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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Here's the @labourtogether.bsky.social collab, in which I argue that adversarial-judicial structures aren't "planning" in any normal sense, and we could have more output from the same people doing the same job for the same money www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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Build the rail! Save the snails! — Labour Together

Why does British infrastructure cost so much? This paper, by economist Dan Davies, argues that Britain’s adversarial planning system forces developers to gold-plate solutions to hypothetical problems....

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Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Really like this from @morganwild.bsky.social. Lots of attention on the immigration implications. But not enough on the radical potential on social policy - counting unwaged work like care as contribution, proper income protection, long-term care funding. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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The case for contribution — Labour Together

This essay, by Labour Together’s chief policy adviser, Morgan Wild, argues that this Labour government should root itself in an ethic and expectation of contribution : the actions we take that make o...

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 15/09/2025

This from @morganwild.bsky.social and @peterhyman.bsky.social is excellent. Was waving a lighter in the air while reading. www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

You've signed up to a polling platform in return for monthly entries into a £100 Amazon voucher prize draw. Quick, rank these monkeys by their population size. Primatologist: no wonder our orangutans are so endangered with a public thinking there's so many of them

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

✈️ Britain’s talked about a third runway at Heathrow for two decades. Our new report with @BritishProgress shows how a flight could take off before 2029 - if Parliament chooses to speed up the process through a Public Bill.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In the last 5 years, there have been 23 mentions of Oasis tickets, 5899 mentions of Debt, 1634 mentions of National Debt, 1026 to British Debt, and 434 to Household debt.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on the big state capacity problems and where they came from is so excellent. I find it gives me an intellectual permission I didn't realise I needed to think past public choice theory: hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/taming-the...

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Taming the unaccountability machine

“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.

West India lobby was the prototype of an industry under attack. One of its first impulses was to consider cosmetic changes.* "The vulgar are influenced by names and titles," suggested one proslavery writer that year. "Instead of sLAVES, let the Negroes be called ASSISTANT-PLANTERS; and we shall not then hear such violent outcries against the slave-trade by pious divines, tender-hearted poetesses, and shortsighted politicians.
On May 12, 1789, Wilberforce rose to make his first speech against slavery, in the famous voice that, as one observer noted, was "so distinct and melodious that... if he talked nonsense you would feel obliged to hear him." He spoke from

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Unless your appetite for periods of sustained disruption is very high, this is the way. Having sat on energy code reviews, it is still burned into my brain as the single most tedious thing I have ever done in my life.

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Doctor Who predicting 2000 years of absolutely riotous public planning committee meetings.

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Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story. Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13/12/2024

They should be offered the opportunity to avoid the fine by handing back the Postcode Address File to the government.

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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

On the other hand, the terribleness of non-US efforts provides an important function, which is to gatekeep the ability to do analysis to financial journalists who can use them. A vital social role.

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Incredibly cool work. One (bad) conclusion from it would be politicians should give more time for evaluations. My (correct) conclusion is that voters expect results and it follows we should really limit our epistemic ambitions and just make decisive policy with imperfect information

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morganwild.bsky.social @morganwild.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Only one solution to this - put major ONS surveys on the same compulsion as the Census and jury duty. Consequences for people’s lives are much more important.

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