johnspringford.bsky.social
Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University.
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Ah, it did. Always seems like more social housing is the way to go anyway.
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I can't remember if Corbyn's 2019 manifesto included rent controls.
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Eh? So weird
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Causality probably runs both ways and age is confounding as income rises with age. But more people getting a university premium must be driving changes in class divides in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, and that strengthens a class divide between generations before and after uni expansion.
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Also, owner-occupiers who bought before say 1993 have different interests to generations after, and you could define that as a class divide that is proxied by age and housing tenure.
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Plus 1, but it's hard to quantify and class shifts as occupations change. With the rise in people going to university, you could argue education had become more determining of class.
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Sally Mid On?
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Mine would be Extra Cover
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We got quite lucky and they fielded badly ... Should be a great series
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I thought he was very dangerous once he started bowling into the rough against the left handers. He was good in the first innings too. Only Duckett played him well.
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I only watched it today, but I thought Krishna and Siraj looked good and I suspect they'll get better. Jadeja was a lot more dangerous against the left handers though, you're right.
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Bowling I'm not sure.
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True
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It was a brilliant match
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We do have more batting depth, that's true.
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Maybe, but Jadeja was getting a lot of spin at the end, and Krishna and Siraj are good bowlers. I think they'll get better.
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I'm not gloating - concerned about how you are.
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It was
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I was on the Andrew Neil politics programme with him once - it's not easy. He's a very fluent and ... competitive debater.
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Curses
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Thank you!
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Thank you. He has the combination of shamelessness and fluency that brings political rewards, sadly.
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Thanks Thomas. Your work is super important and I hope I represented it properly in the paper.
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Nice piece. As a think tanker who reads quite a lot of academic research the lit review is often one of the most helpful bits. I'm not going to read all the literature but want to know where the discussion has got to, and I think a lot of policy types like having that overview.
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Bravo Andy. A lot of integrity on display here. (Didn't see the chart).
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Lower East Side, 1907 - "Honestly, all these people coming here, it's so crowded, what will any of them amount to or do for us..?"
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The loss of garment industry re-exports tells us nothing; it's a small industry, the loss is about 1% of total goods exports; and as you say the 'loss' is illusory. So maybe don't steam in?
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This is not the gotcha that you think it is. A loss of £3bn in re-exports is a rounding error that says little about the overall impact; the other evidence points to large trade, investment and productivity effects, as my report sets out.
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I don't know. Could be re-exports with minimal value-added (labels being attached to garments made elsewhere).
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Thanks a lot Aslak
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Thank you!
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Yes - possibly. Synthetic controls suggest it's done better than other regions/nations of the UK. ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up...