As a voter, my main personal priority has always been to minimise the tax burden on my savings. But now I’m a dad, it’s to avoid my children being enslaved into wiping old people’s arses for free every weekend. It’s funny how being a parent changes you.

If someone gives a bad argument for something should I generally
a) believe they don’t know what they’re talking about
b) believe they have good reasons but are inarticulate

AI matchmakers are probably better than what people are doing now

In general, we’re probably better off with longer term limits

During the pandemic I thought I hated working from home, but actually I just hated the pandemic

Every European country has various laws on the books that are just like “productivity is illegal now” and then people wonder why they are poor.

This whole time I thought I was mental for believing that Taylor was writing secret messages to Harry Styles in half her songs ... and I was ... almost?? right????

Our report on childcare policy is out today!

We're arguing that childcare policy suffers from a major problem: nobody is really clear about what it's actually for.

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Tortured Poets Department. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the Swift and 1975 cannon most of the lyrics will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Taylor's femcel outlook, which is d

Badly behaved dogs are more annoying than badly behaved children

Yimby Twitter often gets mad at councils (rightly), but some of the worst Nimby villains are the quangos. Each of these orgs cares exclusively about their narrow mandate and objects on that basis, preventing local government from making choices and solving each problem one-by-one