John Cox📌 retweeted
More evidence that any support for rejoining the EU (or even just closer alignment) is likely to evaporate once the terms and conditions are exposed... 👇
ICYMI, some important polling on the terms Britons would accept as part of a deal to rejoin the EU... 🤔
1⃣ At face value, the poll suggests a majority would accept 'restoring freedom of movement'. But when this is expressed as 'removing limits on immigration' there is a big swing the other way... (1/3)
John Cox📌 retweeted
Anyone who likes the idea of rejoining the EU, has not bothered to think out the damage as well the extra cost to the UK, which it simply cannot afford.
John Cox📌 retweeted
My Times column: House prices are falling significantly in real terms and the question is how much this negative wealth effect is constraining consumer spending:
When the house price feelgood factor is gone, that’s a problem
thetimes.com/article/faca1bf…
John Cox📌 retweeted
Residential development new Planning Applications in London have fallen 96% in a decade.
In September / October 2026, planning applications were submitted for just 754 new homes in London:
- 507 private homes
- 247 affordable homes
This is across all of London / the GLA area, two full calendar months and in schemes with 20+ homes. The numbers exclude two adjustments to existing permissions (255 Hammersmith Road + Battersea Power Station Phases 4+).
For comparison the equivalent numbers for September and October 2016 were:
- 13,425 private homes
- 4,258 affordable homes
- A total of 17,683 homes
John Cox📌 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING NEWS! The engineer who created Claude Code from scratch just posted a 28-minute video that's pure gold:
how to write prompts that actually deliver ridiculously good results.
I've seen $300 courses that don't even come close to what he explains in the first 10 minutes.
CLAUDE.md files, memory shortcuts, parallel sessions, and prompting patterns that almost no one uses…
All in one video. Completely free. No fluff.
Whether you're a developer, just starting out now, or already using Claude for months: this changes the game for you starting today.
Save. Watch. Share.
John Cox📌 retweeted
Anthropic just killed:
> Google Sheets
> Excel
> TLDraw
> Airtable
> Miro
> Excalidraw
> FigJam
> Whimsical
> Lucidchart
> Lucidspark
> Mural
> Tableau
> Looker
> Power BI
> Metabase
> Hex
> Julius
> Mode
> Sigma
> ThoughtSpot
> Omni
> Lightdash
> Preset
> Redash
> Deepnote
> Observable
> Evidence
> Qlik
> Domo
> Rows
> Smartsheet
> Coda
> Notion databases
> Equals
> Causal
> Pigment
> Quadratic
> Sourcetable
> Grist
> Baserow
> NocoDB
> SeaTable
> Stackby
> Zoho Sheet
> Apple Numbers
> LibreOffice Calc
> Datawrapper
> Flourish
> Polymer
> Akkio
> Eraser
> Napkin
> Draw io
> Visio
> Gliffy
> Creately
> Milanote
> Stormboard
> Conceptboard
> Klaxoon
> Heptabase
> Kinopio
> Obsidian Canvas
> Canva Whiteboards
> Microsoft Whiteboard
> Zoom Whiteboard
> Apple Freeform
Everything's totally fine.
John Cox📌 retweeted
Frankly jaw dropping the number of constituencies where welfare spend exceeds income tax and NI raise.
Real devolution would halt the extreme extent of current fiscal transfer away from the productive bits of the country.
Funny how our leading devo maxxers never address this.
John Cox📌 retweeted
ICYMI, this warning from Norway is mainly about the loss of sovereignty involved in 'rule taking', which is a big red mark against the 'dynamic alignment' in the 'reset' too... 👇
British PM Andy Burnham has been warned by Norway’s leader not to seek to emulate his country’s EU relationship ahead of a summit with European leaders.
vist.ly/5rzab
John Cox📌 retweeted
This seems entirely plausible to me.
I Am a Silicon Valley Pioneer. We Are Sabotaging Ourselves. nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opini…
John Cox📌 retweeted
Lewis Hamilton flew back from Brazil alongside Toto Wolff and George Russell. 😂
Toto joked that they might have a drink on the overnight flight to celebrate Mercedes’ Constructors’ Championship, adding that Lewis might need one to help him sleep!
John Cox📌 retweeted
Live scenes from Manchester United's training ground as they conduct interviews to replace Carrick...
“It would be very easy for them to get rid of us if they wanted to.”
‘The Godfather of AI' @geoffreyhinton tells @BenKentish that we face an 'up to 20% chance' of extinction due to artificial intelligence.
John Cox📌 retweeted
🚨 WATCH Lucy Powell SQUIRM as Sophy Ridge confronts her with the fact she was the person who set up that infamous Russell Brand/Ed Miliband interview.
The Education Secretary looked blindsided. She didn’t know what to say. Plenty of us had no idea she was involved.
Sophy simply asks if it’s true she set up the interview and if she regrets it. Powell doesn’t answer directly. Instead she says it was a long time ago and if they knew what he was like they wouldn’t have gone anywhere near him.
Not an answer. Sophy tries again: “You were campaign chief, did you set that up?”
She says he approached the party and campaign team. She claims it wasn’t the “social media age” so they couldn’t check anything.
What a load of rubbish! First of all, there was social media, and there have always been plenty of ways to research someone. That’s not a modern phenomenon. They will literally say anything to dodge accountability.
Sophy rightly points out that things were known. That notorious Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross Radio 2 segment about Andrew Sachs happened years earlier. He was basically hiding in plain sight with his comedy and his behaviour.
There was plenty out there to make a judgement and they didn’t. So be honest. Just say it was a mistake. Stop trying to excuse it.





























