Funny. My dad always used to say he didn’t like Arsenal too much - in the 1980s & 90s as they thought they were bigger than they were (not Man U and Liverpool). We still watched them occasionally.
Agreed!
Extract from Joel Mokyr’s Enlightened Economy book
Also caused deep discomfort in the 18th century. Edmund Massey thundered in 1722 that inoculation “usurped an authority founded neither in the Laws of Nature nor of Religion” (I’m just reading Joel Mokyr’s economic history of Enlightenment Britain)
Agreed, sad news. He interviewed me for uni entry. Tough but fair questions. Then wrapping up, on what seemed a “fun activities” portion he noted I’d been on a youth orchestra tour to Barcelona, adding “what did you note of the Catalonia historical revivalist movement?”. Not my smoothest response.
I’ll look forward to reading it!
Hood was central in the LSE cluster of academics writing about those “accountability” and challenges of accounting & regulation themes (eg Mike Power). Hood had super writing over decades.
Why is CBS focusing on this (in the N. American app)? There’s not even a terrorism link.
Completely agree about Reconstruction Era. I remember reading Eric Foner’s “Unfinished Revolution” and it’s such a depressing & surprising period (for anyone attracted to teleological progress of history). So many innovations in equality, rights. Then lost for 80-odd years.
Use of the term “knob” clearly marks out @dankaszeta.bsky.social as British. How more obvious can it be?
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
The letters are the actual documents for his writing to her, i.e. Harris replicates these from the letters owned by the Bonham Carter family. Astonishing indiscretion by Asquith.
This is a pitch-perfect rendition.
Hmmm… not sure that’s right. If there’s duplication or skill pooling which can be achieved, surely it’s worth exploring.
But building capability and integrating AI *is* reform of the civil service. Not sure ehy you say it’s pointless to have reform, then list reforms needed?
My consumer preference curve for vegetarian food has shifted massively in the last decade thanks to simple education & exploration (curries, baked crispy tofu, Mexican bean dishes etc)
Interesting debate. But @hern.bsky.social - you seem to think about it as a P x Q issue: Govt can increase the price, or restrict quantity. Reasonable for many goods. But with consumer goods, the govt can influence the demand side, ie shift consumer preferences. Like making smoking “less cool” etc
Agree with this. I’m tired of reading here about who is using Twitter , or complaints about it. Not why BlueSky should be used, to my mind.
I was just googling (but can’t find right now) - how the Govt classify documents and the implications is public. Can’t remember exactly for HMG, but you can look online. But I know global banks I’ve worked with had classification systems where the top secret category was physical storage only.
One thought I had on an innocent explanation is that it had been misclassified, i.e. it was not actually Top Secret, and shouldn’t therefore be retained only as a physical copy (or didn’t need to be retained after a number of years)? Not unusual (eg for global banks too) to delete the digital copy.
It sounds very strange. But one thought I had on an innocent explanation is that it had been misclassified, i.e. it was not actually Top Secret, and shouldn’t therefore be retained only as a physical copy (or didn’t need to be retained at all after a certain number of years)? But seems unlikely.
Too sensitive to retain digital copies - greater risk of loss.
Some super confidential documents will be stored only as hard copy to prevent cyber attacks. It’s standard practice (the same also in some banks I’ve worked in).
I hope you continue to post here. I find the debates and articulation of arguments and analysis by high-quality journalists (eg FT, Guardian, Politico, WSJ), academics and commentators- such as yourself - a great advantage of BlueSky. But it does attract numerous rude people. (Block the worst!)
Thank you for posting here. I appreciate good journalists posting on BlueSky though there does seem to be an inordinate number of vicious responses. An advantage of BlueSky is that you can block people out. (But I can see that might not be a comfort fully).
Good friends…? ;)
(Agree on Stata)
Oh, this is priceless
Awful luck.
Agree. A govt with a deliberate direction will look to build a policy platform to win next time. So that means an overall portfolio of “mostly left, a few centrist” policies. But one dragged there won’t have control to build a balanced portfolio. It’ll be an amalgam of backbenchers’ hopes and fears.
Incredible it’s still like this. I remember 20 years ago (!) during the set up of the legislatively independent Statistics Authority and “official statistics”, the feedback on consultation from one banker was “sod that, no point if no one can get the stats, just spend the money fixing the website”
Yes, you’re right - that’s the issue. It’s funny, but irritating too.
