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richarddubourg.bsky.social
Economist. Academic, then consultant, then UK government, then EU regulator, now consultant again. Environment, health, crime. Mostly chemicals these days. Woke. Remain. Proportional representation.
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 14 hours ago • 616 comments

An account called Fit Fast Coach has blocked me, you say? Oh, woe. What shall I do?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Texas mandates that high schoolers be taught the benefits of free markets. By government mandate. If you don’t see the irony, reread that slowly.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Influenza vaccination reduces respiratory-illness doctor visits by over 25 percent in young children, from Michael L. Anderson, Carlos Dobkin, Devon Gorry, and Hung-Fu Tseng https://www.nber.org/papers/w33856

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️ 'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft. "Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

Universal school masking reduced weekly COVID-19 deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. 50 percent of districts removed mask requirements by spring 2022 contributing to 9 percent of COVID deaths that year, from Guzman, Imberman, Filosa, Kilbride, and Malkus https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

In 2024, the Metropolitan Police accounted for 18% of police recorded crime in England and Wales (excl. fraud), but 43% of robberies and 27% of thefts. #crimestats

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Join us for our #Children’s #Concert on 15 June: offering children a fantastic opportunity to experience the magic of live #classical #music performed by a full #symphony #orchestra. Listen to fun and engaging pieces, bringing music to life through vivid storytelling and playful melodies.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Important point. Not sure I'd really thought about this before.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The most important achievement of the right in the C21st has been the invention of an all-powerful "establishment" that does not include the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, the world's richest media moguls, the party that was in govt for 14 years, Boris Johnson or the billionaire president of the US

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments