The View from Cullingworth

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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
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How you read a letter and why this matters in today's online world. Trust me.
In this world, almost everything you see is fake and manipulative because without doing that you can’t get the attention needed to make the game work…
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August 2025

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