Yes, good evidence on this: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

On the basis that Mike Jackson had to turn a Nelsonian eye to Wes Clarke’s order to shoot down planes carrying Russian paratroops in Kosovo I wouldn’t put it past them

Inspired by reading @alanallport.bsky.social’s latest, I think there’s a reasonable contrarian argument for February 1942. The fall of Singapore made the dissolution of the Empire inevitable, everything after that is administering the winding down

That train is bad, but not as bad as younger child throwing up in the back of an extremely expensive taxi from Positano back to the airport

I have a joke about RCTs but I’m not going to expose you to it because you’re in the control group

Replace ATMs with a drop shipping service where you can choose your own pictures

Endlessly remixing your greatest hits to a rapt audience

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it

Interesting parallels with @alanallport.bsky.social’s description of imperial Singapore immediately before it fell to the Japanese in 1942

I’m really enjoying Drayton and MacKenzie by Alexander Starritt

Fitting victory given the sport was invented by miners at Skeltinton Main going down t’ frozen slag heap on a tea tray

Have the UK’s northern cities really experienced a productivity miracle? - Economics Observatory While official data points to a 'productivity miracle' in several large northern cities since 2019, a closer look suggests otherwise. This serves as a reminder to sense-check any data before using it,...

Measurement error?: www.economicsobservatory.com/have-the-uks...

Go short on Tesla

Good advice. Reminds me of when the FT asked the Duke of Westminster for advice for entrepreneurs: “have an ancestor who was good friends with William the Conqueror”

Predicting Google without quite grasping the form Google would take. Impressive

So, possible example: unions cause workers to be dissatisfied with their jobs (various mechanisms involved); job dissatisfaction causes workers to join unions. Therefore the association between union membership and job dissatisfaction is bidirectional?

2.5?

Financial journalists love to attribute random noise to specific events

Agreed!

I wonder how he’d fare as an independent if blocked by the NEC?

Holidays suddenly get much more expensive when you reach the moment when most of the places you have been on holiday to that point are not as nice as your house

Where would you get the ice from? Wouldn’t you be better going with a solar powered fridge

The bit about what the Sunak number 10 felt like on the inside (compared implicitly to how it looked from outside) and the bit about antenna and action were particularly thought provoking

Imagine how much more unethical they might have been without the moral and ethical shaping of an Ivy League law school……

I imagine this is what my dog thinks when I won’t join him in chasing the squirrels in our garden

I didn’t want to push my luck any more than I had already by questioning the answer but the strong implication of the was that insurers took an interest in the substance of health and safety policy when underwriting and it materially affected premiums 🤷

I challenged a former Vice-Chancellor on this a few years ago: “the causes of fire don’t change every two years, so are you wasting our time on this?” answer was along the lines of: “I know, I’m not a complete idiot, our insurance costs would be much higher without it so stop moaning & do it please”

Definitely a Christmas movie. All I want for Christmas are clear skies

Suchet is Moore to Ustinov’s Connery

Disappointing lack of cans of beer