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Peter Franklin 🌳

@peterfranklin_

Contributing editor, UnHerd Columnist, ConservativeHome Co-host, The Common Sense Revolution

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  1. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    This week on The Common Sense Revolution podcast @gavinmegaw, @patrick_kidd and I interview Lord Brady. In his 14 years as chairman of the 1922 Committee, he refereed multiple leadership challenges and contests. So how does he rate Kemi Badenoch’s prospects? Links 👇
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  4. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    Labour couldn’t even stand up to Mauritius – so, naturally, they’re giving in to the EU’s trade blackmail. From me for @UnHerd:
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    RT @roddreher: Above everything else, this right here is why Republicans got wiped out tonight. The leader of the party lives in an epistemic bubble of megalomania, where facts, reason, and data mean nothing. All the bad policies followed from this.
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  6. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    🇺🇸 The Democrats are awful and some awful people got elected last night. But Trump and his enablers got what they deserved. 🇬🇧 I’ve no doubt now that if Reform ever got the chance, they’d govern with the same stubborn, self-defeating stupidity.
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    RT @timleunig: Absolutely brilliant set of tweets from @SCP_Hughes on how to make a brilliant city, architecturally. Read it and you will learn something.
    Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes
    How can we make lovable cities? If you had asked a European architect this question in 1900, they would probably have referred you to a slender, lively book by the Austrian writer Camillo Sitte, translated as ‘The Art of Building Cities’. Published in 1889, ‘The Art of Building Cities’ swiftly came to be revered around the world. Sitte was repudiated by the modernists and fell into obscurity, but his ideas are beginning to be revived. My cousin @PMArslanagic and I have distilled nineteenth century's finest work on urbanism into five principles: - Create enclosed spaces - Keep squares small - Symmetry is overrated - Move monuments to the edges of spaces - Nestle monuments in vernacular fabric
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  8. Samuel Hughes✓@SCP_Hughes
    How can we make lovable cities? If you had asked a European architect this question in 1900, they would probably have referred you to a slender, lively book by the Austrian writer Camillo Sitte, translated as ‘The Art of Building Cities’. Published in 1889, ‘The Art of Building Cities’ swiftly came to be revered around the world. Sitte was repudiated by the modernists and fell into obscurity, but his ideas are beginning to be revived. My cousin @PMArslanagic and I have distilled nineteenth century's finest work on urbanism into five principles: - Create enclosed spaces - Keep squares small - Symmetry is overrated - Move monuments to the edges of spaces - Nestle monuments in vernacular fabric
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  9. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    An encouraging poll - but remember that the polling average shows a much wider gap with Labour than before the Burnhaming
    YouGov @YouGov
    Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (1-2 November 2026) shows a close race between the largest parties Labour: 26% (-1 from 25-26 Oct) Conservative: 24% (+2) Reform UK: 21% (+1) Lib Dem: 11% (=) Green: 10% (=) Restore Britain: 3% (-1) SNP: 3% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 2% (+1)
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  10. YouGov✓@YouGov
    Our latest Westminster voting intention poll (1-2 November 2026) shows a close race between the largest parties Labour: 26% (-1 from 25-26 Oct) Conservative: 24% (+2) Reform UK: 21% (+1) Lib Dem: 11% (=) Green: 10% (=) Restore Britain: 3% (-1) SNP: 3% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 2% (+1)
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  11. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    There’s no doubt about it now. Kemi Badenoch’s strategy has succeeded. But that’s why she needs a new one. From me for @ConHome:
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  12. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    Yes, let’s all defer to Rachel Reeves’ immense authority on the subject of Britain’s future prosperity
    James Chapman @jameschappers
    Former Chancellor @RachelReevesMP declares tonight: “Britain’s future lies in the European Union.” As she points out, “Brexit has made us poorer, weaker and less secure.” This debate is moving very quickly now. The Brexiteers have lost control.
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  13. James Chapman@jameschappers
    Former Chancellor @RachelReevesMP declares tonight: “Britain’s future lies in the European Union.” As she points out, “Brexit has made us poorer, weaker and less secure.” This debate is moving very quickly now. The Brexiteers have lost control.
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    RT @TomTugendhat: This is an outstanding piece of writing.
    Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos
    For Halloween, an essay about doubt and belief, that may, or may not be, an Irish ghost story:
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  15. Aris Roussinos✓@arisroussinos
    For Halloween, an essay about doubt and belief, that may, or may not be, an Irish ghost story:
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  16. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    Drop the whole Commonwealth griftfest and do CANZUK instead
    Ben Judah @b_judah
    CHOGM sums up the settle for less attitude that always seems to come out on top in British Foriegn policy. Oh it’s broken. Oh we know. Oh let’s just go anyway. Oh let’s not bother doing anything different like an actual functioning investment summit let’s just get through it and issue some lines pretending it is one. Oh that’s a great plan.
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  17. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    Would a snap election now be more like 2017 or 2019? Try 1923 instead, because Andy Burnham finds himself in a remarkably similar position to Stanley Baldwin. From me for @UnHerd:
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  18. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    This week on The Common Sense Revolution podcast we contemplate the void that is John Healey’s first budget. Featuring pickles, beer, @gavinmegaw, @patrick_kidd and me. Links 👇
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  21. Peter Franklin 🌳@peterfranklin_
    Was this the first ever Budget day PMQs that was more important than the Budget speech?
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    RT @mattwridley: You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s? That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong. Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
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    RT @andyburnham: There is nothing socialist about a system of free movement that is used by multi-nationals to undermine wages. WATCH my Brexit speech today.
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  24. Ben Judah✓@b_judah
    CHOGM sums up the settle for less attitude that always seems to come out on top in British Foriegn policy. Oh it’s broken. Oh we know. Oh let’s just go anyway. Oh let’s not bother doing anything different like an actual functioning investment summit let’s just get through it and issue some lines pretending it is one. Oh that’s a great plan.
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