Aveek Bhattacharya
@aveek18.bsky.social
Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing @open_phil. Views my own
Crisis club Liverpool have the third best underlying numbers in the Champions League this season
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Crisis club Liverpool have the third best underlying numbers in the Champions League this season
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If there isn't an AI dating assistant called "Cyrano" by the end of the year these guys have no culture or imagination
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If there isn't an AI dating assistant called "Cyrano" by the end of the year these guys have no culture or imagination
Also this BS, preventing Liverpool from a 100% home record, breaking 100 points and the highest ever English league points total
September 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Also this BS, preventing Liverpool from a 100% home record, breaking 100 points and the highest ever English league points total
According to some guy called, uh, Michael Caley, this is the opposite of how Liverpool got good
(From @rwohan.bsky.social's book, which is great, you should buy it)
(From @rwohan.bsky.social's book, which is great, you should buy it)
May 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
According to some guy called, uh, Michael Caley, this is the opposite of how Liverpool got good
(From @rwohan.bsky.social's book, which is great, you should buy it)
(From @rwohan.bsky.social's book, which is great, you should buy it)
Reminds me of this
May 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Reminds me of this
I've seen potato flour suggested as a thickener, as an alternative to cornflour
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tsusanchang.wordpress.com/tag/every-gr...
March 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I've seen potato flour suggested as a thickener, as an alternative to cornflour
tsusanchang.wordpress.com/tag/every-gr...
tsusanchang.wordpress.com/tag/every-gr...
It's funny because it keeps happening
March 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It's funny because it keeps happening
Great piece by Gaby Hinsliff, taking its cue from our @smfthinktank.bsky.social report to argue that the left don't just have reason to worry about birth rates, they also have a positive story to tell about how progressive policies make it easier to have a family
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Great piece by Gaby Hinsliff, taking its cue from our @smfthinktank.bsky.social report to argue that the left don't just have reason to worry about birth rates, they also have a positive story to tell about how progressive policies make it easier to have a family
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Indeed, JD Vance's VP opponent, Tim Walz boasted of his efforts to make Minnesota "the best state in the US to raise children in" and his desire to make it easier for people to have the children they want.
Keir Starmer once used similar language
media.shop.labour.org.uk/Campaign%20L...
Keir Starmer once used similar language
media.shop.labour.org.uk/Campaign%20L...
February 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Indeed, JD Vance's VP opponent, Tim Walz boasted of his efforts to make Minnesota "the best state in the US to raise children in" and his desire to make it easier for people to have the children they want.
Keir Starmer once used similar language
media.shop.labour.org.uk/Campaign%20L...
Keir Starmer once used similar language
media.shop.labour.org.uk/Campaign%20L...
We're starting from behind in this country - asked about the birth rate last September, the Prime Minister's instinct was to joke about it and insist her wouldn't tell people what to do
February 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We're starting from behind in this country - asked about the birth rate last September, the Prime Minister's instinct was to joke about it and insist her wouldn't tell people what to do
Barrow was the least happy place in the UK, in some analysis I did a couple of years back, so sounds like they need all the help they can get!
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Barrow was the least happy place in the UK, in some analysis I did a couple of years back, so sounds like they need all the help they can get!
I'm aware of course of the general decline in crime in the 1990s, but just looking at the scale of it is jaw dropping. Our best estimate is that there were 2.4 million burglaries in 1993, which fell to 400,000 in 2023
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm aware of course of the general decline in crime in the 1990s, but just looking at the scale of it is jaw dropping. Our best estimate is that there were 2.4 million burglaries in 1993, which fell to 400,000 in 2023
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Good piece from my @smfthinktank.bsky.social colleague Niamh on the brewing 'greenlash' - backlash against net zero - and how the government might head it off
www.bigissue.com/opinion/net-...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/net-...
February 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Good piece from my @smfthinktank.bsky.social colleague Niamh on the brewing 'greenlash' - backlash against net zero - and how the government might head it off
www.bigissue.com/opinion/net-...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/net-...
February 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
February 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Surprisingly, it looks like we are set for a modest recovery in the birth rate in 2024/25, though the medium term picture is more concerning than the ONS - though the medium term picture is more worrying
January 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Surprisingly, it looks like we are set for a modest recovery in the birth rate in 2024/25, though the medium term picture is more concerning than the ONS - though the medium term picture is more worrying
Incredibly interesting that some people in government seem up for "social democratic shock therapy" (copyright @duncanrobinson.bsky.social) in order to look more like France
Rachel Reeves denied this is what she is doing in the Economist last week, to be clear.
Rachel Reeves denied this is what she is doing in the Economist last week, to be clear.
January 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Incredibly interesting that some people in government seem up for "social democratic shock therapy" (copyright @duncanrobinson.bsky.social) in order to look more like France
Rachel Reeves denied this is what she is doing in the Economist last week, to be clear.
Rachel Reeves denied this is what she is doing in the Economist last week, to be clear.
Somewhere between 5,500 and 8,750 babies will die of AIDS because of Trump's heinous pausing of PEPFAR, estimates @lgilbert.co
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
January 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Somewhere between 5,500 and 8,750 babies will die of AIDS because of Trump's heinous pausing of PEPFAR, estimates @lgilbert.co
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
Utterly sickening.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/pepfar?r=2...
Oh wow, I hope someone is studying this! Seems like an amazing natural experiment
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
January 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Oh wow, I hope someone is studying this! Seems like an amazing natural experiment
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...