The Venn diagram of people arguing against the #smokingban and people who argue for legalisation of other drugs should have significantly more overlap.

Is Britain ready for the Baby Bust? My column this week is on, quite literally, the biggest story in the world - what's happening to population. Quick thread as some of the stats are pretty jaw-dropping (1/?) thetimes.co.uk/article/were-d…

Because in the end that’s what this means: working age people, currently faced with the highest tax rates for decades, would have to pay billions more for this ‘compensation’. Why should they? At 60 they will mostly be a decade away from a far more uncertain retirement.

The WASPI campaign is fascinating for what it reveals about our ideas of social justice and the responsibility of government for our wellbeing. It shows a confused mix of justifications for spending on the older population which mangle distinct conceptions of the welfare state

Said this five years ago and he went and got famous under a different name… Jon Harvey Count Binface

Great breakdown of the new IPCC report, with the conclusion that the climate challenge “should command most of the time and attention of every economist, agriculturalist, investor, executive, and politician” - and that it is “our shame, and theirs” that it doesn’t.

This trend in both US and UK populist politics to move away from debating and contesting where truth lies and instead undermine the notion that there is such a thing as truth, or that it matters, is chilling.

Labour embracing YIMBYism is one of the best things to happen in British politics for decades.

CALCULATOR: Workers on less than £30k are worse off overall thanks to frozen tax thresholds, despite the now 4p national insurance cut.

Workers on £50k do best - saving enough for an extra holiday a year.

Workers on £15k lose most - about three months' worth of food shopping.

An excellent visualisation of why millennials need to spend less on avocado

This is superb news

Over six years on, this thread still works, but we’re all now living in that submarine.

Sure, let’s make “insects-swarming-round-carcass logo gets changed” part of the culture war.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m submitting these in my sleep.

Hear hear