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Matt Day retweeted
The "do no harm budget." UK has gov spending near 45% of GDP, debt near 100%. Tax revenue at levels never sustained in the UK before. Crazy fiscal drag. Concerning high income emigration. That's harm enough. Fiddling with cash ISAs and marmalade prices doesn't cut it.
Matt Day retweeted
It’s fantastic that we have brilliant companies like @IsembardGroup here in Britain.
What amazes us more is that they’re building all this in *spite* of high taxes and burdensome regulation.
Imagine the success this country could have if we take the handbrake off.
That’s what the next @Conservatives government will do.
Britain’s defence industry is undergoing a revolution, and 33-year-old entrepreneur Alexander Fitzgerald is at its forefront.
His company, Isembard, uses AI-powered manufacturing to produce components for drones, jet engines and robotics, helping meet surging demand as Britain and its allies rearm.
@davidblairdt paid him a visit ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Matt Day retweeted
Tim Martin is a hero and in a just world would be given an Earldom for his services to competitive markets. There should be a Wetherspoons in every airport!
I have spent an inordinate amount of time in various Spoons this weekend owing to the awful weather and our awful public transport system. So while I wait for my Korean friend chicken burger here’s some of the under explored reasons why Spoons is so great:
1. They have real Heinz ketchup (ditto Heinz mustard, HP sauce etc). This is impressive when most food trucks and even restaurants etc now use cheaper supermarket-brand versions as Heinz has become so pricey
2. The southern fried chicken strips are better than the chicken selects in McDonald’s (and that’s a high bar)
3. The staff are nice (I’ve always found)
4. The spice bag is elite
5. There’s something for everyone - even Aperol Spritz! (£4.75)
6. The free re-fills on the coffee
7. Often they’re in great heritage buildings
8. The explicit invite on the pump to try before you choose. This is great
Many more but my burger has now arrived
Matt Day retweeted
Two things are entirely predictable:
a) the Online Safety Act is an abject failure;
b) the regulators want more of it in response.
Matt Day retweeted
We were repeatedly told the Online Safety Act's primary goal was to make the internet safer for children; now they're admitting it hasn't achieved that goal.
There was never evidence that the 'duty of care' model would work; it was untested, and now it is proving unsuccessful, despite signifigant costs for users and platforms.
We have faced age-gating of legitimate content and hundreds of web forums shutting down because they struggled to comply. It's saddening, if anything, that for all this faff, the law itself has failed.
Matt Day retweeted
🚨NEW: The Online Safety Act has been a failure, according to a new report from Ofcom.
Ofcom have found "no significant change" in children encountering harmful content since the law came into effect last July. This is despite the signifigant threats to free speech and privacy.
Matt Day retweeted
Hugely proud to have led the writing of @Conserva_Tech's latest paper, Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State 🇬🇧
A real team effort, so thank you to brilliant colleagues for their ideas and support 🙏
The British state is running on yesterday's technology, with today's bureaucracy, at tomorrow's expense.
Today we launch our second policy paper 🇬🇧 Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State.
Do check it out 👇
conservatech.io/research-and…
Matt Day retweeted
A state that asks less of its people, uses what it already holds, decides quickly, and answers for what it decides.
Smaller, smarter, faster. That’s the Conservative case 📄 Read the full paper: conservatech.io/research-and…
Matt Day retweeted
We’d also rebuild HMRC’s front door, put GDS back at the heart of government, and get the right people into the right seats.
When the state uses technology to make decisions, the rule is simple: a machine can decide, but a person must answer ⚖️
Matt Day retweeted
We’d make it unlawful for one part of government to demand a fact that another part already holds.
And you’d be able to see what the state holds about you, who has accessed it, when, and why 👀
Matt Day retweeted
Labour would have the state use your data more effectively. We’d put you in control of how it’s used 🔐
One person. One government. One record.
Change your address with your GP, and you’ve changed it across the state.
Matt Day retweeted
In 2016, the UK was ranked 1st in the UN’s e-government index. By 2024, we were 7th 📉
Others went further and faster, often by building on what we started.
Much of what was new in 2012 is legacy now, and the state still asks for things it already knows.
Matt Day retweeted
The British state is running on yesterday's technology, with today's bureaucracy, at tomorrow's expense.
Today we launch our second policy paper 🇬🇧 Rewiring Britain: A Conservative Plan for a Smaller, Smarter, and Faster State.
Do check it out 👇
conservatech.io/research-and…
Matt Day retweeted
On this day in 1805, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson died during the hour of his greatest victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, securing British naval dominance for the next 100 years.
He is one of the greatest admirals to have ever lived and one of Britain’s foremost military heroes.
Huzzah to Lord Nelson!
Matt Day retweeted
Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
Matt Day retweeted
This is an excellent report from Big Brother Watch on the Online Safety Act — but this foreword from Nadine Dorries is a laughable attempt to rewrite history and deflect responsibility.
Everything that’s happened since the law’s passage was foreseeable and foreseen, the entirely predictable consequence of the underlying design. Dorries’ legislation was not ‘meticulously drafted’. It was always a complete mess that was going to undermine free expression.
It always required age gating for any content that could be considered psychically or psychologically harmful to children. It also always had an extremely long list of duties that would be impossible for smaller web forums to complete with. The amendments made it worse, but they are not to blame for the current mess.
The Online Safety Act has made hosting community forums so laborious that they're closing shop.
Hundreds of forums have shuttered due to piling paperwork and liability risks.
Ordinary speech from ordinary people, gone.
Read our report ⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
Matt Day retweeted
We’re hosting our launch reception in November alongside the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
If you want to help shape tech policy for the next Conservative government, we’d love to see you there 👇
luma.com/tk2zywws
Matt Day retweeted
As @NeilDotObrien suggests, this is a bad idea for many reasons - but one above all:
How can politicians look at the EU, its sluggish growth and sparse innovation and want to align our laws with it in any way?
It has been to Britain’s great advantage that we are not subject to the EU’s AI Act.
We have so much domestic policy change to get through if we want to genuinely compete in AI. Locking ourselves to a backwater would be a terrible start.
The EU’s new AI law is a bad idea.
Cutting European governments off from using the best AI is a bad idea - and Britain shouldn’t join in.
neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-eus-n…
Matt Day retweeted
How building data centres could cut Britain's sky-high electricity bills by billions:
- Failing electricity use has made electricity more expensive as a fixed costs of supplying power (grid, policy, balancing, etc.) are concentrated on a small share of demand.
- New demand from data centres helps dilute those fixed costs. This could save £2bn a year (£69 per year) if the Government's compute target is hit.
- Data centres are extremely profitable, even at high power prices. They care about speed, but the grid queue can create decade-long delays. Letting companies pay to jump the queue could raise billions.
- Britain could replicate the success of spectrum auctions and sell-off faster grid connections. Accelerating 3GW by 3 years is potentially worth £12bn to data centre builders!
- In the US, tech companies are making large investments in new generation (SMRs, gas, renewables) as states adopt 'bring your own power' policies. Doing the same here could accelerate clean power buildout and fund necessary gas plant renewals.
samdumitriu.com/p/build-the-…
