Dan Davies

dsquareddigest.bsky.social

23 October 2026 09:20

To use the hackneyed phrase, there is, literally "nothing Labour about" reducing the administrative burden on business. Most of that administrative burden comes from trade union victories of the last century. There is no way past this.

Dan Davies

dsquareddigest.bsky.social

23 October 2026 09:20

There is something about the Labour Party which makes them unable to understand that employment regulation is regulation, employment bureaucracy is bureaucracy, and outside a few regulated industries, "business" experience of "red tape" is almost entirely what they call "improving worker's rights"

Rosamundi

rosamundi.bsky.social

01 October 2026 17:52

I had no idea this was an option.

David Henig

davidheniguk.bsky.social

14 September 2026 16:22

Apparently asking cyclists to obey rules means you don't care if cars break them. No, it means an increasing number of cyclists are behaving increasingly dangerously, and two wrongs do not make a right.

David Henig

davidheniguk.bsky.social

14 September 2026 16:22

Nearly been run over twice today by cyclists, one on a pavement the other going down the wrong side of the road. How's your day going, and can we perhaps start asking for some basic rules to be followed?