Outlook: I see you're trying to shut down your computer. Did you want to save any changes to this calendar item to which you have made no changes at all? Me:

My other half’s just sent me this from TK Maxx, where Gentleman’s Relish is being sold in the men’s grooming section

Remember that time economists used a gravity model to find ancient lost cities from the Bronze Age? If you do or you don't, check out this thread🧵

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Choosing your parents is becoming ever more important. Growing correlation between parents' and children's earning is being exacerbated by growing importance of inheritance. Poorer children in North and Midlands find it especially hard to move up the economic hierarchy.

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

Proof if proof be need be that geologists are hilarious

People of Sheffield and Leeds: Rishi Sunak says he will quadruple the number of trains between Sheffield and Leeds. As there are currently five per hour each way, that will mean 20 trains per hour: one every three minutes. Rail boffins: can you help me understand how that works?

Everything is good about this picture. The smile, the megaphone guy, the confused onlookers... the 'Tadej Focaccia' sign

The Conclusion of Peace in Angers on August 10, 1620, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622-25

Here is fossil fuel companies' new defense in lawsuits accusing them of deceiving the public about climate change: They perpetrated no deception, they say, because the "alleged impact of fossil fuel use on the global climate has been ‘open and obvious’ for decades." 1/n

Beautiful from Tom Peck, as ever

Found this in an old Oxford University magazine from 1966. Ken Russell on his plans to make a film about Henry VIII. Every line a winner.

Autumn Statement Thread. Back in March, Hunt's post-election public spending plans were totally implausible, even for a Conservative Chancellor. Since March inflation has exceeded expectations, leading to higher taxes, but Hunt has kept nominal government spending unchanged. 1/5

Huge news for Panic Shack and Bob Vylan .... Logan Roy just turned up to their Brighton show..

📈📉⁉️ Is the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasting that the UK economy will be smaller or larger by 2027 than it did previously? A thread...🧵1/

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ICYMI: If the next government isn’t diverting resources to investment then it will be giving up on our future mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/01/if-nex… We need the popular narrative on what governments should do to move from obsessing about government debt to obsessing about public investment.

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