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“TV manufacturers won’t over-produce to the point that the price of TVs falls" They kinda do though
I was on a discussion on NextDoor recently in which someone was complaining about how Starmer was going to make it easier to build on the 'Green Belt around Southampton', but of course there is no such thing... there are green fields around Southampton, but no Green Belt!
Broke: "there are more vacant homes than homeless people" Choke: "there are more vacant bedrooms than homeless people" Woke: "there's more vacant land than homeless people would need" Bespoke: "there's near-infinite vacant airspace but it's illegal to build into"
Back in the 1970s, feminists anthropologists often claimed that small-scale societies were more gender equal, as there were weaker restrictions on sexuality. Actually, they had extremely high violence, often involving capture & gang rape of women. - graph from @sapinker
I think people maybe throw the term 'unaffordable' around a bit too easily? I was completing a yougov survey, and most people (so far) responded to say that fuel costs were 'unaffordable', but most also said that they have never considered travelling by something other than car?
We don’t need to build more homes because some people have spare bedrooms. Big insights from one of the UK’s leading universities.
We don’t need to build more homes because some people have spare bedrooms. Big insights from one of the UK’s leading universities. https://t.co/7zvPhuAhoq
This is excellent. I'm a floating voter and I'll vote for any party that recognises that the planning system is the biggest barrier to growth and that the so-called 'Green-Belt' is a big part of that.
Something just distinctly tragic about midwit history. The $45tn figure is from a marxist economist who has simply applied a perpetual 5% compound on the real transfer of £1bn. To believe her figure to be true you would need to believe last year Britain stole $3.2tn from India.
Something just distinctly tragic about midwit history. The $45tn figure is from a marxist economist who has simply applied a perpetual 5% compound on the real transfer of £1bn. To believe her figure to be true you would need to believe last year Britain stole $3.2tn from India.
The idea of redesignating land as 'grey belt' seems a good one: the big problem with developing 'green belt' land is mostly branding: people hear 'green belt' and they mix it up with 'green field' land. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Online tankies long for the days when they could sic the Stasi on people, but thankfully now they’re just limited to impotently complaining into the void
Online tankies long for the days when they could sic the Stasi on people, but thankfully now they’re just limited to impotently complaining into the void
Matt Gaetz's constituents produce Javelins. Jim Jordan's constituents produce Strykers. Anna Luna's constituents produce HIMARS. Scott Perry's constituents produce Bradleys. Yet all four oppose the Ukraine aid that funded those projects — and they're not the only ones.
...However, the @ONS research where this 50% stat apparently comes from also stresses that the majority of those with depression, bad nerves or anxiety reported it as a *secondary* health condition rather than their main one... blog.ons.gov.uk/2023/07/26/too…
An important point about the PM's speech on the UK's "sick note culture". He stated: "Of those who are economically inactive, fully half say they have depression or anxiety."...gov.uk/government/spe…
Everyone’s dunking on this, but it’s admirably honest that the alternative to building more is no one having a guest bedroom, a home office, or space for kids they haven’t had yet. And that permanent flat sharing into middle age will be the norm. Refreshingly straightforward!
Everyone’s dunking on this, but it’s admirably honest that the alternative to building more is no one having a guest bedroom, a home office, or space for kids they haven’t had yet. And that permanent flat sharing into middle age will be the norm. Refreshingly straightforward! https://t.co/Nc1RyG5Aig
Who is ready for @OwenJones84/@guardian to be forced into a humiliating retraction over his latest piece? One that exposes how lazy he is as a "journalist", who is so committed to his own ideological bubble that he has published an egregious error. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Bold call from @OwenJones84 to abandon NATO allies, abrogate Article 5 & leave Estonia vulnerable to Russian attack. “Britain should pare back defence spending so it means just that: defence, or protection from invasion…” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
If you like democracy, you should like capitalism.
If you like democracy, you should like capitalism. https://t.co/1YcfchNKg9
Lemon Socialism - where the private sector squeeze out profits and the sate picks up the rinds - really is the worst kind of socialism. The point of investors is to take risks and if the state always insulates them from that risk then really what was the point? Let it die.
Lemon Socialism - where the private sector squeeze out profits and the sate picks up the rinds - really is the worst kind of socialism. The point of investors is to take risks and if the state always insulates them from that risk then really what was the point? Let it die.
Economists (not historians!) need to debunk wild claims like this with boring facts like: 1) The vast majority of the world’s wealth was created after decolonisation 2) the main driver of long term productivity growth over the last millennium is the advancement of science
Economists (not historians!) need to debunk wild claims like this with boring facts like: 1) The vast majority of the world’s wealth was created after decolonisation 2) the main driver of long term productivity growth over the last millennium is the advancement of science
In Sweden 50% of people own or have access to a summer house. Here almost no one does. But holiday homes are great - good for council finances, great for seaside communities and fabulous for families. Change planning. Build lots more…. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Googling suggests that puberty blockers were given to less than 100 children per year up to now You would not know that the number was that low from the current state of the discourse
I sometimes bump into leftists who treat supply and demand as if it was made-up nonsense that we can choose to reject... but supply not keeping up with demand is going to have a negative effect regardless of economic system.
