Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes I'm grumpy about Burnham's speech. UK needs govt to be successful. I just worry that "state control + devolution + hope" over the next 3 yrs doesn't add up to prosperity, leaving Labour exposed & its promises to be bold in the future unfulfilled. The UK needs boldness now, not just tomorrow. 000
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not sure about that speech. The sugar rush of vibes will wear off, exposing the promise of tough-ish decisions in four years as meaningless today. In the meantime, its rinse & repeat on technical education, EU resets, state control, british jobs for british workers, forgotten towns and vibes. 4167
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026quick, mega obvious post about how the US economy is crowding out others gileswilkes.substack.com/p/a-short-di...gileswilkes.substack.coma short, disturbing thought on AI overbuilding and US fiscal laxityirresponsibility spreads across borders 067
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A very insightful person suggested to me recently that Andy Burnham is, in many ways, really just continuity Theresa May. That thought is now living rent free in my head. 010
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadToby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🚨Is Big Tech bond issuance to blame for higher US Treasury yields? www.ft.com/content/6354...ft.comAre Big Tech bonds crowding out the US Treasury?Probably not 3327
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadPoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The Defence Investment Plan isn't enough – but Burnham should make do and mend ✍️ @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...politicshome.com 101
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Yes, the UK needs to spend more on defence. But defence needs both investment and reform. Without it, the UK risk buying a deterrence that doesn't provide the protection we need. www.arguably.uk/p/why-britai... 0103
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadPoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Healey's replacement, Dan Jarvis, inherits the same three pressures: investing heavily in national security, demonstrating a domestic political dividend, and staying within the fiscal rules The job is impossible until the government decides which one comes first, writes @jeegarkakkad.bsky.socialpoliticshome.comStarmer failed to choose between political, security and fiscal imperatives – the consequences will outlast himJohn Healey's job became impossible because the government refused to make a choice. 263
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadWorld Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Only a bollard is brave enough to stop a burning runway car. WE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. #WorldBollardAssociation 🇮🇳 1054813667
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Posted on X before Healey resinged: HMT thinks Defence is a lemons market but it's acting like a low-information buyer that can't tell the bad from the good eg reports it will treat GCAP like HS2. Instead, it should work w MoD to fix market failures in defence. jeegar.substack.com/p/the-treasu... 011
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Asylum hotels don't work: they erode domestic/local support & aren't good for migrants. But to view the issue through narrow lens of devolution is silly. I get v frustrated when policy becomes a binary choice bt centralisation & devolution as it ignores system-level thinking on solutions. 000
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadNo Sacred Cows @nosacredcows.media · 05/06/2026Britain knows the world is becoming more dangerous. The question is whether our politics is prepared to admit it. This week, @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social joins the herd as we ask what a serious programme of national resilience might look like. Listen now everywhere! nocows.substack.com/p/time-for-n...nocows.substack.comTime for nation building?Public First's Jeegar Kakkad joins the herd to challenge the assumption that Britain can meet growing security threats without making difficult political and economic choices 112
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Increasingly think the UK’s problem isnt a failure to embrace abundance in the face of scarcity, but the persistent myth of its own affluence/abundance in the face of (semi) permanent scarcity. Creates a set of luxury beliefs that have adversely affected infra, energy, pensions & fiscal policy. 010
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Today’s Spring Statement has echoes of Rishi Sunak’s on 11 March 2020. If the war in the Middle East persists, there’s a strong chance the CHX will be back with fiscal measures within 6 weeks. 000
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 23/02/2026"But how are we supposed to find anything?" a 15 y/o on banning social media for kids in the UK. Can't stop thinking about this as the rush to introduce a ban will feel like a ban on discovery of news, music, culture, identity, community… Kids won't replace TikTok w/ google, so where will they go? 150
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies 449246989001
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadAntonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Workers have every right to withdraw their labour. But for the life of me I can’t see the industrial theory of change behind the actions of the BMA. Union leaders must lead rather than take dictation: there comes a point where they must bank what they have achieved and stand down their members 2225
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I’m old enough to remember when people said this site was the place for a more civil, informed discourse. smh. 120
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The announcement of additional defence spending today is good, not least because it is an important international signal of the UK's commitment to it's security and values. But additional spending alone is not enough...the way it is spent matters far more...🧵 120
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Two things shock me about that Signal leak: 1. That this US admin is still willing to defend laregly non-US shipping lanes in the Red Sea; and 2. Nothing in the EU Defence Readiness 2030 Whitepaper suggests the EU is willing to defend its own shipping lanes in the Red Sea. 030
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Is there any one on here that is critical of Labour's Employment Rights Bill? 020
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 17/01/2025In a world where online fandoms are everything (yes, even in politics), being an offline PM will prove problematic. 170
