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Ex , now data . Care about meaning, food, music, econ & cities.

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  1. Dec 19

    Like a cool drink of water in both its amazing clarity and insight porn nature. Steve Davies on the ongoing political realignment

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    Dec 17

    Wow - what a treat! Helped to eat a pig at St John, for the 2019 annual Westlake Dinner!

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  3. Dec 17

    Apparently it’s tradition for the host to carve the head meat. Don’t worry, I kept the brain intact so as not to risk any prions!

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  4. Dec 17

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  5. Dec 17

    The first annual Westlake Dinner in honour of . Stian, I realise this tribute is intangible, but you’re a capital fellow! – at St. John Bread & Wine

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    Dec 14

    The second cohort of Emergent Ventures winners:

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    Dec 10

    And instead of democratic elections let’s just see who can “protest” the most on the streets. Sounds fun!

    Macron has just committed to hiking the minimum wage, scrapping taxes on pensions and scrapping a tax on overtime work. Why? Because people protested. Those who say protest doesn't work have again been proved wrong - and that should encourage us all to take to the streets.
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    Dec 10

    Gilets Jaunes is exposing the intellectual frauds on the left and right whose actual ideological commitments are paper thin, and disappear as soon as a bit of strong horse direct action takes place.

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  9. Dec 5

    Hipsterism is also the radical belief that anything can be good (cf ) ie the new improving mentality. One era of Victorians was amazing enough - I am as excited as Ridley and Pinker for what a second wave could do!

    Censorious millennials are the new Victorians: Insightful essay on the current culture by Matt Ridley.
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    Dec 4

    My paper with "Nominal GDP Targeting and the Taylor Rule on an Even Playing Field" is now forthcoming at the JMCB:

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  11. Dec 4

    The balaclava is a legitimate facial garment

    It's chilly outside at the moment, isn't it pals? unfortunately this makes it difficult to exercise outside as having CF makes me vulnerable to colds, but I was reminded of this foolproof solution - looking forward to my upcoming morning runs!
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  12. Dec 2

    I usually outsource my opinion on all politicsy things + Brexit to Sam, so I guess I’m also in favour of a second referendum

    I wrote about why I'm now in favour of a second referendum on Brexit.
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  13. Nov 30

    Whatever happened to Sah-B? She absolutely murders the other emcees on this. Her verse (third, starts 2:40) is GOAT level

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  14. Nov 29

    Who knew that a fairly under-the-radar ragga hip house track used the same sample as Britney's "Toxic", in the exact same way, to the point it was surely the inspiration, 7 years earlier

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    Feb 7

    My favourite vegetables: - ground, fermented, baked wheat seeds - potato stem tubers - concentrated, predigested grass stored in animal cells - purified sugar cane - extracted coffee bean essence - tea leaves, steeped in boiling water

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    Nov 28

    This has always been the case. At the turn of the (20th) century, every city with a population greater than 10,000 had at least one trolley system, almost all of them built by real estate speculators in order to bring value to developable land. (6/6)

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    Nov 27

    Why is the British Planning System so Peculiar – the Origin of ‘Planning Permission’?

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    25 Jul 2017

    My case against @AbiWilks: "Fine, clobber the rich, but not with an 100% inheritance tax"

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  19. Nov 26

    This paper is very good! (Perhaps I’m biased: I wrote the first draft of Appendix 3)

    Worldwide there's a crisis of housing affordability in many successful cities. Why has England’s variant mutated into something worse? What's odd? What's the 'smoking gun'?And what can we do about it? Our paper co-published with
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    Nov 26

    New report from calls to make planning fairer and more predictable, calling for a rules-based system from 2030. How do we get there from here...?

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