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samdumitriu.bsky.social
Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
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We are in the midst of a global nuclear renaissance, but the Climate Change Committee haven't heard. In their new Carbon Budget 7 advice, nuclear will only make up 13% of our grid by 2050. Why does nuclear play such a small role? In short, they assume it doesn't get cheaper.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New from me: How the UK's Climate Change Act and its system of carbon budgets for territorial emissions is flawed. www.samdumitriu.com/p/the-climat...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The largest subsector of the '120bn a year' creative industries is software and computer services. It is dishonest to use this statistic to argue against the text-and-data mining exemption proposed by the Government.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Olaf Scholz mocked British railways over “broken tracks and bad trains”, claiming that "nothing works any more” in the UK. Turns out: Germany rail problems have become so bad that Deutsche Bahn long-distance service is less punctual than even the worst operator in Britain. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

Excellent demolition by @samdumitriu.bsky.social of the 'pylons are more expensive' nonsense www.samdumitriu.com/p/reforms-ve...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Richard Tice announces Reform will ban grid-scale batteries until they've 'been proven completely safe'. It's mad gone health and safety.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

LEEDS UNCONFERENCE: BUILDING THE TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE Join us and Civic Future in Leeds on 20 February at 6pm. Britain has a transport problem, this unconference will be putting forward new ideas to solve it. Sign up for free here: partiful.com/e/GvihS3C6zt...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We concentrate way too much research funding in universities. That's a problem when universities have become detached from policy debates, detached from large parts of the political spectrum, and detached from modern management practices.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

New: The British government is creating a Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce to make it easier to build new nuclear power stations. ☢️

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s talk about mirror towns. They're a way to build homes where the transport infrastructure to support them already exists.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe it is a bit pedantic to insist "decimate" is only used when you mean "decrease by one tenth", but it seems absurd to use it to mean "increase by 6,000%".

submitted 31 days ago • 18 comments

A few weeks ago I wrote about the potential upsides of a financial bubble, which I've been thinking about a bunch today. Feels like the market today is actually not a bad example of the typology identified in it - there seems to be almost no spillover. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting paper on the impact of homeownership on education, using the UK's "Right to Buy” which boosted homeownership by 10pp 1980-1999. They find that, for kids of new homeowners, exam performance, degree attainment and earnings all improved - likely due to greater household wealth. #econsky

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