It's the legal tax free limit, but payments can be higher and often are. Just the amount above £30k is taxed. If it were a senior administrator being 'let go' I'm sure the amount would be significantly higher
T.S. Eliot described by Golding as a 'silly old twit'. It's a wonderful review. www.the-tls.com/lives/letter...
We in the gradually phase: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” Hemingway.
the whim in the real world... 🥳🍾🍾🥳
Well that's all clear then
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This tells us what a Reform government would be like
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Perhaps if we think of AI as a market it might give us a reasonable guide on how to regulate it
An excellent, and to my mind, compelling read
It's the time of the philosopher
In my email from Keir (he must have been busy this morning) he tells me that he's "building a country that works for the future." The present can just sod off.
One missing: hire expensive consultants to tell them what five things to do
The metaphor of economic gravity is fundamentally deceptive. Economics does not have any physical forces - economics is the will of the socio-political.
of course... the wonder-full analysis
be gone analysis, examination, and determining... it is time to wonder
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Hey what could be better on a chilly Thursday in November than to edit those abstracts destined for MSA/BAMS?
Doing so with the Eliot Society grad reps, of course!
The Waste Land, Halloween edition!
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From the FT "Joel Mokyr is known as an economic historian rather than someone who stuffs their papers with whizzy maths. And this is the fourth Nobel in a row to feature a substantial economic history element." Some hope for the economics profession?
though it too has a wiki page
a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world
But there is 'a magic money tree', though technically it is called quantitative easing, used to save the banks in 2007/8. So, why not use it to create co-operatively owned non-profit water companies?
Oh... and one very important skill I forgot: self-direction
Don't think of it in academic terms, but in practical skills that are used: project management, chasing leads, digging out hard to find material, influencing others to accept new ideas... and, of course, long, hard, slog working all hours 😅
A PhD is, by definition, thinking outside the box. In a non-academic setting the idea of being able to take an idea, breaking it down into components, spending time researching and revising those ideas, and writing them up in a convincing manner is novel and not a skill easily found.
Executive pay should fund all consultancy fees. If you need someone else to do your job then you pay for it.
Early onset: It was not (to start again) what one had expected.
What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,
Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity
And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us,
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?
