Zia Haider Rahman

Excellent.

On 8 Sept, at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, do come to the Jaipur Literature Festival event where Suketu Mehta and I will speak about Gujaratis. Do register!

jlflitfest.org/new-york/sch...

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About sixth of the public hold extreme/toxic views on mass deportations even beyond asylum.

This is not larger than a decade ago. Elites are shifting *much* more than the public (which is liberalising longterm & frustrated about asylum/boats in the short-term).

perfect

Such is the power of an apostrophe.

Actual freedom of movement, especially for the elderly, people with disabilities and families with children, depends on state-enforced rules like this

Yes. Precisely.

For one thing, devolved planning + nimbyism = really bad outcomes for the country. Reminds me of local pressure to keep "local" hospitals open, even tho local hospitals don't have enough flow of variety of patients to sustain a medical school and therefore struggle to attract high-caliber doctors.

I did a little bit of planning law way back, when in legal practice, and my takeaway was that every aspect of planning and development was a racket for everyone professionally involved.

I learned too late in life what it is that could have made my life complete every day: devoting myself entirely to researching Corvidae. Really quite breathtaking creatures.

I was in Gujarat earlier this year and was struck by how much Gujarati sounds like Bangla or Bengali, surprising giving that so much India lies between Gujarat and Bengal.

I'd bet money that the makers of Brazil, the 1985 movie, in which the main character is a civil servant, were inspired by Kafka (and the clear echoes in British bureaucracy, especially pre-war bureaucracy)

À propos, there's an article or book to be written about discoveries or inventions by folks one might regard as "outsiders" to a field. It's that question or that way of seeing or that technique that requires an outsider unencumbered by the orthodoxies of the discipline.

Fluid dynamical pathways of airborne transmission while waiting in a line Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.

Nice work led by two UMass physics undergrads who are apparently the first to ask whether viral-type particles actually are stopped by social distancing. The short answer: it depends a LOT on the room temperature.

One takeaway: more physicists need to get involved in public health work.

This thread is hilarious and wonderful.

Tree limbs merging!!

Flippin heck. A beauty. Three limbs!

All so funny

noting the correlation."
I love the otherwise deadpan tone in the piece, all the way through.

😂😂😂
"We’re not saying there’s any connection. It’d be very wrong to suggest that US tech management culture is a byproduct of poisoning unborn babies mildly enough that they become CEOs and run companies into bankruptcy. That’d be ridiculous, reductive, and borderline offensive. All we’re doing is

Which English-language publishers are doing the best historical fiction these days?

the poverty of low expectations

never really grasped the appeal of potholing

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

Is there some new news regarding Trump v Harvard? What have I missed?

I wonder if British journalists have a custom keyboard shortcut for "whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon"

Immigration is down, should the government be happy? - UK in a changing Europe Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...

If the Immigration White Paper does indeed reduce immigration by 100K/year, this is likely to push up the deficit by about £7 billion a year.

[by end of OBR forecast period - *after* taking account of reduced demand on public services.]

New @ukandeu.bsky.social blog

ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...

Immigration is down, should the government be happy? - UK in a changing Europe Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...

Net migration has halved. Should the Government be celebrating? @jdportes.bsky.social discusses ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...