Cartoon head of a red dragon, a wisp of smoke from his nostril, and the words, 'Never Forget, Never Forgive, Dragon Remembrance Day, 23rd April'

what are we going to do for GCSE History students in fifty years time now that political cartoons and magazine covers are dead

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lord Robert Skidelsky, an eminent economic historian & author of the award-winning 3-volume biography of J. M. Keynes.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this very sad time.
#econsky

Kenny's the sentimental pick I think and I like the concept of watching the player of the season at the World Cup, but Darling might well be there for me, has looked really solid under Clement

or, to put it another way, in countries with any kind of social insurance or national healthcare model, healthcare spend is by definition a question of public resource allocation, whether it comes from general taxation or not

Not really, in practice; if the UK chose not to fund healthcare spending out of general taxation then realistically general taxation would have to fall. It's all about claims on people's incomes and the pot that theoretically comes out of is largely arbitrary in this context

doesn't matter hugely imho - if the question is about resource allocation, then it's still a resource being allocated whether it's (often compulsory, very very tax-like) individual contributions or centralised taxation

that's what he said!

when i spoke to prime minister orban earlier today, he said he didn't like the result, but he had to go along with it

quiet week for you mate?

There's no need to compare with defence spending figures, because I'm making no argument about which should be higher or lower. I'm saying that any claim which implies we've made real-world choices any different from basically every other developed country is specious at best

because i think in terms of "resource allocation" it is much more instructive to think about the real resource demand for healthcare (which ~everyone has some claim on), best expressed through per person spend. but sure the % of GDP figures also show we are not some wild outlier

IfS pie chart government spending 22/23

people can absolutely believe we should spend less or more on one thing or the other, but the idea that 30.5% of UK government spending represents the "overwhelming priority", and the remaining 69.5% has been allocated by accident or something, is just factually untrue imho

a gentle reminder that the UK's healthcare spending per capita is at the OECD average, and pensions as % of GDP are well below it

NO ONE KNOWS

don't quote me on this but I think it's also notoriously hard for machine translation

well, we can't, it's in Hungarian

Martin, F.: Mass for Double Choir - Kodaly, Z.: Missa Brevis - Poulenc, F.: Litanies a la Vierge Noire by Sigrid Horvath — Apple Music Classical Listen to Martin, F.: Mass for Double Choir - Kodaly, Z.: Missa Brevis - Poulenc, F.: Litanies a la Vierge Noire by Sigrid Horvath. 2009. 14 tracks. 1 hour, 7 minutes.

while we're all thinking about Hungary I'd like to note the Kodaly Missa Brevis, one of imho the great pieces of music of the twentieth century classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/338...

Glasgow anarchist cafe which splinters over how best to shove shit through neighbours' letterboxes

András Schiff - Schubert - Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817 YouTube video by Classical Vault 1

Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...

DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

important news:

it's also a rate of change thing - they basically need to win a game more than Forest/West Ham/probably Leeds, which at the moment seems totally impossible

both these calls looking better by the day

Paris-Roubaix one of the most magnificently atmospheric sporting events in the world, every shot just oozes northern France

no I think the people into the porn probably came first

Ed Sheeran on FaceTime for the postmatch interviews, just the most unbearably tinpot football club in the history of the world

I preferred it when Ipswich were in league one.

Jack Taylor also dived but whatever