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Every substantive Bluesky post by Chris Curtis, classified for substance and tone — each links out to the original on Bluesky. Back to the MP page.

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Bluesky activity · last 60 days
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social
32posts
27substantive
criticalvoice · measured ↗ rising

Voice score reflects the argumentative tone of the MP's own posts (critical vs supportive) — not what other people say about them. The "criticises" and "supports" lists below show who they're directing each tone at.

Most criticises
  • Department for Transport4
  • Natural England3
  • CIBABs2
Most supports
  • combined authorities1
Top topics
  • Transport11 postscritical
  • Economy & Jobs (General)4 postscritical
  • Environment4 postscritical
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All postsSubstantive posts.30 classified · most recent first

Each post links out to the original on Bluesky — open it there to read the full thread and replies.

WhenTopicTonePost
18 May 2026Transportsarcastic“If I hadn't been otherwise engaged I would have got "Build baby build Leeds a Tram" hats made.”↗
18 May 2026Transportsarcastic“Just arrived in Leeds for UKREiiiF. Beautiful city, but takes a bit too long to get from the station to the hotel. If only we had a way of solving that.”↗
16 May 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“One of the biggest misses in our (otherwise very accurate) 2017 YouGov MRP was sitting Cabinet ministers, many of whom significantly outperformed our estimates. It’s probably the reasons Amber Rudd managed to hold on in Hastings despite the model suggesting otherwise.”↗
14 May 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Andy Burnham should be allowed to stand in the Makerfield by election. We can't risk another Reform MP, and we need all our best players on the pitch to bring about the change people voted for in 2024.”↗
12 May 2026Tax & Public Financesmeasured“Very much this 👇”↗
6 May 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“Very good from Joe and the team.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentsarcastic“Please please please please don't give Natural England ideas.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentsarcastic“You also don't get to do a whole thing saying "don't blame us for blocking the project, we are just doing our job" if you previously claimed that your job wasn't blocking projects.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentdefensive“I'm sure I will get barked at for being anti-nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. We should be doing far more to enhance nature across the country, but you can't achieve that through the creation of more deadweight bureaucratic crap.”↗
3 May 2026Environmentangry“Infuriating response from Natural England, showing just how broken our regulators and regulations have become. Until we fix this, we can't fix Britain. naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/05/03/h...”↗
30 Apr 2026Housing & Planningsarcastic“I’m not against the forest city concept. I just have the same reaction as when someone tells me Elon has reinvented the bus.”↗
30 Apr 2026Housing & Planningsarcastic“Extracting land values to build a city with hundreds of thousands of affordable homes with trees and green spaces. What a novel idea, I think, as I look out of the restaurant window.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)defensive“I realise I sound like a whinging constituency MP, but I have sat in meetings with people who have said embarrassingly wrong and, at times, downright offensive things about MK. If they had bothered to open a spreadsheet they might actually learn something about the economic geography of the region.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“Milton Keynes is, by quite some distance the biggest economy in the corridor. It is the fastest growing, and is building significantly more homes than Oxford or Cambridge. It is purely snobbery, especially from government, that has led to the Cambridge focus.”↗
27 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)angry“*sighs heavily* Almost every "Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor" event at UKReiif is just another opportunity for Cambridge to self promote, despite their appalling record of delivery. Once again, the entire project will be a failure if it ONLY focuses on Cambridge.”↗
8 Apr 2026Othermeasured“This is exactly why we need to take on the CIBABs. open.substack.com/pub/chriscur...”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“The good news is that a lot of these challenges are comparatively easy to fix, and DfT has recently announced a Taskforce to look at it. We just need to ensure it's serious about fixing these problems and not taken over by a load of CIBABs in DFT.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“And that leads us onto CIBAB's, pronounced like Kebab. The people whose answer to every proposal is, “Can’t it be a bus?” This is despite all the evidence that Trams support modal shift, have higher capacity, are permanent, support regeneration, are more accessible, and more reliable.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“5. The Department for Transport really doesn’t like trams For a range of cultural a historic reasons DfT have really gone off the idea of supporting Tram projects. A culture has crept in of putting barriers in the way, rather than learning from past mistakes and working out how to do them well.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“4. Overcentralisation The Transport and Works Act Order process means that all local schemes need to be signed off by DFT, is incredibly expensive and can take well over a decade. The government should just allow combined authorities to run there own approval processes for these schemes.”↗
6 Apr 2026Utilities & Watermeasured“3. Utilities When Britain lays new tram track, utility firms can demand pipes and cables are moved, and the tram builder usually pays, meaning they get more moved than is necesary. Costs are almost all paid (92.5%) for by the constructers in the UK, but split more equally in other countries.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“2. Gold plating Like much else, too may infrastructure projects in the UK are over-specced, which leads to extra cost. The most relevant example is track depth, where we mostly dig to 600mm, compared to 300mm in most other places.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“1. Environmental regs This is not about pitting nature against trams, just pointing out that you probably need less process and paperwork if laying tracks in urban areas on roads that already exist. There was 3201 pages of assessment for the West Mids metro extension, on roads that look like this.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportsarcastic“So why don't we build more? Five reasons, including the usual cast of characters from Britain’s long running national drama, Why Can’t We Have Nice Things? 1. Environmental regulations 2. Gold plating 3. We move too many utilities 4. British overcentralisation 5. DfT don't like them”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“This makes it harder to get across big cities within a reasonable commute time. E.g. @tomforth.co.uk estimates only 0.9 million people can reach Birmingham city centre within 30 minutes by bus. This limits agglomeration, so our second-tier cities underperform compared to the rest of Europe.”↗
6 Apr 2026Transportmeasured“It costs us nearly twice as much to build a mile of Tram track in the UK as it does in Europe, so we don't have anywhere near as many trams. Every French city with a population over 150,000 has a Mass Rapid Transit system. Only around a quarter of British place that size have one.”↗
6 Apr 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...”↗
29 Mar 2026Othermeasured“I try to explain why data quality is an increasing challenge for pollsters, and why this is a particular problem when it comes to "young men". Key bit below on the lack of an incentive to fix it, and why YouGov aren't really the baddie here.”↗
29 Mar 2026Othermeasured“After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging. It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/young-men-...”↗
29 Mar 2026Othersarcastic“I don't understand why Peter Hitchens has a problem with us changing the clocks by just 4.167%.”↗
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Sources & methodology
SourceBluesky / AT Protocol API · author feed. Each post links to the original on bsky.app.
VerificationOnly handles linked from the MP’s own published list are ingested. Self-declared or unverified handles aren’t included.
ClassificationEach post is LLM-classified for substance (vs reposts, social mentions, scheduling), then for tone (critical / measured / supportive) per target.
WindowThe 60-day summary above; the list covers all classified substantive posts.