Great!

Sunak’s government has almost destroyed Natural England – just for doing its job. A shocking catalogue of Tory attacks on the watchdog set up to protect nature. It needs its budgets & its independence back. Spot on from ⁦Guy Shrubsole⁩ 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Me too!

A group of 65 leading economists have warned higher UK public investment “must be a priority for the next government”. Despite the UK's record of low public investment, the economists say the main parties lack “a serious plan to raise public investment”. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Brilliant.

The Conservative interest equals the national interest! Both unbelievable and more than believable. All our problems root back to this extraordinary sense of entitlement.

Known as the narrowest lane in Prague. Can’t see how there can be a narrower lane anywhere. Certainly narrower than Madan Mitra Lane, Kolkata.

Never forget.

Agreed with all points BUT where is climate change and policy on your list? Should be top.

There's much to recommend from the #ABCDE2024 conference. @Mushfiq_econ's 15-minute talk on "7 lessons from the pandemic for low- and middle-income countries" was great! Watch it here youtube.com/live/ppQeljmNN…

We advocated development and use of leading indicators of social distress in 1986 in relation to 1980s debt crisis. Relevant to many crises - wars, pandemics… - but still not adopted.

Congratulations!

Oh no!

Here's my sense for where the race stands as we head into the conventions. natesilver.net/p/can-kamala-h…

There is something quite bizarre about a country that can achieve something as truly magnificent as we have seen tonight (not to mention superb Olympics and Paralympics in the same year) and yet be in such a mess politically

Not unfamiliar

We have lost one of the great leaders of pastoralism studies, Jeremy Swift Pastoralism & Uncertainty International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists ILRI.org ids.ac.uk/news/rememberi…

Why didn’t Trump put his hand on the bible while taking his oath? Does this invalidate his position? Does it mean he doesn’t intend to protect the US constitution?

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?