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jdportes.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
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Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

submitted 7 hours ago • 86 comments

I doubt that this policy [the benefit cap] even succeeds in saving money in the long run, given the effects of poverty on education, employment and earnings [and thus tax].

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

This is what happens when our glorious leaders don’t understand the difference between technology and magic. Is there any way of getting through to them on this?!

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

submitted 6 hours ago • 35 comments

Spouting this guff only reveals that you've never given a moment's thought to: Productivity How tech affects/has affected aggregate productivity growth Recent trends in productivity Secular trends pushing down on productivity growth (demographics, Baumol, inequality) bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

This betrays a monumental ignorance regarding what AI is or does. It's also based on a random, throwaway comment by Sam Altman in an interview where he was babbling and sounded high on drugs. Great basis for policy. Jfc.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

The vast majority of these 600 are civilians that were kidnapped in Gaza. Not accused of anything, not charged of anything.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Israel's Defence Minister proudly taking responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of 40,000 people in the West Bank.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

submitted 7 hours ago • 86 comments

And again: the lesson from Musk is there is no lesson from Musk His project is not government improvement or reform. Those of us actually interested in better government need to look elsewhere www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/trum...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

I remember talking to Fraser on Twitter years ago about this, too after a particularly racist piece from an American author. He dismissed me. But few people are as responsible for the rise in racism in the UK as Fraser Nelson, and he needs to own his shame

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

He blocked me for bringing up Taki's Golden Dawn, great bunch of lads article

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

'provocative' is a fascinating euphemism for 'racist' here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

What's being missed in the Fraser Nelson stuff is that the rot is much deeper than just one magazine. It has set in across pretty much the whole of the right. Not so much a long march through the institutions as a devastating blitzkrieg lasting just a few years.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The UK / Europe should make it as easy as possible for American academics & businesses to move here. Asap.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Fraser Nelson notes ethno-nationalist right is a dead end. It is not a new view. It has less public reach than ever before. Ethno-nationalist approaches to British identity (eg rejecting Badenoch on grounds of race) and to English identity are subtly different. www.thetimes.com/article/27c9...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

ICYMI: Is Trump a Populist or a Fascist? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-t... Calling Trump a populist alongside people like Johnson or Farage grossly underestimates the threat he represents.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The mainstreaming of white ethnonationalism (aka racism) in the UK was, of course, wholly unrelated to the racist bilge Fraser Nelson published in the Spectator during his 15 years as editor.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh, come on. The Conservative Party helped destroyed those places by austerity and Brexit, which together hollowed out local government, abolished RDAs and lost the country Structural Funds. But, sure, let’s pretend it’s all about immigration

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

"Globalisation isn't all good/immigration has downsides/question the free market" - the problem as I see it is that these have been the go-to anti conventional wisdom ideas for so long that they've become the new conventional wisdom on.ft.com/3Db5Bjx

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

From the headline I assumed he'd finally noticed that ethnonationalism might have its downsides as a strategy, but reading it, it's actually more "Leopards ate my face. Here's why we may soon not require faces"

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

The shameless bullshit of the bloviator right in Britain. Fraser Nelson trying to take the high ground against ethno-nationalist Conservatism. From someone who published as editor of the Spectator the repugnant racism of Douglas Murray & Rod Liddle (to name but two!). HT @jdportes.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments