Heather Stewart

This bit killed me

Chancellor really needs advice from people who both understand but can challenge Treasury orthodoxy - this will leave a big gap.

Rachel Reeves seeks economic heavyweights as advisers reduce roles John Van Reenen and Anne Valero’s return to academia means chancellor under pressure to recruit experts before autumn budget

Excl - Rachel Reeves's chief economic adviser John Van Reenen is scaling back his role to one day a week, and another adviser, Anna Valero, is also off - leaving her light on expertise in the run-up to a crucial budget: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114902743574618008 Remember, Japan is, for the first time ever, OPENING ITS MAKET TO THE USA, even to cars, SUV's, Trucks, -and everything else, even agriculture and RICE, which was always a complete NO, NO. The Open Market Japan may be as big a profit factor as the Tariffs themselves, but was only gotten because of the Tariff Power. They also agreed to buy BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF MILITARY AND OTHER EQUIPMENT, and give us 90% of 550 BILLION DOLLARS - AND MORE!!! MAGA!!! 280 ReTruths 1.11k Likes 7/23/25, 6:18 AM

Opening its “maket”

See also, who ends up organising health/care for their elderly parents, which includes the emotion/anxiety that goes along with realising you're going to get sod all help from the system. Lots of blokes do this too, I know, but suspect balance leans towards daughters.

The words mirrored her criticism of Sunak’s gaffe, which was later leaked to the Times. The notebook also contains affirmations about public speaking linked to the heading “Personal Improvement”: “Breathe, breathe, breathe”; “Pause, Pause, Pause”; “You are a serious person who does big things”; “Pivot to attacking Labour when uncomfortable”; “Remember you are the standard bearer of the right”; “Don’t let people think you are easily wound up”.

You should read every word of this Kemi profile in the @newstatesman.com but this is by far and away my fav bit www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

While media attention is rightly focused on the Japan-U.S. trade deal, don't overlook what is happening to the long end of the Japanese bond market where, driven mainly by fiscal concerns, yields continue to climb....

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UK’s aid cuts ‘will hit children’s education and raise risk of death’ Cutting aid budget to 0.3% of national income will hurt many African countries, says FCDO impact assessment

ICYMI yesterday: the govt's own impact assessment has highlighted the potential consequences of Labour's aid cuts: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Am I the only person who's triggered by a bloke called Johnson "sending lawmakers home" to avoid a difficult subject?

just another perfectly normal day at the world’s most perfectly normal club

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A lot of “why isn’t Labour doing (expensive & complicated thing)?” questions have 2 straightforward candidate answers:
1. There’s no money. Look at the fiscal statistics. Labour can’t pay for all of the things
2. Everything is on fire & admin capacity is limited. Labour can’t do all of the things.

Love this analogy (for the value of Bitcoin 👇

OK, I'm known to be a crypto bear (& yes, having fun staying poor etc). But if it's just a load of people YOLO-ing money - even if they are doing so in a personally unwise way - it's not a systemic issue really (tho encourages criminality etc). Banks lending against crypto collateral is different...

Hallucinations are a very hard problem to fix because of the probabilistic nature of how these models work,” said Amr Awadallah, a former Google executive and founder of Vectara, a generative AI agent start-up. “You will never get them to not hallucinate.”

The intrinsic bullshit problem

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Completely agree. I’ve been a local gov journalist for 12 years and have reported on the fall of local government in that time. It’s had a massive impact on the fabric of our society, on what makes our communities work. It’s about more than just bins and roads, it’s about a sense of place and pride.

For all Twitter's failings, it occasionally still serves up gems

"we gave a chinese minivan the ability to experience emotions"

this isn't a pitch, it's a cry for help

Have been watching the (great) documentary Social Studies with my teen and this really struck me - some issues are new (porn everywhere, choking, wtf is that?) - but some of them -horniness, drunkenness, self-loathing, mean girls - are vv familiar!

How about, instead, we give them ballooning responsibilities, less money, and limit their ways to raise it themselves?

Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.

Never mind whether ChatGPT can pass the Turing test: can these journalists?

The quiet, matter of fact takeover of women holding senior economist roles | Heather Stewart From Rachel Reeves to the MPC, and thinktanks to unions and lobby groups, many of the authoritative voices we hear discussing economics are female

Here’s this week’s column, inspired by @stephenkb.bsky.social being a (great) token male on a political/economic panel last week, Highlighted for me a big shift in economic policy making (also includes tears); www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Vikki Slade, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole smell the ingredients as they learn to make bath bombs during a visit to the Lush factory, on July 18, 2025 in Poole, United Kingdom

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Vikki Slade, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole smell the ingredients as they learn to make bath bombs during a visit to the Lush factory, on July 18, 2025 in Poole, United Kingdom

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Vikki Slade, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole smell the ingredients as they learn to make bath bombs during a visit to the Lush factory, on July 18, 2025 in Poole, United Kingdom

Ed Davey, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Vikki Slade, Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole smell the ingredients as they learn to make bath bombs during a visit to the Lush factory, on July 18, 2025 in Poole, United Kingdom

Timeline cleanse - Ed Davey in the Lush factory

It’s almost too perfect that the billboard behind these two confused Waymos says STOP HIRING HUMANS

A compelling argument, not least because no 18 year olds *ever* take significant exams in the summer. Nor does anyone aged 19, 20, 21.

NEW: Two parliamentary committees who heard from the government's preferred candidate to be the new chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Committee, Mary-Ann Stephenson, have written to Bridget Phillipson to say they do *not* back her appointment.

committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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every single day is just turning on your screen and yelling shut up!! shut up!!!! at it

New rate just dropped: the deserved rate is hereby added to the nominal rate, real rate, effective rate, neutral rate, natural rate

Yes, the "a million percent" is a bit of a tell, tbh