Joe
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if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
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From a thread well worth reading. One might add that when Labour voters were drawn mostly from the manual working class, Labour… lost most of the time. Labour’s electoral coalition couldn’t win in 1955 and would be absolutely crushed in an electorate with the demographics of 2025.
Notice that everywhere except Southern Europe, the middle class have proven to be a much more important part of the left's coalition than the working class since the early 2000s. Labour strategists are pining for the early 1980s. Even then working class Brits today are cleaners not miners. 9/n
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
From a thread well worth reading. One might add that when Labour voters were drawn mostly from the manual working class, Labour… lost most of the time. Labour’s electoral coalition couldn’t win in 1955 and would be absolutely crushed in an electorate with the demographics of 2025.
Taking a deep breath and *not* replying to a post
July 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Taking a deep breath and *not* replying to a post
Britons tied with Germans with the highest proportion answering correctly (Don't know)
80 years after WW2 ended in Europe, Britons tend to think the UK did more than the USA or Soviets to defeat the Nazis
UK: 41%
Soviet Union: 17%
USA: 14%
yougov.co.uk/internationa... #VEDay80
UK: 41%
Soviet Union: 17%
USA: 14%
yougov.co.uk/internationa... #VEDay80
May 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Britons tied with Germans with the highest proportion answering correctly (Don't know)
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actually being **serious** about immigration would require addressing questions like "how do we sustain the economy with a declining population?". Or even "what moral duty do we bear to refugees from the consequences of wars we supported?". the columnist wants to be *unserious* about immigration
“Getting serious” here means draconian restrictions and abandoning human rights, illustrated with a list of factually dubious claims. Expect better from the FT though not from this writer. Getting serious ought to mean thinking about what is right not appeasing the far right
Reform’s rise shows Labour must get serious about immigration
With a more volatile electorate, all parties need to adapt to face down populism
www.ft.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
actually being **serious** about immigration would require addressing questions like "how do we sustain the economy with a declining population?". Or even "what moral duty do we bear to refugees from the consequences of wars we supported?". the columnist wants to be *unserious* about immigration
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BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class
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This is terrific, and, I think right by @chrisgiles.ft.com:
Britain’s fiscal framework is not fit for purpose
There is nothing accountable or legitimate about unelected officials setting taxation and spending policy
www.ft.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is terrific, and, I think right by @chrisgiles.ft.com:
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another opportunity for economists and good government types to explain that this is much better than the bad old days, when Britain was cursed with overinvestment and goldplated public services because Chancellors were allowed to make their own inaccurate forecasts.
Last-minute spreadsheet wars between the Treasury and the OBR are ludicrous way to run a country, a ludicrous way to run an economy, a ludicrous way to fund public services and a ludicrous way to run the welfare system www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves to announce further benefit cuts
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, was forced to seek further cuts after the Office for Budget Responsibility rejected her welfare savings estimate
www.thetimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
another opportunity for economists and good government types to explain that this is much better than the bad old days, when Britain was cursed with overinvestment and goldplated public services because Chancellors were allowed to make their own inaccurate forecasts.
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a common reaction but wrong - although the accounting standard is the problem, there is no alternative that would be better. you can't have a fiscal balance that's almost entirely made up of dozens of long term projections of secondary effects and costs. the five year forecast is just a wrong tool
So surely the problem isn't budgetary responsibility per se but the fact it doesn't consider long term costs of cuts!
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
a common reaction but wrong - although the accounting standard is the problem, there is no alternative that would be better. you can't have a fiscal balance that's almost entirely made up of dozens of long term projections of secondary effects and costs. the five year forecast is just a wrong tool
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One problem with the Truss era is that no-one says things like 'the OBR is just flatly wrong on Policy X', and the OBR's assumptions on welfare savings have consistently been shown to be wrong!
Last government cut payments for those looking for work, which created an incentive to get placed in the "no sanctions" group. So then this government cuts funding for that group to try and reduce the incentive.
MP gets in touch and sums up it up pretty succinctly - "Everyone understands PIP needs reform. Everyone understands there are too many signed-off sick who get no help. No one gets why - if true - we seems to be cutting incomes for those too disabled to ever work."
March 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
One problem with the Truss era is that no-one says things like 'the OBR is just flatly wrong on Policy X', and the OBR's assumptions on welfare savings have consistently been shown to be wrong!
One thing I like about this Champions League draw is that it feels substantially different from the last 16s of the past 10 years
February 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
One thing I like about this Champions League draw is that it feels substantially different from the last 16s of the past 10 years
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Shit is going down in Birmingham.
Disruption between ##Birmingham New Street and ##Lichfield Trent Valley / Bescot Stadium until the end of the day
National Rail Disruptions
Disruption between #Birmingham New Street and #Lichfield Trent Valley / Bescot Stadium until the end of the day
www.nationalrail.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Shit is going down in Birmingham.
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"This is what genocide looks like."
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, Hebrew University
Daniel Blatman, Director, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
archive.ph/WGtkB
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, Hebrew University
Daniel Blatman, Director, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
archive.ph/WGtkB
February 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"This is what genocide looks like."
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, Hebrew University
Daniel Blatman, Director, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
archive.ph/WGtkB
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, Hebrew University
Daniel Blatman, Director, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University
archive.ph/WGtkB
I don't know if that's a red or not, but I resent the implication there's a need to conspire against Arsenal
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I don't know if that's a red or not, but I resent the implication there's a need to conspire against Arsenal
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this is slightly hard to get your head around, but 4chan trolls do Nazi cosplay ironically in a way that is also completely sincere
January 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
this is slightly hard to get your head around, but 4chan trolls do Nazi cosplay ironically in a way that is also completely sincere
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Listen I know what they’re gonna say about the Elon thing because I know who Paolo Di Canio is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Listen I know what they’re gonna say about the Elon thing because I know who Paolo Di Canio is.
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My son keeps holding up his ring finger to me like he's flipping me off and then he says 'can't get mad!', but I do get mad. Parenting is hard.
December 29, 2024 at 5:15 PM
My son keeps holding up his ring finger to me like he's flipping me off and then he says 'can't get mad!', but I do get mad. Parenting is hard.
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Absolutely lost it at this Mail Online poll.
December 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Absolutely lost it at this Mail Online poll.
Dr Tottenham's Revenge
November 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Dr Tottenham's Revenge
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Excellent, thoughtful thread on league tables for the NHS this:
A few thoughts on this:
As with a number of Streeting’s announcements, it does look rather like saying we are going to do stuff we are already doing. As Stephen says, we already have various ways of measuring and ranking providers.
As with a number of Streeting’s announcements, it does look rather like saying we are going to do stuff we are already doing. As Stephen says, we already have various ways of measuring and ranking providers.
November 14, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Excellent, thoughtful thread on league tables for the NHS this: