Great piece from Rian on the stale debate over Britainβs economy
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The day I realised the old regime at Twitter wasnβt working was when they banned the Politics For AlI account because some professional UK journalists didnβt like it. Corrupt as hell. No idea if the new regime will be better but I hope so.
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Input prices make a lot of uk industry unprofitable, eg Finland industrial energy prices in 2021: 6.08 pence/kWh , UK industrial energy price in 2021: 13.66 pence/KWh
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I want overly-caffeinated civil servants, rushing about, wired
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(Other false economy is cracking down on free tea and coffee for officials just to avoid a once-a-year story on the Β£10,000 bill.)
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Far from the first article about the grooming gang scandal, but one of the few that comes close to capturing the scale and sordidness and evil indifference of it (still ongoing!)
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A couple of pages from Kate Binghamβs book βThe Long Shotβ. Note for future reference the the names of those whose prejudices and whose willingness to believe media stories attacked and undermined the public service of a woman who is a role model for women and girls in science
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In 1993, AT&T predicted smartwatches, tablets, video on demand, e-books,
videoconferencing, home automation,
voice assistants, web mapping, POS terminals, self-service kiosks, distance learning, translation software and digital tolls.
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With the application of lidar, drones, satellite imagery, and finally machine learning powered image classification:
We're just at the of the technological transformation of archeology. Human history will be extended by tens of thousands of years. #longhistory.
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Drone-based remote-sensing survey reveals ~4.5K-yr-old city in southern Iraq held 10s of thousands of people on series of marshy islands linked by Venice-like canals: sciencedirect.com/science/articl
News coverage: sciencenews.org/article/mesopo /v @davidwengrow
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and now this: almost 100 cases of babies or mothers dying or being left brain damaged for no reason, in just 1 NHS trust thetimes.co.uk/article/east-k
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βFour in ten NHS maternity units fail to meet basic safety standardsβ thetimes.co.uk/article/mother
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Reminder that according to the most recent ONS release, about 80% of the lowest income pensioners own their own homes (overwhelming majority of which own outright): ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peop
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(to a state almost exactly its current size, no smaller and no larger)
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Here's an idea though - we could 'improve education, skills and lifelong training'!
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Why π¬π§ has squandered chance to be the world's leader in pandemic preparedness, according to :
No state-owned VMIC
No more vaccine registry
No interest in antibody therapies
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/
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Inability to grasp big numbers vs small (and what counts as each) is widespread but decidedly sub-optimal in government
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Iβm all for an energy saving campaign this winter but do we need to spend Β£15 million to do that. The PM is right to question if this is the best use of tax payers money.
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I'm no Russia expert but it does not seem particularly unlikely to me that Russia will cut off remaining supplies to Europe and we will have a cold winter. Surely this should be the base case
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National Grid says this is βunlikelyβ. Nonetheless if it did happen effect on economy (growth growth growth?) and politics would be v significant. Remember this pledge from PM during leadership election (again, not mirrored by Sunak) twitter.com/lewis_goodall/β¦
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It really is early 2020 all over again. Government unable/unwilling to imagine, let alone prepare for difficult scenarios, refusing to make sensible trade-offs like advising people of appropriate thermostat temps for unbelievably stupid reasons...
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No 10 has blocked a public information campaign encouraging people to save energy
Jacob Rees-Mogg signed off plans for campaign with potential Β£15m budget in recent days
No 10 rejected it today amid claims Truss is ideologically opposed twitter.com/hendopolis/staβ¦
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My latest. Where are the Chesterfield Chaebols? Where are the Wapping Wallenbergs?
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This software would help the NHS but people have unfounded fears about privacy so we should do something harder and likely worse.
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"We should get rid of Palantir and build our own open-source software," said Phil Booth from @medConfidential
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If we are to get back to Jerusalem, we should give the dark Satanic mills a chance. We need Chesterfield Chaebols, Kidderminster Keiretsus, and Zone 6 Zaibatsus.
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This month in my Substack I'm worried about Boomers, or more specifically I'm worried how few people conceptualise how old this country is, and how much older it will get.
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This is accurate in my experience. UK rail is better than people give it credit for.
When I was going to random towns for non-league football purposes going to the nearest train station was straightforward. Getting from the station to the ground was the hard part.
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British people love to complain about the state of their railways β and although some complaints are justified there is also so much to like about train travel in the UK. These are my main impressions of travelling across Britain by train:
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no you donβt get it bro you have to be optimising constantly bro what if i had a beer and my oura ring gave me a bad sleep score bro i really notice the performance dip on the bouldering wall bro itβs crazy living like a 14th century king is a cope bro
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I think this is a "gamble" in the same sense that quitting a job that hasn't given you a pay rise in 10 years is a "gamble".
The idea that something will come along eventually, without us doing anything different, seems at least as foolhardy as trying to change course like this.
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Here is my first on a young comedy double act who converted to Christianity and are now becoming priests. I've never been so proud of a piece of work, so please take a look! And 'uge thanks to &
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Bismarck Briefs reliably prefigure headlines by weeks or months. Some of them will prefigure headlines that will only appear years from now. Focusing on fundamentals is the right epistemic choice to understand global events.
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Good piece by the IFS's on abolishing stamp duty. I think a lot of people probably don't realise how SDLT works and prevents turnover, and assume it's like VAT or something. This is a good read on why it's so destructive.
ifs.org.uk/articles/stamp
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Bismarck at casual dinner last Thursday!
Last week had our first retreat with new colleagues flying in from the Los Angeles, Seattle, and London.
It was a pleasure to introduce them to some of our advisors, collaborators, and friends.
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who else loves a BTS moment? it's not too late to get your hands on the latest issue of ! click here to become a member and be the first to receive it when it launches: palladiummag.com/isabelle. let the countdown begin!
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Israelβs Unit 8200 is a military intelligence unit. But it produces tech startups much like Stanford or MIT.
It is an example of how functional institutions overcome and thrive despite constraints.
Subscribers can read the new Bismarck Brief here:
brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/israel-mobil
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Unit 8200 functions like an elite tech-oriented university. Mandatory conscription brings in a steady supply of young recruits, who are handpicked for technical ability.
It also causes high turnover, funneling hundreds of alumni into the private sector every year.
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This is a thing I've always loved about The Economist. It means that you can recommend it to a teenager and they will be able to learn a *ton* about the world really quickly. Everyone has to learn things somehow, so why not use the news to do the learning?
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Why does @TheEconomist, a magazine, do this? Can there really be anyone who reads it who doesnβt know that Morgan Stanley is a bank?
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Hereβs Charles 3rd citing Rene Guenon. Iβve seen plenty of reactionary arguments for the monarchy in last few days (it embodies metaphysical principles) & few whiggish ones (itβs least bad system).
Almost like the 21st C wonβt be the same as the 20th.
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Long live the King!
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I know ppl think I joke too much abt obtuse politics and I regret my formerly cavalier actions. But I rly encourage Grimes listeners to read more abt history + the current landscape. We remain in a battle between left and right that is no longer relevant: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dEXXJj
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One of the best things about the Brief is that it is a great reason to talk to live players. twitter.com/Grimezsz/statuβ¦
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