Gavin Jackson

With some of the stranger things cast you have a bit of both

It's me, the one guy who holds a grudge against Labour for voting against May's deal.

If only there had been some sort of backstop to keep Britain in the EU customs union that Labour could have supported. ig.ft.com/brexit-exit-...

Singling out a minority child on a school playground and racially abusing them is also one of the few things that there is a widespread consensus as being "proper racism". There's no "I'm not racist but..." here.

Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive Rewilding charity helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK

Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive

- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yeah I agree but it's like the way British political scandals are always about noticing something that was in plain sight.

That's probably true but I think there's also something politically poisonous about being identified as a school bully.

India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets The Reserve Bank of India lowered its key interest rate on Friday and announced measures to infuse up to $16 billion into the banking system this month in the form of debt purchases and a foreign exch...

India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets - www.reuters.com/world/india/...

Sneaky fuckers are proliferating
economist.com/finance-and-...

AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences To understand why, consider the side-blotched lizard

This week's column about AI, information economics and sneaky fuckers www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer Britain’s prime minister understands the size of the moment. He just does not know how to meet it

“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” A right-wing populist Reform UK government, however, “is a different proposition”.

Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

This is outrageous. Good thing it has been abolished. www.ft.com/content/3695...

If your macroeconomic goal is to keep the growth of demand moving in tandem with the growth of the capacity of the economy to generate real resources then you need the tax to affect the aggregate level of consumption.

That is what they are doing and rightly so.

Add a link to the original.

You can criticise who you like. It's a partly free country.

This stuff rankles when coming from Labour though, given Starmer is also a vibes guy without much substance.

India’s defence-tech startups are thriving The recent war with Pakistan has infused new energy into the sector

After a visit to Bangalore, I wrote this week on the optimistic mood in India's defence-tech scene—boosted by the government's drive for more home-grown arms, more interaction between start-ups & armed forces, and lessons from the India-Pakistan war in May www.economist.com/asia/2025/12...

It's the afternoon!

AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish Large language models can answer surveys and pass the tests to check that a respondent is human

AIs could turn opinion polls into (even worse) gibberish www.economist.com/united-state...

Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92

When he was finance minister Manmohan Singh got a chance to put the lessons of his doctoral thesis into practice. Maybe Rachel Reeves' thesis is on salami slicing. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Imagining a student formulating a decades-long plot to get someone to actually read their thesis.

Recommend a Reuters subscription. It is an absolute steal at £40 a year and it is just great straightforward reporting.

Charging for the externality is fixing the grid. That we can build roads doesn't mean we don't need congestion pricing.

Right but I was reading it as saying that we do need to conisder changing the CfD regime and putting balancing costs onto generators, which I think may be correct? (Going forwards. The lawyers will be rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of undoing existing contracts)

I thought it was saying that existing asset owners need to take a haircut through renegotiating CfDs?

No it's good. There's nothing wrong with saying hold capital. At worst its a dead metaphor.

Why do we want energy to be near enough free again?

It seems a bit like "push the costs on to another part of the economy" but this time it's asset owners.

Richard Murphy being in the list is the bad bit!