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Public policy stuff at Teesside University https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
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I’ve been thinking about research and policy recommendations and remembering Paul Krugman’s thing on how people prefer policy entrepreneurs with confident answers rather than wishy washy academics giving it “oh, it’s all quite complicated”.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Cycled past a middle aged bloke who was wearing very large and very bright orange trainers and suddenly and weirdly imagined myself shouting "ORANGE TRAINERS! at him. Must have been a flashback to my teens...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Unused-cycle-lane-cam incoming,

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yorkshire 100 for 9... before I do any premature pan northern gloating, is there something up with the pitch at Clifton Park?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in town tonight. Honestly, it's almost enough to make you support Sunderland.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I'm never going to hear the end of Sam Fender at St James Park.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've just seen a photo from the 1990s and thought "Christ that looks like the 1970s" before reflecting that the two time periods are quite close together, it's been a long time since peak 90s, and I'm getting old. Is that just me?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I think I remember Steven Horwitz writing something about how too many self styled libertarians hate the left more than they love liberty.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In balance... really? I'm with the bookies - Australia clear favourites. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Kings Cross, the place where completed regeneration projects actually look like the pictures on the construction hoardings.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I've just received this WhatsApp but I don't understand it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I'm in that London and I'm having a five pound pint of ale in a nice place in zone one that isn't a chain pub. I was led to believe this was no longer possible.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments