Forget about being a good PM, is it now no longer possible to be a good football manager in the English Premier League?
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Prince lives!
For knowingly picking up a bastard sword. And then dropping it on your own foot is about par.
Very interesting overview here of efforts across Europe.
Resolution has applied my model to data up to 2025. As the chart shows, we can be less confident as time goes on. But firm-level evidence from Bloom et al shows a 6% loss. I think it's time to retire the OBR's 4%, which was a simple average of pre-Brexit forecasts.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
She was home secretary for over a year and did nothing memorable in that time, either.
A run off between her and Nandy for most absent.
402 other Labour MPs and apparently not a viable candidate in the lot of em. Go figure.
They're gonna make him walk through a cloud of bees on his way in #AngerStarmer
A pea was placed under his mattress last night.
In my experience its not the med students who complain about this, its doctors.
Good luck to which ever poor sod has to make the Krebs cycle offensive.
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
Perfect Arteta ball goal
That's high end hobbitcore.
Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.
The perfect place for a delicate orchid is under the partial shade of a solar panel.
It would require the courage necessary to expose its right flank. Has any Labour government had it in this century?
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
Nothing will kill a work of art faster than trying to be "responsive" to fans -- or just listening to them at all. It killed Star Wars, it killed Ted Lasso, it killed Game of Thrones, I personally think it killed Hacks. Don't listen to fans.
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I have, over more than 30 years of teaching, asked people more times than I can remember to ponder why Western societies fought for centuries to have "democracy" in politics, but lie back and let "business leaders" behave like tyrants.
66 Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Can we talk about how many businesses are run this way
What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight.
"At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it.
“She was their scientific North Star."
#GiftLink 🎁
Yep bsky.app/profile/redn...
Its the Prince Charles brand of reactionary environmental conservatism.