@paulsregor.bsky.social
You lied to me Edward!!.... There is a Swansea...and other places too
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Fiscal rules can be useful. But the Treasury always attaches more importance to them than they deserve. And something which can be broken with impunity on a regular basis isn't a rule. It's a target. Much more important is whether the public finances are sustainable.
March 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Fiscal rules can be useful. But the Treasury always attaches more importance to them than they deserve. And something which can be broken with impunity on a regular basis isn't a rule. It's a target. Much more important is whether the public finances are sustainable.
Current status....leaning heavily into the Downs-Thomson Paradox and giving our local transport policy and public transport resourcing in general the severe kicking it deserves.
March 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Current status....leaning heavily into the Downs-Thomson Paradox and giving our local transport policy and public transport resourcing in general the severe kicking it deserves.
Cymru am byth!
March 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Cymru am byth!
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A catastrophic failure www.timesofisrael.com/idfs-oct-7-p...
IDF’s Oct. 7 probes show it misread Hamas for years, left southern Israel utterly vulnerable
Investigations detail military's decade-long 'misperception' of Hamas, its refusal to recognize the imminent invasion even in the last few hours, and the chaos that catastrophically slowed the fightba...
www.timesofisrael.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A catastrophic failure www.timesofisrael.com/idfs-oct-7-p...
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I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.
February 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I wonder if we'll hear more about young female voters or young male voters.
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A key aim of Putin has to been to delegitimise the democratically elected Zelensky and the Ukrainian government. He now has the active assistance and connivance of the President of the United States in that effort.
February 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A key aim of Putin has to been to delegitimise the democratically elected Zelensky and the Ukrainian government. He now has the active assistance and connivance of the President of the United States in that effort.
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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
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Great cover picture on this month’s Oldie.
February 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Great cover picture on this month’s Oldie.
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Assessment of Mark Carney's time at the Bank of England from @t0nyyates.bsky.social medium.com/@monetarypol...
Mark Carney, BoE Governor, 2013–2019
Tony Yates
Former Senior Advisor at the Bank of England
Former Professor of Economics at Birmingham University, UK
medium.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Assessment of Mark Carney's time at the Bank of England from @t0nyyates.bsky.social medium.com/@monetarypol...
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The last Labour government creditably reduced child poverty.
Starmer & Reeves' Labour Government - by maintaining the two-child benefit limit and cutting local housing allowance - looks set to increase the number of children growing up in poverty ...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer & Reeves' Labour Government - by maintaining the two-child benefit limit and cutting local housing allowance - looks set to increase the number of children growing up in poverty ...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Nearly 1m children in UK at risk of poverty due to housing costs – report
Thinktank suggests ministers’ failure to raise LHA will push 90,000 more families into hardship in the next year
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The last Labour government creditably reduced child poverty.
Starmer & Reeves' Labour Government - by maintaining the two-child benefit limit and cutting local housing allowance - looks set to increase the number of children growing up in poverty ...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer & Reeves' Labour Government - by maintaining the two-child benefit limit and cutting local housing allowance - looks set to increase the number of children growing up in poverty ...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I keep hearing thumb-sucking line from business people and MPs that Trump is "transactional" as if that is the key that unlocks a strategy for dealing with him in a way that feels familiar. But extortion isn't a transaction.
February 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I keep hearing thumb-sucking line from business people and MPs that Trump is "transactional" as if that is the key that unlocks a strategy for dealing with him in a way that feels familiar. But extortion isn't a transaction.
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Top ,4 reasons why Britons wouldn't want to go to the moon
- not interested
- not enough to do on the moon
- would rather visit other places on earth
And my favourite - no point
- not interested
- not enough to do on the moon
- would rather visit other places on earth
And my favourite - no point
January 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Top ,4 reasons why Britons wouldn't want to go to the moon
- not interested
- not enough to do on the moon
- would rather visit other places on earth
And my favourite - no point
- not interested
- not enough to do on the moon
- would rather visit other places on earth
And my favourite - no point
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My analysis of Reeves speech...
GDP growth only matters if people feel the benefits. Labour must break with failed growth models that concentrated prosperity in a few places. Success depends on investment, stability, and green growth reaching every part of Britain.
labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...
GDP growth only matters if people feel the benefits. Labour must break with failed growth models that concentrated prosperity in a few places. Success depends on investment, stability, and green growth reaching every part of Britain.
labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...
‘How Reeves can learn from the failures of Bidenomics – and make levelling up work’ – LabourList
Progressive governments across the world are learning a hard lesson: even if businesses and economists are patting you on the back, if growth is not…
labourlist.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My analysis of Reeves speech...
GDP growth only matters if people feel the benefits. Labour must break with failed growth models that concentrated prosperity in a few places. Success depends on investment, stability, and green growth reaching every part of Britain.
labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...
