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So what I don't understand is that, if the standard definition of a species is a group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring, and if Neanderthals were a different species to Homo Sapiens, then why is it we have Neanderthal DNA

Cummings Thought is ultimately constrained by the fact that his political idols of Bismarck and LKY could not operate in modern Britain, for reasons that go far beyond “the law” and “parliamentary sovereignty”.

Yeah I kind of got the vibe that “unconstrained executive action” was going to end up being unpopular at some point.

CONSTRICTINS COMMUNITY Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston LEVINE, JEREMY

One of those books likely to bring out your inner Robert Moses, this, but it’s a grimly fascinating example of how the 60s/70s American wave of New Left community organisation actually ended up in practice.

Labour’s problem is not the Red Wall – it’s the Grey Wall The Labour Party is in danger of losing its nerve again. Ten years ago, the story that Labour spent all the money and caused the country’s massive debt was allowed to go unchallenged. The Lab…

It is amusing that young policy wonks have a view of the working class that dates back to before they can remember.

The blokes standing round braziers in donkey jackets have mostly retired. They now vote as retired homeowners not as workers.

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more than a whiff of self-censorship in markets at the moment. No-one wants to call BS on, ya know, everything, for fear of angering the president

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I’m reminded of Brad DeLong and his use of “Technology” in a straightforward way in long run growth analysis. bsky.app/profile/jomi...

There’s a gap in the market for a 5000 word piece on the implications of the Cambridge Capital Controversies for the debate on AI, “general purpose technology”, growth models, productivity and so on.

‘How much more is this country is going to sacrifice on the altar of ‘controlling immigration’ in order to appease the unappeasable?’

A lot of people seem not to understand that David Cameron going 'Twitter isn't Britain' wasn't a zinger, it was part of a (partially successful!) attempt to nudge the BBC in particular from treating whatever passing progressive fad that surfaced in their feeds as some interesting trend.

Maybe it wouldn’t be practical. But since when did nationalism worry about such things? Is there really any reason why Welsh nationalism should seem reasonable, but Cornish nationalism absurd? One last observation, because I’ve gone on quite long enough. Earlier I noted that Cornwall, Wales, and Cumbria were all essentially the same people, the Romano-British, conquered by what became the English. What I didn’t dwell on was how the three experiences differed. Cornwall and Cumbria were probably pulled into England in the 10th century, the latter so completely that it’s always a surprise to be reminded that the Hen Ogledd (old north) ever even spoke a variant of Welsh. Wales itself was dominated from the 13th century and, from the 16th, looked set to be incorporated entirely – but in the end, it wasn’t. Anyone who’s thought about the history of these islands will be very aware of the oppression of Wales, and at least a bit aware of Cornwall. Cumbria, though, was colonised by England so completely that we now forget it was ever otherwise. The ultimate victory of imperialism comes when everyone forgets a province was ever conquered at all. I’m a quarter Cumbrian, you know. Might campaign for that one myself.

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I do not understand what Labour think the immigration system is for. I accept there are many possible answers here but what is their ideology that drives this?

Memo for Labour: globalisation is good, actually This government is in many ways the party returned to its factory settings. But the product was faulty in the first place

I don't think Labour's policy agenda is a winning one, but combining some quite traditional leftwing economics with, essentially, not being willing to talk about how you are leftwing feels like the worst *possible* way to govern and campaign:

Call me an naive, old fashioned liberal, but I can't help but think that our economy might be bit more dynamic if we focussed on making it a lot easier and a lot less risky for people to change jobs in active pursuit of better opportunities *and* took the risk out of hiring and firing for business.

That chap who makes the YouTube videos called this “Socialist Thatcherism”.

The big intellectual vulnerability both Reform and the Conservatives have is that they cannot decide where they want to land on 'governing for their ideology' versus 'governing for their voter base, which is older and therefore at the time of life when it takes up more government spending'.

He also engaged with folks like Phillip Mirowski on what neoliberalism is and how it works

Including neoliberalism merely pretending to believe that it’s even possible for markets to be free from governments

Because they know governments create markets to begin with

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg Unintuitive behaviors of React Hooks

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Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

It's just kind of stark, 30% are polled by YouGov as wanting to end ILR. 70% want closer relations with the EU.
Guess which of these is written up as "the major question facing British politicians"?

Also, how far downstream of that one Scott Alexander/Siskind post is the Fabian thing? We need answers.

'You'll never have to give a letting agent something that could be used to steal your identity again'. 'No more digging out five forms to prove who you are'. Safe secure tokens on the same model as the lasting power of attorney, etc. etc.

I really like loyalty cards. Give me a stupid fake points system and I’m like a rat pushing the morphine button.

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans Skull found in China may be Homo longi, potentially revising understanding of human evolution

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An air of confusion on the NS podcast, as the team list things from the Lib Dem conference that they basically agree with and think is nice, but are obliged to describe as boring loser shit