Tom G
@tpmg.bsky.social
Management consultant and former think-tanker. Posts are strictly my own opinions, mainly the more nerdy and/or cynical ones...
I'm one of the more left-wing people in my friendship group, and I'm both pro-union and more generally pro-jobs-for-life...but the fact we're probably going to have driverless cars a decade ahead of driverless trains in the UK blows my tiny little mind.
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I'm one of the more left-wing people in my friendship group, and I'm both pro-union and more generally pro-jobs-for-life...but the fact we're probably going to have driverless cars a decade ahead of driverless trains in the UK blows my tiny little mind.
Premised with the fact that I'm part of a Muslim family - I keep misreading the name of the Times Royal correspondent as the topic of an article series, alongside a vague headline, and thinking that Harry and Megan are converting...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
Prince Harry ‘wants to come home much more and bring family with him’
The Duke, who is returning to Britain alone next week, is said to be ready for some fun on a four-day reset
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Premised with the fact that I'm part of a Muslim family - I keep misreading the name of the Times Royal correspondent as the topic of an article series, alongside a vague headline, and thinking that Harry and Megan are converting...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...
Camilla Long's latest Times article on Rather really is every putrid misogynistic trope gleefully deployed, including that a male PM and female deputy must be writing 'love letters'...
September 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Camilla Long's latest Times article on Rather really is every putrid misogynistic trope gleefully deployed, including that a male PM and female deputy must be writing 'love letters'...
I just discovered that #bbciplayer has a non-stop Louis Theroux channel...and I have no idea how someone missed calling it 'Louis Theroux and Theroux'
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I just discovered that #bbciplayer has a non-stop Louis Theroux channel...and I have no idea how someone missed calling it 'Louis Theroux and Theroux'
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Neil O'Brien thinks that the Leader of the Opposition's children being taught in London are a symptom of Britain in decline.
June 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Neil O'Brien thinks that the Leader of the Opposition's children being taught in London are a symptom of Britain in decline.
While I'm sometimes dubious about @thetimes.com, I have to doff a metaphorical hat to @charlotteivers.bsky.social who seems to have found two very different but equally pithy topics this week (in addition to a restaurant review). Maybe 'columnist' is one c-word that deserves to stay after all...
June 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
While I'm sometimes dubious about @thetimes.com, I have to doff a metaphorical hat to @charlotteivers.bsky.social who seems to have found two very different but equally pithy topics this week (in addition to a restaurant review). Maybe 'columnist' is one c-word that deserves to stay after all...
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There is signal in the Musk/Cummings noise if you clear away the ridiculous egos - reforming the modern state via brute force is, basically, impossible. You can damage things, fire people, cut spending but the vast majority of things the state does are deeply embedded and critical functions.
May 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
There is signal in the Musk/Cummings noise if you clear away the ridiculous egos - reforming the modern state via brute force is, basically, impossible. You can damage things, fire people, cut spending but the vast majority of things the state does are deeply embedded and critical functions.
Today in 'most French things I have read in the @thetimes.com'... god bless them 🇫🇷
May 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Today in 'most French things I have read in the @thetimes.com'... god bless them 🇫🇷
@hugorifkind.bsky.social today/yesterday's My Week: The Money Guys sketch is outstanding *chef's kiss* (£ www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...)
My Week: The Money Guys group chat*
Scott Bessent Hi guys. Treasury secretary here. Setting up this group so we can all talk freely.Scott Bessent No journalists this time. I’ve double checked.Elon Musk Speaking as one of the cleverest
www.thetimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
@hugorifkind.bsky.social today/yesterday's My Week: The Money Guys sketch is outstanding *chef's kiss* (£ www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...)
Part of the question re. the US is whether the government sees tariffs as a bargaining tool, or whether they genuinely believe that tariffs and government cuts will enable massive tax reductions... My concern is mainly that it's the latter
March 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Part of the question re. the US is whether the government sees tariffs as a bargaining tool, or whether they genuinely believe that tariffs and government cuts will enable massive tax reductions... My concern is mainly that it's the latter
There's a med-term UK outcome I'm watching re. these tariffs for how goods flows might change...On the one hand, 'dumping' could be v. bad for some British sectors like steel and car manufacturing, but more broadly they increase incentive to export to UK which might be disinflationary?
February 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
There's a med-term UK outcome I'm watching re. these tariffs for how goods flows might change...On the one hand, 'dumping' could be v. bad for some British sectors like steel and car manufacturing, but more broadly they increase incentive to export to UK which might be disinflationary?
I do wonder how all these stories involving Simon Case seem to be strategically leaked at intervals just in time for the Sunday papers...
February 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I do wonder how all these stories involving Simon Case seem to be strategically leaked at intervals just in time for the Sunday papers...
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I couldn’t agree more with this. This is an opportunity that comes once in a generation.
I repeat if the UK is serious about being a health powerhouse it needs to start head hunting all these folks now with visas and research funding
January 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I couldn’t agree more with this. This is an opportunity that comes once in a generation.
Watching #Panorama and I find the argument that I should come into the office to spend 1.5hrs on cramped transport so the private equity-owned retail space next to the office doesn't make a loss so unconvincing I could scream...
January 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Watching #Panorama and I find the argument that I should come into the office to spend 1.5hrs on cramped transport so the private equity-owned retail space next to the office doesn't make a loss so unconvincing I could scream...
