As yet another damning inquiry report is released it feels like a good time to repost my piece on why these scandals keep happening and what we could do to pre-empt future ones. samf.substack.com/p/the-anatomy-…

If Abraham Lincoln was so great how come Tucker Carlson exists?

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The main takeaway from that first ballot is MPs are not particularly enthused about anyone, don't know who will win, but do know all the candidates have obvious weaknesses.

My daughter has taken to doing House fan art. Which I am very here for.

Going to be at Lib Dem conference on the 14th September if anyone wants to have a coffee.

Thanks Sam Freedman! Was really fun to think through the messages of #MissionDrivenBureaucrats for the new Labour Gov't. Look forward to reactions - particularly from UK public servants. Does "too much compliance" describe your reality? If so how do we improve things?

ONS data yesterday, parsed by Bloomberg's Andrew Atkinson, showed how levelling up went backwards under the Tories.

Happy to have made the Private Members’ Bill ballot. Subject to procedure and those ahead of me, I’ve made it clear that my first preference for a bill would be to reform our archaic assisted dying laws, working with Dignity in Dying and others. The time has come.

One of the first forays in AI by a government funded agency. Interested to hear what people make of it.

Ten year automatic prison sentence for anyone listening to phones/devices on trains without headphones.

She doesn't need to abolish it, just reduce the discount. That's what Labour did last time and it more or less stopped it happening, but left the option open.