GDP growth only matters if people feel the benefits. Labour must break with failed growth models that concentrated prosperity in a few places. Success depends on investment, stability, and green growth reaching every part of Britain.
labourlist.org/2025/01/rach...
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The family was a priority case for housing services, but a shortage of public housing meant they had to wait almost three months before suitable accommodation became available.
January 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The family was a priority case for housing services, but a shortage of public housing meant they had to wait almost three months before suitable accommodation became available.
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NEW: A coroner has warned the government about the social housing shortage following the death of a man who took his own life after an eviction left him homeless, which left him separated from his family and living in a vehicle
By me for Inside Housing (£, 🧵) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/social-...
By me for Inside Housing (£, 🧵) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/social-...
Social housing shortage cited in prevention of future deaths report issued to MHCLG after homeless man takes own life
A coroner has warned the government about the social housing shortage following the death of a man who took his own life after an eviction left him homeless.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
NEW: A coroner has warned the government about the social housing shortage following the death of a man who took his own life after an eviction left him homeless, which left him separated from his family and living in a vehicle
By me for Inside Housing (£, 🧵) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/social-...
By me for Inside Housing (£, 🧵) www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/social-...
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This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis.
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis.
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hugely successful export industry, instrument of soft power, vector for levelling up the regions, throttled by 1) culture war against 'bogus' courses 2) class element of 1) deeming only much smaller cohort as worthy of uni, 3) racism-motivated animus to foreign students and dependents 4) paralysis.
It's crazy that this & previous governments (rightly) constantly hymn 'Britain's world-class universities' and (rightly) consistently identify them as central to national strategy, and yet pursue policies which are eroding, if not destroying, an asset that other countries would give anything to have
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
January 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hugely successful export industry, instrument of soft power, vector for levelling up the regions, throttled by 1) culture war against 'bogus' courses 2) class element of 1) deeming only much smaller cohort as worthy of uni, 3) racism-motivated animus to foreign students and dependents 4) paralysis.
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If deregulation is going to be one of the foundations of Labour's growth strategy, it won't go far by assuming that burdensome rules are something imposed on everyone by faceless bureaucrats.
Truth is - politicians, businesses, consumers, media are constantly calling for more regulation.
Truth is - politicians, businesses, consumers, media are constantly calling for more regulation.
January 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If deregulation is going to be one of the foundations of Labour's growth strategy, it won't go far by assuming that burdensome rules are something imposed on everyone by faceless bureaucrats.
Truth is - politicians, businesses, consumers, media are constantly calling for more regulation.
Truth is - politicians, businesses, consumers, media are constantly calling for more regulation.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Very interesting stuff.
How Harry and Watson forced NGN to admit wrongdoing
Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Very interesting stuff.
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... Nailed it.
Why northern England is poor - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Tom Forth: In at least six Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen asks his interviewee why they think North England is poor. I don’t think he gets good enough answers, which is why I guess he keep...
marginalrevolution.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... Nailed it.
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Tom Forth tries to school Tyler Cowen on the North. Judge for yourself
Tom Forth tries to school Tyler Cowen on the North. Judge for yourself
Why northern England is poor - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Tom Forth: In at least six Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen asks his interviewee why they think North England is poor. I don’t think he gets good enough answers, which is why I guess he keep...
marginalrevolution.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Tom Forth tries to school Tyler Cowen on the North. Judge for yourself
Tom Forth tries to school Tyler Cowen on the North. Judge for yourself
Guy shovelling popcorn gif prob getting a lot of use here.
More headaches for Rupert Murdoch. The Met is now asking for transcripts of the pre-trial hearings in Prince Harry’s & Lord Watson’s phone-tapping case. Their counsel says the Murdoch group’s disclosures offer grounds for a fresh police investigation into ‘perjury and cover-ups’.
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Guy shovelling popcorn gif prob getting a lot of use here.
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Delighted to be able to release the data from the @centreforcities.bsky.social Restarting Housebuilding series on GitHub today. We are making the most comprehensive dataset that exists on housebuilding at the local level in England since 1946 available for wider use. github.com/CentreforCit...
GitHub - CentreforCities/local_housebuilding_1946_2022: Local authority housebuilding data 1946-2022, digitised in 2024 by Centre for Cities
Local authority housebuilding data 1946-2022, digitised in 2024 by Centre for Cities - GitHub - CentreforCities/local_housebuilding_1946_2022: Local authority housebuilding data 1946-2022, digitis...
github.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Delighted to be able to release the data from the @centreforcities.bsky.social Restarting Housebuilding series on GitHub today. We are making the most comprehensive dataset that exists on housebuilding at the local level in England since 1946 available for wider use. github.com/CentreforCit...
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Monopolists have been incredibly successful in convincing everyone that a free and competitive market is something that naturally occurs when government does nothing rather than something you have to carefully build and steward.
January 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Monopolists have been incredibly successful in convincing everyone that a free and competitive market is something that naturally occurs when government does nothing rather than something you have to carefully build and steward.