Matthew Holehouse
@mattholehouseBritish politics correspondent at The Economist
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Genuine Q: how many houses were built according to the principles of the Building Beautiful agenda that would not otherwise have been? Are there any notable developments to visit bearing its thumbprint?
Terrible housing news from the govt. They are shutting down one of the few bright lights in planning policy - the recently established Office for Place, led by @createstreets director @boys_nicholas This is a real, real blow to hopes of beautiful and sustainable development.
The new attorney general has promised to tighten up lax legislation. The record so far is not promising. economist.com/britain/2024/1…
Kemi wants to break what she calls the "new bureaucratic class"; Keir governs via "trailblazers", "hubs", and the "civil society covenant framework". Whether the so-called Blob is the cause or answer to Britain's problems is the new dividing line economist.com/britain/2024/1…
I will say, Starmer’s FT piece today strikes a much better reformist note than the budget. Nothing like a bracing jolt of bond vigilantism to remind a government what matters!
Governments have created austere populations, now they're missing the sin! From me this week 👇 economist.com/finance-and-ec…
My first geopolitics column for @TheEconomist is out this week. Column No.5 for me, after Charlemagne, Bagehot, Lexington and Chaguan. It’s called The Telegram: a nod to Kennan but also to diplomats’ cables and foreign correspondents’ dispatches economist.com/international/…
“By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace.” The Economist endorsement for Kamala Harris
“Labour has decided to have European levels of taxation and welfare spending but to keep the foibles and inefficiencies of the British tax system.” Economist leader: European-sized states need broad taxes on “working people”. economist.com/leaders/2024/1… from The Economist
On Britain’s baby bust. I think it won’t last. economist.com/britain/2024/1…
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Britain's relative attractiveness to graduates has cratered, according to the Economist's new Footloose Index economist.com/graphic-detail…
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The secret of the Rest is Politics is that it harks back to an earlier age of political broadcasting: less cynical, less combative, and in which the BBC's John Freeman asked questions such as: “Are you on the whole more interested in ideas or in people?” economist.com/britain/2024/1…
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