You can ration by price or you can ration by… rationing. What you can’t do is argue with a market and win. Markets don’t care about what you think they should be. They just *are*. The question should be how this informs the way of achieving the political outcomes we wish for.
We're already at the point where we know that increasing supply does exert negative pressure on housing rent and price growth. We don't need to quantify the exact amount of pressure in order to take advantage of this. We just need to build more homes.
Note: increasing supply through planning/zoning reform does not imply that we can't do anything else. A policy doesn't need to be a silver bullet that will solve all housing problems to be worth it, it just needs to help with the problem.
Broke: "there are more vacant homes than homeless people" Choke: "there are more vacant bedrooms than homeless people" Woke: "there's more vacant land than homeless people would need" Bespoke: "there's near-infinite vacant airspace but it's illegal to build into"
When I ask whether someone was acting 'of their own free will', it's not a metaphysical question: I just want to eliminate morally relevant issues like coercion, drugs, lack of choice, accident, spasm, or anything that might suggest something other than a character flaw.
I am learning that I am apparently one of very few people who actually finds compatibilism pretty intuitive? Like I always thought free will just meant that I am the one doing the choosing, not total independence of the causal nexus - what would that even be anyway?
Interesting that discourse about whether people think of themselves as British-only or English-only might be have been fueled by not randomising the list of options. ukandeu.ac.uk/census-2021-ar…
St George's Day is a good day to remember that the massive rise in English identity, about which a thousand op-eds were written, turned out to have happened purely because the ONS moved it above 'British' in the list of answers.
Remember guys the cigarette ban is definitely going to be enforced and the modelling that shows 0% will consume an illegal product is definitely very valid!
Cannabis smoke rises from the thousands assembled in Hyde Park.
For UnHerd, @jessesingal wrote about activist Andrea James' campaign to defame and intimidate all of us who write and research in the space of youth gender care. The purpose of her campaign is to scare off others who might join us. unherd.com/2023/11/the-ra…
NYT Opinion columnist @nytdavidbrooks on the Cass Review: The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care "Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates in our culture: how the medical community should respond to the…
A reminder that Acemoglu once wrote a whole theory paper claiming Swedes are less entrepreneurial than Americans, because their welfare state means they can afford to not work hard.
I hadn't known about this Swedish success: "Over the past 10 years, 501 companies have listed in Sweden, more than the total number of IPOs in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain combined, according to Dealogic data." ft.com/content/edc1bb…
Genuinely amazed people are still making unilaterialist/anti-deterance arguments given Ukraine. Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons, was uncovered by a major alliances and is now subject to an imperialist invasion + Russia using deterrence to stop major intervention
Why are these anti-deterrence arguments so consistently simplistic and poor? “Deterrence doctrine is an unproved theory [and] fails to consider the possibility of accidents, miscalculations, terrorist groups, cyber-attacks or simple mistakes.” economist.com/letters/2024/0…
Why are these anti-deterrence arguments so consistently simplistic and poor? “Deterrence doctrine is an unproved theory [and] fails to consider the possibility of accidents, miscalculations, terrorist groups, cyber-attacks or simple mistakes.” economist.com/letters/2024/0…
UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays on.ft.com/3vUsnJ5
The source of Britain's wealth an power was not slavery and colonialism any more than it was coal or a peculiar native genius. The main reason lies in free markets and trade. This doesn't ignore slavery but recognises that the trade made a few people rich not the nation itself
This is a gross erasure of how the UK built its wealth. The C of E, Guardian and Lloyds are prominent examples that openly show how our church, media and financial systems are rooted in colonialism and slavery This is not a matter of conjecture, but fact theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Stephen Kotkin is an historian who often thinks like a (comparative) political scientist, which makes his foreign policy essays always worth reading. This one is no exception, although admittedly it's a little weird! A few thoughts... foreignaffairs.com/russian-federa…
Back in the 1970s, feminists anthropologists often claimed that small-scale societies were more gender equal, as there were weaker restrictions on sexuality. Actually, they had extremely high violence, often involving capture & gang rape of women. - graph from @sapinker
One of the big failures of the current commentariat is they don’t understand social media. The ad is a play on a very popular and established meme. It’s actually one of the better ads labour has done recently.
Her: Please tell me this is a spoof and that the Labour Party wouldn’t actually put out an advert this sexist? Him: Nope, it’s real.
Before a local plan can come into force and the site's in it developed, it needs to go through an examination - effectively a public inquiry to confirm the plan meets legal and policy requirements. Here are the 10 longest running local plan examinations. planningresource.co.uk/article/186942…
This paper tracks geopolitical fragmentation and its effects: "After decades of rising global economic integration, the world economy is fragmenting.. adverse effects on industries intricately linked to global markets, incl manufacturing, construction, finance, wholesale, retail"
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