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#WeekendProject recreating @undertheraedar's 'UK Deprivation' #dataviz with updated election results in #rstats It's such awesome graphic and nobody should underestimate the effort it takes to work with UK geopolitical data! Code and full graphic, here: github.com/NearAndDistant…

@DharamKapila @boop @obsdmd @TfTHacker @joshm @Mappletons @viticci Did this ever go-live Dharam?

@boop @obsdmd @TfTHacker @joshm @Mappletons @viticci Excited to share this soon as well :) twitter.com/DharamKapila/s…

Excited to share a sneak peek of my new @obsdmd plugin :) • Browse the web spatially on an infinite canvas 💠 • Visually organize and connect your notes, videos, pdfs and websites 🛸 • Sketch and mind-map over a whiteboard 🎨 @TfTHacker @joshm @Mappletons @viticci

@Noahpinion IIRC I believe this is the whole premise of 'Bullsh*t Jobs' by David Graeber.

Holy crap, I actually agree with an anti-capitalist tweet by this moron. Old people are always pumping up young workers' idealism as a way to pay them lower wages. Nonprofits are the worst when it comes to this, of course.

@DrChalton 'Margins are for printing bleed', yeah right! That's a myth conjured up by the international notetaking community (probably lizards - the good ones) to systematise and industrialise note-space in books. I am wrong.

#NHS75 What have laptops got to do with our work with the NHS, helping local people to stay healthy? A thread... 1

Anyone - absolutely anyone - that says economic growth is “easy” or should always be given primacy should be blocked immediately. The market is not an end in itself.

Would the rich pay more in tax if public opinion decided? My new article "Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy" is now available in FirstView at @BJPolS. (cambridge.org/core/journals/…). Here's a thread 🧵 on the main findings

@EdWhiting1 @JackTShaw Gracias!

Thought-provoking read on the competing theoretical frameworks underpinning 'radical municipalism': the 'municipal financialisation' of London - where 84 per cent of authorities have arms-length regeneration vehicles - versus the 'progressive interventionism' of Preston:

WSJ investment tip. Short companies cutting WFH and long companies increasing WFH. Managers that see growth slowing care less about attrition so cut WFH, managers that see growth picking up need to hire so expand WFH. wsj.com/articles/need-…

@JackTShaw Where are those figures from Jack? Recently the ‘i’ reported: “The biggest increase is in London where rents are up £230 a month (13.4%), followed by Edinburgh at an increase of £140 a month (13.7%).” inews.co.uk/news/rent-pric…

Emerging evidence from Scotland's rent control policies is required reading for English combined authorities: the average rental price in Scotland was 16% higher than in June 2022 — and in Edinburgh 22% higher — compared with 14% in London. ft.com/content/2152bb…

Shocking to witness how pedestrianisation and the #waroncars has ripped the heart out of once-thriving Edinburgh

Do I know any survey design pros who would be prepared to take a look at a draft of something? This is to help test our qualitative findings from interviews w/ 50 civil servants against a wider sample.

@DavidVeevers1 Dani Rodrik cites it from Oded Galor and Andrew Mountfield’s ‘Trading productivity for productivity: theory and evidence’ (2008)… and it’s everything you’d expect it is.

Give me the confidence of an economist trying to explain the diverging growth of countries through colonialism as “commodity-exporting countries gave up productivity in exchange for population” (2008, not even that long ago!) Leave colonial history to @DavidVeevers1 👀

@jburnmurdoch Isn’t that because higher tax take allows greater investment and therefore better infrastructure, though - instead of a direct mechanism from individual wealth.

🤔 in the richest part of the country, as people continue to grow more prosperous they are using cars less, and using public transport more

What is this website actually called anymore...

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@watling_samuel @DavidHenigUK @lmrwanda @tc1415 I think a lot of people read this (very good) piece and find ways to turn it to their preconception rather than engage with it on its own terms.

@DavidHenigUK @lmrwanda @tc1415 As the pieces author I would disagree. The intention was to say the central issue was the planning system gave the incentives and power to constrain housing supply. I then say planning reform is essential but politically difficult and suggested potentienal ways to bypass this.

The thing is, fixing the planning system would make multiple home ownership simply cease to be a problem. To say it should be fixed, without fixing planning, is to wholly miss the wood for the trees.

*earth: boiling, roasting, toasting* workers: *striking* everything: *expensive* Government:

@jwhandley17 Legend! Thanks 🙏

@NearandDistant link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Are there any (formerly) coal mining regions in Europe that vote like the ones in the US do?