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“Whizz Whizz Zoom Zoom”,“Tariffs and Deportations” or“Billionaires hoard all the wealth”: take your pick
We should look at these statist solutions and tell their proponents that the things they propose won’t make people’s lives better and may even make them…
11 hrs ago
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Simon Cooke
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The problem is the city itself and electing socialists doesn't change this
Socialists win because, for all its stupidity, their platform offers hope (at least until they fail). The alternatives in city leadership simply offer…
Nov 5
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Simon Cooke
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October 2025
The YIMBY Alliance aren't YIMBYs, they're just city boosters
It isn’t YIMBY to tell people they can’t have the suburban life they want and offer a mansion flat without outdoor space, nowhere for the car and…
Oct 29
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Simon Cooke
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Why the ethnonationalist right agrees with the woke left about Katherine Birbalsingh and her school
The ethnonationalist right dislike her because overt values-led education flavoured with patriotic symbolism doesn’t match their idea that disorder and…
Oct 27
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Simon Cooke
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Zack Polanski and the Anglofuturists have the same housing and planning policies. Both are wrong.
All anglofuturism does is wash over the failed planning system with a load of twee, AI-generated slop they choose to call beauty.
Oct 15
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Simon Cooke
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Michael Heseltine is the father of National Conservative economics
Heseltine may think Nigel Farage is basically Hitler but the glorious irony is that the economic policies of Reform trace directly to his ideas on…
Oct 9
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Simon Cooke
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Government by targets doesn't work but neither does government by engineering drawing. Free markets work.
Successful economies grow because they allow enterprise the space to succeed (or fail) not because of any industrial strategy, regeneration programme or…
Oct 2
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Simon Cooke
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September 2025
Family, work and a cheaper shopping basket - getting a better narrative about poverty
As a conservative I want to do what Disraeli set as our purpose: improve conditions for working people and families. This means rejecting welfarism and…
Sep 30
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Simon Cooke
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Recognising a Palestinian 'state' is wrong
This isn't about freeing Palestine, justice, peace or resistance but a sort of Islamic Supremacism and, associated with this, the hatred of Jews
Sep 22
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Simon Cooke
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Hilary Mantel and the assassination of Charlie Kirk: how bien pensant leftists valorise political violence
It sometimes seems that a whole load of socialists think they’d be on the barricades fighting the fascists were it not for their job as a lawyer…
Sep 14
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Simon Cooke
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Environmental concerns are no excuse for not looking after public spaces
An unholy alliance between cost pressures and the climate cult is making England's public realm untidy and unattractive
Sep 12
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Simon Cooke
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"A Comprehensive Analysis of Simon Cooke’s Political Ideology" (courtesy of AI)
I asked followers on X to demystify my political position. One @AyeUpBradford, who understands these things crafted an AI prompt and produced what…
Sep 6
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Simon Cooke
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