@Birdyword This country is completely backwards. Imagine a Labour-led anti-austerity coalition in the 2010s, and Cameron-Osborne style government in the 2020s
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Greg
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Greg
@GregisinLondon
retweet = things i want to read at a later time
Katılım Şubat 2014
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You have to find the grim humour in the fact that Labour was reelected to a massive majority in 2024, led by a generation of politicians with one central and shared critique of the previous 15yrs of economic policy, very shortly after the relevance of the critique collapsed
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
Beyond anything about Starmer per se the big problem for any British government seems to be that post Truss, the fiscal constraints really are binding which will frustrate whoever suceeds him
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@zugzwanged Phew, thank you! It will be highly satisfying when that moment comes. Hopefully moreso than waiting for GRR Martin to finish ASOIAF...
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@GregisinLondon Thank you! Yes, I do. They haven't been abandoned, although my fuller and more peripatetic schedule over the past few years has limited the time I have to work on them.
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@zugzwanged hi Alastair. Feeling blessed by your chapter by chapter biblical reflections. Do you have plans to continue / finishing the 4-5 books anytime soon?
Thanks.
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@TimVasbyBurnie Yes! Perhaps grumbling is also much more intricately linked to idolatry than we realise.
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Is grumbling a minor sin? The Israelites grumble in the wilderness and we've a lot to learn from that story!
Jesus Is Good News@Jesus_Good_News
Tuesday 14th April 2026 Exodus 15:22 - 16:10 and Colossians 1:15-29 #JesusIsGoodNews
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@Birdyword I think it stems from simplistic human thought that one must optimise one thing (climate change, poverty, crime, traffic accidents etc) at all cost...
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What I find interesting about Erlich's influence is that he seems to have been pushing at an open door. Why is that? Why is the instinct to believe there are too many people already so widespread and ingrained that it made such quickly-disproven work so popular?
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
Normally, I don't speak ill of the dead but: rest in piss. Paul Ehrlich's work wasn't "premature," it was wrong, completely so, and evil: his recommendations resulted in many hundreds of thousands of coerced sterilizations and abortions among the world's most vulnerable people.
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For all the hullabaloo...as near as makes no difference...spoos are unch on the week, gold is unch on the week & the dollar is unch on the week...
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@ItsTheDumbAges Thanks for praying, and hope you get a satisfying response from God. Hope you return - and maybe grab someone for coffee to challenge them on all the uncomfortable bits in a friendly discourse. Social media loves to dampen peoples' joy out of desire for social purity and creds...
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My post about going to All Souls Langham Place on Sunday got a lot of likes, more comments than I'm used to and sparked off other threads, it seems.
It's also caused a lot of reflection and prayer on my part. I've yet to come to the kind of snappy conclusion I can pop in a post. Even the question of whether I'm going to return there next Sunday remains moot.
Being a Christian is hard. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
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@davidjamessims @ItsTheDumbAges @charliebelllive Hear hear! Clive, hope you still give this church a chance and not listen to the anti-joy naysayers
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@ItsTheDumbAges @charliebelllive Hi :) They're a CofE church, so they uphold the CofE teaching on marriage.
I know of LGBTQI+ people for whom that is their church.
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I went to a different church today. All Saints in Langham Place. It was billed as evangelical Anglican and I was curious.
I wasn't expecting to, but I enjoyed it immensely. It was heaving with people for a start, which made a huge difference to the atmosphere. It was also a diverse crowd in terms of ethnicity and I can't exactly explain why but that brought me joy. I guess I thought "this is what a London church SHOULD be like".
Hymns were modern mostly and they had a choir and a small band playing. I loved singing them and even though I wasn't familiar with them, the African woman behind me was belting them out and I just followed her and lead.
I think I'm going to go back next week.
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@zugzwanged Do you have any plans to finish Joshua, Chronicles and Psalms? Itching to complete it!
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Many of you might not be aware of the fact that my biblical reflections are available in an easily searchable and attractive format on my website. Click on any chapter and you can access my material on it. Link below.
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@Noahpinion @albrgr Exactly, on that basis, I find it so difficult to believe it will be below the first two rows...
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@albrgr First of all it's "over 4%", and second of all, it's productivity growth only (capital growth should add more)! 🥳
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I respect Jason a lot and it's so funny to me to see his scale top out at 4% annual growth
Jason Furman@jasonfurman
I wrote down my probabilities and will share them later. What are yours?
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@John_Stepek A broader principle is that we need more people to experience higher marginal rates for political reasons... Which is one of the reasons the threshold freeze is a good thing (saying it with gritted teeth)
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I take some issue with the idea of student loans as progressive, because many of the very wealthiest have their fees paid for them - but I agree with Chris here inasmuchas I suspect it's student loans that have triggered the surge in support for tax cuts bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Chris Giles@ChrisGiles_
My column Everyone loves progressive tax changes in theory but seem to hate them when they face the consequeuences One for UK graduates on Plan 2 loans to read... as.ft.com/r/d9c65a3c-13b…
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@julianHjessop I think the high youth employment will be a bigger deal than one expect. We've totally failed them with Brexit, COVID and now unemployment - and who knows where they'll turn to politically
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That said, the increase in unemployment rates is still unwelcome, especially as younger people are finding it particularly hard to find jobs.
But this should be solved by addressing the problem of high labour costs, rather than (as some suggest) by slashing interest rates. (3/3)
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The headline unemployment rate rose again to 5.2% in the three months to December and is set to climb further this year (it was 5.4% in December alone).
But there is a key point here most are missing: employment is also still rising (at least according to this survey)... (1/3)
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@freetrade dear freetrade, I was told to contact you (no details given) but you haven't responded, even after four days. How can I get a proper service?
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Any theories as to what is driving such a big divergence between age groups?
Faisal Islam@faisalislam
📈 The one chart that explains a lot about the UK… From Econ growth, to doom mongery, to pessimism among older people, to high savings rates, and in turn raises interesting questions about Govt strategy, the influence of social media etc Consumer confidence, by age/ GFK NOP
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