Also imagine the claims of people who had their benefits reduced under austerity after much less notice and communication, or people who missed letters and ended up with additional fines after driving incidents. None of it necessarily fair, but once established then where do we stop?
@cjsnowdon.bsky.social both fighty and right thecritic.co.uk/the-waspi-wo...
December 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Also imagine the claims of people who had their benefits reduced under austerity after much less notice and communication, or people who missed letters and ended up with additional fines after driving incidents. None of it necessarily fair, but once established then where do we stop?
Listening to the recent Rest is Money with @danneidle.bsky.social and I'd be interested to hear more analysis on 1. impact on private vs. public sector employees given recent pay settlements and 2. incentives on substitution of capital for labour in some parts of the economy...
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Listening to the recent Rest is Money with @danneidle.bsky.social and I'd be interested to hear more analysis on 1. impact on private vs. public sector employees given recent pay settlements and 2. incentives on substitution of capital for labour in some parts of the economy...
What a thing it is to live in interesting times...
November 6, 2024 at 8:03 AM
What a thing it is to live in interesting times...
Wakes up and looks specifically at Atlanta...definitely cope but have the networks called Georgia too early again?
November 6, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Wakes up and looks specifically at Atlanta...definitely cope but have the networks called Georgia too early again?
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Hello! I’ve finally got fed up of the binfire that is X these days and hoping for a less toxic experience over here…
a cartoon opossum is standing in the dirt with the words peace out below him
ALT: a cartoon opossum is standing in the dirt with the words peace out below him
media.tenor.com
October 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Hello! I’ve finally got fed up of the binfire that is X these days and hoping for a less toxic experience over here…
This is one of many issues that need fixing if electrification of road transport is going anywhere in the UK.
Are we facing market failure here? I wouldn't be averse to gov. investment / nationalisation of some of this infrastructure to normalise prices, but short of that what options are there?
Are we facing market failure here? I wouldn't be averse to gov. investment / nationalisation of some of this infrastructure to normalise prices, but short of that what options are there?
The cost of charging at an on-street charger has increased dramatically.
Each kilowatt hour of electricity now costs 50 per cent more than it did at the peak of the energy crisis in January 2023, despite wholesale electricity prices falling 54 per cent since.
Read more:
https://buff.ly/4h95WlX
Each kilowatt hour of electricity now costs 50 per cent more than it did at the peak of the energy crisis in January 2023, despite wholesale electricity prices falling 54 per cent since.
Read more:
https://buff.ly/4h95WlX
October 19, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This is one of many issues that need fixing if electrification of road transport is going anywhere in the UK.
Are we facing market failure here? I wouldn't be averse to gov. investment / nationalisation of some of this infrastructure to normalise prices, but short of that what options are there?
Are we facing market failure here? I wouldn't be averse to gov. investment / nationalisation of some of this infrastructure to normalise prices, but short of that what options are there?
Came for the great thread as normal with Stephen, stayed as normal for the replies 👍
At the heart of the Badenoch pamphlet’s remarks on autism and anxiety is a kind of fairytale conservatism, that there are no rising demands on the exchequer that aren’t, at their core, undeserving. (You also see this with the pivot to softcore climate denial)
October 15, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Came for the great thread as normal with Stephen, stayed as normal for the replies 👍
So here's a thing - if CGT rose in line with income tax...in some situations wouldn't there be a huge disincentive to effort, as someone could realise an absolute gain from reducing their income for a year? Feels like I'm missing something blindingly obvious...
October 6, 2024 at 6:06 PM
So here's a thing - if CGT rose in line with income tax...in some situations wouldn't there be a huge disincentive to effort, as someone could realise an absolute gain from reducing their income for a year? Feels like I'm missing something blindingly obvious...
The coverage of the donor gifting to Labour is in one sense pretty valid, but also feels to me more like ignorance / naivety / oversight than malice... Conscious these might be my biases, but there we are
September 21, 2024 at 7:45 PM
The coverage of the donor gifting to Labour is in one sense pretty valid, but also feels to me more like ignorance / naivety / oversight than malice... Conscious these might be my biases, but there we are
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Put another way, the British state raised more revenue in 2023 from corporation tax paid by OnlyFans' parent company (£118m) than it did from North Sea oil royalties and license fees (£69m)
OnlyFans:
$1.3bn revenue
$818m gross profit
$172m paid in tax, most of it to the UK Treasury
All thanks to a very horny Essex man and his City banker father for selling the business to a mysterious Ukrainian-American who decided to keep the business registered in London.
$1.3bn revenue
$818m gross profit
$172m paid in tax, most of it to the UK Treasury
All thanks to a very horny Essex man and his City banker father for selling the business to a mysterious Ukrainian-American who decided to keep the business registered in London.
September 6, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Put another way, the British state raised more revenue in 2023 from corporation tax paid by OnlyFans' parent company (£118m) than it did from North Sea oil royalties and license fees (£69m)
Excellent blog by @gilesyb.bsky.social on the nature of the fiscal inheritance of this government. Possibly worse but certainly different vs. the coalition 👌
August 27, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Excellent blog by @gilesyb.bsky.social on the nature of the fiscal inheritance of this government. Possibly worse but certainly different vs. the coalition 👌