Maxwell Marlow 🇺🇦
@maxwell_marlow
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Director of Policy @YIMBYInitiative. Director of Public Affairs @ASI • Fellow @consumerchoicec • Board Member @consyimby • Advisor to @PricedOutUK. VMO.
Crewe ➡ London
Joined May 2015
Singapore's then leader-to-be Lee Kuan Yew paid a visit to London. In a recent interview on the radio he told how he travelled to Piccadilly Circus by tube train, and as he emerged onto the pavement he stood and watched an unsupervised newspaper stall. He saw people stop and take
Sadiq Khan is driving a proud city into the ground. Lawbreaking is out of control. He's not acting. So, I did.👇
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We now live in a country that is beyond Mary Whitehouse’s wildest dreams.
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Julia Donaldson's book focusses on the story of a villain named Reginald who accidentally starts a fire after lighting tobacco.
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🤔 Yesterday the Labour Minister said said the decision to close Mossmorran had nothing to do with Government policy. 🤔 Eh…politely that is total bullshit. As I said yesterday and as was eloquently explained this morning by the Chair of Exxonmobil. 🥀 Labour. Just rotten.
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🚨 7 days until the Budget! 🗽 In the run-up, Fighting for a Free Future will be releasing footage from our first event last month. The great @maxwell_marlow of the @ASI discussed exactly what is wrong with our planning system 👇
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I am 100% here for @matthewlesh introducing the readers of the Telegraph to the seminal work of the iconic artist Kelis in this manner. Whether they've heard of anyone beyond the advent of Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams heyday is another matter. This is gold. Unlike the tax,
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This went very poorly for Polanski - enjoyable listening.
Tonight's #R4Today debate chaired by @BBCNickRobinson asks: Who should pay more tax? On the panel ⬇️ Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party Jeremy Hunt, former Conservative Chancellor Baroness Debbonaire, Labour peer Ruth Curtice, chief exec of the Resolution Foundation Justin
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Ed Miliband on his way home after a long day destroying another key sector of the British economy H/t @BenedictSpence
NEW ExxonMobil is closing its plastics refinery in Mossmorran. 400 jobs. For the first time since the UK invented polyethylene (the most important of all plastics) we are no longer manufacturing the key ingredient, ethylene, in this country... Quote from Sharon Todd of SCI👇
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How do public perceptions of government spending match with reality? A YouGov experiment put a series of govt spending areas as head to head match-ups and asked Britons to say which they thought more was spent on The resulting public ranking most overstates debt interest,
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All agricultural policy must flow from this one truth: food is a private good sold on a private market. Read my latest piece for @CapX, writing in response to @KemiBadenoch's speech at the Emergency Food and Farming Summit 🔗👇
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Short-sighted and stupid. Ticket fraud will rocket and the government be left holding the bag of a very upset punter demographic
Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by government
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The Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (Bloomberg-funded) has given the Dirty Ashtray award to New Zealand for having one of the world’s lowest smoking rates but doing it a way that Bloomberg disapproves.
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Big news for growth today. This change in policy will unlock thousands of productive and valuable housing assets across the country, and in cities. I remember @HCH_Hill handing this SI to a Tory housing minister at a @CPSThinkTank event, and they handed it back!
Labour will make the dream of home ownership a reality for thousands of families locked out under the Conservative blockers.
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“Voting ‘hubs’”
EXC: Mobile polling booths could be placed in schools to make it easier for 16 and 17yos to vote in shake-up of Britain’s election rules Plans to “modernise the voting experience” - in-person polling extended over several days and “hubs” set up to catch voters in busy areas
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Check out the latest edition of my @FT newsletter. (1/2) The Budget Britain needs—but won't get https://t.co/Dw4SQUyl57 With insights from @Policy_Exchange, @ASI, @OxfordEconomics, @jonmoyni, @Sam_Dumitriu and @Ben_A_Hopkinson
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Rachel Reeves can break the UK’s fiscal ‘doom loop’ by backing business and workers
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NEW: Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a “milkshake tax” at the Budget. @Telegraph understands she is preparing to confirm the exemption milk-based drinks have from the sugar levy will end. She’s also set to drop the point that levy kicks in from 5 grams of sugar per
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Brownfield Full Expensing receives an endorsement from @fteconomics as part of a wider policy plan to get Britain growing again - as published by @ASI and @PricedOutUK
https://t.co/WAb9fDps73
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Rachel Reeves can break the UK’s fiscal ‘doom loop’ by backing business and workers
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I spoke to @JAHeale on @spectator TV about how the most dangerous word in Parliamentary democracy - consensus - has accidentally nuked the private rental market. But there's also a message of hope. We accidentally destroyed our housing market before, and the solution was
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BMA are striking for the 13th time since 2023 That’s equal to more than 50 days lost to strike action They are asking for a 26% pay rise, the highest public sector uplift…after receiving a 29% pay increase over the last three years. Here’s why we shouldn’t give them an inch🧵
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Great Substack here 👇
A weekend read (5-10 minutes) in the run-up to Reeves' second "never-again" Budget. The Laffer Curve, and why I both love and hate it. Society's goal is NOT to maximise tax revenue, as though the private sector doesn't count. https://t.co/5avigXGACo
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Whether you want a bigger or smaller state, it’s remarkable how almost every budget makes our tax system worse and more complicated.
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