@huspsa @maxtempers @arindube In the US they seem to have had wage compression and productivity growth.
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@maxtempers Defend this @arindube
Arin Dube@arindube
I was asked by the UK Treasury to review intl. evidence on minimum wage, with focus on impact at higher levels. My review is now out. It aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of how minimum wages affect labor market, esp jobs. gov.uk/government/pub… 1/
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Over the past decade, Britain has raised its minimum wage to one of the highest in the world. In a zero-productivity-growth environment, this has meant that wages at the bottom have risen far faster than those in the middle. What have the consequences been?
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@StefanFSchubert @TWenseleers @jburnmurdoch Did AI help with this study? Sounds like AI-propaganda/PR for itself. Possibly/probably different in the real situations not with AI-made up persona talking to itself. Probably just trying to be agreeable.
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While social media is polarising, evidence suggests AI may nudge people towards the centre.
This holds true of all studied models. Grok is more right-leaning than other models, but also has depolarising effects.
By @jburnmurdoch.
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@socrates_mozart @waltonhershamfc Nuur inspires the team to victory! Yeah! Well done that man. He's so funny too.
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@waltonhershamfc Nuur skipper!! Shouldnt even be starting. Will do well to get a point here.
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@waltonhershamfc Good luck Swans. Always tough without Joey Jones but Anis Nuur is a very decent back up. Inspirational bloke. Sholing on a very good run, too.
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@waltonhershamfc With a proper ref it would have been 0-4 at Hungerford too. Great result, especially with so many changes from the early season team.
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✅️ Three points on the road
See you on Saturday, Swans fans 👋
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@waltonhershamfc Riley, better stay with us rather than go back to Wimbledon!
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⏱️ 63’ | GOALLL SWANSSS!!!
A corner bounces around in the box and Riley Horan throws his foot at it to volley a fine effort into the back of the net!
🟡 PLY 0-2 W&H 🔴
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⏱️ 75’ | WE MAKE IT FOUR!!!
Jos sends the ball long for Mekhi to pick up and race well into the Plymouth half. He plays Mason in for him to find the bottom corner with a great effort!
🟡 PLY 0-4 W&H 🔴
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@waltonhershamfc Ethan played well. Missed him when he had to go off. Hope his arm is OK, looked in some pain.
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⏱️ 81’ | Another Swans swap 🔄
Mekhi Savage replaces Ethan Light!
⚪️ HUN 0-0 W&H 🟣
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@DenzilTheDolfin @GCAFCofficial Helped last night having a referee keen not to give pathetic soft, simulated, penalties like @PooleTownFC got far too early on Saturday.
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@GCAFCofficial Nasty injury, right in front of me. No one likes to see that. Hope he's ok.
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41’| Ed Williams has to be withdrawn. 😔
➡️ Marcus Day
⬅️ Ed Williams
🦢 0-0 🐯 #GCAFC
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@alexgcafc @waltonhershamfc You guys made a great night of it. Thanks for coming.
Glad you were all able to stay dry up in the stand away from the action.
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@Robbie_Render @SergioS75389020 @wesstreeting @grok Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen. It's so weird.
Next thing your algo will have you appearing as one of those hardworking "Frontline NHS A&E Triage nurses" who still manage to tweet all day...
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The cat’s out of the bag!
Farage's Tory turncoats would replace our NHS with an insurance system. We can't let Reform UK anywhere near it.
Labour built the NHS. It’s now on the road to recovery.
With Labour’s NHS, whenever you’re ill, you’ll never have to worry about the bill!
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@SergioS75389020 @wesstreeting Sounds like drivel to me. @grok what were NHS medical negligence costs in 2025?
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@procurementfile Even when scrutinised the reports can read like nonsense, what's the difference between the "serious harm" found and the "significant harm" not being a risk that meant a clean bill if health? Suspect demand for places is huge and supply of places weak
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The Homecare industry is surging alongside disability claims; 15,899 agencies are now registered with the CQC. Of these, 6,408 are ‘not yet rated’
Bradford Council awarded a £308mill ‘Reimagining’ homecare contract to 28 suppliers. 21% have not been inspected, 15% ‘need improvement’.
More scrutiny of these agencies is needed.
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@waltonhershamfc Good to see Billy Rowley's working no magic at Yeovil T just yet.
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@waltonhershamfc Unbelievable lads
Elephant in the room - Rogalski not playing a single minute
1. Slight knock 🙏
2. Got a move lined up and didn’t want to risk injury jumping up the levels 🥺
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@MHKIRBASOGLU @timurkuran Bergen seems to be a socialist in economics and an Islamic traditionalist in social policies.
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@timurkuran On this occasion, I would like to bring to the attention of those interested in Ibn Khaldun that Lütfi Bergen has published works in Türkiye containing important critical views on Ibn Khaldun's theses.
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Ibn Khaldun (1132-1406) was indeed a giant. Working alone, he anticipated many ideas of the European Enlightenment. Also noteworthy: he had no followers in the Arab World or the broader Muslim World. No “Khaldunian” school emerged. That’s a key reason why he’s under-appreciated.
Ilhan Niaz@IlhanNiaz
My last read of 2025 - a book about my favourite philosopher, Ibn Khaldun. This 14th century thinker explains the world and its affairs through two sets of causes - objective (derived from Nature) and subjective (derived from culture). The interplay of these two types of causes creates the right royal mess that is human history. But, through reason and reflection, it is possible to discern patterns in how empires rise and fall, in how economies move from growth to decay, in how new vitalising ideologies turn into brain dead official orthodoxies, and into how different types of societies emerge, interface, and collapse. Collapse for Ibn Khaldun is inevitable- empires rarely endure beyond a few hundred years, civilisations maybe a few thousand, but this is all part of the gigantic recycling machine of history - a machine that defies control since its momentum arises from fundamental defects in human nature. Ibn Khaldun is arguably the first ‘modern’ philosopher of history, sociologist, economist, psychologist, and political philosopher. It is a shame that many writers freely borrow from him without acknowledgment or are genuinely ignorant of his contributions.
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@PME_Politics What is a "rural person"? Only 263 people id'd as such. Answers suspiciously the same as 2100 not id'd as rural. Sample sizes matter.
Should also test people to see if they they know what trail hunting is, and not those who have to keep informed enough to answer YouGov polls.
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What's more, this latest data shows that the public - including those in rural, town and fringe, and urban areas - tend not to believe that hunting is important to rural communities. And that goes for social important and economic importance.
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So, trail hunting.
The latest @YouGov data suggests that the British public are in favour of banning trail hunting by a margin of 50%-29%
What's more, this crosses urban-rural divides: 50% of people living in rural Britain want trail hunting banned. 35% think it should be legal
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