Britain economics correspondent, @TheEconomist. Economics, history, other stuff. Book on British economic history due 2021.
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Joined on 2 September, 2009
Pro: I got an excellent JJ72 t-shirt.
Con: it all went a bit “Lord of the Flies”.
A conversation with a colleague has reminded me of the last night of the Leeds Festival in 2000.
Replying to @sarahoconnor_: Spent some enjoyable time in the 1909 Hansard records this week while writing on the minimum wage. It's amazing how simi…
Spent some enjoyable time in the 1909 Hansard records this week while writing on the minimum wage. It's amazing how similar the debate over pros and cons remains, more than a century later. (Even though we have loads of empirical evidence now they didn't have then).
The thing is you can think of as many clever wheezes as you want but the choice is straight forward, do you keep the uplift or cut it?
BBC says the government is looking at 14 different options for what to do about the due to expire UC uplift. 14!
Replying to @sanderwagner: Fascinating blogpost on the (almost extinct and relatively newly recorded) Kusunda language in Nepal. Apparently the lang…
Replying to @econhedge: Pattern at the end of the first full week of daily vaccine data is that there was a big drop off on Sunday. over Thurs, Fri,…
Fascinating blogpost on the (almost extinct and relatively newly recorded) Kusunda language in Nepal. Apparently the language tells us that the Kusunda once had a sophisticated civilization but then returned to be hunter-gatherers
Pattern at the end of the first full week of daily vaccine data is that there was a big drop off on Sunday. over Thurs, Fri, Sat a daily ave of 321k first doses and 325k first and second doses is the kind of pace that needs to be maintained.
Replying to @NormaCohen3: How Britain paid for war: bond holders in the Great War 1914-32 – Bank Underground
Britain was so desperate for Capital b…
How Britain paid for war: bond holders in the Great War 1914-32 – Bank Underground
Britain was so desperate for Capital by early 1917 to fight the First World War that it threatened banks and insurers that it would confiscate their assets.
The more I read about the Wars of the Roses the more it makes sense that the political appeal of the Tudors was essentially the Cameron pitch of 2015: “strong and stable”.
Replying to @arindube: This short thread summarizes my thinking the perennial question about minimum: "how high is OK?"
Tl;dr: we don't yet know, a…
This short thread summarizes my thinking the perennial question about minimum: "how high is OK?"
Tl;dr: we don't yet know, and that's ok.
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Quoted @DuncanWeldon
Curious for views from UK based office workers.
By this Autumn how often do you expect to be in the office? (Assuming most restrictions lifted/much lighter).
Obvs not a representative poll and all that. But just about the exact inverse of what I expected.
8 and 5 year olds enthralled by Junior Bake Off on Channel 4 catch-up. Calling that a rainy Saturday afternoon win.
Replying to @rcolvile: ‘We are a bunch of harmless eccentrics who like to dress in fancy clothes, not people who want to topple the government’ http…
‘We are a bunch of harmless eccentrics who like to dress in fancy clothes, not people who want to topple the government’
Inspired by @warmatters tweeting about the need for multi-country archive work in military history... I present the most intimidating footnote ever. From NAM Rodger.
Quoted @YearCovid
January 11th, 2020:
The first death from "novel coronavirus" is reported in the media, having occurred on January 9th.
Public Health England publishes new guidelines for hospitals, including a section on safely handling the corpses of infected patients
An account tweeting the UK covid story one year on.
Replying to @resi_analyst: Residential rents plummet in major UK cities
Residential rents plummet in major UK cities
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