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadDuncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Idea that Labour can’t govern austerely is ahistorical - as long as that fiscal conservatism has a morel purpose beyond looking “credible” www.economist.com/britain/2025... 6279
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadDuncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Labour’s credibility trap www.economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist working linkeconomist.comLabour’s credibility trapWho can believe Rachel Reeves? 041
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Growth idea for the UK government: Accelerate the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and delay the Employment Rights Bill. 030
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 07/01/2025What are the reasons any Government wouldn't implement the Jay report recommendations in full? 040
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025One thing becoming more apparent to me today are the divides between government departments on international issues. Always been an issue, but with the upcoming need to formulate policy on US, EU, China - probably now a bigger challenge. 1266
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13/12/2024They should be offered the opportunity to avoid the fine by handing back the Postcode Address File to the government. 2197
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I wonder if the UK could give up its golden share in Royal Mail in exchange for liberating the postcode address file. 031
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Two things have made me grumpy today, one of which I can call out: Ed M and his team have absolutely backtracked on their clean energy target. This should be welcomed. But for them to deny it - given the grief they gave anyone who critisised the 2030 target - takes some f*cking chutzpah. 100
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Whenever I hear people say the policies are fine, the only problem is the communications, I feel like re-upping my tweet from peak Truss-ocalypse 19617
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Hollywood writers: Ai couldn’t possibly do what we do. Also Hollywood writers shoving out yet more sequels and remakes: aRE YoU nOt eNTErtAiNEd!?!?! 020
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Some thoughts on Labour's renationalising of England's railways. The big argument is that renationalisation gets better services and/or more state revenue. But it ain't necessarily so.ft.comRenationalising England’s rail may not overcome hard realitiesBringing franchises into public ownership is risky given some routes are just harder to run well and face legacy issues 165111
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadJohn Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024The UK could accelerate the path to net zero and cheaper energy with better nuclear power policy and regulation. An impressive new report from @tonelangengen.bsky.social @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social at al is featured in today’s Guardian. institute.global/insights/cli... 131
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadChristian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024“Steve Akehurst of Persuasion UK has tested a number of “green jobs” arguments as a way to “sell” climate action, but they all tend to fall pretty flat with the public.” on.ft.com/4fH0nKEon.ft.comWhy the public doesn’t buy the idea of a ‘green jobs’ bonanzaPeople understand that transitions are hard — politicians need to as well 384
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Last summer I spent time w people in Whitehaven who were being offered coal jobs.They didn’t want Labour to oppose coal jobs w vague promises of green jobs. They wanted specific/tangible action for their community. Why the public doesn’t buy the idea of a ‘green jobs’ bonanza on.ft.com/4fIETgp 030
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Juergen is speaking now. Surprise him by adding 1000 followers by the time he stops... He's the boss of Great British Energy and always has interesting stuff to say. #CBI24 121
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadFT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/11/2024One is a antediluvian leviathan that can't evolve so is lumbering towards extinction and ... oh do your own jokes. www.ft.com/content/4c30...ft.comBarosaurus fined after dropping challenge over tar-pit paymentsFCA says the dinosaur’s conduct 145mn years ago was ‘reckless and lacked integrity’ 1173
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 24/11/2024People keep asking, "But what's the binding constraint?" like the entire UK economy doesn't need modernisation and reform.media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone and says gurl please .Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a microphone and says gurl please . 130
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Five minutes in and already loving this takedown of lazy anti Economics polemics. "Why hasn't economics ever thought of inequality/poverty/climate change/how people don't behave rationally" 😃😂 4196
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Some strikingly pro City noises from Reeves who "told City regulators to dial up the risk in the UK financial services sector, claiming that rules drawn up after the 2008 banking crash had “gone too far” and were stifling growth...The UK has been regulating for risk, but not regulating for growth.” 584
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The @HMTreasury reforms to consolidate & professionalise UK pensions will benefit pensioners, companies & the economy. As @InstituteGC has said, the UK has the world's 3rd largest pensions market but none of the top 40 funds. The UK has suffered for it. buff.ly/40FUF74 100
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Given how tiny a proportion of the prison population even are women you couldn't reduce either the stock problem or the flow problem in prisons in England & Wales simply by going 'don't imprison women', but thinking about *why* we most women prisoners shouldn't be in prison is useful, I think:ft.comWant to fix UK prisons? Let the women outImprisonment is not obviously a good solution to drug addiction or for those who have been coerced into crime 3182
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 19/08/2024This gap only tells us one thing: Immigration is not a real problem for the country. It’s a wedge issue being driven by politics who benefit from deepening divisions to a fever pitch among the right. Does any real problem divide us on political lines of concern this way? 712046
Reposted by Jeegar KakkadSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/10/2023Good to have @matthewholehouse.bsky.social here. He's British politics correspondent at The Economist. Well worth following. 54212