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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
VAR really takes any joy out of football. Just scrap it
Two stories here - the failure of the Starmer/McSweeney political strategy and Reform's toxicity to social liberals. The latter is important and seems underdiscussed.
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🚨New report from us BCG CfG today🚨 we take a sector & firm view of UK productivity growth over past 3 decades, including benchmarking against peers. UK is falling back from global frontier but for quite different reasons in different sectors 1/
This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
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Chart showing UK trade with the EU in goods and services in 2024. On goods, the UK exports just under £200bn to the EU, importing over £300bn for a balance of around £150bn. On services, the UK exports almost £200bn and imports less, around £150bn, for a small positive balance.
Just want to flag that, in total, the UK trades more goods with the EU than services.
It’s a confusing story, because the UK overall has a comparative advantage in services, so has a positive trade balance, whereas we import a lot more goods than we export to the EU…
It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
I have been thinking a lot about this question. I saw David's YOLO'd paper, and have done similar things on my own. His paper's abstract is pasted below.
1. It's a remarkable achievement that CC can do this with minimal prompting.
2. The paper is unbelievably banal from a research standpoint.
Disgraceful decision by the IOC
Disgusting remarks, and that’s before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...
Great discussion between @martinsandbu.ft.com and Michael Sandel on the rise of technocratic liberalism and the populist counter-revolution
www.ft.com/content/7804...
Nice piece. Do you think your reasons explain Ofcom's reluctance to act?
New personal piece: Why does regulation often feel so toothless?
The news is full of businesses behaving badly and seeming to get off very lightly. Why? As someone who used to work for a regulator, I wanted to set out some of the very simple reasons regulators struggle…
Usually UK companies base operations in other countries to get over barriers *their* governments impose, not ours.
The new LSE Research for the World has a reading list on the workings & future of world trade, chosen by @sjrickard.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @thomsampson.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social & researchers @lselaw.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social & more 📚👇
🚨 New KITE analysis on the EU–India trade deal: Simulations show sizable trade effects from the “mother of all deals” linking ~1/4 of global GDP and ~1/5 of the world’s population. Beyond gains, it strengthens supply-chain diversification and market access in an uncertain global economy.
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More profiles in cowardice:
Target, Best Buy, General Mills, Cargill and roughly four dozen other large MN companies issued a public letter calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the state. Stops short of condemning the killings or who is responsible for them.
This country's ability to rinse the young and then berate them as lazy avocado addicts is ridiculous.
They're so up against it, it's madness.
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There’s always a post..
Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in.
'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.'
Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.
I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.
Immigration policy is complex, full of trade-offs—but we can do better.
Join Alan Manning, former chair of the UK Migration Advisory Committee, for 3 free lectures using evidence to rethink how immigration affects jobs, services and communities.
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Fukuyama: “As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. Europeans think conceding Greenland will mollify Trump. It won’t. He will come back for more later.”
youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE
Donald Trump just falls back on this behaviour every time he doesn't get what he wants.
Greenland is not for sale and it is high time for the PM to stop pandering and work with our European friends to stand up the bully in the White House.
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