Jo Michell

Clicked through to X from a post on here and had a quick scan of the timeline -- wall to wall people yelling incoherently at each other about Polanski, Kuenssberg, bond markets and MMT. Horror show ...

Michael Prescott says "I never even Googled Historians Reclaimed" before putting them into the report. Which feels quite negligent for something you include in a memo sent to the entire BBC board?

Are they really not going to ask him about his own misleading edit of the Trump quote?

He seems genuinely unable to explain what a Kamala Harris Panorama episode should have reported, given she did not actually lead an insurrection against the Capitol. And yet it's a point he keeps returning to as if it's one of his best.

Prescott keeps repeating "I thought they'd show a programme about Harris the week after". He really doesn't understand the difference between balance, impartiality and objectivity.

Not so good COP • Inside Story The latest UN climate summit was buffeted by geopolitical headwinds

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Not so good COP The latest UN climate summit was buffeted by geopolitical headwinds

Useful, if depressing write up from Michael Jacobs here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

This is what we should really be devoting substantial time and energy to. Unfortunately the current political backdrop means that that there's almost no spare capacity for the important stuff these days.

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

All fair points.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

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Should the UK have a wealth tax? | The viability of wealth tax 6.30pm Mon 1 Dec | Arun Advani, Emma Chamberlain, Andy Summers | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

A lot of not very well-informed debate about wealth taxes at the moment.

This discussion this evening will have plenty of considered expert opinion. www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-w...

How productive is the West of England? - Economics Observatory The West of England has a diverse economy, including rural areas, services-based jobs and advanced manufacturing hubs. Investment in infrastructure, skills and research and development (R&D) could…

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However, under current institutional arrangements, it is not the Treasury's job to target inflation. If we are going to start arguing that the Treasury has a role to play in inflation targeting, then we need to also discuss the institutional arrangements. fabians.org.uk/publication/...

Interesting that this is currently being discussed. This is pretty much exactly what I and co-authors proposed a couple of years ago in this paper: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

And, surprise surprise, no single coherent view emerges. Bookmark this for next time the FT reports 'bond market investors all say X'.

2006 was a long time ago

Yep! I’ve recapped and upgraded various bits of this one. It’s really rather wonderful.

True. The router is on the other side of the room, hence the need for the switch.

Also, when pushed on it, their answer always seems to be, although they try not to say it in these terms, “I believe that I have a large audience on X and I’m not willing to give that up”.

Reconstructing the hifi after some construction and decoration. I’m not the only one who has an Ethernet router as part of their hifi setup, right?

MMT wins by sheer volume of content in the training set.

Just realised I’m replying to a year old thread. I think this story has got the better of me.

Hold on, they didn’t actually touch each other?

Hmmm - so tacking hard right on immigration led the Danish equivalent of Labour to lose the capital city for the first time in a century to a “Green-Left” party?

And all the seats on London’s borough councils are up next May? Including the progressive packed ones held by Labour for generations?

this guy constantly manages to do shit like this and displace it in the media and discourse with something that goes with a laugh track somehow

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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

“M-C-M', I’ve always said that’s how it’s built. I have the most beautiful M'.”

BBC board member resigns Shumeet Banerji’s departure is latest blow to the corporation

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