Christopher McCabe

@cjmccabe.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇧Professor of Health Economics. Queens University Belfast. Health Policy, Health Technology Assessment and Innovation. Opinions my own - nobody else would want them.
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 5h

Fair point..

It's the general principle of public service equating to discounted remuneration I object to.

The specific case of ambassadors 100% - they know what they are doing and they don't need the money unless they have been incredibly financially reckless.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 5h

I agree with the first part of your statement, but I don't think a belief in public service should be used to impoverish people.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 5h

This very rich for a paper that started life as the Manchester Guardian.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 11d

There is a better way.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 11d

Some thoughts on the implications of NICE Cost Effectiveness Threshold as an instrument of industrial policy.

christophermccabe.substack.com/p/time-to-ge...

Time to get serious about the societal value of new drugs.

The NICE way to invest in the United Kingdom's life and health sciences sector

christophermccabe.substack.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11d

"Those who ought to stand against this sort of thing engage in frankly specious reasoning about what the “root causes” are...anything other than standing up and saying that it is wrong to attack entire groups for the real or perceived crimes of specific individuals."

www.ft.com/content/4209...

Bondi attacks show old hatreds are flourishing again

A permissive environment has been created in which Israel is conflated with all Jews, everywhere

www.ft.com

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11d

Have had more close calls with a high speed e-bike on the sidewalk than I would like this year. Would probably be good if something were done about this...

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 16d

I would agree - he is driven by fear. But that is not leadership; and now is a time when we need leadership.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 16d

This warms my heart. 35 some years after studying this during my masters degree at Newcastle University. And people complain about it taking 17 years for innovations to get to market.

Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 17d

Exciting road pricing news out of Denmark!

Today a new expert group for designing the future car taxation was announced, with a focus on the externalities from cars.

See the terms of reference below. I will soon follow up with a piece on why I think it actually can lead to GPS-based road pricing.

Two pages of text. Unfortunately too long to paste in here.

It is a translation of this page: https://fm.dk/nyheder/nyhedsarkiv/2025/december/regeringen-nedsaetter-ekspertgruppe-for-omlaegning-af-bilafgifter/

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 16d

And most importantly, they would not keep the savings they extracted as profit. No. Definitely not. Never. Can't imagine a corporation doing that under any circumstances.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 16d

Starmer appears to be a Trump camp follower.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 16d

TBH I'm more concerned with the death of adulthood right now

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 16d

Global inequality has hit a new extreme. So how much wealth is too much?🤔

The extreme poverty line is used to define unacceptable levels of poverty. What if we also created an extreme wealth line? @patmillsuk.bsky.social 1/2

Text reads: "We need to raise the awareness of how extreme wealth distorts society and prevents opportunities for others."

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 16d

6 in 10 people facing hunger in the UK don't access any charitable food support. New @trusselluk.bsky.social research show the main reason: hunger & hardship have become so normalised people don't think their situation is bad enough to justify asking for help..1/2 cms.trussell.org.uk/sites/defaul...

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 16d

once again asking what would be different if we had a Reform government

Mike Tapp MP
@MikeTappTweets • 14h

The Home Secretary was clear today; we must identify and address any links between ethnicity, religion and culture - and child rape.
We won't turn away from this. Victims come first.

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Toby Vogel 🇪🇺 @tobyvogel.bsky.social · 16d

Question: how are people in need of international protection supposed to access it? Where exactly are those famous "regular pathways?"

(The Starmer/Frederiksen op-ed in @theguardian.com is as bad as you'd expect, no need to read it.)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 16d

Happy #HumanRightsDay!

Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"

European nations to begin major talks on ECHR migration rule changes

The talks are the most significant sign yet that international human rights law could be reinterpreted.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 16d

A good reminder that the reason why we have issues in processing asylum seekers is because of bad decisions by successive governments on policy and funding.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK asylum system hit by inefficiencies and wasted funds, watchdog finds

In a new analysis, the National Audit Office finds “reactive” government policies moved problems elsewhere.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jay Justice - Open to Work @jayjustice.net · 16d

Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
www.norwoodnews.org/wakefield-po...

Wakefield: Police Appeal to Public for Help Locating 60-Year-Old Woman Reported Missing - Norwood News

The NYPD is appealing to the public for help locating a 60-year-old woman who is reported missing from the Wakefield section of The Bronx.

www.norwoodnews.org

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Christopher McCabe, Colm O’Cinneíde

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 17d

Dog whistling against migrants won't halt the rise of the far right, curbing the ECHR won't halt the rise of the far right, cutting immigration won't halt the rise of the far right. Nowhere in history did stepping towards to far right work. I do not understand why Labour think it will for them.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 17d

The Irish presidential system gets many things right.

Not least a requirement to secure nominations to prevent unhinged roasters gaining a platform despite having no roots in communities at all.

We should take that example. Scrap deposits, bring in signatures from local residents.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 17d

🚨Research ethics job🚨
The Morgridge Institute for Research at UW–Madison is hiring at the assistant/associate level. I'm on the search committee. AMA!

uwmadison.box.com/s/5jvm5qidyk...

cc: @douglasmackay.bsky.social @hollylynchez.bsky.social @stevejoffe.bsky.social

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 17d

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divestphilly.bsky.social @divestphilly.bsky.social · 17d

Bad news for nuclear disarmament. Citizens of Finland are more willing to accept nuclear weapons on their territory then they were a year ago.

Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 18d

Finnish attitudes towards #nuclear weapons. There's a marked change in the willingness to accept nuclear weapons on Finnish soil from April 2024 to March 2025.

And 36% already agree or completely agree with a common #Nordic nuclear deterrent project.

I suspect percentages are going to increase.

A graphic showing Finnish attitudes towards nuclear weapon policies from 2023 to 2025. There is a marked increase in the willingness to allow nuclear weapons on Finnish soil between April 2024 and March 2025, with 28 % fully or somewhat agreeing. 57 % fully or somewhat agree that European nuclear deterrent should be strengthened, and 36 % fully or somewhat agree that the Nordics have to develop a common nuclear deterrent of their own. From Wass, H., Aunesluoma, J., Forsberg, T., Hentunen, M., Lavikainen, J., Leonoff, E., Särkkä, I., Tiitinen, A., Tukiainen, J., Valkama, L., Vihriälä, V., Vuorelma, J., & Weckman, A. (2025). _Citizens in the turmoil of world politics: Finns’ foreign and security policy expectations two years after joining NATO_ (Policy Brief No. 1/2025; NATOpoll Policy Brief). NATOpoll. https://www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupal/2025-05/NATOpoll%20policy%20brief%201_2025_English.pdf

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 17d

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · Nov 20

Because they should be. It means they have extracted the value from other people's labour because of market power.

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.

Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.

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James Larkin @jameslarkin13.bsky.social · Nov 19

A key strategy of commercial actors is to influence and distort the evidence base relating to the harms of their products

This is done through funding misleading industry-friendly science & through the active promotion of misinformation

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