignores that the PLP accepted a deferment of scrapping the two child limit and voted to means-test winter fuel.
👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.
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The word 'enshittification' really has become a thing people say, patronisingly, to things that a) describe literally none of the conditions of the article and b) would not explain the problem if it did.
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Fascinated by how inept the Tory party's 'we are celebrating five years of Brexit' is. Fronted by their most unpopular frontbencher. Suggests the EU-UK security pact is bad. Has a typo in the press release.
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