Gavin Jackson

Apparently they give fake Nobels to disciplines that have to come up with ad hoc explanations for why their mathematical models don’t describe the real world and are unable to reconcile micro and macro. Called “physics”, I hear.

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.

Wasn’t it more export promotion than import substitution in SKs case? (I think a lot of net zero stuff is basically import substitution in practice)

Invest in your health now to make sure you get the most out of any grandkids. They’re faster than you expect.

Buy that indulgent mid-life crisis purchase you’ve been considering.

It’s happened again

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge Chinese carmaker takes market share despite being shut out of subsidy scheme

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge on.ft.com/46DLVRx

Liz Truss had the lifespan of a lettuce, Lecornu matched steak tartare

Sébastian Lecornu taught me it was okay to be weird

Wow already

The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development Despite the central government’s wish to get digging, a potentially lucrative gold mine remains stuck

The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development. (Also a lesson for would-be frackers)
economist.com/britain/2025...

Anyway it’s just the dissonance of hearing this guff about how Britain is on the brink of a race war while going to a church community centre where a load of second generation and mixed heritage toddlers listen to nursery rhymes. Things can get bad quickly but it’s just not the present.

But even there the question is whether it is possible to assemble a Popular Front of the overwhelming majority of voters opposed to this stuff

Continue to be bemused by the gulf between the apocalyptic tone on social media and the experience of what is largely a pleasant country in which most people trust each other and institutions. The liberal version is overstating the impact of the increasingly loud online right

Nah but the subhed is saying that she’s a virgin because she’s AI. It’s more like saying a cartoon must be a virgin rather than saying that within the fiction the character is a virgin.

If someone wrote that subhed for me I’d get it changed!

Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

I guess not. We read the image as a girl but that’s not the same thing.

Mocking Tyler! Can the outcome of matrix algebra be a virgin? Isn’t it like calling a table a virgin?

It’s a mad thing to say

Read the subhed

A virgin on-screen

That’s pre-tax and spend of course. The UK tax and spend system does a good job of redistributing a lot of it. Gini for final income is half the level of gini for disposable income.

About half of total income goes to the top 20% apparently.

We have the highest property taxes as a % of GDP in the OECD! We have a lot of wealth taxes even if they’re poorly designed.

But the pre-tax income distribution is highly skewed

Sorry yes you’re right and of course income tax is the most progressive of the taxes. I don’t expect it’s that different for other taxes though given what we know about the income distribution and how progressive the British state is.

Another thing I’ve been thinking: 60% of tax revenue comes from the top 10% of earners. We’re already in a world where a small proportion of the population fund spending on the old.

What’s the difference between an investment and a savings product?

What do you mean a rental product? You can just go and buy gilts. Premium bonds are very popular.