Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows As revelations mount and accusations fly, prime minister prepares for MPs’ anger and Olly Robbins’ testimony early next week

Conspiracy theory: the past 10 years of British political intrigue are Ed Miliband’s attempts to House of Cards himself into No 10

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Tag Team - Addams Family Whoomp YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows

There is also this which Tag Team did for the Addams Family Values soundtrack: youtu.be/2ho3FtN-9M8

It would be like.. a Paradox if that were true

We could also ask them about their subjective wellbeing and see if this tracks their income and consumption. If the two diverge I bet there’s a whole research programme in that!

If something becomes more abundant then the relative price of everything else rises. For many of us fortunate the basics like food and clothing barely register in our concern. But land, our own and others’ time, and above all social esteem remain in fixed supply and become ever more precious.

I think the real problem is that the discipline rewards impressiveness in both theory and empirics. This causes, rel. to 1st best, empiricists to neglect reporting puzzling correlations for theorists to explain and for theorists to neglect writing models with parameters for empiricists to identify.

The most influential papers make dead simple points!

If your department feels they are handing out too many firsts they should bring it up at the exam board. The external might agree with you and be willing to say so in writing.

This is one of the advantages of the external examining system. Externals can push back especially if staff agree with them. This gives cover for internal examiners when they need to answer their pro-VCs.

It is a little difficult to tell from Spencer’s op-ed whether the Greens are suggesting universal per-KWh energy subsidies or just universal “support” but if the former yikes that’s some Liz Truss shit.

Economists are willing to entertain, as a testable theory, the idea that higher education is a credentialling racket. We know we are not actually doing this ourselves so there is no threat to our self esteem by contemplating it 👀

Similarly if a qualified student from e.g Afghanistan is going to accept an offer to study “only to claim asylum” that is from my perspective a win-win. They are either going to study with us or “only” escape persecution!

One of the least edifying parts of my job is having to snitch to the Home Office about whether international students are attending class. Consider that if someone is willing to pay £20k to not study maybe they should have been given a work visa.

I now pronounce the name of the letter “H” as if it begins with a(n) h 😬

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100 pecs

nearly wrote a long explanation of why one can agree with the general sentiment "all art is political" or even the more ambitious "everything is political" while also thinking that the sense in which Crash Bandicoot is political is different from the sense in which the Communist Manifesto is

Clearly your son is begging you to get him a book about trains

Kansas Stripped Trans Citizens of Their Driver’s Licenses. Here’s What Happened Next For trans people living in the state, existence has begun to feel like a high-stakes test with no right answers

I wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar about what it's like for trans people in Kansas (spoiler: it's bad). Read, share, and send some love to your trans loved ones.

Men will literally demand that all households have a single income before building more housing 😔

Yeah I strongly dislike the left anti tax movement. There's no having a society just on the back of soaking the rich, even people far lower down the inequality ladder have to contribute. That's fine. We're all in this together.

The Tories succeeded in giving the British public what it wanted, and then failed because the public hated those things when they got them. Labour are copying this strategy.

I think they are shoring up public services as much as the public will bear under the present macro conditions/ BoE policy. Their mistake was thinking “we’ll give them a little racism to tide them over until it’s cheaper to borrow”. They don’t need to be reelected until 2029!

The policy being announced here is putting higher marginal tax rates on married women's income which makes what he said even weirder than what you'd think based on the headline.

A leftist named Marx, praising every technology handed down from self-interested capitalists seeking only to enhance their power and profits.

More businesses (per capita) are started in countries with stronger welfare states — precisely because a person thinking of doing so cares much more about failure working out alright than success being super lucrative.

But what if my normative ideal is descriptively inaccurate? Help I am suffering mild cognitive dissonance

If AI actually did transform the capital stock in such a way that the existing domestic workforce was the most efficient possible complement to it (it won’t) then there would be no need to restrict immigration — no one would come.

“Social media? We abolished social media in the 22nd century.”

You just know the Cardassians would have had a whole influence operation pushing that line on Federation social media.