Translation: the reason people are attacking mosques and police officers is woke policing, and people are right to be angry about woke policing, if not right to be chucking bricks. This argument is ludicrous, and no MP should be making it.

The fascists are out in force today. Important to remember this is a small but vocal minority. Also important to shine a light on the hate. A brief thread:

I know there's a lot on, but the departure of Sheikh Hasina is more important than whatever else you've got nytimes.com/live/2024/08/0…

Some advice for the Conservative Party candidates, which I would strongly urge all of them to ignore. No, the public does not want to hear your concerns about “two-tier policing”. thetimes.com/comment/column…

An MP finding excuses for violent thugs. An utter disgrace.

Filed under, 'I know I shouldn't laugh but....'

Various sensible, clever people are asking why others are staying on Twitter. My answers are: 1. Laziness 2. Don't take this the wrong way, but the blue site doesn't have enough normal people. It is full of politically engaged folk who care about what mad bigots are saying.

This is a very annoying read, not just because it is thinly researched and reaches daft conclusions but because of the writing style. A combination of clever-clever quotes, words like "writ" and "philia", and psychobabble ("All this is a mindset tell.") armas.co/p/this-sceptre…

Are the recent hot years a sign of accelerating warming, or anomalous increases imposed on a general warming trend? Projections of warming under current policy suggest the most rapid warming is behind us (but most of the climate damage in front of us). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Many congratulations to 18-year-olds receiving their exam results in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, who managed to get out of bed before 8am this morning.

New research by Madeleine Sumption Ben Brindle & me on the earnings of new migrants to the UK. We focus on the very large cohort (about 1.2 million!) non-EU migrants who became UK employees in 2022 and 2023. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/comm…

After six years and 220 Chaguan columns, it’s time to leave Beijing. It has been an adventure and a privilege. My next beat will include a dose of China, happily: I’ll be writing a new weekly geopolitics column in The Economist. Column number 5 for me economist.com/china/2024/08/…

Although the competition is very strong, I think this is the most egregious example of state failure in Britain

Read more in this week’s Economist: economist.com/britain/2024/0…

NEWS: today The Economist announces that Espresso, its short-form, daily news app, will be available to over 400m students worldwide at no cost. Read the full release: economistgroup.com/press-centre/t…

Nice report. Scots and other Brits think very similarly about national identity, but the politics of identity are completely different in Scotland.

My take on the Grenfell Tower inquiry. Yes, it's scathing, which is good. It's also been extremely slow, which is bad. Unfortunately, those two things are linked. economist.com/britain/2024/0…

Excellent Conservative Party leadership runners-and-riders piece. I still think the party will go for the person who promises more of the same, only better. ft.com/content/09b571…

“Where did you write H is for Hawk?” is a question I’m often asked. The answer: corner table, here.

Houses, though. Detached houses, at that.