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Wait it's been a whole day and no-one has done the hot dog man thing you are all very slow

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Delighted to see this volume on the shelves. Thanks to Roberta Bassi @hartpublishing.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and to all the authors . Some wonderful writing in here, which I hope is widely read: the chapters are also available on Bloomsbury Collections Online.

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GRR Martin famously attacked Tolkien for not explaining Aragorn’s tax policy. But Martin also doesn’t logically explain anyone’s tax policy. I demand someone write a fantasy which gets to grips with the realities of premodern tax economics

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

tired voice please, please, just post the damn link. Not an effing QR code. I'm in the browser right now; I can't click a QR code. Nor can you click a QR code when you're doomscrolling in the app, but you can click/tap A LINK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Just for a bit of fun I decided to check the impact of the UK-Australia FTA. Unfortunately given an implementation date of May 2023, I don't see any.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Fun fact: the tax exemption on red diesel (46p x 5bn litres) comes to a subsidy larger than all of the reliefs we throw at Film, TV and Video games, and about three times the entire Innovate UK budget!

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Sorry, but I find this the most incredible gaslighting. I now have to ASSUME that a Times headline is so totally unrepresentative of the content and views therein and I cannot criticise that framing, chosen deliberately by her employer, unless I PAY them to read the full article? Fuck. Right. Off.

submitted 15 days ago • 121 comments

Go Volk, Go Broke.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

CAMBRIDGE. I am sorry, forgive me, please allow me to enter the country again in future.

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments

What happened last time, Canada edition. open.substack.com/pub/mostfavo...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

🎼 So here’s to you, Calvin Robinson Jesus looks at you and sighs oh no No no no 🎼

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

NEW How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 31 days ago • 58 comments

I know this is basically reiterating what Stephen is saying, but it is stunning to me how obvious it is she just doesn't read anything. If she did, she'd know that one of the few things the Home Office has acknowledged is that the focus on "ideology" was a factor in Prevent failing here!

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Looking forward to this important new challenge. Terms of reference will follow: won’t be doing media for now.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

You don't need to make an emergency podcast, folks.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Dressing for work today.

submitted 35 days ago • 70 comments

return to work

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Hate to be the bearer of a non-snarking take, but if the UK government has shifted from focus on becoming a crypto hub under the Tories to attempting to be “an AI superpower” actually think it’s progress

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Reading this from the PM, I think my assessment is right. This isn't so much a technology plan or a delivery strategy but a shop window for investment. on.ft.com/4gNko2L

submitted 42 days ago • 24 comments

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submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

My former boss @baldwinre.bsky.social is on BlueSky everyone (I can confirm this is his real account). A must-follow and must-include for all your trade and economics starter packs.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Terrific piece this. A good test I think is to ask “would I be willing to pay to own this DVD on BluRay, a more durable format?” and if not, don’t keep it. Often quite striking to realise the answer is “you can’t buy that, or stream it anymore”, a good reason to hang on to what you love.

submitted 51 days ago • 27 comments

I don’t know what the complete answer to the UK’s Musk problem is, but surely part of the solution must be new laws which require: 1. Any media outlet to play the sad trombone noise every time his name is spoken; and 2. Any tweets of his to be read out by Steve Coogan on helium.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

Subtweet: I don’t think the answer to “how should a midsized open economy react to the critical posts of a man who is a close adviser to the next president of the country thar is the central component of Five Eyes, Nato, the global economy, etc.” is a question with an obvious right answer.

submitted 52 days ago • 52 comments

This is a good piece on HMT’s failure to design & articulate tax policy. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/agri...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Neither. The government has consciously chosen to pivot from 'change' to 'you've had some right cowboys in here, and it's gonna cost you', while doing some controversial things early, of course it is going to become unpopular temporarily, and irrevocably if its policy agenda flops.

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

A ridiculously cute Iberian lynx cub. Image is from the successful captive breeding programme via Wiki

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

My Trade Secrets today. We’re in a new era of state intervention with governments subsidising and regulating like crazy. But trade continues healthily. Why? Because except the US, governments aren’t usually daft enough to do it with tariffs and border controls. on.ft.com/49GaMUz

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

👏👏👏 & for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t already know. Also, if you’re not already following @columnist.bsky.social, then you really really should.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

We are delighted to be on Bluesky, and even more delighted to share the latest blog from our gardener Anna, who share some thoughts on our liquidambar trees! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/gardene...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

This was a common view 25+ years ago about the liability of public bodies for failing to protect us from harm, but it is wrong. Why can't we sue the police when they fail to protect us from harm? /1

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Just realised that I have started referring to X as the ‘two minute hate’ on the odd occasion I pop back …

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Good in-the-wild example here of a typical kind of LLM bot there’s a lot of on Bluesky right now. Before blocking I clicked through and had a scan of its followers (ie also guaranteed fake accounts) and the were basically all pro democrat/anti Trump stuff.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

submitted 88 days ago • 562 comments

End Of The Line: my SKETCH of Parliament's largely good debate on assisted dying. thecritic.co.uk/kill...

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Oops!

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The students in the cafeteria queue in front of me are talking animatedly about Animal from the Muppets, which suggests that civilisation is still in a decent shape, basically.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

This 👇

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