#NHS75 What have laptops got to do with our work with the NHS, helping local people to stay healthy? A thread... 1

That’s a weird side-by-side given the difference in y-axis. If it’s showing growth could have done % on same axis but instead we leave thinking public sector are paid less, which nominally they’re not.

Incorrect take. Privacy, like health, should be systematically looked after and not allowed to be taken advantage of by powerful interests intent on profiting from manipulating a choice out of each one of us.

Good thread 🧵

This is how you raise children to be first-class people and #antiracist I’m sure Ibram X. Kendi would approve! This is how you parent 💙🔥

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Nigel Farage having his elite bank account cancelled, let’s remember who he actually is

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I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.

Section 21 is the ‘no reason eviction’ clause that mean Landlords have an unprecedented asymmetry of power over their tenants. This Landlord doesn’t like that power asymmetry being diluted… go figure.

*earth: boiling, roasting, toasting* workers: *striking* everything: *expensive* Government:

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What is this website actually called anymore...

Give me the confidence of an economist trying to explain the diverging growth of countries through colonialism as “commodity-exporting countries gave up productivity in exchange for population” (2008, not even that long ago!) Leave colonial history to @DavidVeevers1 👀

Do I know any survey design pros who would be prepared to take a look at a draft of something? This is to help test our qualitative findings from interviews w/ 50 civil servants against a wider sample.

Shocking to witness how pedestrianisation and the #waroncars has ripped the heart out of once-thriving Edinburgh

WSJ investment tip. Short companies cutting WFH and long companies increasing WFH. Managers that see growth slowing care less about attrition so cut WFH, managers that see growth picking up need to hire so expand WFH. wsj.com/articles/need-…

Would the rich pay more in tax if public opinion decided? My new article "Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy" is now available in FirstView at British Jnl Poli Sci. (cambridge.org/core/journals/…). Here's a thread 🧵 on the main findings

Anyone - absolutely anyone - that says economic growth is “easy” or should always be given primacy should be blocked immediately. The market is not an end in itself.