Luca Tiratelli
@lucatiratelli.bsky.social
Research & policy @ The King's Fund
| Own views | Health, devolution, climate change | He/him | All this from a slice of gabagool?
| Own views | Health, devolution, climate change | He/him | All this from a slice of gabagool?
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
19% of the British public have a poor grounding in epistemology
Most people think the BBC is biased but in different directions (or they're not sure).
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
19% of the British public have a poor grounding in epistemology
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The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.
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Watching Zack Polanski on Trevor Phillips, it seems incredible to me that interviewers still seem to think the 'I put it to that you are not prepared to annihilate humanity' nuclear question is still seen as some sort of gotcha. It's Rememberance Sunday, we've learned the sum of nothing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Watching Zack Polanski on Trevor Phillips, it seems incredible to me that interviewers still seem to think the 'I put it to that you are not prepared to annihilate humanity' nuclear question is still seen as some sort of gotcha. It's Rememberance Sunday, we've learned the sum of nothing.
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“Islam-critical”?!
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Islam-critical”?!
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“offering a product you want to pay for” oh yeah absolutely i’m super jazzed to have the opportunity to make someone else’s mortgage payments for them plus however much else they fancy charging me
Surely there are some better arguments on the pro landlordism side of the debate than implying that if a landlord doesn't own the house, the house ceases to exist??
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“offering a product you want to pay for” oh yeah absolutely i’m super jazzed to have the opportunity to make someone else’s mortgage payments for them plus however much else they fancy charging me
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There's also the fact that landlords are not offering people a product at a price they're happy with. Nobody is happy with the price they're paying for housing, or with paying exorbitant costs to pay off a mortgage for someone else.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
Surely there are some better arguments on the pro landlordism side of the debate than implying that if a landlord doesn't own the house, the house ceases to exist??
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
There's also the fact that landlords are not offering people a product at a price they're happy with. Nobody is happy with the price they're paying for housing, or with paying exorbitant costs to pay off a mortgage for someone else.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
The rental market is a case study in market failure.
Surely there are some better arguments on the pro landlordism side of the debate than implying that if a landlord doesn't own the house, the house ceases to exist??
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Surely there are some better arguments on the pro landlordism side of the debate than implying that if a landlord doesn't own the house, the house ceases to exist??
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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I'd love to read an Iraqi writer's perspective on Dick Cheney's legacy today
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I'd love to read an Iraqi writer's perspective on Dick Cheney's legacy today
Will journalists doorstepping politicians, or indeed members of the public, remain legal?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Activists could be jailed for six months for protesting outside MPs’ homes
Law aimed at tackling harassment will criminalise protests outside homes of MPs in England and Wales amid rise in complaints
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Will journalists doorstepping politicians, or indeed members of the public, remain legal?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A golden opportunity that Britain has decided to spurn so that we can instead set fire to our own higher ed sector in order to please a few intellectually insecure newspaper columnists.
Still fairly surprised other countries didn't try harder to poach scientists from the US. Was sort of a golden window that doesn't come often
November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A golden opportunity that Britain has decided to spurn so that we can instead set fire to our own higher ed sector in order to please a few intellectually insecure newspaper columnists.
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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You simply do not have to give article space to Tony Blair every time he wants to sell something.
November 3, 2025 at 6:22 AM
You simply do not have to give article space to Tony Blair every time he wants to sell something.
Scratch even a millimetre below the surface of 'the minimum wage is too high' arguments and you see the ugliest crab in a bucket, 'if-i'm-miserable-you-should-be-too" mentality imaginable.
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Scratch even a millimetre below the surface of 'the minimum wage is too high' arguments and you see the ugliest crab in a bucket, 'if-i'm-miserable-you-should-be-too" mentality imaginable.
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Perhaps spending decades terrifying the public with relentless tall tales about the pampered, idle poor has been deleterious to creating a decent, pleasant society
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Perhaps spending decades terrifying the public with relentless tall tales about the pampered, idle poor has been deleterious to creating a decent, pleasant society
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Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that
Proposing things that are completely democratically undeliverable reveals either A) a lack of contact with reality or, more worryingly, B) a disturbing view about what might have to be done to democracy.
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Proposing things that are completely democratically undeliverable reveals either A) a lack of contact with reality or, more worryingly, B) a disturbing view about what might have to be done to democracy.
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Worth noting that in Nov 24 the govt wrote to South Cambridgeshire to say that voters were best placed to decide on council effectiveness and that Labour would bring an “end to micromanaging”
I’d like to see the full text of this latest letter to see what has changed
I’d like to see the full text of this latest letter to see what has changed
October 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Worth noting that in Nov 24 the govt wrote to South Cambridgeshire to say that voters were best placed to decide on council effectiveness and that Labour would bring an “end to micromanaging”
I’d like to see the full text of this latest letter to see what has changed
I’d like to see the full text of this latest letter to see what has changed
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Sorry, but there's something so ineffably depressing about ministers spending their time on this kind of stuff. Not as if there aren't real problems that central government should be getting on with while letting local government make its own choices (and even its own mistakes). #GetAGrip
Cambridgeshire council's four-day week criticised by minister
Steve Reed says there has been a decline in key housing-related services.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sorry, but there's something so ineffably depressing about ministers spending their time on this kind of stuff. Not as if there aren't real problems that central government should be getting on with while letting local government make its own choices (and even its own mistakes). #GetAGrip
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New @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS: I speak with @danielagabor.bsky.social & Andy Haldane on bond markets, gilt vigilantes, and the role of Britain's central bank. Instructive and hugely illuminating conversation on finance, democracy, & how we get out of the doom loop.
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On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS: I speak with @danielagabor.bsky.social & Andy Haldane on bond markets, gilt vigilantes, and the role of Britain's central bank. Instructive and hugely illuminating conversation on finance, democracy, & how we get out of the doom loop.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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The great thing about local government is that if local people don't like this, they can vote out their councillors.
There is no need for this kind of central government over reach.
There is no need for this kind of central government over reach.
October 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The great thing about local government is that if local people don't like this, they can vote out their councillors.
There is no need for this kind of central government over reach.
There is no need for this kind of central government over reach.