At a moment when the most exciting new politician in the Western hemisphere has built a campaign around affordable housing.

Yes! I thought *exactly* this after speaking to several people in the sector recently.

Labour plots immigration blitz after Reform success at polls No 10 and Home Office expected to ramp up curbs on foreign university students

The Observer understands that the immigration white paper is scheduled for w/c 12th May - and the local election results have ratcheted up the pressure on DfE over foreign students

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

A flat white is £2.15

Interesting that it’s tulip mania that stuck, and not say, railway mania - an example from closer to home.

My default assumption about West Yorkshire police is not that they are too woke.

But if the Telegraph says so…

YouTube video by Comedy Highlights We Lost A Lot Of People | Joe Rogan #comedy #comedyvideos

Here’s the Joe Rogan bit:

youtu.be/syR0klF6I9c?...

But, pretty clearly now, the lasting impact has been the loss of trust.

How was Covid as a test run for dealing with crisis?

On one level - great!

We accepted a policy of collective sacrifice and came up with a technological solution.

This was about the spread of climate scepticism and myths.

But Covid kept appearing as the vector that spread conversion to conspiracy theories.

“We lost a lot of people during Covid… and most of them are still alive.”

Kept thinking of this Joe Rogan line while working on this project with @chefboibex.bsky.social

A great listen that goes far wider than the memecoins scandal. Worth listening to the end!

EV sales v Tesla sales

Is it politics in China, or just that Chinese EVs are now better?

Excellent Chart of the Week from @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

Excellent second mention: the hoofed mammals.

Dubai’s Expat Influx Dents Plush Pay Packages and Lifestyles Trefor Murphy, the head of recruitment firm Cooper Fitch, recalls a time when a Dubai job posting might have received just about 100 applicants. These days, some draw as many as 2,000 as foreigners fl...

Isabel Oakeshott as a lagging indicator

Why has Apple pulled a data protection tool and will Germany stand up to Trump? The News Meeting · Episode

Enjoyed joining @paticlarke.bsky.social and Charlene White on the @tortoisemedia.bsky.social News Meeting, discussing:

🇩🇪 German elections
📱 Encryption
⚖️ Joint enterprise

I changed my passwords after listening to Patricia!

Wondered what it would take to split far right from centre right, and the two wedges so far are:
- Ukraine
- ethnic nationalism

How was Konstantin Kisin ever a stand-up comedian? “An Englishmen, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. By this I mean all their parents are white. They have pure white blood. Anyway…”

Some amazing jobs in journalism here 👇🏾

Enjoyed hosting this podcast: discussing Joan Didion’s diary, the rise of Reform and US steel tariffs.

The rise and rise of Reform and the posthumously published diary of Joan Didion The News Meeting · Episode

Joan Didion’s private diary is set for posthumous publication this April, even though she left no instructions for it.

Debated the ethics of this on this week’s News Meeting podcast with @jeevanvasagar.bsky.social @ktriley.bsky.social and @catneilan.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/1xjy...

Very easy to mock this, but “the affordability of good private schooling” is clearly something the British middle class took for granted in the 1980s and 90s, but no longer.