Anthony Green

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

Pease god no more plebiscites sluggerotoole.com/2010/12/13/w...

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 30% (+1) RFM: 22% (-2) CON: 20% (=) GRN: 10% (+1) LDM: 9% (=) SNP: 3% (+1) Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 21-23 Oct. Changes w/ 7-9 Oct.

"It is genuinely shocking that Žižek can sound radical by naming realities any educated adult should be able to recognise"

Is the pace of change really such a shock? plasticbag.org/archives/200... – @tomcoates.bsky.social

Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.

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38 candid conversations with 38 software engineering experts. For 5 years on The Engineering Room, I've interviewed top minds in Continuous Delivery, TDD & Architecture. Now, they're compiled into one book. Grab your copy on @leanpub.bsky.social 👇 leanpub.com/theengineeri...

So I don’t really do personal journalism, but I plucked up my courage and talked to the great @helenpidd.bsky.social about our family’s experience with the care system. Have a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Why we should stop demonising Taylor and Scientific Management: the rise of Simplistic Systems Thinking (SST) versus CST. The dangers of complexity science becoming Simplistic Complexity Thinking (SCT): rebranding design thinking in complexity clothing. thecynefin.co/we-need-to-t...

The right’s obsession with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be our next Brexit - the next dumb, nationalist, chest-beating act of folly that will have huge consequences for Britain – none of them good Podcast and piece for me

My column this week on Sagal Abdi-Wale being elected as a hopeful locally rooted candidate, born 4000 miles away from St Pancras. Kemi Badenoch's punchy challenge to ethnonationalism saw Restore + Reform influencers debate how far to attack her Nigerian heritage. www.easterneye.biz/keir-starmer...

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Writing software is a continual process of decision-making. Your coding agent needs the reasoning behind those decisions, not just the code. Our free lesson on record-driven development: 23 Oct, 9am Pacific / noon Eastern. leansoftware.ai/go/4hsvyz

Our latest essay, The Value of Pattern Collections, wirfs-brock.com/rebecca/pape... introduces a new perspective on patterns. What if we considered pattern collections as products created to provide ongoing value to other designers rather than short-term projects which end in publication?

So Rory and I are used to DISCUSSING on @therestpolitics.bsky.social but for our latest mini series here he is INTERVIEWING me to kick off new mini series on PERSEVILIENCE. it took us down all manner of interesting routes. Hope you enjoy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

An estimated 97% of households use the BBC's services each week. "Many, however, take the BBC for granted – until they’re deprived of it. A study in 2022 found that after nine days without it, 70% of those who’d said it was poor value changed their minds."

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

Britain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are:

dickonedwards.substack.com/p/cosy-rebel...

New on the blog: The Boots Theory of Software Architecture How misaligned priorities can impoverish development kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-boots-th...

"[there are] a substantial amount of people thinking that violent crime is worse in London than in any other region, when the opposite is true, it's the region with the lowest violent crime" @jwbrown.bsky.social spoke to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social at On London about findings from our new report

Yes to rejoining Europe. No to a second referendum. Plebiscites are an abdication of responsibility and judgement, a terrible method of deciding what is in a nations interest.

An opening salvo on differentiating anthro-complexity from behaviouralism (In both crude and more sophisticated forms). thecynefin.co/change-the-b...

NEW in the Fabians: What if the problem for a mass housebuilding drive is not too much community involvement in planning, but too little? 🧵 @kaneemerson.bsky.social and I have written a chapter for the @thefabians.bsky.social and @britishprogress.org collection on growth.

"Meaningless for the United States. A massive gift for Vladimir Putin. And the world reacted with absolute horror." What does Donald Trump's diesel deal mean for American consumers and the Russian war effort? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/dona...

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Charlie Downes, Campaigns Director of Lowe's Restore Britain, sees Reform's fatal flaw as accepting ethnic minorities as British "You have to recognise that millions of legal immigrants must go too, including passport holders. Otherwise just arguing for demographic replacement at a slower speed"

Labour's win, Greens' sudden crisis and the impossible lives of Londoners www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... — @johnharris1969.bsky.social

[The Green Party]’s claim that it tripled its previous vote share in [Holborn and St Pancras] is very specious indeed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Buoyed by the embrace of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his assassinations bureau and tasked it with murdering Europe's defense chiefs. www.ft.com/content/5da2...

For the umpteenth time the left discovers crude populism poisons your electoral changes.

A preliminary announcement of the Cynefin Field Guide, five years in the making and available this month - register via the link. thecynefin.co/five-years-i...

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

New post: The Tory conference represented a clear change in strategy. But so far the shift has been largely superficial and rhetorical. There are three big problems with making the strategy work - and it is not at all clear they're resolvable. samf.substack.com/p/the-three-...

2024: every bug bounty program shuts down because of a flood of bogus AI generated bug reports 2025: open source repos begin closing submissions because of AI generated PRs 2026: Anthropic begins trialing AI generated police tip line calls

If you are looking to fiscal policy to make people "feel better off" then you are looking in entirely the wrong place. There needs to be some luck in geopolitics, some leadership on the EU and some strategy on sovereign AI. Then things might shift. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wider context to the Holborn result: this chart shows the proportion of Labour’s 2024 vote going to different parties. Post Gorton over 1 in 10 Labour 24 voters were going to the Greens - that number has more than halved as Labour’s retention improved, particularly on the left.

The Greens' embrace of left populism has been an unmitigated disaster. At a moment when climate politics is more contested than ever, they've abandoned their post. Not just in Camden last night but in Lambeth too. Serious figures need to act.

There’s a fine line between righteous anger over the war in Gaza and seeming obsessive/extreme. Big difference speaking to voters in Holborn and St Pancras compared with Gorton and Denton was how many felt the Greens had moved into the second category

Pretty resounding hold for Labour in Green-led Lambeth.

"Polanski is a talented communicator as long as his audience is predisposed to like the message. His authority is solar-powered, activated only when the light of an enthusiastic crowd shines directly on him. If there is a risk of no applause, he powers down" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Feinstein and the Greens combined got just over 29% in 2024, so Polanski has not even added four percentage points to the number. That's a poor showing. There's no way round that for the Greens.

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Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims. It was a catastrophic night for Zack Polanski, and a remarkable victory for Sagal Absi-Wali kellnerp.substack.com/p/the-figure...

3000+ majority for Labour, comfortable and a sign of Burnham’s gains on the left. Labour vote barely drops. Green vote significantly up from 2024, but less impressive if you assume lots of Feinstein 2024 voters went to the Greens. Bad result for the Greens but not at worst end

Absolutely wonderful preview of the by-election by @andrewteale.me.uk: really conveys so much of what makes the seat very unusual and I learnt a lot I didn’t know:

Just discovered this. Essential listening for those who want to understand how Labour is shaped by it's history and the myths that have hidden the true nature of that history.