On budget day remember - ALL OBR and other official budget numbers are 100% FAKE cos of the tens of billions in hidden classified budgets from the total shitshow of our nuclear weapons program over 20+ years. Fake budgets, fake debates, fake politics all the way down

Why children have stopped reading spectator.co.uk/article/why-ch…

New blog: The Cabinet Office & HMT have succeeded in sabotaging a crucial capability we built amid covid in 2020 for the PM's private office in No10, a data science/AI team that could enormously improve the quality of data used for PM decisions, stop absurdities like the Cabinet

There is so much alpha in books from 1870 to 1930, it's unreal.

I feel like a large amount of GDP is locked up because it is difficult for person A to very conveniently pay 5 cents to person B. Current high fixed costs per transaction force each of them to be of high enough amounts, which results in business models with purchase bundles,

One of the largest international freight forwarders in the United States, JAS Forwarding, has been taken out by a cyberattack this evening. The last time this happened to a major US forwarder, Expeditors International of Washington, Putin invaded Ukraine 3 days later.

This chart by GS already shared by my friend Patrick Saner shows one aspect of current absurd business hurdles, linked to but also additive to and compounding of suicidal energetic policies that no looming electoral shock seems to slow or deter. Germany needs urgently new

Please note that this is an actual statement from Kamala

The US Democratic Party as a whole has a massive incentive to bring in and legalize illegal immigrants, as they vote overwhelmingly Democrat. No grand conspiracy theory is needed. The simple incentive of winning elections explains why they won’t even deport criminals who

The core function of Twitter has long been to expose the imploding wreckage within our most important institutions.

The misinformation people often have latent authoritarian tendencies actually scratch that I meant explicit ones.

This isn't right. Luxury brands don't make the museum, that would be cafes and tourism optimized city centers. Luxury brands are something far more interesting. They are a transfer from the rich people of the world directly to Europe.

They are together with education, luxury cars, private jets, yachts, and elite tourism part of the status economy. The status economy sits on top of the financial economy of America, the resource economy of Middle Eastern peteostates, and the industrial economy of East Asia.

sorry mom i guess you don’t get it

It’s easy to underestimate the economic catastrophe of the last 16 years because it’s been gradual. But imagine we’d actually grown at 2% a year since 2008 and then lost it all at once this year: it would be a collapse of >30% Hard to overstate how radical we need to be now

No one will change their mind about Hamas spectator.co.uk/article/no-one…

Whats it like to begin working in 10 Downing Street at a moment of national crisis with zero background in politics? An interview on this I did with Statecraft, a publication by Santi Ruiz Santi Ruiz supported by DC-based Institute for progress Institute for Progress, has been published. - 1/2

We cover the 10 Downing Street 'weirdos and misfits', red teaming the COVID response, ARIA, UK rapid testing & more. Its the first time I've discussed this publically, it was a mixture of fun and therapy for me! statecraft.pub/p/how-to-build… < Link here 2/2